There is also, of course, the concern of people potentially using AI to write journalistic articles and the disregard AI tends to have for being factual, especially in a field that is all about the facts, but I feel I’ve derailed from the original post enough lol

I don’t mean to downplay AI visual art theft by any means, but I don’t see the writing side of this issue talked about as much. And I’d be lying as a passionate writer and a (hopefully) future journalist if I said I wasn’t concerned for any writing I decided to put on the internet. 4/4

Whether it’s a fanfiction or story someone has lovingly crafted in their free time or a journalistic article someone is getting paid for writing—on top of the pitching, researching and reporting they have to do for it—these works are stolen to feed a machine trained to randomly spit out text. 3/4

All AI-generated content is theft—yes, the images, of course, but also the text. When AI generates essays, stories or legal briefs, it is still using input scraped from the internet, the work of real human writers. (Plus, people are robbing themselves of the opportunity to write, but I digress.) 2/4