I'm vegan so no anime or anime by-products

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amygdalae:

nothing more sobering than realizing youā€™d been assuming a cover of a song was the originalā€¦like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed

#me when my brother thought the panic at the disco cover of bohemian rhapsody was the og#and i had to sit him down and be like never tell that to anyone ever again if you want to live ok via @theblackparadeisdeadd-blog

this is the most heinous one everyone else go home

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largishcat:

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starting to suspect that tech bros actually just donā€™t know what reading is

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I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking ā€œhow can we improve fanfiction?ā€ What heā€™s asking is ā€œhow can we tap into this massive market?ā€

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are freeā€”for now. And of course they are! Itā€™s a classic marketing technique when youā€™re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You donā€™t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And itā€™s going to happen with AI.

Thereā€™s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other peopleā€™s hard work. But you canā€™t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other peopleā€™s fanfic). You canā€™t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Donā€™t use AI, donā€™t feed AI your favorite fic writersā€™ and artistsā€™ work, donā€™t read AI fic, donā€™t engage with it. And if you do, well, I canā€™t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

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This is it, right here

but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

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kiwi:

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anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??

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