@edk @joe I've encountered a number of situations already where AI generated content is being credited with some fake name. For example, some news sites at the very beginning of this stupid craze basically invented a byline for their AI content. I sadly forget which ones because this came in a flurry of such slop reports.

But the point is, I don't think this will solve the issue. Should still do it anyway, of course. Like, who doesn't already do this and why?

@edk also for text. The chain of information allows people to uncover problematic information sources (which are more and more likely to be AI these days, I guess)

#citeYourSource

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Damn good idea! :D

@edk side point: we also need to normalise crediting and requesting credit for models/whoever is in photos.

There is a lot of artwork going around attached to the name of a photographer/AI input creator, featuring a model but not crediting the model. This is not by accident. Models know which photos they were actually in and which ones are AI generated. The modelling community it good at finding and informing each other about fake images with real names. Crediting models and requesting credit of models is the one of the best things everyone else can do to help the modelling community fight theft of our work.

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Yeah, so true, for art certainly, but for other work too. Sources must be identified. Crediting sources, validating sources, creating channels of curated information streams that contain information unpolluted by AI inventions.

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I watermark all my photos. I think it takes away from them visually, at least a little bit, but it adds a little bit of friction to unattributed copying. Sure, it's trivial to remove the watermark, but it means someone has to think "yeah, I'm going to be that guy and intentionally remove someone's name from their work."

I don't repost or even "favorite" images without attribution. And when I find people using my work without attribution, they get a very nasty nastygram.

Hey, while we're on the topic, do you ever wonder where those "hamsters every hour" accounts get their images (which never have attribution)? Yeah, they're scrapers. I block them. Don't follow them.

@edk hoping that this initiative may also help. Of course some of the main players are the ones contributing to the problem, but attribution and a chain of custody on content should be expected and easy to discern

https://contentauthenticity.org/

@edk @mynameistillian Tangential, but I listen to audiobooks a lot. And in the series I usually stick to there's ambient-techno-y background music that actually really slaps but it's usually uncredited. Sometimes the comments have the source but often not, and often the music is so obscure that Shazam doesn't help.

I love the kind of music that goes in as audiobook BGM (as it's great for focusing ime), I wish it was just easier to find :x

@edk Or people will get suspicious when works are attributed to MIIBNIP

Seriously, crediting artists is a very good idea anyway, regardless of "AI,"

@edk how do you think should I handle this as a content creator?

It feels absurdly redundant ending all my toots in something like "pics by me", especially when it's more than obvious, because most of my toots consist of myself showing off some newly built thing.

Sure would I attribute media from others, but IIRC this never happend once at this account ^^

Or should I just drop the line into my bio?