Yes, an April Fool’s joke, but very doable and a threat to all authors as well as other creatives (painters, actors, musicians).
Ink It is despicable.
Neither the video guy nor Ink It understand what it means to write and why people read. Readers don’t read their own ideas. They read OTHER people’s ideas. Otherwise, they would be writers. The video guy has no understanding of writing and reading.
As for compensation for using our work to “train” (a word used to “humanize” AI) these AI monstrosities, that should be done up front. Opt IN, not opt OUT. Don’t use our work without our permission. Anyone with a sense of ethics would do this, which means that the people doing the AI are NOT ethical.
To hell with the compensation. The video guy seems to think all we care about is money. That’s not the real issue. OWNERSHIP is the issue. Authors and other creatives should be able to say they do NOT want their work used.
Geeeez! He is equating us creatives wanting that ownership to people in the dark ages worried about the printing press. He says we writers are worried about our “power” as a writer being put in the hands of readers.
He just said that being an author and writing books is a PRIVILEGE. I’m tearing my hair out. What a jerk! And he admitted he uses AI in his books. Cheater! And he is totally wrong about most creatives NOT objecting to AI. Hardly!
Sorry, I had to stop watching at 11 minutes in. Total frigging asshole!
My Substack now states that it has no AI-generated content. And Substack needs to get rid of its AI image generator. That’s a slap in the face to artists out there (me included).
Video guy is pro-AI – shows how unsmart he is.
Yes, an April Fool’s joke, but very doable and a threat to all authors as well as other creatives (painters, actors, musicians).
Ink It is despicable.
Neither the video guy nor Ink It understand what it means to write and why people read. Readers don’t read their own ideas. They read OTHER people’s ideas. Otherwise, they would be writers. The video guy has no understanding of writing and reading.
As for compensation for using our work to “train” (a word used to “humanize” AI) these AI monstrosities, that should be done up front. Opt IN, not opt OUT. Don’t use our work without our permission. Anyone with a sense of ethics would do this, which means that the people doing the AI are NOT ethical.
To hell with the compensation. The video guy seems to think all we care about is money. That’s not the real issue. OWNERSHIP is the issue. Authors and other creatives should be able to say they do NOT want their work used.
Geeeez! He is equating us creatives wanting that ownership to people in the dark ages worried about the printing press. He says we writers are worried about our “power” as a writer being put in the hands of readers.
He just said that being an author and writing books is a PRIVILEGE. I’m tearing my hair out. What a jerk! And he admitted he uses AI in his books. Cheater! And he is totally wrong about most creatives NOT objecting to AI. Hardly!
Sorry, I had to stop watching at 11 minutes in. Total frigging asshole!
My Substack now states that it has no AI-generated content. And Substack needs to get rid of its AI image generator. That’s a slap in the face to artists out there (me included).