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university professors love to create the most fucked up pdf ever known to mankind. it's enrichment for them.
what HAPPENED here
"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”
“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”
Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”
It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."
--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator
I think this also includes the important idea of imagining the other. Sighted people (like myself) often consider visuals the *most important* part of an experience. This isn't and can't be the case for a blind person. If you don't have sight, then the particulars about the color/expression/etc. aren't necessarily going to be important to you.
Smiling matters because it's an indicator of emotion. The quality of the teeth only matter if it's relevant to the joke. Striped shirt only matters if the text describes it as polka dots and that's the point.
Describe the parts of the image that give context, because a person whose primary mode of interpreting the world is not sight will most likely not want extraneous visual information.
Love that his reaction to being pranked was to pull the exact same prank on his buddy
It's a good prank when the person you pranked immediately wants in on it, and it doesn't cause any harm.
do people have no shame anymore?
LISTEN. Do I like this?? NO, absolutely not, fuck the planet burning automatic plagiarism machine!
BUT! Look at me. LOOK AT ME!
It is VITAL that we do not flame in the tag. Do you know what will happen then?? PEOPLE WILL STOP TAGGING FOR GENERATIVE AI!!!
If you want to preserve your ability to filter a lot of this nonsense out? WALK AWAY. Rant on here, rant to your friends, rant in Discord, but DO NOT make asshole comments on these works!!!
Yeah. If they stop tagging their work for this, your blocking of the tag won't keep them out of your searches.
In fact, don't give stories with this tag engagement of any kind. Don't give them hits. Don't give them comments. Leave them to rot in the field with nothing to suggest to other readers that they contain anything worth seeing.
Also: AO3 is an archive. Of fanworks that were created. Do we like how they were created? No. But they were created. There's plenty of stuff on AO3 that we don't like. Remember Don't Like Don't Read? This counts too. This is why we have filters and back buttons.
#OH FUCK THISSSSS UGHHHHH#muse reblogs#don't like don't read doesn't apply to plagiarism you fucking morons#but if i see your shit is ai-generated i'm not only blocking you on ao3#but on every platform you exist on#because i know you have no fucking scruples or creativity in you#and i don't want you anywhere NEAR my works#which i painstakingly write without the use of a plagiarizing machine algorithm
@onwinedarkseas point missed re: the meaning of an archive. Archiving the historical moment When Kids Were Using The Plagerism Machine, And This Is What It Made has value. Blocking and filtering and such is fine. Removing your own works from an archive if you don't want them archived there is fine. But invective at the people who are pointing out the value of a wholly uncensored archive is not cool.
Feel free to block people who use AI at AO3. Block them everywhere you can find them, if you want.
If you flame them publicly - they won't stop using AI. They'll just stop telling people about it.
As long as they're tagging for it, you can avoid the stuff. If they stop tagging, then you wind up with AI results mixed in your normal searches.
Eventually, they will stop making AI-generated fanworks. Either they'll want to write things outside the scope of AI, or they'll get bored with the lack of praise, or they'll stop only when the AI tech bubble collapses. Either way, it's a temporary thing. Document it while it's going on and ignore it until it's not around anymore.
i can read the voynich manusript but im not telling anyone what it says because its honestly problematic as fuck
its just not the kind of thing we need to be platforming
Quilt
1885
Artist/maker unknown, American Made for Sarah Minturn Bacon Edge (American, 1853โ1916); made for Jacob Valentine Edge (American, 1841โ1913)
Medium: silk and cotton blend satin, silk floss and chenille embroidery, silk cord trim with cotton core, cotton batting, silk taffeta lining
