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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9880106" data-attributes="member: 93670">Despite the fact that some folks seem to think artists are the only possible flavor of "content creator" I have zero doubt that there will be real actual harms both for actual content creators and actual customers as [USER=7030563]@ECMO3[/USER] described.  An awful lot of the small stuff gets put together as a fun little project or side gig and it just isn't worth sinking bunch of time into rebuilding it to placate an angry mob on a crusade.Web novel sites like royal road provide an excellent example of how hypothetical and virtually religious that the anti ai art crusade is.  The site is a place where authors can post their often serialized web novels for people to follow read and suggest edits for typos spelling or whatever & there are a lot of great works of fiction on there, but most are small things unlikely to ever make the author even a single dollar.On RR it's common for authors to use an AI in a few ways and adventure modules tend to use artbin a similar fashion * As a "cover" image showing something related to the novel being published for people to read for free* As occasional beginning/end of chapter images that show the occasional fun little image relevant to the chapter the author wrote up and published for people to read freely.* As an AI assisted linguistic aid where an English as a second language author will use it for assistance with translating the chapters of a novel they are writing and publishing for others to read free of cost.I've seen all three get swamped by hoards of zealots who very likely were not even reading the work before review bombing it with 0.5 stars.  In fact it's so common that the usual way readers discover it is by reading an authors note explaining how the author removed and is going to stop including the fun images they were including or are going to stop trying to publish in English. Almost universally the mods over there check that the reviewers were not even readers and nuke the reviews.  Those review bombs share s lot in common with some of the posts in this thread.Last I checked authors and people who write adventures are also creators... Weirdly nobody on the anti ai side seems to be all that twisted over stuff like <a href="https://a5e.tools/node/2311" target="_blank">this</a>.</blockquote>

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