Um. Scratch Team. Is it money you want, or smth? What is it with all the ai?!?! I'm actually crying. I feel so betrayed. *HOW CAN YOU NOT NOTICE THAT AI WILL DESTROY THE COMMUNITY EVEN FURTHER?* you also cant let ai copy people, esp KIDS, on this site, or the ai will learn all the inappropriate toxic stuff this site has been getting dumped with lately. If human toxicity is enough, AI toxicity will only be worse. In the words of @RL_CEO, "If Scratch is exploiting us without our consent, then that should be taken to court immediately for justice." Super true, except we're all kids and can't. How fitting, Scratch Team! How absolutely fitting! (In case you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm.) No thank you, Scratch Team! I don't want you using my content, thank you very much! *I* never asked for this! *No one* ever asked for this! No one wants their hard-worked content to get fricking stolen by a fricking AI bot because some fricking people are too fricking lazy to do their own fricking work! I'm going to say this very clearly: I. DO. NOT. WANT. AI. STEALING. MY. STUFF. I. DO. NOT. WANT. AI. STEALING. OTHER. PEOPLE'S. STUFF. I DO NOT WANT MY STUFF TO GET LOOKED OVER BY AN AI! THIS IS NOT WHAT TS FRICKING SITE WAS CREATED FOR! Okay, perhaps that was a little dramatic. But drastic times call for drastic measures, am I right? I am considering leaving the site because of this, and I *really* don't want to do that. I love Scratch, and I don't want to see things like this happen to it. I don't want to have to leave. But if I want to keep my ideas and stories to myself and not to AI, which can exploit my hard-worked-on content and lore and stories, I'll have to leave, or at least stop posting content. Trust me, I wouldn't leave unless this site was literally digital crap, and that's what it's coming to be. No matter what, as people, we will always be better than AI. We have something that AI will never have, and that is true creativity. I've talked with AI a bit, brainstorming creative stories, and it always feels off. Unsettlingly off, because it doesn't have a natural creative human intuition. And Scratch is built off creativity! Off human imagination and whimsy! Our motto is literally "IMAGINE, program, share." Well ST, now you have a bit of a pickle, will you change your motto or re-change your terms of service? 'Cuz only one can stay. And if the motto has to change, then I'm leaving, or not posting anymore. Which is absolutely fricking sad, because I had so much planned for this site! I had so much lore and character animations that I wanted to share! ToT Thanks, ST. You call this site a place of creativity? Too bad, now we all feel like we *can't* be creative, thanks to your psycho new decision to feed all our hard work to a mindless frugging robot. We totally for real super appreciate it, no cap no cap. AI seems to be here to make things, to make art, "perfect". But what if we're fine with messy or irregular art? What if I'M fine with my own unproportional, edgy-faced, unrealistic art? Cuz i AM, and I'm sure other people are! I want to see y'all's beautiful, messy, HUMAN work. Not AI slop. Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Lmk in the comments.
The screenshot is from the new Terms of Service page, section 9.9: https://mitscratch.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/4000219182-scratch-terms-of-service https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1270291994 This also is a really helpful project by @SkyCedar that has helped to lift a lot of worry.
