Fuck AI

Of course it is. Just because they can steal anything they want doesn't mean that's what everyday people wanna interact with. Pretty much everyone I know in my personal life feels extremely disappointed in themselves when they get tricked into thinking something isn't AI when it was. People naturally gravitate towards things that were made by humans, at least for the time being. Now is specifically not the time to give up because these companies are trying their hardest to normalize it.

These people making AI images, music, videos, books, podcasts, and literally everything are basically doing everything they do for selfish reasons. Their audience isn't other people, it's themselves. Ask any AI artist or AI musician who they are making it for and the majority will either say themselves or they are doing it exclusively to make money in some way. These people are not artists or writers. They're opportunists.

And even if you can't defend it from being stolen that doesn't mean we should stop making things. Just because they've stolen from us doesn't necessarily mean that people will actually want what they are creating with it.

I think so. But it’s a hard sell given the AI push. I look at it this way (simplistically): it knows how to say/do things convincingly or plausibly, it only knows what to say/do inasmuch as it is prompted properly, but it doesn’t know why it does what it does. People don’t understand this. I know how to make judgement calls and discern from multiple choices while AI just gives an answer with authority. It’s the difference between me looking up recipes and thinking “well I could do x or y to start this spaghetti” versus AI declaring “start with a skillet of kerosene over high heat.” Selling the critical thinking to people who want to be told what to do by a product they’ve been told will solve everything is difficult but necessary.

The whole premise of the current AI models is volume. The kind that can only really be done with automation. If a human needs to be involved on any level, the whole thing falls apart.

I don't know how effective Anubis is these days against AI bots, but the human hole isn't something I would worry about.

You might also want to consider the various "poison" tools, including publishing a bunch of bad content exclusively for the AI crawlers.

Just because you'll lose the war doesn't mean you stop fighting. Make them fight for every step they take and never make it easy for them.

While I'd love to have an off toggle, I think I'm losing too much by not sharing my content on sites that get regularly scrapped. So I still upload there