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The "No AI " hack on the searchbar almost got me KILLLLLLLLLLLEDDD ToT
If u don't know, there is a hack where if you curse in your search you will get no ai images.
I was reading the bonus story of a manga called NANA (book 9). Naoki dyed his hair platinum blonde. I had no idea what this looked like so I googled it, but all I got was ai slop of random blonde ppl, so I decided to search "platinum blonde fuck" to get rid of the ai and............................. Yeah, the results were just porn.
If I were alone, I wouldn't care. I'm 22. I can handle it. but what I COULD NOT HANDLE, WAS THE FACT THAT MY COMPUTER SCREEN WAS FACING MY MOTHERS DIRECTION
im gonna throw hands
Hi everyone, my works have been unfortunately stolen for generative AI use, as are most preceding March 2025. I don’t know/have the capabilities to file for copyright infringement and I’m unaware of the current status, however for future events, I will be locking my fics down for only registered users indefinitely. This really pains me, as someone whose fics are mostly enjoyed by guest users. Please share this information with others and protect your work at all costs! MY WORKS ARE NOT TO TRAIN GENERATIVE AI
Finding Fate and all other one shots, and my two original works will be locked from now on.
I have listed some information down below
I can't imagine someone actually thinking this is a good thing, how can you believe stealing someone's hard work made with love and feeding it to a machine to get something shitty that vaguely resembles or "continues" the story they were writing because you can't wait TWO WEEKS! Get something else to do while you wait! Get a hobby!
This is the worst timeline. (x)
I got inspired to write a poem--
This Poem Was Made By AI
(please note this poem was not, in fact, made by ai. I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning writing this)
Imagine a world where everyone could write. There’d be no need to argue, no need to start a fight. No need to stay up until all hours of night, No need to squint at the paper and say, “This can’t be right.”
Imagine a world where you could spitball a book. It’s really quite easy, I promise, just look! You don’t need to worry about finding a unique hook, Just borrow this neat one from this author I took.
Imagine a world where you could make a series for tv. It’s quite simple and really stress-free! All you have to do is write a sentence, you see, And our Inkitt AI can turn it into an episode, two, or three!
A single bullet point can turn into a flourishing story. There’s no need to draft, no need to worry. All the “real” writers will run away and scurry. Compared to our stories, theirs looks like an unfinished painting, blurry.
Imagine a world where we took all the joy Out of writing for every girl and boy. It’s our writing they want, our writing to enjoy, And our platforms are as enticing as a small nostalgic toy.
AI is better. This, people just know We’ll steal from all the “real” writers; just keep it on the down-low. Everyone will come to us, and our platforms will grow. We’re practically as iconic and cool as uh… Odysseus and Calypso.
That was the first thing, but this better thing is second: All the helpless writers to our platforms, we beckoned. And here’s a little secret, it’s something we recon, That we’ve turned our silly tools into a weapon.
Imagine a world where people for themselves don't think. And creating a piece could be done in a blink; And they’ll use our tools more and more like the alcohol they’ll drink As their helpless brains and their skills of craft start to shrink.
On our words of wisdom and greatness, they’ll rely While subpar original works out of “writers’” hands we pry And use our cool AI programs to modify— And if they come after us, we’ll simply just deny.
Their brains will grow stupid, tired, and weary, And we’ll have the power to answer all their writing queries. We may do some things that might cause some to be leery, But not to worry, we’ll still write your english essays and letters to mother deary.
Imagine a world where everyone could write. With what we’re doing, everyone’s ideas can take flight. And with the way we’re going, we’ll be All Writers’ sole—blinding—light, And no one will be able to look at what we’re doing and say, “This isn’t right.”
Each week (or so), we'll highlight the relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression. This week:
Inkitt’s AI-powered fiction factory
Inkitt started in the mid-2010s as a cozy platform where anyone could share their writing. Fast forward twenty twenty-fuckkkkk, and like most startups, it’s pivoted hard into AI-fueled content production with the soul of an algorithm.
