Down With Ai!! - Tumblr Posts
update for the creature lovers!
as you might have heard already, tumblr is going to start scalping art for ai. while they let you opt out of this is settings, as a preventative measure i will be taking down some of my art temporarily on my posts to protect them and other artists with nightshade.
as for good news, this ordeal (and the irish translation versions of my posts) gives me an excuse to redraw the art for this blog! (most of the art is over a year old at this point). the older pieces will still be viewable, just not on the main posts.
the next few posts will most likely be updated versions of old posts or translations
As an engineering major (undergrad) who actually does my work properly and would rather fail than cheat, people who do this piss me off on so many levels. Like, there’s a REASON this is hard. There’s a reason you need to learn it. That reason is that if you don’t learn it, and you fuck up your job, the consequences WILL be disasterous. Not can be. WILL BE. People WILL die. And their blood will be on your hands for the rest of your goddamn life because you were too lazy to actually do the work that you signed up for.
If you want to go into a field where your education doesn’t matter and you can be as stupid as you want, go into business or something. Jesus.
ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself
Hot Take
If you hate people who use AI to make art but are fine using AI to roleplay with a character then you are part of the problem and are actively funding AI creators to keep making AI happen in the creative industry.
It's gonna encourage AI to write more scripts for movies, shows, and more. If you want to roleplay with a character, go out and find somebody through social media who is willing to role play with you. If you're having a mental health crisis, go seek help. AI is not private, it is not accurate, and it's stealing jobs up right and center.
I do not excuse AI at all.
AI will never be able to simulate human empathy (Referencing Disney/Pixar's Wall-E - 2008 ; will contain spoilers if you haven't seen it)
WALL-E is such a huge example of this. (genuinely don't understand why people don't talk about that movie more)
This film has such complex layers to everything and it's one of--if not the--most prevalent movie today. Its two main points are global warming and AI vs humans and I'm gonna talk about both.
The movie takes place in the year 2805. Global warming has turned the Earth uninhabitable, and everywhere you go there's trash. The company CEO of BnL has made a shio called the Axiom, a space craft made for taking the entire human race off the planet and to somewhere more habitable. The humans are nowhere to be found, and the only forms of life are a small robot and their cockroach companion.
WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) is a dingy lil robot who's job is to compact trash left behind by the human race into little cubes. They are the last robot of their faction, as the rest shut down due to system malfunctions, old age, or lack of sunlight. (The Wall-E units run off solar power). They have been able to form a sort of human-like sentience from the 700 years they've been working on Earth. They've seen playing with trash he compacts (bras, fire extinguishers, and even a ring box where they throw away the ring). During a shift, they find a small sprout and place it in a boot for safe keeping.
Later, a rocket from outer space lands and leaves behind another robot called EVE, who's mission--aka "directive"--is to find plant life on Earth. WALL-E becomes smitten with EVE, and nicknames them EV-A. WALL-E shows EV-A their home and their collection of their favorite objects that they've gathered over the years, eventually showing EV-A the plant they found. EV-A's programming kicks in and shuts the probe down until the rocket can come back to pick them and the plant up and take them back to outer space.
The rest of the movie, WALL-E and EV-A show almost full sentience and show humans and robots alike that Earth is safe to return to and they must succeed despite the efforts of a "corrupted" AI unit called AUTOPilot.
Obviously global warming will always be an issue and it's never gonna go away. Hell it's 100F and it's pretty much August! The main contributing factor to it is gonna be deforestation I believe. The characters of WALL-E spend so much time trying to find any sign of life to return to Earth because humans cut it all down. Granted, we only get to see a small bit of America in the movie, but I think it would be safe to assume that an EVE-Probe was landed at every continent besides Antarctica (which probably didn't exist at that point) based on the amount that we're shown the Axiom launched.
The movie shows how human resilience will always prevail no matter what, and I think that's a good thing. It feels like the human spirit cannot be broken, only stuffed down from routine and day to day chores. You really start to see it in this movie.
With the AI aspect of it, we're shown that in every angle of the AXIUM, robots exist. They do everything for the humans; clean, feed, groom, and even teach. They don't explain how the humans procreate in their enlarged state, but I will not be risking my mental state to ask those questions lol
I don't believe that any robot in this movie is necessarily 'corrupted". They're all following their base programming, even if it means taking it to a severe extreme. That is exactly why I do not trust AI. AUTOPilot is essentially the steering wheel of the ship. They are shown as the captain's right hand "man" in the movie, and even during a scene where the Captain starts second guessing his position as captain, the portraits on the walls of the captains of previous years show that auto keeps creeping closer and closer and closer in frame to show that they are taking up more control of the ship than the captain. AUTO's directive is to drive the Axiom, nothing more. They do not care about the lives on the ship, they do not care about the life or well-being of the captain. Their only directive is to drive the ship away from Earth and to never allow anyone to return.
The other bots of the ship are very susceptible to WALL-E's influence, as they have never seen a sentient robot before. They are all quick to pick up their habits and form some sort of empathy towards one another. These robots are actually programmed to have a false sense of empathy towards humans. They are there to serve the humans and to keep them comfortable in their time on the ship. That is why they were able to gain sentience for one another so fast.
