WHY IS IT THAT I HAVE TO OPT OUT OF MY CONTENT BEING SCRAPED FOR GENERATIVE AI INSTEAD OF BEING GIVEN THE OPTION TO OPT IN??
I'm so fucking tired of having to Choose to opt out of it. Like this should tell you 1000% that websites do not care about their userbase because of the blatant lack of respect for the people and the things they create. This goes for writing, art, music, videos, etc. Like yall, I do not put my work up here for it to be scraped, and profited off of unless I choose. I put my work up for it to be shared with others who enjoy the characters I do and connect with others. I make my work sometimes just for fun. But there are times when I make extremely personal pieces that are rooted deeply for me. Things I don't wont a machine just chewing it up and spitting it out without regard for the initial intent of why I created it - because a machine will never NEVER understand the nuance of what I was trying to show, why I chose things the way I did. I'm so tired of seeing the work of EVERY creative individual thrown into a blender and chopped up and Frankensteined in a way that tosses aside integrity from the INDIVIDUALS who made them. Tossing our work into a generative AI machine is not paying homage to our work. It is not a tribute. It is a damn mockery. If you really want to pay homage or tribute, or have any kind of respect for the work we put into what we do, you'd learn to make a replication by hand. You'd learn what we went through to get to where we were. You'd learn why we do things the way we do and how we think about how we convey what we do. You'd learn to discern intention for how we create what we do. I get quick money is damn tempting as hell, but you will never truly understand the joy and the fulfillment you get by doing the work by hand simply by writing a prompt. Because how can you truly understand what's missing from your work unless you've done it yourself to understand why it's lacking the humanity?