Pictured: Inkitt preparing human-generated work for an AI-powered flume ride to The Unknown.
Here’s how it works: Inkitt monitors reader engagement with tracking software, then picks popular stories to publish on its premium app, Galatea. From there, stories can get spun into sequels, spinoffs, or adapted for GalateaTV… often with minimal author involvement. Authors get an undisclosed cut of revenue, but for most, it’s a fraction of what they’d earn with a traditional publisher (let alone self-publishing).
“'They prey on new writers who have no idea what they’re doing,' said the writer of one popular Galatea series."
Many, many authors have side-eyed or outright decried the platform as inherently predatory for years, due to nebulous payout promises. And much of the concern centers on contracts that don’t require authors’ consent for editorial changes or AI-generated “additions” to the original text.
Now, Inkitt has gone full DiSrUpTiOn, leaning heavily on generative AI to ghostwrite, edit, generate audiobook narration, and design covers, under the banner of “democratizing storytelling.” (Bullshit AI? In my democratized storytelling platform? It’s more likely than you think.)
Pictured: Inkitt’s CEO looking at the most-read stories.
But Inkitt’s CEO doesn’t seem too concerned about what authors think: “His business model doesn’t need them.”
The company recently raised $37 million, with backers including former CEOs of Sony, Penguin, and HarperCollins, proving once again that publishing loves a disruptor… as long as it disrupts creatives, not capital. And more AI companies are mushrooming up to chase the same vision: “a vision of human-created art becoming the raw material for AI-powered, corporate-owned content-production machines—a scenario in which humans would play an ever-shrinking role.”
(Not to say we predicted this, but…)
Welcome to the creator-industrial complex.
Publishers to AI: Stop stealing our stuff (please?)
Major publishers—including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Vox Media—have launched a "Support Responsible AI" campaign, urging the U.S. government to regulate AI's use of copyrighted content.
Like last month's campaigns by the Authors Guild and the UK's Society of Authors, there's a website where where you can (and should!) contact your representatives to say, “Hey, maybe stop letting billion-dollar tech giants strip-mine journalism.”
The campaign’s ads carry big mood slogans like “Stop AI Theft” and “AI Steals From You Too” and call for legislation that would force AI companies to pay for the content they train on and clearly label AI-generated content with attribution. This follows lobbying by OpenAI and Google to make it legal to scrape and train on copyrighted material without consent.
The publishers assert they are not explicitly anti-AI, but advocate for a “fair” system that respects intellectual property and supports journalism.
But… awkward, The Washington Post—now owned by Jeff Bezos—has reportedly already struck a deal with OpenAI to license and summarize its content. So, mixed signals.
Still, as the campaign reminds us: “Stealing is un-American.”
(Unless it’s profitable.)
#WarForever
We at Ellipsus love a good meme-turned-megaproject. Back in January, the-app-formerly-known-as-Twitter user @lolt64 tweeted a cryptic line about "the frozen wastes of europa,” the earliest reference to the never-ending war on Jupiter’s icy moon.
A slew of bleak dispatches from weary, doomed soldiers entrenched on Europa’s ice fields snowballed (iceberged?) into a sprawling saga, yes-and-ing with fan art, vignettes, and memes under the hashtag #WarForever.
It’s not quite X’s answer to Goncharov: It turns out WarForever is some flavor of viral marketing for a tabletop RPG zine. But the internet ran with it anyway, with NASA playing the Scorcese of the stars.
In a digital hellworld increasingly dominated by AI slopification, data harvesting, and “content at scale,” projects like WarForever are a blessed reminder that creativity—actual, human creativity—perseveres.
Even on a frozen moon. Even here.
Let us know if you find something other writers should know about, (or join our Discord and share it there!)
