Guys I hate living in the Dark Timeline.

AI has been getting so bad lately. I recently put my Toyhou.se on lockdown but there's only so much you can do without just privating the whole thing, and then what's the point of even posting stuff for people to see? Before I was paranoid about old-fashioned art thieves who would trace or outright claim pieces as their own, but they were far less scary than this I believe. At least people who traced artwork were learning some skills by doing so I guess,, people who feed it to AIs aren't accidentally teaching themselves how to draw lineart.

I had someone try to hijack my art thread here a few months ago and posted a bunch of AI art which got on my nerves because that was like My Arch Nemesis showing up at my funeral (this was when I was unsure if I would keep doing art business here as my motivation was in the gutter, and I'd just announced this on the thread). Thankfully the mods removed the posts but I'm still irritated.

I'm grateful WP takes a stand against AI art, but I'm still finding some traces of generative AI here, mainly in writing, and that annoys me too! (Disclaimer: This coming vent is about AI Writing in general, not targetted at WP) I don't think AI can truly replicate any author's voice (I have yet to see it, anyway), but the writing is just so irritating to read. Especially when their writing is praised because Guys They're Faking It, Guys They're Using ChatGPT. But it's hard to notice that when you aren't used to the patterns and unfortunately I'm really bad at explaining things. I've done what I can in my WolfPlay RP forum to spread awareness about the hints of AI writing but there's only so much you can do, and WP is just one tiny island on the internet.

Writing also infuriates me because you'll have people saying they are firmly against generative AI - and then turn around and AI-generate all of their writing because it's easier to get away with. Makes me wonder if the art communities they were in wouldn't give them so much backlash against generating "art", would they still be so against it?

My one comfort is AI tends to feed off itself and can't really make original ideas, so it could start getting stuck in a loop. But judging from the way things are going right now, I don't think people are going to get fatigued by repetitive AI ideas for a long time as long as there's still money to be made.

Woe is me. Anyway, support real artists and writers, always be paranoid, and use Glaze on all of your art pieces to try to poison AI, blablabla. Stay safe out there, uncreative lazy people with no desire to learn and grow are making it hard to do anything with passion involved.

I'm not particularly versed in detecting AI in writing; I'm not a writer and don't really partake in writing spaces as much so it's not within my expertise to recognize it unfortunately.

But there definitely are AI images scattered about here as well not just writing. :( It's a pity for real because it's not something you can easily find proof for as the generators are genuinely getting better at appearing passable, as well as folks making light edits to AI work to make it more believable that they made it themselves.

There's so much AI stuff on deviantart too even after muting like 20 tags for it. That took AI images off my searchs and front page, but the daily challenges are still filled with AI stuff its unbearable. </3 I go there and all I can do is block AI uploaders in vain.

Couldn't have said it better.

I feel betrayed almost because I pour a lot of time and effort into both writing and art; just for someone to be lazy and type a few words and have a computer generate it for them. I've stopped even being in the rp scene because of it. The authenicity of people actually putting forth work into something is quality I want to see. Not some fancy slop served on a platter by AI.

WP being against AI is a good step but man, moderation plays a huge role in it and well,,, we all know how that ball rolls. Unfortunately. If I'm being honest, it doesn't look like it's going to change either.

Sometimes I feel like if I want to share my creativity, I have to protect it with insane measures and at that point, I don't even feel like creating. Which I think is what's happening to the art market right now.

It's so disrespectful too. Why even post something you couldn't muster up yourself? Just because you think it looks/sounds bad is much better than the lifeless post of big words AI generated.

on a site that has for its just over 10 year lifespan been a home to hundreds of amazing artists that i've looked up to in my tender years and roleplays built up by writers pouring their souls into their works to make wolfplay a site full of art and a supportive community for new and experienced artists of all fields, to become full of ai generated, soulless slop in the past few months to a year is soul-crushing as an artist and a writer.

to see roleplay plots built by a machine that had no care for what it "wrote", empty mass-produced plots leaving behind the always empty husks of the ones before it, all recieve miles more attention than the plots built by humans who care more about their roleplay than anything is saddening more than anything else, to me, i think.

as much as wolfplay is as a site against generative ai, the community somehow manages to fuel those who use it (mostly those who ai generate "their" writing) and i think as a community we need to work on spotting these and not supporting the "artists" and "writers" who exploit generative ai by, at the very least, not joining these rinse and repeat roleplays with hardly any character behind them

support real artists