I've debated how I want to address this, because part of me doesn't want to? Someone send an ask in about a podcast we know using GenAI for episode art. I fully understand and apprechiate the heads up, and I trust that this person had the best of intentions at heart sending this in!
But here's the thing - I can not find any proof of that claim. None. And now that leaves me to either answer that ask and expose a podcast for something they may not have done, or ignore it and potentially sound dismissive. And neither is good.
So let me say this - we don't support AI theft here, and I personally am a known hater of the sphere. But when others use it, we, as a podcast, have no control over this.
And accusing people without sharing any proof, that brings us into this weird territory of "this person is bad at drawing hands it must be AI!!!!" and "they use em dashes it's AI!!!!" and I don't think that either is productive. I don't want to be part of callout culture, especially not on this tumblr blog. Our email-adress is on our website, so if you have actual concerns about shows we collaborated with in the past, shoot us an email and let us know! But Tumblr is not the space for this, and requests like these will be ignored. I fully understand that discussions of uncomfortabe topics are part of real life, but this is a blog where we, as creators, interact with our fandom in that context of fandom. Please keep it at that level, yeah?
Love and ducks,
-Maty
