Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.
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@_elena @bookstardust yeah, tbh I wouldn't mind a fediverse Pinterest
@lefteristrip23 @bookstardust a Fediverse Pinterest and also LinkedIn would be amazing
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I left Pinterest for the same reason. Even with turning off AI, it was just disgusting. I used it to find patterns, home inspiration etc, but everything is slop now. Disgusting.
@sylvia I used to find so much creative inspiration, too. It’s terrible what happened to it 😭
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@lefteristrip23 @bookstardust a Fediverse Pinterest and also LinkedIn would be amazing
@_elena @bookstardust LinkedIn absolutely. Unfortunately, this one REALLY, needs people to join
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I left Pinterest for the same reason. Even with turning off AI, it was just disgusting. I used it to find patterns, home inspiration etc, but everything is slop now. Disgusting.
@sylvia @_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 ArtStation, DeviantArt, Pinterest, and even more surprisingly Adobe Stock, are all filled with the same AI Slop now.
It's frustrating to need to look for the Hide AI toggle before every browse!
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@sylvia @_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 ArtStation, DeviantArt, Pinterest, and even more surprisingly Adobe Stock, are all filled with the same AI Slop now.
It's frustrating to need to look for the Hide AI toggle before every browse!
@andycarolan Adobe Stock too? Noooooo 😭
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@andycarolan Adobe Stock too? Noooooo 😭
@_elena Sadly, yes. It's in the side panel on the results pages. Also, it defaults to showing GenAI... because of course it does. *blood boils*
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@_elena Sadly, yes. It's in the side panel on the results pages. Also, it defaults to showing GenAI... because of course it does. *blood boils*
@andycarolan "Generative AI Only"?!?!? Whaaaaaaat
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@andycarolan "Generative AI Only"?!?!? Whaaaaaaat
@_elena Yes... how sick and disturbing is that?!
Every day I question why I'm giving this company money to use their apps. Sadly, I'm stuck with them as my work depends on it.
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@_elena Yes... how sick and disturbing is that?!
Every day I question why I'm giving this company money to use their apps. Sadly, I'm stuck with them as my work depends on it.
@andycarolan ouf I feel your pain.
When I had to make the Fedi promo video I absolutely had to use AfterEffects (there's no real competitor in the motion graphics sphere, plus I had over a hundred ready-made templates I could use to save time).
I only purchased an Adobe subscription for a month (AE). And canceled it as soon as the video was done.
For editing I learned DaVinci Resolve as I didn't want to give extra $ to Adobe.
It's so sad to see how far down they've fallen, values-wise 😭
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Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.
@bookstardust @lefteristrip23 suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!
No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.
I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).
No more Pinterest for me 😭
@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 You can trust my work and photos. No AI crapola from my cameras. All photos created with practical effects and technique, just the way they God and Saint Kodak and Mother Mary Nikon did declare.
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@andycarolan ouf I feel your pain.
When I had to make the Fedi promo video I absolutely had to use AfterEffects (there's no real competitor in the motion graphics sphere, plus I had over a hundred ready-made templates I could use to save time).
I only purchased an Adobe subscription for a month (AE). And canceled it as soon as the video was done.
For editing I learned DaVinci Resolve as I didn't want to give extra $ to Adobe.
It's so sad to see how far down they've fallen, values-wise 😭
@_elena @andycarolan No need to feel guilty. It’s not AI as such that is evil, it’s what folks do with it or if they rely on AI w/o any doubt.
What you created is a great video with a good intend. Even if you used AI by intend it would not become a bad thing. -
@_elena @andycarolan No need to feel guilty. It’s not AI as such that is evil, it’s what folks do with it or if they rely on AI w/o any doubt.
What you created is a great video with a good intend. Even if you used AI by intend it would not become a bad thing.@juergen Oh no, you misunderstood our conversation Jürgen. AE = After Effects, aka Adobe's motion graphics app. I didn't mean AI.
After Effects requires painstaking manual work... I spent a month laboring on the animations for the Fedi promo video... 8 hours a day every day.
I would never ever ever use an AI gen tool in my work. As a creative, I abhor them.
I felt bad giving money to Adobe because the company took a bad turn, values-wise
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Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.
@bookstardust @lefteristrip23 suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!
No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.
I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).
No more Pinterest for me 😭
#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena people buys trash. Even in bad economy times
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I left Pinterest for the same reason. Even with turning off AI, it was just disgusting. I used it to find patterns, home inspiration etc, but everything is slop now. Disgusting.
@sylvia @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I went back to Pinterest this morning just out of curiosity since tuning my feed and... they're using gen AI for photos of clothes too now? What's the point?!?!!!!!!! Pinterest = truly dead to me
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 You can trust my work and photos. No AI crapola from my cameras. All photos created with practical effects and technique, just the way they God and Saint Kodak and Mother Mary Nikon did declare.
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena LOL, are you kidding, right? Right? 🤪
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@sylvia @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I went back to Pinterest this morning just out of curiosity since tuning my feed and... they're using gen AI for photos of clothes too now? What's the point?!?!!!!!!! Pinterest = truly dead to me
it's really barely usable anymore. Search for interior or cabins or gardens - it's a mess. Pinterest has become an AI slop spreader to other platforms like tumblr as well.
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena The only thing that's missing is that someone Tags AI Slop with an NFT and sells a link to an AI generated image to a crypto-trading-bot.
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@_elena LOL, are you kidding, right? Right? 🤪
@jan I wish! The buyers have no clue it’s all AI generated 😭
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Anyways, I'm sorry to ask hard questions. This is the world we live in.
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Under these circumstances, if I press myself, I'd say that the genocide has been horrific under both administrations but slightly less intense under Trump.
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One big difference between the two is that the Biden Administration stuck to the Oslo consensus on a two state solution within the pre-1967 borders, and opposed at least publicly annexation, expulsion and extermination. The Trump Administration does not oppose any of these crimes in principle, and for a while eradication was Trump's preferred policy choice. The ceasefire agreement from October does not entertain these as an option, though.
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Also, there was about 1 week of a ceasefire under Biden, and about 10 weeks in the 2 ceasefires, poorly observed, under Trump.
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That is some disgusting meat grinder math, and I'm sorry I did it.
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I did some back of the envelope calculations. They are dark; I'm sorry. But according to the best official figures available, about 47K people had died in Gaza by Jan 2025; the number in November is about 71K. So, about 3100 people per month died since Oct 7 in Gaza under Biden; about 2500 per month under Trump.
