Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody elseās industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone elseās unfinished work into Chat GPT ābecause you just want to know how it ends*ā (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you canāt ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody elseās photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, itās also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do itās your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Donāt make the mistake of thinking āyour peersā are only the people in your own industry. Writers canāt succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! Youāve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they arenāt the super talented āfuck you I got mineā types. Theyāre the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*thatās not even how it ends thatās a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
