Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections.
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Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.
Here's exhibit A: a "German" "guy" who somehow is releasing 3 entire text-based books in two weeks. His author photo and cover "art" are exactly the same AI style of the supposedly Scottish guy who started an Abandoned America channel on Youtube
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3FVR5PJ?binding=paperback&qid=1792454998&sr=1-4&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbk -
Here's exhibit A: a "German" "guy" who somehow is releasing 3 entire text-based books in two weeks. His author photo and cover "art" are exactly the same AI style of the supposedly Scottish guy who started an Abandoned America channel on Youtube
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3FVR5PJ?binding=paperback&qid=1792454998&sr=1-4&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbkWell, nice knowing you all, I guess. The work I spent 20 years creating will drown in a sea of AI impostors using models that pilfered my writing/photos to create their garbage. I don't have the money to hire lawyers to chase phantoms. I'm sure this is coming soon to every small artist with a brand
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Here's exhibit A: a "German" "guy" who somehow is releasing 3 entire text-based books in two weeks. His author photo and cover "art" are exactly the same AI style of the supposedly Scottish guy who started an Abandoned America channel on Youtube
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3FVR5PJ?binding=paperback&qid=1792454998&sr=1-4&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbk@AbandonedAmerica
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Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.
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@FritzAdalis yeah, that about sums up my feelings also
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@FritzAdalis yeah, that about sums up my feelings also
@AbandonedAmerica
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Well, nice knowing you all, I guess. The work I spent 20 years creating will drown in a sea of AI impostors using models that pilfered my writing/photos to create their garbage. I don't have the money to hire lawyers to chase phantoms. I'm sure this is coming soon to every small artist with a brand
When your favorite websites or YouTube channels or whatever go offline, hide behind a paywall, or just stop producing because all their public work is stolen with AI, the Internet is going to be such a miserable and shabby place - devoid of the only spark that made it truly magical years ago.
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Well, nice knowing you all, I guess. The work I spent 20 years creating will drown in a sea of AI impostors using models that pilfered my writing/photos to create their garbage. I don't have the money to hire lawyers to chase phantoms. I'm sure this is coming soon to every small artist with a brand
Fuck. I am so sorry. I know there are open web projects working on combatting shit like this, but it’s too little, too slow, for those refusing to use AI to fight it.
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Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.
@AbandonedAmerica JFC, that really sucks. I'm so sorry. Fuck AI and anyone propping up this fraudulent garbage.
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Very happy to know that my Abandoned America trademark has been coopted by not one but two different AI slop "creators", both based out of Europe to circumvent my legal protections. I love this new world we live in.
@AbandonedAmerica Oh, this is so shitty of them.
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When your favorite websites or YouTube channels or whatever go offline, hide behind a paywall, or just stop producing because all their public work is stolen with AI, the Internet is going to be such a miserable and shabby place - devoid of the only spark that made it truly magical years ago.
@AbandonedAmerica Who will photograph its remains? Looted data centers; unlit strands of fiber optic cables dandling from IXPs walls...
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Fuck. I am so sorry. I know there are open web projects working on combatting shit like this, but it’s too little, too slow, for those refusing to use AI to fight it.
@johannab @AbandonedAmerica It isn't only web projects. A book produced by a local org in my community is being sold through bookshop.org at $300 and up. I'm sure it's filled with AI text.
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@AbandonedAmerica JFC, that really sucks. I'm so sorry. Fuck AI and anyone propping up this fraudulent garbage.
@AchillesTang thank you. It's pretty dispiriting. But hey, when the whole world is currently an ocean of scams, what's one more I guess
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@johannab @AbandonedAmerica It isn't only web projects. A book produced by a local org in my community is being sold through bookshop.org at $300 and up. I'm sure it's filled with AI text.
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Fuck. I am so sorry. I know there are open web projects working on combatting shit like this, but it’s too little, too slow, for those refusing to use AI to fight it.
@johannab I honestly don't see a way of winning without destroying the existing models and setting guardrails for new ones and we all know that's not going to happen
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@AbandonedAmerica @johannab Yep. There's no way they got any part of the text.
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@AbandonedAmerica Oh, this is so shitty of them.
@okwari yuuuuuuuup
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Well, nice knowing you all, I guess. The work I spent 20 years creating will drown in a sea of AI impostors using models that pilfered my writing/photos to create their garbage. I don't have the money to hire lawyers to chase phantoms. I'm sure this is coming soon to every small artist with a brand
@AbandonedAmerica I refuse to hit star on this, but thank you for sharing and I hope people will still manage to find you and find the difference
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@AbandonedAmerica @johannab Yep. There's no way they got any part of the text.
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@AbandonedAmerica Who will photograph its remains? Looted data centers; unlit strands of fiber optic cables dandling from IXPs walls...
@pr_ret_lutz it'll have to be someone else because hopefully I won't have to live through this entire farce to its conclusion
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