GenericOverlord

Mostly just a quiet lurker.

[GenericOverlord @GenericOverlord]

@Rahll This is so hard to square with his previous comments on AI. Just a complete 180…

[GenericOverlord @GenericOverlord]

@Rahll 😬😬😬

[Kevin Bankston @KevinBankston]

At AI on the Lot, @mexopolis (Book of Life director) says animating with AI—from starting in March pitch to green light today—was like “having sex and then they hand you the baby.” Eager to use AI to bring jobs back to LA.

[eden_essence 🍉 @edxn_essence]

if you are a digital creative you must oppose this with every ounce of strength you can muster. repealing section 230 could, no exaggeration, destroy the entire internet.

[trash jones @jzux]

hello brands, I hope this helps - if you use generative AI, I will think less of you as a brand and will make a deliberate effort to avoid your products in the future

[Alejandro Saab | DEADPOOL | Marvel Rivals @KaggyFilms]

Fuck Ai 🙂

[Reuben Lack @thereubeh]

I can't stress the importance for anime dub fans globally, English or otherwise, to express their distaste for AI dubs now while you still have the chance.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

People in AI often justify the exploitation of creatives' work for AI training with versions of: 'If people can learn from your work, why can't AI?'

But this totally ignores the social contract under which people create and share their work.

Traditionally, when people created and shared work, they expected other people to learn from it. But they also expected the law to protect them from people using their work to compete with them.

So you expect that young people will learn from you and make up the next generation of creatives - absolutely! But you also have good evidence that people are not allowed to take your work and use it to dilute the market you're in. They can't bootleg it. They can't remix it without your permission. You expect the law to protect you.

This is the social contract under which people shared their work - for years, decades, arguably centuries.

Then AI comes along. Tech types say 'it's just learning from your work, like people do'. But let's be clear - this use of your work came totally out of the blue. Virtually no creative out there expected it. They made what they made knowing and expecting that people would learn from them; they did not know or expect that AI would learn from them.

They expected, rightly, the law to protect them from people using their work to compete with them, to dilute their market. *This is what AI does.* AI companies copy their work for training, then sell access to the trained model - *which competes at unheard-of scale with the people whose work it uses*.

The social contract under which people create is being broken.

Travel writers expected other travel writers to learn from them; they did not expect OpenAI to use their work to build a model that puts them out of work.

Artists expected other artists to learn from them; they did not expect Midjourney to use their work to build a model that puts them out of work.

Musicians expected other musicians to learn from them; they did not expect Suno to use their work to build a model that puts them out of work.

AI breaks the social contract under which creatives make and share their work. Whatever you think the law says - IMO, much of what's happening infringes copyright - there is a broader truth here. Creatives had good reason to think think the law would protect them from things like AI, even if they didn't know AI was coming.

Every poll of creatives shows huge objection to AI companies' mass exploitation of their work.

This is a key reason why. The social contract has been ripped apart by a group of companies that place profit above the concerns of human creators.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits.

Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed.

They should share in the profits. And there should be a tax on mass displacement.

[Lu @Lucaswoodland]

So, an AI “band” who cite us as an influence (ie, it’s modelled off our music) have just overtaken us on Spotify, in only TWO months.

It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting - most importantly - it’s a wake up call.

Oppose AI music, or bands like us stop existing.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Unity seems to be using AI models trained on copyrighted works without a license.

Generating famous characters is a good way to easily demonstrate this. But these models are also trained on millions of artists’ less well-known work.

This is straight-up exploitation of creatives by big AI/tech companies, and should be resisted at every turn.

Don’t let this exploitation be normalized.

[🏮Zakuga Art🏮 @ZakugaMignon]

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[Maciej Drabik @NegativeVibrat1]

AI is not just another tool. A tool doesn't scrape anyone else's IP to function, it doesn't do any of the work for you or impart any knowledge on how to be an artist. genAI is just stolen talent and intelligence for those who refuse to develop any of their own.

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

Put aside everything else (& there’s a lot of nonsense “else”), I find it highly gratifying that AI companies & their minions argue that “opt-outs” are a poor solution that ignores certain realities. Remember that next time they argue in favor of opt-outs!

@ashleynbelanger

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

🚨 If you’re in Australia, please give the Productivity Commission feedback on their plans to make it easier to train AI on copyrighted work without permission.

(And try not to be swayed by the obvious bias of a question that highlights “the potentially massive economic benefits of AI” but not the harms of weakening creators’ rights.)

[GenericOverlord @GenericOverlord]

@dreamosaurus @ednewtonrex Hope Australian creators come out in force against this like in the UK!

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Australians - please tell your government not to legalise IP theft to benefit AI companies.

https://t.co/kvgWIpEThs

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

People say, “if you’re not using AI to write, you’ll be left behind!” meanwhile study after study has shown severe and immediate cognitive decline in those who use it regularly. I’m still capable of reading and have a functioning brain, so who’s really being left behind here?

[Jeremy Kaplowitz @jeremysmiles]

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Stay loud about your feelings on generative AI, it works.

[GenericOverlord @GenericOverlord]

@ednewtonrex Australia’s Productivity Commission is considering proposing that gen AI be allowed to train on whatever it wants. Feels like a repeat of what happened with the UK. https://t.co/uA0GfT8fyE