We need to talk. Original by @CatTheLoaf

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My opinion: "USE OUR ART for AI training" is plain diabolical. I just can't imagine my ocs being ruined or stolen by ai and then labeled as original. i will DIE for scratch to not implement ai "For me, scratch has been THE ONE website I almost never see AI shown on. DeviantArt, YouTube, tik of the tok, have recently in the past 2 years been FILLED with AI, often labeled as “brain rot content” or just straight up “ART” ?! It has been sold, bought, and almost commercialized as a form of art, of which it IS NOT. Scratch has been seemingly safe from all this. Most of the time it isn’t the platform’s fault people post AI, it is mostly inevitable with the growing of its technology. THIS TIME THOUGH, IT WAS COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE. Scratch implemented this THEMSELVES.... But worse than just implemented possible future AI features and encouraging its use, scratch has clearly stated (from what I’ve read) that they are very willing to USE OUR ART for AI training. This is something inevitable on the internet, but a platform actually STATING that they want to do it!? Absolutely disgusting, especially when it’s the work of unconcenting CHILDREN who likely don’t understand the implementation of AI taking their art. They are exploiting minors. I can’t state this enough... But it’s our art, and artists are NOT ok with it being exploited. GUYS IF AI IS TRAINED ON YOUR ART, IT CAN PERFECTLY RE-CREATE IT. This may sound like an exaggeration, but I can promise you it’s not: it will steal your future career in art if it takes your art style. I’ve seen many people online trying to sell art and FAILING due to them having an ‘AI art style’. This is absolutely NOT the artist’s fault, only the AI in which stole their art for training. This is just horrific. I can’t state it enough. The better AI gets, the more jobs in creative expression they will steal. The more they TRAIN, the better they get. Scratch is helping it along in this terrifying growth. And there’s no opt out. Either allow scratch to steal your art and use it for their own commercialised benefits, potentially breaching your privacy, future careers, and just personal comfort, or leave. This is a horrible breach of all of our privacy, whether you are an artist, writer, or just any kind of creative spirit. Funding AI is destroying our futures, and I’m just hurt scratch didn’t recognise this since their platform is literally sold as being CREATIVE," wise words from