AtticusDrekwall

Happy 4th! Be careful shooting off fireworks!

AtticusDrekwall

The bots I mentioned yesterday are now tagging MULTIPLE accounts in a singular post all about wanting you to verify your account. It might not be the same bots, but still. Again, stay safe, guys. I woke up and saw I already received four notifications of being tagged like this earlier today and I got a new one 7 minutes ago.

AtticusDrekwall

@TheMarineTitan42
            Geez. I really hope this stops soon.
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TheMarineTitan42

@AtticusDrekwall Yeah I got tagged like 5 times today
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AtticusDrekwall

OH! ALMOST FORGOT TO SAY THIS! Better say this now before it slips my mind AGAIN!
          Be wary of receiving comments or posts on your message board about your accounts getting terminated! I got one earlier this week. It's a scam.
          It's not on my board anymore, but earlier this week I got a lengthy post on here shortly after updating True or False? saying my account may get terminated and to click a link to stop it from happening. These links are dangerous! Don't click them because they want you to give them your personal information which includes your bank account. Wattpad Staff, in my experience, will always message you directly instead of posting something on your message board. Stay safe out there, guys.

DreamyAutumnRose

@AtticusDrekwall oh my goodness that is so scary! It was good that you didn’t click anything and it’s good you let us know too. Stay safe!
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rapunzelannachase

OMG your pfp is that nimona???

AtticusDrekwall

Can't believe I'm gonna go back on my promise of Kira being straight in a few days. Heheheheh.

AtticusDrekwall

@Jaid_the_Star
            It's always something I've known about her.
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Jaid_the_Star

@AtticusDrekwall When did you make such a promise?
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Jaid_the_Star

@AtticusDrekwall AI is trained off of artists without their knowledge nor consent (well, they need to know in order to consent) to generate the images, (or paragraphs or songs)(also this does not include the current generation of Vocaloid and SynthV voices, these are both done locally, and with consent and contracts ect) no matter what the prompt is. The heavy pollution of the environment isn't a joke: it's completely serious. Every time someone uses AI the data centers (the physical hardware it's run on, because no technology is purely electronic, it always comes from somewhere, especially when it needs to remember stuff, basically a massive hard drive with a huge overheating problem) that power/run it get hot, and use water and untreatable chemicals to cool down, and thousands of people are using it all the time with no brakes (seriously it's 24/7, and companies are encouraging it even though it's demonstrably really bad and has been documented as making people stupider, at least in the US), and it's even accelerating global warming (again, this doesn't apply to the current generation of Vocaloid and SynthV as they are done completely locally (without data centers) first on the company hardware to train it, then on the user's computer to actually use it). As for the crediting people, yeah it can be pretty hard to find the names, so (especially on older works) I tend to have a statement of "I OWN NOTHING" (yes, usually all caps, you can find it in the description  of "the Dream Eating Demon (Kagamine Len x Any!Reader)" for sure, and I think it's on a few others I have up too), cause well, it's accurate, and I haven't received any complaints about it. Anyways I have no idea if any of this makes sense, I typed it in a state of kinda tired (hence all the parenthesis) cause it was a bit late for me when I typed it up, I'll be happy to clarify anything you're still confused about though :)

AtticusDrekwall

Hey guys. I've decided to use AI to help me create pictures for my stories. Don't worry! I'm not gonna use AI to help me WRITE stories, just creating scenes of my stories in picture form. My stories will still be written by my own hands. I'll be using AI for my fiction stories and fanfictions. I'll only use them for fanfictions if I can't find a picture from the fanfiction's source material that I can implement into my stories. I'm trying not to use people's fan arts as much as possible.
          

AtticusDrekwall

Saw your new reply. Thanks! I'm not sure if I'll be able to understand this situation in its entirety for now, but this is good to know.
            I HAVE heard about the whole "AI is making people stupider" thing.
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AtticusDrekwall

@Jaid_the_Star
            I'm glad you understand! You weren't rude, just formal, which is fine because I can get really formal too sometimes. 
            If you were rude it'd be more like "DON'T TALK TO ME AGAIN YOU LITTLE SH-"
            Unfortunately I haven't able to credit any fan artists with their art that I used for my stories so far because I can't find any names, but I'm still confused. Can you explain to me how AI is stealing art?
            It's definitely stealing if you take someone's original characters and make them do weird things they wouldn't do, especially if you're doing it to harm the author in some way, but I was using AI for my OWN stories based off passages from them. Does that mean I was stealing from my own work? 
            I also used it to make some wholesome pictures of me and friends, but besides that and generating images from my stories, that's all I used it for.
            And what's this about AI polluting the environment and water? Is this a joke I'm not getting? Genuinely asking here because I thought AI was only used on electronic devices, not something physical that pollutes the environment.
            I'm gonna do some more research on this.
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Jaid_the_Star

@AtticusDrekwall you're welcome :) I'm honestly really glad it was simply not knowing. I was also worried that I came across as rude (if I did come across as rude I'm sorry, I would be sorry about it either way). A lot of fan artists (and artists in general depending on who they are) are really chill as long as they get credit (basically if you know; put their username and what platform they use said username on, but again, it can depend on the artist.)
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black__belladonna000

Hey, what fandoms are you a part of?

AtticusDrekwall

Just remembered some more!
            -Mario series
            -Sonic the Hedgehog series
            -The Legend of Zelda
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AtticusDrekwall

@black__belladonna000
            The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are:
            -Pokémon. Definitely Pokémon.
            -Yu-Gi-Oh!
            -Five Nights at Freddy's
            -Superheroes (my favorite is Spider-Man)
            -Ben 10
            -RWBY
            -KPop Demon Hunters
            -Vocaloid (Kind of, but not like I used to be)
            There might be more, but I get confused between what a fandom actually is and being a fan of something or just liking something sometimes.
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