This is an informational post regarding consequences to certain actions. I had been doing them silently before, but since they include blacklisting and blocking I figured it would be right to be public about it if you wanted to avoid such consequences going forward. Now this does have a lot to do with the rise of A.I., so beforehand know I have no problem with A.I. existing at all, I just believe in consent, and a person should need my consent to use my art in A.I.. You can ask to use individual pieces for A.I., I may even say yes (and I would mark whether it has on that submission to avoid secondary asks- including who asked, so it’s not anonymous fyi), but unless asked, the answer should be assumed “no.”

For clients/consumers, going forward you will receive an unglazed piece for your personal hold, and a glazed piece for public sharing and consumption. I didn’t allow this at first, because upon receiving their art, they would post the unglazed version. Often by accident. Which could/would be snatched up in seconds and reposted “*elsewhere,” but if it could be snatched so quickly for that, then who’s to say someone didn’t grab it for A.I. in that time as well?

I will be giving your commissions differently to hopefully stop mix-ups. And if you intend to post it, to link me to those posts as proof within 48 hours. I don’t post these pieces to socials myself if YOU do, so retweeting (or the equivalent) is how others will see it on my social pages. This helps me because if I find it days later, unglazed, and uninformed, I know it was intentional, and I know exactly who posted it. This would result in the same consequences as usual, which is being blacklisted, and blocked. This may also extend beyond you if other people are involved with the commission or not, so keep that in mind. Note that this includes vice versa, if you intend to share it privately, I recommend you share your glazed piece so you are not also held in contempt to the consequences if one of your friends ends up posting it somewhere else without your knowledge. I do NOT inform you whether you've been blacklisted and blocked.
[Timed commissions like a Birthday piece are exceptions and extend the posting rule time limit of course. Just tell me their birthday and I’ll set a reminder to look for your notification around that time. Reminding you if need be.]

Am I doing too much about this? I was doing most of this for a very similar issue long before, so I’m not doing any more than I already was. My personal filing system is terrible so it’s easier for me to just search my own tags for references where-ever I am. Some places kill pixels, so I will reverse image search for the higher quality ones, so it’s not like I’m hunting for these pieces deliberately, the internet despite its chaos, is just an easier to navigate filing system for me due to its search functions. And if I miss something, those close to me typically point out the outliers to me (which I appreciate!). And while the other issue I was doing this for was by mostly non malevolent people, I consider A.I. scraping without consent to be a form of theft, and to use stolen work in an amalgamation is a rape of that art in so many ways one could write essays about it. It IS currently built upon malevolence, *enslavement, and intently desecrates both the living and the dead. It will take great social change to shift that, and one can start by simply asking for artist’s consent.

If you have questions about this, you can ask on this journal please. Do not DM me about it, this is not a private conversation.

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Footnotes:
*elsewhere - There are sites where people post your art without your knowledge or consent. While this didn’t really bother me, sometimes they would do this to bully others, or me behind my back. You can criticize me personally all you want, but I will not let you use my art to bully others without consequence.
*enslavement - much of A.I.’s brain is still human. As in, human labor inputting what is what to teach it to recognize and differentiate, and it can take millions upon billions of input to do this. In inhumane conditions and pay (if any). Without this work, A.I. cannot ascertain what is what.