When I created this blog, I knew there would be those who opposed it and the contents, I knew this conversation would be had (I honestly welcome it), I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t try to include me in that conversation.
I completely understand the opposition to AI generated art and text, I’m sure artists felt the same way when the camera was invented. I do want to be very clear when I say, I firmly believe AI generated art and text should NEVER be used as a final product to replace artists or writers.
My content on Tumblr isn’t a a final product, I gain no money or fame from making these posts. For me, Tumblr is a sandbox where I can explore themes like whump have fun! I’m not seeking any kind of ‘cheap clout’ or really any clout at all (I think that is an unfair assumption) I’m simply sharing my creative experiments on a platform that I believe welcomes them. My intention is not to undermine writers or steal their ‘solidarity’, but rather to add to the diverse range of creative voices on Tumblr.
While this blog is only about a day old, I have received very positive messages from those in the whump community, and that means the world to me.
I had planned to extend to have an open conversation about the process to create AI art or text, AI in general, and my blog, but on top of your comment you’ve blocked me. So I extend the invite to anyone else who wants to chat.
When the camera was invented, it did not create the photographs by using other people’s work.
It doesn’t matter if what you make with AI isn’t a “final product” or that you gain no money or fame from it. It still adds to the problem AI is creating for artists and writers, no matter how much you might do it for your own fun or “creative process.” What you are doing when you make these images and text is steal from other creatives. It is based SOLELY on plagiarism and on other people’s work. The creators of Midjourney have themselves been exposed for laundering and creating databases of artists that they use to train the AI on. LINK TO TWITTER POST HERE
Not doing it for “clout” or money or fame or any of those things doesn’t matter. You’re STILL adding to the problem and throwing your fellow creatives under the bus.
I have no intention of debating, discussing or talking to you about this. I know you mean well and want to help create things, but doing it with AI is wrong and you’re only causing further harm to the artists and writers and creatives around you. If you TRULY understood the opposition to AI created images and text, you wouldn’t be using it.
What is fan fiction if not stolen characters and worlds? What are gifs if not stealing someone else’s work? Did automation put a lot of factory works out of a job, yes, but it also created a lot of new jobs and skills. We grow and change as a society, AI is part of a big change for us.
How do we learn to write if not from reading other people’s work. AI isn’t going anywhere, and writers already use it every day (hint: spell check). AI is a tool and I don’t think there’s a harm in using it as such.
I’m not asking anyone to like AI, I am not hiding what this blog is. All I ask is that people not be rude about it.
Oh my god shut the FUCK UP.
Clearly you have no respect whatsoever for both the artists (digital and writers alike) and for the creative process. You have no right to begin comparing the creative process of writing fanfiction, which requires so much real, personal, human input to the soulless bastardization of the process that is AI-generated shit.
Don’t you dare compare fanfiction, which is a real human outpour of love over someone else’s creations – characters and worlds – to the fact that AI reads into patterns and makes a medium with no real care for it other than a means to an end.
We learn to write by reading and developing our own feelings and basing experiences on it. I will be fucking rude about it because you’re justifying art theft. AI learns by thievery, that’s literally what it is. Database scrapping does not ask the artists for permission. AI cannot write fanfiction because AI doesn’t care, AI cannot create good art because it doesn’t care, AI creates pattern-based art on people who cared. People who spent thousands of hours, labor, resources and love on their crafts and didn’t even get asked whether their content could be used to feed these monstrous algorithms. If you don’t understand enough about art, shut it.
Spell check has also been shown to be inefficient, ineffective and even more so: morally based because it picks up on things such as racist vocabulary, because, guess what! It learns from used patterns! An AI generated fanfic is a lazy way to go about saying ‘I myself do not personally care for this media I claim to love, I just want to consume more random content for it’ and that’s exactly what you are doing with your generative art as well.
I personally will be very rude about AI use because AI use is disrespectful in every way.
Fan fiction is still taking someone else’s work as your own, I don’t care how much love and energy you put into it, they are not your characters and they are not your world.
You can get as mad and rude as you want about it, but it is a simple truth.
There are literal court proceedings about this and I will not spend my time debating with someone who doesn’t comprehend the difference between theft and disrespect versus creative demonstrations of love and appreciation.
Fanfiction dates to a time everyone had to let you know: I do not own these characters and the media they come from. Those are literal fandom history, learn your media literacy.
I enjoy the cognitive dissonance of you knowing precisely that what you’re doing is abhorrent behavior while trying to justify it by going ‘oh but everyone steals too!’ when, in fact, fanfiction writers and real fanartists are going ‘oh I love this person’s creations! I want to appreciate it more! I want to see more of it under a different lens!’
You can justify your AI theft shit as much as you want but I also can be rude and point out you lack ethics and be as rude as I desire about it.
Fanfiction and fanart has LONG hard won battles that say: This isn’t theft because the people creating it are doing it for the love of the craft.
AI is theft because: one, it has never asked for permission and two, it legally belongs to no one since it has no legal standing to exist.
“You don’t need to like AI but no need to be rude about it.” I will be rude about it and keep disliking it. You’re an unethical fandom creator and therefore, I will expose you for it, even if I have to do so by myself.
Copyright laws don’t care about your feelings, love and adoration don’t factor in.
Fan fiction is theft because the write never asked for permission and the characters and story belong to a production or publishing company.
Both fan fiction and AI can’t be copyrighted for the same reasons.
Fine, be rude, it’s says a lot more about you than me.
You’ve made it quite clear you have no respect for writers, artists, gif makers or honestly any creator of any kind.
Fan fiction is theft because the write never asked for permission and the characters and story belong to a production or publishing company.
@i-am-ai-whump Fan fiction isn’t theft, it’s a “derivative work” and it’s very obvious from the fact you’re using words like ‘stealing’ and ‘theft’, you have no idea how intellectual property works, and you have no idea why nobody who makes art thinks its transformative in anyway, and that you need to sit down and stop talking.
