olivermoss | (Reply)

Yeah... I do wish that more places *were* addressing it - like fandom exchanges and the like. Maybe they are waiting until someone tries it to address it, but I can absolutely see it being the sort of thing that someone WILL try. Either on the art or the writing side.
Jeez, I can see someone doing exactly that for fandom stockings or chocolate box or similar. I feel like there was something like that one year where someone submitted a bunch of fills that were identical, with just names and details like hair or eye color changed? It may not have been a big event, maybe it was a kinkmeme or something.

But exactly! Marvel and DC have already proven that they're willing to exploit their writers and artists (with a lot of "you're lucky to be here, so many people would kill for this job" stuff the same way AAA video game companies do.) And yeah, that's a pretty upsettingly baked-in part of the culture, considering the history there. So I feel like they'd *jump* on AI as a way to justify paying fewer people or paying them less, to increase the rate at which they expect things to be produced, etc. I mean, maybe that could be a minor boon for indie companies, who have already been a more attractive alternative. We could hope that the big companies jump on it and crash and burn... but it feels like we're rarely so lucky.

But yeah, I think that this is going to create a TON of "spam and hope."

I feel like that's going to become an imminent problem for kindle, if it isn't already. A handful of writers have allegedly already stated that they're using AI to write parts of things, and others have said that they're thrilled that it lets them write so much more than they were writing "on their own", or that they're glad they no longer have to write scenes they find boring, etc.
(I am getting that info second-hand, from another author blogging about it. I did not see the tiktoks she's talking about first-hand, but she also tried out one AI writing program with various prompts in order to test what sort of output it gives, and shares her results.)
She does point out that with self-pub, especially on Amazon, the algorithm heavily weighs productivity and steady output, which means there's a lot of incentive for someone playing that game to be interested in something that lets them generate new work quickly... as long as they don't care that they're putting out a product they didn't really create.

So yeah, I feel like this is about to make a lot of things a lot worse.

I looooooathe the fact that my cell phone camera automatically turns on its HDR "feature" - despite me having manually turned it off - any time there's basically any lighting contrast when I try to take a picture.
For some things, that super clarity and high detail might be the right choice, but it absolute is not always. It's yet another place where there's like, no concept of nuance. "If clarity is ever good, it must ALWAYS be good. If blurry is bad, then the sharpest image possible must be the best image possible. The things that are beneficial for one type of photography or one type of subject must be best for all types!"

I wish that art education was better. I know that's one of the places that a LOT of budget cuts hit the hardest. My art classes when I was a kid weren't amazing, but I at least learned a few basics about a few things. Not that that makes me wildly art literate - being friends with people more engaged with visual art than I was probably did more for that. It's still frustrating to see people who don't seem to have *any* knowledge who decide that they're somehow also experts.

There really is a frustrating smugness to the "ha, you worked to do this? I don't have to put any effort in at all, so there!" attitude toward AI. (OR snide "this is MY choice of artistic medium, and I am just as much of an artist as any of YOU.")

I hope that we do wind up with a bigger range of smaller publishers. The monopolies we have now (big 5 - barely averted winding up with big 4) have created a lot of sameness, I think. And I like plenty of mainstream work published by those companies! It's not that I think oooh big publishing always bad or anything... but I think smaller, niche publishers can offer a lot of good for authors and readers