I'm so tired of AI
Every single app has a completely unnecessary AI button. My classmates keep talking about those AI slop animals that I can barely keep up with. (And do I want to keep up in the first place?) The use of the em dash has been called an easy way to identify AI-generated text. I've never generated a single word with AI to pass off as my own, but I'm an AI writer now, I guess. I wonder how many people it had to scrape to use em dashes that much?
I'm just so, so tired of AI. It's everywhere except the places it would've done the most good in. Why do we have AI art? AI writing? What's the point of creation if you're not the one creating?
Today I found out someone scraped Archive of Our Own for generative AI training. This isn't the way I wanted to drop that I'm a fic writer, but well. They got all but one of my fics, so now I've restricted all of them to users only. Won't stop someone dedicated enough to scraping, but it makes me feel like I have some modicum of control over my stuff. I've always been a Google Docs writer because I like the interface better than Word, but now, I'm sticking with it even more because the version history feature will probably save me from AI accusations someday.
Having to navigate an AI-infested world is so...exhausting, to say the least. And I say this as someone who grew up on the internet. I've been fooled by AI images once or twice already—who knows how many fake pictures and videos my parents or my grandmother have already watched and believed? Who knows how many bots they've interacted with online? They don't know what to look for. Maybe they just thought it was bad art or a bad voiceover. I don't know.
I don't even know how we're supposed to come back from this. Are we just supposed to accept that this is what life is like now? I feel so bad for everyone who's made a living out of being creative. I don't think I could stand it. The current state of the internet makes me want to never put out anything new ever again, fic or original.