Also FYI this post really doesn't have much to do with AI stuff. That sucks but my main reason for making this post was that my online habits have changed.
There's really nothing saying that Bluesky won't ever do stuff with AI, sell data, or whatever. Pillowfort is actively against it but it's still on the internet, and anybody can just save and steal that stuff too. My personal website is on the internet, also at risk. I'm not saying it's okay, but I'm also not gonna delude myself thinking there is a sacred safe space to post art. I guess up until now, I've just been rolling with the punches of being an artist online, I always knew that by posting my stuff publicly that it could be stolen without my knowledge, and there's just some degree of control I'll never have over my online content. My attitude has changed to being too tired to be complacent, too tired to be tired. I have given up on giving up, if that makes sense?
I'm also dumb and don't know a lot about minute legal shit so I'm sure there's a massive amount of nuance I'm missing here about that. It's just that I know humans don't respect each other, they're gonna steal shit if they want to, AI or not.
I have very little desire to post art anymore except for the purpose of sharing it with my friends and people I like, who I know I can trust and have supported me for a long time. I may in fact make a private Discord server for this purpose, but I also know that Discord itself is fairly public anyway, so I guess we'll see. I'm not really drawing much these days, anyway, but that's a different issue. >_>;
Yes my feelings about this are influenced by the AI wave, but it's not the only thing and it's definitely not the originator of the feelings. I'm not telling you how to feel or how to approach things, everyone is different and has different circumstances and has to handle things differently. I'm simply explaining my perspective and my feelings, do what works for you. My stress about the internet is not a new thing, and AI is only a small part of it; the larger picture is that the internet is just not a place I wanna spend time on or be a part of these days.
Nothing is black and white, there is no concrete solution to anything, change requires a lot more work than just screaming at others online about what they should be doing. And I'm frankly way too tired to do that anyway - not that I'm proud of not really actively fighting. I'm way too much of a mess myself to be solving the problems of the internet before I get my own shit together.
I don't really know what I'm saying anymore and this is one of those posts that became three times longer than I originally meant it to be, because I thunk a lot of thoughts all at once.
Also, this isn't meant to be a Statement™ for people to reblog, so I'd prefer you didn't, but I guess it's not the end of the world if you do. This is just me using my blog for its intended purpose...as a blog.
