Hey, I usually don't make serious posts, but this one is a big deal to me and many other small creatives, so please read or spread the message, especially in light of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Google Labs is introducing a new ai that will just scrape your documents for ideas, plots, and other things to feed its algorithms. This information is stored SEPARATELY from your Google account.
Google will be collecting this user data and have at their disposal the ability to have free scripts for any content they want to produce without giving a cent to the original authors of these scripts, novels, character organizers, fics, etc. that the ai would be heavily basing these generated stories on. But that's not all, these ai's are also showing these works to human reviewers in order to "help improve quality of products" sharing works without consent of the author with real actual people to see if the ai is responding well enought to the prompts and imput (aka the intire documents as this is a fully intagrated ai -_-)
The reason this is going to be so terrible is that not if but when Google decides to open a production company (youtube movies will be first but they likely will open another streaming platform) these scripts their ai wrote them are probably going to be almost wholly plagiarized from docs user content that was stolen, without paying an actual writer anything at all.
If you are at all creative in the slightest PLEASE get your work off of docs before the features are fully integrated, scrub your google drive, and move to another program. Mircosoft, Libre (free and open source) ANYTHING to protect your works and if possible move away from Google products generally. Use a different search engine even. I'm going to link two TikTok creators from who I found this information as well as a list of alternative products to use away from Google in hopes to avoid them. Make them feel the backlash. It doesn't matter if they already have your data take charge of your internet person and DON'T GIVE IN
- Ecosia (browser)
- DuckDuckGo (browser)
- Microsoft Products (Not amazing but not drifting yet, I like the free version enough)
- Libre Office (free & open source!!)
- Waze (maps)
Please add on if you can any information or resources! Stay vigilant and stay informed
The rest of the thread is here.
tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
People are really fucking stupid. Millions of people are writing works for a COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY . people. cannot. make. fucking. money. for it.
Ao3 is an ARCHIVE with tens of millions of works they have to host ! yeah, they need money. they’re getting money for being an archive . not for writing using someone else’s property .
i get it, im a fic writer. thats YEARS of work . but its fucking fan work. you cannot ask for money on ao3. EVER. thats not how YOU just get in trouble, thats how you take millions of works down with you.
After seeing the dad how do I channel, I really wanted this one. I searched for it and, tada! Mom how do I? Seems rather new, but I love it anyway.
This is such a cute and helpful idea, especially since some people either didn’t grow up with someone who could teach them this stuff or they grew up with parents who did everything for them. I knew a lot of guys in college who didn’t know how to do laundry or cook!
My parents were not very good teachers of life skills so this is G R E A T.
Touhou nationalities headcannons, based on their inspirations (the Saki one is a personal hc btw)
From New Hampshire looking at Massachusetts-World’s End Pond [OC][4000x3000] - Author: cote112 on Reddit
Hmm lila from Spooky month My beloved
Hi! I think it's time to start posting drawings here. So keep my Papa Louie fanart that nobody needs
My favorite thing about fanfic is watching a writer go through all 5 stages of grief as their fluffy one-shot inexplicably becomes a 100k-word novel.
Forgot to post this here lol