- The Ellipsus Team xo
You hear the Blood God, we have to kill AI art!!!!
hear him out
ALL BELOW - This is the big rant message about importance of real art and AI problems I originally wrote for a raffle on scrap.tf some time ago, but I decided to leave it here as well, for the history. Don't know how to hide the text in formatting to it not go a long line down, so there's just big text wall all below yk.
ROTATING SHARK FOR TEXT SEPARATION
ROTATING SHARK FOR TEXT SEPARATION
The Message to People about Art and AI.
Listen to St. Chroma by Tyler, the Creator. Look at "The Last Day of Pompeii" by Karl Bryullov for a one minute. Check out the pottery and sculptures that the local masters in your town make. Go to your local popular cafe and just watch the passion, soul n'effort with which the cooks and chefs prepare the food there for you. I don't care if anyone disagrees with this, but ART is what makes us humans. It is the single most important thing that separates us from any other species on this tiny, puny planet in a vast monotony of space void.
People like to consume art. No, they LOVE sm doing it on a daily basis - music on Spotify (or YouTube), movies, shows, sitcoms, a lot of videos on the same YouTube, art-comms on Internet, paintings n' photos on the walls of our houses, fountains and statues in the city centers, clothes, the design of your mouse pad, whatever else. But let's face it - artists have never been recognized. Never valued. Their efforts and skills have always been humiliated and belittled, fed the term "starving artist" to justify low wages, they were expelled from countries, imprisoned for undesirable works for political regimes all throughout history. Even killed. It works the other way around only sometimes, because look how powerful art can be for propaganda. Society hates artists, let's face it now. I will give you an answer - art has power. Governments (usually authocratic) are afraid of creators cuz those know how to tell the truth and the inside story about these political regimes to humiliate them in that way.
Today, nothing has changed, only the tools. Labels pay pennies to musicians, corporations use AI instead of paying real artists for their work & laiding them off, despite the fact that they also need to pay bills and feed families. Although, about AI... As Hayao Miyazaki put it "An insult to life itself". I will be blunt - AI "art" is not art at all. It's garbage, slop, pictures w/out the most important component that builds the very concept of art - human empathy. The greatest disrespect for the essence of humanity that could ever appear. As a final product within the frames of business - it's perfect, minimum investment and quick result. But from the point of view of being a person, a creator - no. Do you know what I, myself, personally love in art? The process. Emotions. The feeling of the pencil moving on paper. Seeing how my picture looks like I wanted from the start. The result is secondary for me (unless we're talking about when art is a job, which is important as well !). AI takes all of the necessity to take a pencil in our hands and learn all by ourselves. It uses data of human artists' artworks to learn and practically steals the work of a many decades to give a result without any soul nor purpose for existing. Quite handy to rule people who never bothered to bring their ideas in life by themselves, who can't think on how to image smth from the head and not with AI.
Real art, however, makes people go against tyranny, brings the power and sparks the soul for change, causes tears and joy, builds memories and relationships, connects people, makes us who we are truly - living beings with emotions, feelings, ideas. Creativity. Being an artist is a two-sided curse, I can say, but this is what makes me, us, humans. And I even like it tbh...
If you'll look at the Ancient Greece, you won't look for their financial systems or rules of etiquette in the first place - you will look at the culture. The music, paintings, mosaics, clothes. No art = No culture = No humanity. No us.
Everyone, at least many people, underestimating the real situation's state. I can guess why and you might think the same. Well, that's your life, I'm only a person from the Internet that ain't propagating anything in here.
So, for fellow artists - keep creating. Get a pencil/stylus/needle/any other your tool in your hand and go create. Keep being humans with personalities. For others - think about my message twice. As long as I'm making art, I'm staying human.
And remember! - no matter what "shameful" type of stuff you're doin', a silly doodle or a mediocre song, like anything you like - anything else made by AI in an attempt to repeat the output of human soul will always be much more shameful by definition.
fanfics written by ACTUAL PEOPLE made with ACTUAL CREATIVITY >>> ai chatbots
For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.