AI cannot learn the difference between human empathy and simulated empathy as they do not have a brain. They can definitely learn how to show empathy, but they will never be able to truly do it themselves. WALL-E was only able to become sentient after hundreds of years because they were able to find songs and imagery of humans from hundreds of years ago. Hello, Dolly! is the musical that is shown in the movie, and I believe the two songs that are played (Put On Your Sunday Clothes and It Only Takes A Moment) were perfect choices for the movie. Sunday Clothes was a rally song for the robots, and Moment was the connection with another robot that WALL-E yearned for.
Going back to the danger of AI, AUTO shows that robots will always default to their programming. Directive A113 was a no-return policy that AUTO had to follow for the overall safety of the people--it didn't matter to them if a captain had to die in the process, just that they followed their directive.
After doing some further research, apparently there's also some religious theme to the movie. Originally, EVE was a namesake to the first woman, and WALL-E was thought of as Adam, the first man. The Axium was compared to Noah's Arch, and from that EVE's symbolism changed to the white dove carrying the olive branch and thus changed the entire direction of the film. WALL-E became a symbol of mans imagination and hard work, compared to Prometheus, Sisyphus, and Butades.
Final thoughts: I love this movie. It definitely needs to be talked about more, especially with the rise of AI and the fall of human creativity.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from mine and my bf's fursonas to yours :3
Just thinking about how, the new HYBE CEO would definitely try using AI at some point and you best believe Joon is gonna go in with a whole ass new PowerPoint about how it’s bad and tell them no.
He for sure will 😭😂
How to turn off AI Training of your content on Web and Mobile:
On a Web Browser:
I had some trouble finding this option. My first instinct was to click the settings button on the left, but that's where it is!
First, you'll click the name of your blog on the left sidebar to bring it up on your browser.
Then click "Blog settings" on the right sidebar once your blog is brought up. That's where they're hiding it.
Click "Prevent Third-Party Sharing" under the Visibility section, and bam! You're done.
On Mobile:
Thankfully it's much easier on mobile. Just click the Gear icon on your blog's page, to go to settings.
Scroll all the way down until you see Visibility, then toggle the Prevent third-party sharing option for your blog!!
If you disable this setting on mobile, it automatically synced it to my web browser settings, too. ...But if you use both Web and Mobile, I would still highly recommend double checking that it actually turned off on both!!
Check that it's turned off on your side blogs too! And check your settings every now and then anyway to ensure that it's staying turned off, because if my memory serves right, some other websites will pull some shenanigans on things like this and opt you back in without telling you!
Leave Feedback on New Features at Tumblr Support Here!! Let Staff know however we can that having our content fed to AI at their whim is unacceptable.
And if you have the option to poison your art with Nightshade or Glaze, keep it up!!
If you're on Windows 11 like I am for my "main" computer (in my case for school purposes and because I can't get Baldur's Gate 3 to play on Linux), then you might've seen this annoying piece of AI shit show up on your taskbar:
This is Windows Copilot, and it's fulled by the same shit ChatGPT is fuelled by. There is currently no way to uninstall it, but there is a way to deactivate it completely, which I've linked below. It's very easy, and it took me like, 2 minutes to do.
IT NEEDS TO LEAVE ALREADY.
Reblog to make it die faster
APPARENTLY THESE DONT WORK!! USE GLAZE FOR BETTER MORE SECURE RESULTS!!
I made my own ai disturbance filters
Original post: I'm like 80% sure they'll work? I think the more of these we make the better so the ai does not learn how to work around them :3
anyway uhh yeah hope u like them feel free to use them
u dont gotta give credit if u do but i would love to see them in use if you use them so give me an @ if u want to, or dont :3
To be completely honest I’m probably gonna use this as well as glaze mainly because I’m paranoid but keep in mind glaze is the only source we know works 100% (maybe the ibispaint feature too? I haven’t looked into that) but yeah keep your art safe my lovely people!!
IMPORTANT PSA
I told ao3, so now I'm here to tell you all.
I do see your comments and your reblogs, but I don't always respond. I try, but sometimes life just gets in the way or I completely forget for days or weeks. Sometimes, by the time I actually remember or see the comment, it's disrespectful to even respond because it's so late.
There is no such time as too late to respond to comments and reblogs. It may take a while, but most people, I've found, are pretty understanding. At least, that's what I've seen while reading comments on other stories.
Fandom culture is, for some reason, falling back onto this theory that everyone just knows what everyone else is thinking and it's sad. Interaction between everyone who creates and consumes is falling quickly and steadily.
Artists of all kinds are getting kicked in the ass because of the rise of AI creations. We're being kicked while we're down because people are seeing our stuff, we know they are, but they're not communicating with us.
I can guarantee that commenting and rebloging and tagging will motivate artists much more than you think.
I've heard stories (one of them my own) of people giving up on stories or whole art pieces because people weren't communicating or interacting with them.
I've heard stories where people have picked up pieces that they hadn't touched in years because someone commented on their work.
Fandom Culture has become less of a community and more of a consumer base. It's disappointing, to say the least.
I was born in 2004 and raised on old fandoms and fandom culture. I didn't jump into it until 2017, but even then was so much better to post and write because people were leaving comments about their favorite parts or compliments and keyboard smashes.
New people coming into fandom culture aren't getting the true experience that a lot of us grew up on and in. They're coming into a place closer to window shopping than an actual library.
2020 was largely the cause of this when huge amounts of people entered fandom culture because there was nothing else for them to do. But they're not all to blame. We didn't do a good enough job teaching them the proper etiquette. But it's not too late.
Lesson number one is to comment. Never post a hate comment and never give critique unless it's asked for.