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Barret Wallace was not wrong
In defense and absolute condemnation of AI: how AI has already affected “The Game Industry”
https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/in-defense-and-absolute-condemnation-of-ai-how-ai-has-already-affected-the-game-industry
This blog post is about how, earlier this week, Itch.io briefly went offline after an AI-automated system owned by Funko tagged it as hosting copyrighted content. Basically:
Itch.io posted that they had been taken down by Funko of “Funko Pop” because the company used some AI Powered Brand protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus phishing report to their registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored their response and just disabled the domain.
Absurdist automated content flagging happens all the time on corporate-owned platforms like YouTube, but it's distressing to realize that it can happen in indie spaces too:
When this happens to people that actually built and own their alternatives, you really have to take a step back and get properly worried. Will this become the norm? Will we all have to have lawyers and legal help to exist independently online? Will the internet only be a rich people thing then??
For what it's worth, Instagram has started tagging my own crappy amateur art as AI-generated, which is infuriating. I make use of references (sometimes, when I can be bothered), but my references are almost always a chimeric composite of my own photos and/or screenshots. And even when I do sit heavily on a single reference, the illustration is still drawn by hand. See, for example, today's update to my earlier Ganondorf drawing, which will hopefully look cool eventually, but only after a long process:
If nothing else, hopefully this messy WIP draft makes it evident that my drawings are not AI-generated.
What I'm trying to say is that it's frustrating to operate in an environment where AI-generated content is not only allowed but encouraged, while at the same time actual human-created art can be scraped for data but then flagged by an automated system and deleted at any time. This is beyond enshittification; this is bordering on dystopian.
https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/in-defense-and-absolute-condemnation-of-ai-how-ai-has-already-affected-the-game-industry
This blog post is about how, earlier this week, Itch.io briefly went offline after an AI-automated system owned by Funko tagged it as hosting copyrighted content. Basically:
Itch.io posted that they had been taken down by Funko of “Funko Pop” because the company used some AI Powered Brand protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus phishing report to their registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored their response and just disabled the domain.
Absurdist automated content flagging happens all the time on corporate-owned platforms like YouTube, but it's distressing to realize that it can happen in indie spaces too:
When this happens to people that actually built and own their alternatives, you really have to take a step back and get properly worried. Will this become the norm? Will we all have to have lawyers and legal help to exist independently online? Will the internet only be a rich people thing then??
For what it's worth, Instagram has started tagging my own crappy amateur art as AI-generated, which is infuriating. I make use of references (sometimes, when I can be bothered), but my references are almost always a chimeric composite of my own photos and/or screenshots. And even when I do sit heavily on a single reference, the illustration is still drawn by hand. See, for example, today's update to my earlier Ganondorf drawing, which will hopefully look cool eventually, but only after a long process:
If nothing else, hopefully this messy WIP draft makes it evident that my drawings are not AI-generated.
What I'm trying to say is that it's frustrating to operate in an environment where AI-generated content is not only allowed but encouraged, while at the same time actual human-created art can be scraped for data but then flagged by an automated system and deleted at any time. This is beyond enshittification; this is bordering on dystopian.