hey selfship community. i'm hoping to make this brief, but there's not much chance of that.
basically, i'm on my hands and knees begging you to stop using character AI. i understand if you feel enjoyment from it. ive used it too, i liked it, it helped me feel comforted when i needed the comfort. but with the news of googles updated privacy policy, and how peoples writings are being scraped from ao3, google docs, literally anywhere and everywhere to train AI, among dozens of other things...
...you're kinda feeding the beast. like a lot. you're giving it fuel. you're adding to how it can mimic people's real writing. you're giving this technology a way to grow better and stronger off of other people's work. i don't think you're a monster for ignorance, but i think with how serious shit is getting with AI and how it's being trained off of peoples work - with no compensation or notice - it's just, at this point, a blatant disregard for how writers and creators are being treated right now.
we're being treated as expendable. we're being treated as though our work means nothing, while everything we've ever made is stolen behind our backs by unfeeling machines fed by corporations who are more than willing to murder our creative pursuits if it means more cash in their pockets. not to get dramatic about it, but that's the fucking fact of the matter.
so, please. stop using character AI. chat AI. you're helping train it. and doing so is going to have wide-reaching consequences.
sure yeah im a trans man a tboy a transmasc a self made man blah blah boypussy whatever. are you capable of just calling me a man? or do you have to make sure everyone knows im trans and therefore not deserving of the title of just 'man'?
"trans men and cis men" you can just say men. you know that, right? you know that when we say 'trans men are men' we actually mean it, right? are we really men to you, do you actually see us as men?
me and my many anti facist stickers vs whoever keeps ripping one specific one down who has more patience (its me. those stickers are 7 pence each i will not be running out.)
asks on this site are so beautiful. one ask has me working hard to compile some nice fanfics, the next is a scammer, then someone asking for updates on the pimple i have on my inner labia. which hurts btw.