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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:58:10 JST Annika Backstrom

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   • sara

   @sara I agree 100%. The stuff coming out of these models isn't fun or cute and it's certainly not harmless.

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     sara@xoxo.zone's status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:58:12 JST sara

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     Generative art has been around for DECADES, but this current batch models is conceived in a way that’s utterly flawed, to put it mild.

     There is a social contract in the communities of the web, and the communities of artists, and legality and ethics plays a role; but that contract is about more than what’s legal or ethical—it’s about respect and empathy for each other.

     Current models have broken the social contract.

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     sara@xoxo.zone's status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 23:58:13 JST sara

     I’m just one little person, but feels to me like one way to show solidarity to all the negatively threatened artists across industries is to STOP playing with the current batch of generative models, stop putting it in your work, stop baking it into things, stop sharing the funny/cute/weird outputs. Stop giving it oxygen.

     All the major models are built on extractive exploitation, with zero consideration of systemic harm. All designed absent the “should” and only caring about the “could”.