They’re Not Real People: How AI Is Fooling Seniors on YouTube

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Art by Rizalenna Petiluna

shared from Artists Against Generative AI https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Erqcdqtro/ #NoAIart #FuckAI #AIethos #AIthieving #FeckAI #NoAI

AI generated images/videos and music are thievery: taking what wasn't given.

We must reflect and practice restrain, do not consume them, and much less, spread them. We all should know this by now

Especially heartbreaking is to see monastics, Buddhist pages and YouTube channels, senior practitioners using them

2nd precept: undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given

"Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami" #Buddhist #Buddhism #precepts #AI #AIthieving #stealing

-It poses a threat to human civilization (according to its own creators)

-It is built on illegal foundations, so using it is unethical

-Its massive energy and water consumption (among other things), makes it toxic to the already dying planet I THOUGHT we were finally starting to care about.

On the other hand... “it’s fun!”

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Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act.

AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap.

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/ai-slop-art-aesthetics-technology-capital/ #AI #FeckAI #AIart #AIthieving

AI Art Is Weird, Sad, and Ugly. Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise.

Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap.

“So, an AI ‘band’ who cite us as an influence (ie, it’s modelled off our music) have just overtaken us on Spotify, in only TWO months,” frontman Lucas Woodland wrote on Twitter. “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting—most importantly—it’s a wake up call.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/holding-absence-an-actual-band-calls-out-ai-band-that-stole-their-style-and-surpassed-them-on-spotify/ #AI #AIthieving #AIethos #FeckAI
Holding Absence, an Actual Band, Calls Out AI ‘Band’ That Stole Their Style and Surpassed Them on Spotify

Holding Absence, a real live band, has called out an AI generated "band" that scraped their style then surpassed them on Spotify.

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Local Man Okay With AI’s Wholesale Theft From Artists Now He Can Make Studio Ghibli Memes

"I WAS VERY much on the 'the creative process and our emotional responses to art is what makes us human' side of the fence but then fuck me, one of the lads sent in the …

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Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon

Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones

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