Antis fail to realize they're the same as conservatives, wanting to ban certain media solely because it makes them uncomfortable. They support censorship because antis believe it'll benefit them, failing to realize the media they enjoy will also be banned.
Antis are conservatives hiding behind a "progressive" guise, failing to understand that censorship affects them too.
I dunno if this has been posted yet, but.....
ALTKeep this shit off AO3
ALTWe don't want that kind of pearl clutching 'christian' conservative sitting on the AO3 board. Keep Moms For Liberty out of our fanfiction.
this is the second fucking year in a row someone has tried to pull this crap. but if you're still on the fence about it (though fair warning, I am not copying everything she wrote as a response, which you can read on the OTW website):
Would you be in favor of creating a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee? Why or why not?
I see no reason creating another committee would help anything in light of the continued staffing issues, and see several ways it could hurt. Lumping nonwhite, and non-English-speaking, and non-American volunteers together in one committee is just tokenism with a bow on top. Those experiences are not singular or universal. The DEI consultant to be hired by the organization will be able to speak to this far better than I can.
The cost of becoming a member/voting in elections is prohibitive for many users, particularly disabled, international and POC ones. Do you have any ideas about how this could be improved to make the otw more inclusive and less privileged?
No.
Also, just for some proof of the "Republican" part, from Twitter:
like, it's not a pejorative, it's how she's self-identified
also, ENTIRELY unrelated to this crap, but she's only been a volunteer for about a year and a lot of her answers to questions about ongoing problems is "I don't know because I've only been here a year." she doesn't even know what PAC is.
AI "art" is not innocuous. It is having real negative impact on the arts. From magazines and book publishers deciding to use AI "art" instead of hiring illustrators, to literary magazines having to close down submissions because they've been swamped by AI "stories," to art contests being won by AI "art," opportunities for artists to make a living are already being cut, especially for newer, less established artists. Even for me, with a 20 year career and an agent, I'm seeing fewer avenues to paying work. I can't imagine being 18, wondering if there will be any way to get a job in the arts when every entry level art job will be taken up by AI by the time they're halfway through art school.
So many AI "artists" have this idea that real artists have had it too good for too long, holding creativity hostage somehow, living easy lives, when most of us have to constantly hustle just to stay regular poor instead of homeless poor, our mental and physical health in rough shape all the time. To work so hard not only to hone our skills but to take on the equally hard second job of chasing down opportunities for work, only to see those opportunities go to someone who told a computer to do all their work for them, who then turns around and says we artists don't deserve money or even attention... it's such a slap in the face. It's such a breathtaking insult added to grievous injury.
It's not that these people are using AI to *assist* the creation of their work. This isn't like Photoshop, which is a tool. PS might make some aspects of the work easier or faster, but it's still a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of skill. AI does it all for you. AI "artists" are no different from clients who commission me. If a client describes to me in great detail what they want me to draw, and then I draw it, are they somehow the artist? No! Telling it to a computer instead of a person doesn't change that.
I know AI "art" can be interesting. It's nifty to see what we've taught computers to do. It's funny to laugh about how many fingers they have. But it's really having such a huge negative impact on the creative world right now that the drawbacks far outweigh the curiosity of it. I wish I saw more people outside of artist communities thinking about this, caring about this, talking about this.
I want to add, that people need to stop "claiming" AI art. Stop putting your name on something that isn't yours. Ai art is reproduction of stole ideas and art. Not a craft. Not real art. Putting your name on it is just stupid. This goes for writing a AI fan fic and claiming as your own. It's not yours. You are just lazy.
ai art and fic is stolen. claiming it is plagiarism.
Emma Thomson & Alan Rickman in “Love Actually”/ Carrie-Anne Moss
& Alan Rickman in “Snow Cake”, Alan Rickman &
Ian Hart in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”/ Alan Rickman & Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, Alan Rickman as Eli Michaelson in “Nobel Son”/ Alan Rickman as King Louis XIV in “A little Chaos”, Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nottingham in
“Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves“/ as
The Metatron in “Dogma”, as Severus Snape in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2″/ Antoine Richis in
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”
Reader, it has happened already. Less than a month after it debuted, the Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful has already become the unlikely figurehead of the strike.
It's the story of a woman who, at the end of each day, realises with horror that her actions have been folded into a Dropout-style biographical drama, where all her bad traits and regrettable decisions are played out onscreen by Salma Hayek. Except, as the episode goes along, we learn that it isn’t Hayek at all; it’s an AI-generated likeness of Hayek, commissioned by unethical executives working for a monolithic streaming platform.
It couldn’t be more timely. A sticking point of the Sag-Aftra strike is the potential that AI could soon render all screen actors obsolete. Chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland laid bare the AMPTP’s so-called “groundbreaking AI proposal,” which holds the potential to wipe out an entire pathway to breaking into the industry, as well as a reliable source of income for many. The reported proposal hinged on the ability for background actors to be “scanned, get paid for one day’s pay” and for that company to “own that scan of their image, their likeness, and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation.”
It’s a similar line to the one currently taken by the striking WGA writers. Eventually, they claim, technology will advance enough to make an AI-generated script that is indistinguishable from one created by a human. These scripts would be cheap and instant, and – even though they’re essentially composite jobs, made by scraping existing scripts – they would immediately put an entire profession out of work.
fellas, we're really in it (a black mirror episode) now
Reblogging again because I got an anon last week whining cause they did this to one of my unfinished series and the bot killed Y/N so now they want ME to give them a happy ending. Like. No. Suffer, bitch.
None of yall know my A03 but if I ever find out that anyone fed the fics I put my heart and soul into to a brainless plagiarism machine so it could spit out some shitfuck part 2 like a goddamn happy meal, as if a lifetime of genuine hard work and effort is worth that goddamn little to you that you can disrespect like that, I'm going to open up fics I haven't updated in years just to canonical kill off everyone in the worst fucking ways I can think of
theamazingbard
it is. infuriating. talking to someone who always needs to be right/most technically correct/knowledgeable. fucking exhausting dude .
