This AI stuff and the terms of use changes recently were brought back into my attention with proper screenshots (I'm honestly too lazy to look into terms of use myself) and notes and... yeah. Ew. I do not consent to my creations I put love and effort into being scraped for AI, and I'm not entirely sure if this protects them from it but I've unshared nearly all my projects, including but not limited to: - B.E.E.F. - A Really Hard Game - Escape! - My remix of The Ironclads I will keep an eye on the Scratch AI situation and should there come a day we're safe from it again, I'll reshare all of these projects. For now, I'm solely going to stay on Scratch for peers of mine I've found through here and nowhere else and because I haven't found any programs similar to its vector art editor. Loading the terms of service/use for a website focused towards children with legalese and confusing redundancy is genuinely disgusting and is a step towards the same downfall so many other apps have seen. No kids' website should need a LEGAL DOCUMENT describing how it may use your work. Many Scratch users have no clue how AI or online information protection even works or why they should know, and this is actively promoting the issues with such oblivion. AI and information selling for commercial use have NEVER been the slightest bit in favor of consumers, going as far as Large-Language Models causing a new HARMFUL MENTAL CONDITION (search "AI Psychosis -ai" to avoid Copilot/Gemini). Forcing unknowing kids' work into this industry is disgusting. The extra money from memberships and the supposed upcoming Scratch-made AI, which I doubt any users have requested, could be much better put towards fixing Trending and expanding and better training the Scratch Team than jumping on the slop-train that has only ever widely appealed to investors. Anything you think an AI may train off, poison. Make things wrong, make things confusing and unreadable, make nonsense. The less useful your data becomes for any semblance of improvement, the better. If an AI model becomes nonsensical and useless enough, it will have to be shut down. Anything else, don't downgrade. It's absurd that this current generation of students has to let go of so many smaller grammar rules like oxford commas and deliberately break any magnitude of them to not be mistaken for the robots they never asked for and never benefitted from.
