@mittechreview @mit-technology-review-mittechreview The author: "He is also the chair of Thrive Capital, an early investor in several prominent AI firms, including OpenAI." Wow, that's very independent. Not.
Such an open lobbyism I would expect in a cheap tabloid. This so-called article is simply annoying on several levels.
#AI #copyright #artists #AITheft #genAI #AISlop #OpenAI #art
Copyright is dead.
#AITheft is the new art.
Long live the Broligarch reign of recontextualized technologically enhanced theft for profits.
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-claimed-the-art-this-man-painstakingly-created-was-generated-by-grok/
> A journalist at the Atlantic created a searchable database of all the books Meta stole. I put my name in and that's how I know - Meta and Zuckerberg stole Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion and the Italian edition Il libro della moda anticapitalista. Tra Karl Lagerfeld e Karl Marx.
https://tansyhoskins.org/my-books-have-been-stolen/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter
#SalamiAI #MetaTheives #AITheft #SalamiTheft #TansyHoskins
/HT @MarciaW
Uhhm
What the fuck, academia.edu??
Is there no opt-out for this? I'm not a first author on this but I do NOT want my papers fed into this bullshit. Any help..?
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #aiSlop #ai_slop #AITheft #science #publishing #research #academia #AcademiaEdu
"My books were stolen not by just anybody but by one of the richest people on the planet." @TansyHoskins
https://tansyhoskins.org/my-books-have-been-stolen/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter
I like to share #art. But more and more often I only do this after a cross-check: is it from real humans? This behaviour happens to me more and more often with real artists.
And who does that to #artists? AI-slop and the people who adorn themselves with theft-machines' feathers. 🤢
What helps me with the check: If people talk about how they made it. The slop can't tell about technics, daytime, or stories.
#NoAI #AISlop #AITheft #factcheck #genAI #artist #humanMade #OpenAI #Photography
The Irish Writers Union will be handing in a petition to the Minister for Trade on Thursday 17th in Kildare Street, Dublin protesting at the use by Meta of copyright protected works to train its AI models without authorisation. I have signed (my late father's books are affected).
A brilliant piece by Séamas O'Reilly on being stolen from by Big AI.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41606539.html
Excerpt:
"I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.
"I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.
"And, yes, I hate what Big AI means for culture. I hate that writers and artists must suffer the indignity of being pickpocketed by the richest men who’ve ever lived. I hate the constant, deadening marketing of machine-generated slop as a replacement for human thought and creativity. I hate every shiny, godawful image from an 'AI artist', and each lifeless line of pilfered prose, Frankensteined into existence by an 'AI author', posited as a substitute for illustrators and writers facing pay and working conditions already decimated by assaults on their professions from those self-same Silicon Valley hordes."
so... if somebody robbed the handcrafting manufacturer of an unique clothing line... and the next week people started showing up in new, distinguishably recognisable clothes, and update their profile pictures showing off new clothes...
How would you react? How can people think it's "fun"? Is this how low our standards are?
#ghibli #AITheft
Turns out even if you're not a member of the Authors Guild, you can use their handy template to tell Meta, etc. to advise them they didn't and don't have your permission to pirate your works --so I did. Here's the link:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/authors-guild-author-letters-to-ai-companies?source=direct_link&
#Meta is a criminal enterprise. It has used 4 of my books and dozens of my articles and reviews to train its AI. I have not been compensated. I did not consent. I do not consent. This is theft. #AI #AITheft #ArrestMarkZuckerberg
📕 Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/
🔎 What has been stolen? Search here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Brian May claims “nobody will be able to afford to make music” if “monstrously arrogant” tech companies are allowed to train AI using copyrighted material
The Queen guitarist backs a UK-wide anti-AI campaign, labelling AI training as “theft” and saying “the future is already forever changed”.
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/adobe-unveils-ai-video-generator-trained-on-licensed-content/ #Adobe #AI #AITheft #ArtistsRights #Copyright #stealing
Getting a lot of boosts from the NaNoWriMo #Aitheft fiasco, so er - hi. Don't have much for cybersecurity (yet), but, er....listen to #TheSojourn audiodrama, maybe?
(P.S. anyone here from #infosectwitter? I lost all my lists in the evacuation/migration :blobcat0_0:)
So now, not only do we have to build #AntiAI measures for audio works (i.e. to combat theft of #VA identities), now we have to poison text, too.
Good news: Research is already underway
https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-science-of-detecting-llm-generated-text/
Bad news: "While many detection methods have been proposed, understanding the challenges is far more daunting."
....I wonder if unicode homographs could be used....
Boosting this as a result of the #NaNoWriMo #AI fiasco: @amin developed an alternate called
Check it out. Maybe write a few stories about #EndingAI.
writingmonth.org
Writing Month is coming soon
#AITheft
Boosting this as a result of the #NaNoWriMo #AI fiasco: @amin is developing* an alternate called
Check it out. Maybe write a few stories about #EndingAI.
So I added the Dark Visitors plugin to my website this weekend.
What’s neat is seeing all the different bots/agents visiting the site, that I wasn’t seeing in other analytics tools.
the BS continues… corporations steal from content creators, then steal from one another — & it is only then considered theft… #Apple is yet another in the long line of thieves to 'allow' sites to potentially opt-out…
ALL companies using any #AI product are destroying the Earth
they must be publicly shamed, boycotted, reigned in heavily through legislation & otherwise thwarted from this sociopathic behavior
🚫🤖 🛑🤖
