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.

[d_j_nathanson@esq.social]

@AbandonedAmerica @wcbdata Yeah, but AI and its sucklings are a whole new level of suck. Your pissed-offedness is 1000% warranted.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@AbandonedAmerica What really makes this change nasty, is that it’s all a choice.

All that narrative — propaganda to be honest — about ’inevitability’ of this kind of bullshit AI is a choice that corrupt governments and courts made again and again: A choice to NOT enforce existing laws that could have protected the people.

None of this was inevitable. This is purely a choice, because we live in a deeply corrupt oligarchy that cosplays democracy & ’technological singularity’ 🤮

[edthechem@mas.to]

@AbandonedAmerica Do you have a book or something out to let people support the real deal?
Otherwise, albeit more work, maybe time to Kickstarter etc. one together, get the money upfront from people who know, use the campaign to highlight the IP theft along the way/evidence for takedowns and fight the bastards?

Wondering if The Good Law Project or some sympathetic publishers could get involved… there must be others out there…

[abandonedamerica@mastodon.social]

@thegardendude thank you, for both the kind words and for fighting the good fight ️

[abandonedamerica@mastodon.social]

@D_J_Nathanson @wcbdata I agree. I do worry that by the time many people realize the damage it is doing, it will be too late. But I don't see the path changing much either.

[johannab@cosocial.ca]

@AbandonedAmerica @okwari yeah, it’s so depressing. I think all we can do is hang on to what’s human and try to keep each other afloat when the bubble bursts. We’re going through a forced (mal)adaptation in a massive social-cognitive scale and the AIpocalypse is going to take out our entire info sphere.

Wish I had the crystal ball to tell me how it will be shaped in the future dystopia, but someone made it agentic than rn out of tokens.

[janhelms@rheinneckar.social]

@AbandonedAmerica

All In can do, I feel sorry for this, I hate AI.

Translation: This is a series of three trashy books brazenly generated by AI, whose brand identity was stolen from the actual photographer of "Abandoned America" without permission and in violation of copyright law. It's a shame that Amazon offers such trash for sale.

[leeuw@universeodon.com]

@AbandonedAmerica Oh my god! #noai

[cha1n@mastodon.scot]

@AbandonedAmerica @blinkygal @mcc I actually deleted an online blog of mine, not because I think it'll be used or stolen, it's not that interesting and I made the decision when I started it not to use real names, but because of the tracking and general pounding my website was getting.

So yes the internet is both shrinking and filling up with useless slop at the same time...

I feel sorry for all the artists who are impacted.. it sucks to be here now..

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@AbandonedAmerica I kinda want a vlc plugin that act like a jellyfish client but for content that VLC can access.
That way, the youtuber could distribute their video as torrent and my VLC would tell me I saw 11 of the 14 available