The Sincerest Form of Imitation (not a story)

[DukeNukem 2417]

I've kept things civil. Thrown no mud, called no names, unless you count referring to A.I. content as what a teeming mass of algorithms shits out after you put in your prompt.

This whole thing started because someone did a Google Gemini recreation of one of my works, and the point I was trying to make in the original post was that the scene was taken out of context - intended for horror, but remade mostly for titillation. Somehow or other I've had to since clarify my stance on A.I. content in general (long in a short: I don't think it's art), and have been referred to as "way too emotional" over this issue, among other things.

I don't know what else I can even contribute to this that'll mean anything, so I'll just leave it at this. I don't want A.I. trained on my content, I don't want A.I. "recreations" of my content and I don't want to see this forum or the Wiki flooded by the regurgitated offal that a bunch of algorithms churned out based on a bunch of prompts that probably included the phrase "stable diffusion" somewhere in them. The people - the HUMAN BEINGS - who write, and compose, and draw, and paint and use 3D modeling programs to create for this forum and the wiki are, truly, artists. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can learn to use the tools that those people use, and with experience and practice become an artist of their own merit.

Adding A.I.-created content to the forum isn't adding art, it's opening the floodgates of a sewage drain to drown us all in shit. Content made by actual talented HUMAN BEINGS will be lost to a slurry of slop, A.I. hallucinations and garbage "in the style of" so many others.

You want to call me a gatekeeper? I'll wear the badge with pride, because you're damn right I'm a gatekeeper. You want to call me overly emotional? Maybe it's because I prefer human talent as opposed to a bunch of soulless algorithms. You want to call me a hypocrite? Go look up the definition of the word and get back to me.

Art is made by PEOPLE, using TALENT, IMAGINATION and CREATIVITY. Algorithms lack all three of those attributes, and therefore algorithms are not, will not and will never be artists. They're content engines, cranking out mass-produced shit day-in, day -out. And that's before we get to the legal and ethical debates.

Anyway. I support art made by HUMAN ARTISTS, not some rando entering a prompt. Fembot Central needs to celebrate and promote its HUMAN ARTISTS, not the ocean of swill churned out by LLMs and other such soulless assembly lines.

[ProchazkaJBG]

I've kept things civil. Thrown no mud, called no names, unless you count referring to A.I. content as what a teeming mass of algorithms shits out after you put in your prompt.

This whole thing started because someone did a Google Gemini recreation of one of my works, and the point I was trying to make in the original post was that the scene was taken out of context - intended for horror, but remade mostly for titillation. Somehow or other I've had to since clarify my stance on A.I. content in general (long in a short: I don't think it's art), and have been referred to as "way too emotional" over this issue, among other things.

I don't know what else I can even contribute to this that'll mean anything, so I'll just leave it at this. I don't want A.I. trained on my content, I don't want A.I. "recreations" of my content and I don't want to see this forum or the Wiki flooded by the regurgitated offal that a bunch of algorithms churned out based on a bunch of prompts that probably included the phrase "stable diffusion" somewhere in them. The people - the HUMAN BEINGS - who write, and compose, and draw, and paint and use 3D modeling programs to create for this forum and the wiki are, truly, artists. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can learn to use the tools that those people use, and with experience and practice become an artist of their own merit.

Adding A.I.-created content to the forum isn't adding art, it's opening the floodgates of a sewage drain to drown us all in shit. Content made by actual talented HUMAN BEINGS will be lost to a slurry of slop, A.I. hallucinations and garbage "in the style of" so many others.

You want to call me a gatekeeper? I'll wear the badge with pride, because you're damn right I'm a gatekeeper. You want to call me overly emotional? Maybe it's because I prefer human talent as opposed to a bunch of soulless algorithms. You want to call me a hypocrite? Go look up the definition of the word and get back to me.

Art is made by PEOPLE, using TALENT, IMAGINATION and CREATIVITY. Algorithms lack all three of those attributes, and therefore algorithms are not, will not and will never be artists. They're content engines, cranking out mass-produced shit day-in, day -out. And that's before we get to the legal and ethical debates.

Anyway. I support art made by HUMAN ARTISTS, not some rando entering a prompt. Fembot Central needs to celebrate and promote its HUMAN ARTISTS, not the ocean of swill churned out by LLMs and other such soulless assembly lines.

None of my posts were directed at your request not to have your works used without permission. That is a completely rational demand and fully within your rights as the creator