kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

What bullshit is this??!??

Please ignore my tabs I need those but THERE IS NO WAY this isn't AI. Here. Let's take the worst one I found and dissect it.

Like,,, okay. Just try following the line of yarn in front of the poke ball. It splits off and attaches in ways that yarn doesn't. There are completely detached circles of yarn!! What even is that metal thing?? I've been knitting and crocheting for a decade and I don't know what that is. Why is the yarn wrapped around a jar?!

AI technology must be very carefully regulated, to ensure public safety and to maintain the rights of creators. This consultation seems to favour AI companies, suggesting to give them a broad copyright exception, almost penalising creators, putting the burden on them to opt-out.

Below is a set of useful resources for responding to the survey, your MP, and your representatives. It closes at 23:59 on 25 February 2025 so we have 10 weeks to do it - LET’S GO

Resources by Ed Newton-Rex on BlueSky:

Find your MP: https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons

Template letter to send to your MP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XtqaGRLcs6o4F9maphl8TRM6BDwZkNi-553Ky7H6FKQ

Template letter to send to your representatives: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VTY6TkiOPF9Xc9AUMn7TzW8tGOR2dJ0euhbDrQQTu1I

Template letter to respond to the consultation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12wpfkBnCZPJpVqch1pz3U4VfQ1sDlDJek3my6CqIfCk

Spotify: Ai generated music

iTunes: Ai generated music

Amazon: Ai generated books plaguing the top 100

Etsy: Ai generated art overtaking real stuff

Red bubble: Ai generated slop

Photoshop: Ai generated art tools

Video games: using Ai to generate content

DND: People ask generating characters instead of paying someone to make one for them or making it themselves

Brand ads: Using entirely Ai generated images and video commercials

Content farms: Ai generated brain rot making the average attention span of children 10 seconds(scientifically studied)

Conspiracy theorists: using Ai to generate fake videos and also believing any Ai they see

Facebook boomers: Believing every Ai post they see

Social media: Flooded with Ai bots

Companies: using Ai to make and take phone calls

"AI art" isn't made by AI, it's built with theft, and it has serious creative limits

AI art is the subject en vogue right now, at least in the circles that I run. And it's a complex thing - the technology itself is really just an evolution of the same machine learning that shows you banner ads on websites or decides which YouTube videos to recommend, but because it's called "AI" - "artificial intelligence" people get suckered into all kinds of very bad arguments about the nature of creativity and what really counts as plagiarism.

The tl;dr is this: human minds do not run on binary code, and these machine learning models are not AI, they are machine learning models. They are built with untold gigabytes of training data, consisting of photos and artwork that was used without permission, and however you want to slice that, that is theft. Being machine learning, they inherit the biases and limitations of the data they're trained on, and that puts hard limits on how creative it is possible to be using these tools and introduces a massive trend towards homogenization and the lowest common denominator.

There's a much longer historical precedent for what these tools represent, though: AI art is a form of automation, and you can find a much longer discussion of what that means and what the consequences are...

Right here:

Freaking AI ART IS TRENDING?!

So, AI Art is a good tool to use for inspiration, it’s meant to get your mind flowing with ideas and some fun styles you wouldn’t have thought of on your own.

I’m not going to get into the discussion of “real” or “fake” art in terms of AI art because that conversation is way more complex than Tumblr realizes.

It is unfortunately sourcing all the images used to create the art without permission from the original artists, it’s not an ethical way to make original art. If the art that is used to create these AI generated images were sourced with proper permission from the original creators with credit given, then the conversation would be much different, but that’s not the case.

AI Art is a form of art theft. Please do not support AI Art on it’s own, you can use it as inspiration or a way to get some fresh ideas, but just using AI Art generators to create your own work isn’t going to be your own work.

Art is not a carriage, it's not a vehicle. Its purpose is not to be efficient, to do a practical job with as little effort as possible. Art is not something that can be automated, because its artistry lies in the humanity of its creator. Art is wonderful, from a baby's first drawing, inexperienced and unskilled, to the paintings adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

If you consider yourself an AI artist, I ask you: are you proud of yourself when the computer has completed another image that you will claim as yours? Do you look at it and feel the joy of having created something?

Does the generative process teach you how to see the world better? With every image created, do you evolve? Do you understand the planes of the face better now than 1000 images ago? Do you know what rim light is, and where to put it? Do you understand light sources? Tones? Could you take a piece of paper and shade a portrait by yourself?

"AI software is just like Photoshop or Blender, the next step in artistic technology".

It's not though, is it? A digital artist uses a pen to put colors on screen, chooses where to put each brush stroke, when to smudge or use the liquify tool. A 3D sculptor manipulates basic shapes into characters just like a traditional artist molds clay. An AI "artist" doesn't make any of the thousands of choices that lead to the creation of a real piece of art.

"But art is hard, and I'm not good enough."

Neither am I! Man, I'm not the worst artist in the world, but I'm not great, still not at the level I would like to be. Sometimes I draw something and I look at it and realize that it sucks ass! Sometimes I post a drawing online and realize that I drew a character out of proportion, that the light source is not consistent, that I've shaded outside the lines! And you know what's great? That I get to have an understanding of what I did wrong! I get to evolve! I redraw something from 5 years ago and realize that my composition is much better, my shading more believable. And I know that in 5 more years, I might redraw it again and pride myself in how much I've evolved.

I've been drawing since I was a baby, and I still have a long way to go. And that is also fine, because art is a lifelong pursuit, growing, changing, just as I am.

It's okay to not be good. Hell, it's okay if you don't even try to get better. By drawing, you WILL. It's inevitable that, by practicing, you'll learn.

You know what will not make you a better artist? Software that will generate your "art" for you. The result might look more complex than what your skill level allows you to create right now. But it doesn't look better. You could draw a crooked circle on xerox paper and it will look better than all the AI art in the world. Because you made it. Have some faith in yourself. Your vision has more artistic value than what that computer generated.

"If you're afraid that AI will steal your job, learn to draw better!"