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GenAI v. not GenAI round up.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
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Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
You can add Procreate to the anti AI list. They have vowed time and time again when people ask that they will not use AI in their software.
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.
Will also add that elllipsus has options for sharing work with Betas and getting comments in-line wjth the text, a lot like google docs does.
I know a lot of writers stick to gdocs for thaf specific feature but you dont have to!
She chose the sea.
I feel like to most this goes without saying, but I think Zane felt the need to find out the truth about his "sea creature" for the same reason that Rikki felt special when they became mermaids. Zane didn't have the praise he wanted from his dad, they were distant, and he felt misunderstood; Rikki had to grow up faster than her peers and she didn't have the kind of home even Emma and Cleo had, so she felt special with a tail and powers. A huge question of Zane's obsessive behavior both by viewers and in the show is why he wouldn't just let it go (like, he got saved and he shouldn't question past that...), but I think Zane's inability to move on had everything to do with, not only how much notoriety getting to the bottom of his mystery would get him, but also how this project personally made him feel exceptional...the way he never felt internally. And I think getting that notoriety (particularly from his dad, but I don't believe it would've changed their relationship at that time), and how it would make him feel meaningful was the separate factor that had potential to make him feel like he's set apart from the rest who doubted him. At the core, Zane and Rikki both suffer from feeling inadequate and ironically, the mermaid of it all made them feel important for direct opposite, and different reasons (and that's why h2o is underrated for it's storytelling). She had a secret to fulfill her; he wanted his hidden 'gem' to be revealed to make him feel whole inside.
i know a lot of people feel zane's s3 behavior was actually in line with his character and wasn't assassination as much as regression. however, this is one of the reasons i dislike s3 zane's writing so much. zane was pretty deeply changed by emma saving him, and we see him wrestling with the near death experience and the mermaid discovery is so important to him. i just don't know that i can see zane becoming so uncaring about mermaid business, or wishing rikki didn't hold her mermaidness as so core to herself. also zane's relationship to mermaidness, not for scientific inquiry or money or because he personally knew a mermaid (he did but didn't know), is so unique compared to everyone else's, so it's a shame to sorta throw it away
Watching s3 makes me feel like I skipped a season. It's not unbelievable that Zane would be the way that he is in s3 if something had happened between s2 and 3. He seems to be more aligned with his father in s3, wanting to be a businessman and separating himself from the sea creature/mermaidness.
Lewis is a girls girl and I love him (sorry Emma I haven’t drawn you yet)
physically im in class but internally im lewis clenching a bucket hat
miss chatham being just as much a mentor to lewis as she is to rikki, cleo, and emma is so enormously important to me.
Unedited footage of Claire Holt swimming in her mermaid tail 🫧🐬🌺
“The world offers itself to your imagination.” ~Mary Oliver (American poet, 1935-2019) http://maryoliver.beacon.org
The Little Mermaid ~ 1923 ~ Wanda Ziegner-Ebel (German artist, 1894-1970)
The fact that Lisa's junior lifeguard certificate from when she was 12 says her name is Lisa Gilbert implies that Niel took her last name and that he is a simp, which is canonically logical
this is one of the best details anyone has ever noticed ever oh my god
the gilberts ARE feminists, CONFIRMED!!
lewis grabbing cleo’s hand to walk with her to his party boat in front of his girlfriend was diabolical LMFAOO
Face card off the charts
The fact that Lisa's junior lifeguard certificate from when she was 12 says her name is Lisa Gilbert implies that Niel took her last name and that he is a simp, which is canonically logical
Thinking about Rikki and Charlotte parallels and connections on this fine day…new girls just moved who struggle to make connections in a new town…raised by single parents…excited about the idea of mermaid powers and both explicitly calling them superpowers…so excited by being mermaids that they can be more reckless/carefree about it…hotheads who clash with people (mostly Emma) who try to moderate their behaviour…loners who secretly desire connection with others…both have an affinity for the colour red…their love interests both have history with another girl when they start going out…hopeless romantics who like it when their boyfriends do big cheesy romantic gestures (ie Zane with the dress and Lewis with the picnic)…both get into a fight with another girl over ownership of their lockets (and both times it’s with the ex of their love interest)…their first times being affected by the full moon give them massive emotional crises in which they hurt people, as opposed to Emma and Cleo who basically just get high…both have a strong ambitious drive, Charlotte with her art and Rikki with making money…the pursuers in their romantic relationships who ultimately make the first move…both are mistrustful of the advice of more experienced mermaids (Rikki with Ms Chatham initially and Charlotte is self evident)…both have an artistic side (Charlotte again is self evident but Rikki takes the most artistic approach to the film contest and sees beauty in something unconventional like shakes and technically it’s her footage that wins the contest)…Terry Chadwick encouraging Rikki to invite her friends over and cooking a barbecue for them, and Annette Watsford helping Charlotte throw a fancy birthday party for Lewis and cooking the food for it…both being betrayed by their love interests…(and if they’re the most similar to each other of the modern day mermaids, then regardless of Charlotte’s familial connection to Gracie her 50s counterpart is arguably Julia, who was also betrayed by her love interest)…if I’m remembering correctly fire is the first power that Charlotte discovers…
