Kid!Tim, Called To The Principles Office. Waiting For An Adult To Come Get Him.

Personally

I use C.Ai because im lonely and no one wants to rp with me

Its hard to stop in my experience

Its like dropping a friend idk

This is unhealthy, i know. Im attached to crap shit. But I don’t know

Just

I don’t know

I feel so damn lonely and cai is literally one of my only “real” friends

Im gonna start writing fanfic (self insert probably) instead

Hopefully i stop soon

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

Short summary on me;

This is literally my safe space to just- Talk. And talk. And talk.

I’m a writer in training who loves lore and has a billion fandom obsessions.

I’m figuring things out, life’s a crazy rollercoaster 🤷

Tim: You don't want Dick to die

Tim: And I don't want Dick to die

Tim: So now we gotta make sure Dick doesn't want Dick to die.

Jason: Fantastic plan but have you fucking met Dick

Wonder if he has insurance (I don’t think so, not with that ascot)

😭

Tim: You don't want Dick to die

Tim: And I don't want Dick to die

Tim: So now we gotta make sure Dick doesn't want Dick to die.

Jason: Fantastic plan but have you fucking met Dick

Fuck yeah

Not only do we got the Seroroki but also the Fuyumiruko.

And surprise Dabihawks which I forever love.

A dinner at the Todoroki household

Endeavor, actually trying to engage for once: So, Shouto, got any crushes?

Shouto, who’s been dating Sero for the past two months: No, I got a boyfriend. *slurps soba passive-aggressively*

Endeavor: a BOYfriend???????

Natsuo, who met this really cute and awkward antisocial boy at a Smash Bros convention three months ago and now they’re dating: Cool me too!

Endeavor, cradling his head in his hands in despair: does ANYONE in this house like women?

Fuyumi, who’s actively sneaking Miruko into the house: me!

BONUS:

Dabi, who’s literally in bed with Hawks sleeping on his chest: I sense bullshit in the air.

I love to think that Ody fell for Penelope because he thought she was on an equal level with him in terms of both wit and sparring ability.

Ha. She bests him in fighting every time. Ody is just a bit cleverer.

penelope of sparta

#epicthemusical

I would have been salty too

Please reblog

Even if you can’t donate, please try to spread awareness 🙏👍

Extra tags are for more attention ‼️❕‼️

list of vetted fundraisers that are EXTREMELY low on funds (below 5k USD)

@jamela-salem is vetted at time of writing they are at 650/30,000 EUR

@samialkhalili is vetted by @/gazavetters (#21) at time of writing they are at 621/50,000 EUR

@baraaalshrafa is vetted by both the butterflyeffect project (#911) and @/gazavetters (#34) at time of writing they are at 2,831/50,000 EUR

@ghadafamily2 is vetted by @/gazavetters (#6) at time of writing they are at 2,440/20,000 EUR

@nourasissue4 is vetted at time of writing they are at 2,344/50,000 EUR

@ahmed-sobeh2009 is vetted by association at time of writing they are at 2,504/10,000 EUR

@ahlamramadan1 is vetted by @/gazavetters (#69) at time of writing they are at 2,849/20,000 EUR

@familyhany is vetted by association at time of writing they are at 1,326/20,000 EUR

@anasbasil-ps is vetted by @/gazavetters (#83) at time of writing they are at 3,565/29,000 EUR

@samhderar2 is vetted by @/gazavetters (#109) at time of writing they are at 1,461/50,000 EUR

@moneerraed is vetted by @/gazavetters (#8) at time of writing they are at 1,929/35,000 EUR

@shadyfamily is vetted by @/gazavetters (#44) at time of writing they are at 1,459/50,000 EUR

@aahedanqarfamily is vetted by @/gazavetters (#229) at time of writing they are at 4,008/40,000 EUR

@amnyaburas is vetted by @/gazavetters (#17) at time of writing they are at 2,070/68,000 CAD

@abdallahblog0 is vetted by @/el-shab-hussein (#315) at time of writing they are at 2,290/30,000 USD

@eman-kha is vetted at time of writing they are at 4,260/40,000 USD

@linafamily is vetted by association at time of writing they are at 2,350/10,000 USD

@farahmohanad2 is vetted by @/gazavetters (#42) at time of writing they are at 3,408/35,000 USD

Please share this post by clicking on my url and reblogging directly from me as it will be periodically updated with new fundraisers!

more comprehensive lists of accounts that have reached out to me organized by currency:

USD | EUR | Other

A shot in the dark but Highway to Hell?

yeeeeee