"We're doing plagiarism now?"

Sometimes I make video games and keep them to myself. The joy of teaching myself what gamedevs of the past must have done for historic games is my recreation. But prompting a game? Nobody would want to play it AND there isn't even the satisfaction of coding it yourself. WHY?

I had my subscription to Canva refunded because they pushed their 'magic AI' as a way to 'skip the studio' even though photographers are their customers. Then later I purchased @affinitybyserif as a Photoshop alternative. I got that refunded when I learned canva acquired them.

Not only will 'AI' companies poison themselves by eating their own erroneous outputs, but they will slow down everyone else when stealing from them.

Tech companies have a diversity problem. It's on full display whenever they show off what their 'AI' can do without realizing it's making things worse. ProWritingAid couldn't even hire a goddamn writer to review their ad. Go fuck yourself, NaNoWriMo, for selling out.

Dear tech industry, READ THE FUCKING ROOM. Artists, writers, small businesses, and people who support all of the above do NOT want your 'AI'.

1️⃣ Provide permanent housing to the unhoused 2️⃣ Crack down on rent fixing schemes 3️⃣ Build affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods You don't need a plagiarism machine to plagiarize answers from experts who have been ignored by elected officials.

Can we go back to the old days of AI and ML? Back then you brought your own data that you had permission to use instead of plagiarizing all the world's media. Tech didn't guzzle excess water and electricity because it was scoped to specific tasks you designed with *INTENTION*.

Today Nintendo released Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom a game whose trailer I was sold on right away. They would never waste their time with AI when they have timeless, beloved character design including Zelda, Super Mario bros, and Pokemon on their platform.

Using AI to write production code is similar to outsourcing. You are no longer doing the fun stuff: designing and writing high quality code. Instead you: Review bad code N times to make it somewhat acceptable, panic fix bugs in production, maintain ever growing messy code base.

Opt out patterns are a UX sin.

Google, Meta, others: "Ya you should regulate AI" California: *puts forth AI safety bill* AI corps: "but not like that" Newsom: *vetoes bill*

The 'move fast or get left behind' mentality in tech will guarantee that more egregious stories like this are on their way. If they had paused to ask themselves 'what if's, they would not have released these 'AI' chatbots in the wild. THERE'S A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE ON THIS JFC.

Defunding the police means undoing the excessive spending they do that takes taxpayer dollars away from other services like education and affordable housing.

Thank you so much @NWIdolFest for having us this year! It’s always great to see the growth of the community and we hope everyone else had as much of a blast as we did. We look forward to what you have in store for next year 😊 📸 : Peoni🔜ALA 📸 : Brian Dang 🍥 #NWIF2024

A decade ago, the discourse was about 'big data'. I could see the value to humanity in crowdsourcing traffic incidents and things for waze and Google Maps. I fail to see the value in generative AI except to concentrate wealth to corporations by devaluing artists and their art.

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