Considering adding the following language to our guidelines for publishers whose titles we carry at Weightless:
"We don't knowingly sell titles that employ generative AI in any capacity. If we find out a particular title was created using AI, we reserve the right to remove AI-generated portions or delete the title from our offerings entirely."
AI generated scene created with #midjourney. The prompt used was: A social media banner image that is designed to look like part of a fantasy map with some trees, mountains, and roads --aspect 7:4 --s 750 --v 6.0
🎶Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord, yeah!🎶
I haven't yet come to terms with all the crazy things that have happened in the last 4 years, but I'm now getting the feeling that I can pretty much say goodbye to over half of my friends due to differences in opinion about Covid, AI, and NFTs. On the plus side, none of it is Trump related, but I'm not yet sure about Israel/Palestine and it kind of scares me to think that even more things can come up that will further isolate me. It's crazy.
One nightmare scenario is that OpenAI and Midjourney effectively win the plagiarism battle and they’re embraced as industry standards, not because they’re right, but just because enough people were stupid enough to say it’s ok to use them.
In some ways it’s like car culture and the fossil fuel industry where despite all the harm they do to humans and the environment, acceptance by the majority basically seals our fate.
If I told the 16 year old version of myself that I make art for hackers using #AI and #robots, he would struggle to understand why I feel guilty about it even slightly.