Fuck AI

I quite of second this. People often seem to forget the fact that everything we post to the Internet, unless it got some sort of password-lock or GPG/PGP/E2EE encryption, should be considered as already exposed or something...

And, hell, even with encryption, the recipient risks leaking it once they open it. Screenshot-lock? The recipient can take a photo of the screen with a second device, or use analog HDMI splitters (akin to how movie streams are pirated) to capture the thing digitally. Poisoning the well? The recipient can apply heavy photoshopping to it until the subpixel elements are rendered meaningless, or they can even rotoscope on top of the art before feeding it to VLMs (I highly doubt Nightshade and similar algorithms would be able to poison traced-over derivatives). File metadata and things such as alternative NTFS streams? Doesn't last long after being uploaded to a back-end, the most of which will likely strip it all for privacy/security reasons (e.g. because EXIF can sometimes carry geolocation data, so platforms may end up stripping EXIF altogether). Paywall? Nothing technically stops a buyer from uploading it somewhere else.

The only thing that could theoretically protect it after the publishing is the usage of licenses (e.g. Creative Commons, or All Rights Reserved), but, in practice, we know the only ones who could truly afford enforcing their licensing terms are those who can afford a legion of lawyers, namely studios such as Nintendo and Disney. We, amateur artists, we are neither a Nintendo nor a Disney.

And I say this as an artist myself. I once made a 3D model of an owl in Blender, fully sculpted from scratch (there's something magical in the fact that an UV sphere can become an entire character after treating the sphere like a ball of clay to be molded) and rigged/morphable. I'm very fond of this creation of mine, I love her, she is practically sacred to me, so sacred I don't want her to be misused. I don't want her to become a commercial product (original or derivative), and I know even a CC-BY-NC-SA wouldn't protect her from that because I couldn't afford one lawyer, let alone a legion of these, to sue whoever corporation or individual dared to misuse my creation. So I leave her unpublished because, while she's unpublished, nobody can do improper uses of her, not even AI corporations.

The moment me, as an artist, publish something online, I can't truly expect my creation not to be misused somewhere... So everything I publish, I publish with this in mind. I don't believe in "Intellectual Property" (bc ideas aren't apples to become scarce), but I believe in the fact that a creation risks misuse whenever it reaches some hand other than my own.

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world