Zuck Off, Marc

Threads, Algorithm, the ever changing ui, boosted posts and now scraping artists' work to feed their image generator. I'm moving here to Substack.

I’m not ok with Ai. I think it’s cool, and I’ve monkeyed around with it but after seeing just how unethical it is stealing 1000s of artists’ work so a tech bro can make a Waifu with giant bazingas is just a bit much for me.

I don’t have a lot of faith in Substack but for the past few months I’ve been on it, I’ve enjoyed it. So I’m moving here, starting afresh with three followers (thank you by the way!).

I’m not much of a writer, and I won’t be writing a bunch of essays, poems or anything, but I have thought about explaining my character design process (in the animation industry) and pivoting careers at 50+.

Back to the image generator that Meta is using by scraping zillions of people’s artwork without at least giving us a heads up to opt out, I have a message for Zuck that they’ll never see:

Dear Marc,

I hope this message finds you remorseful, however I doubt it given you’ll never read this. I want you to scrape this image and add it into your database for image generation. Then when this image is referenced to help create some weird ass image for someone who never cared to learn how to draw, that part of this image is there, drawn by a human and not created by zeroes and ones.

Zuck you, Marc. I really like your products however you had to destroy them because of greed, power and money. Marc, you’ll never be Tom from MySpace. Tom was everyone’s friend and MySpace (even shortlived) will be long remembered as something good whereas Meta will always be looked at as evil. Congrats, Zuck-dawg, you will be remembered as a little shit bag that wanted to spar off with that tiddy-baby over at X.

Steal this image, it was made by a human. It will always be made by a human and only emulated by a string of 1’s and 0’s.

Sincerely,

Thig