A Monster Who Loves Creatures

- We always hear how the most likely suspect for a murder is a spouse, but I wonder just how often that's an actual real fact or if it's just lazy and/or malicious police work.

- Becoming an adult is just realizing that any company that makes you any promise at all is probably lying. There's laws, there's contacts, there's written agreements, but none of that matters if you don't know what's going on behind closed door. None of that matters if the companies can just pay off politicians so they are above the law. Oh, we promise we won't sell your information! In fact here's our license agreement (which btw we can change at any time without notice but you'd have to read the whole thing to know that) see? It's not like we can just do it anyway, it's not like the information is just sitting there waiting to make money and no one is around to stop us, no no, we'd never do that, we'd never break the law! Parish the thought!

- Becoming an adult is also realizing that I can eat as much dinosaur egg oatmeal as I want and none of you fuckers can stop me.

- All these YouTubers are suddenly shilling some online bank (that I absolutely guarantee is going to end up being a huge controversy with whole video essays about it within a year) and I would honestly rather see every single one of them shill raid shadow legends forever.

I understand it's a scary time, nobody wants to be tricked, and honestly it feels embarrassing when you are tricked. I understand that! But AI is becoming harder and harder to tell apart from the real thing. AI is trained on human art with zero consent from the creators, and because it's trained on that human art (including drawings/paintings, photos, textile patterns, video, etc), it's only going to get closer and closer to looking real.

What you're doing by going after every single thing that might maybe be AI is hurting actual artists. Instead of going around and attacking individual people in the hopes that you'll maybe shame an actual generative AI user, advocate for human made arts. Buy artwork from humans, support them. Stop trying to punish the abuser while ignoring and hurting the victim. It might feel hopeless at times, but it's certainly more productive then the equivalent of punching with your eyes closed in a crowded space and hoping you hit one certain person inside of a sea of hundreds.

I'm going to tell you a simple secret. People who use AI to trick you are not going to listen to you whine, rant, or even calmly explain it. They don't care. Most of them are grifting for money, sometimes just clout. People like that don't give a single shit. However, actual human artists who work for hours and hours on their pieces are more often then not caught in the cross fire.