coder2310 wrote:

Wait there's AI now?

DarthVader4Life wrote:

One of the big ethical issues with the way current industry standards for AI are is the lack of being able to clearly opt out of AI having access to your things. You have to go through multiple settings to turn all of it off, and even then it still appears like they are leaving themselves loopholes to continue to access your stuff.

I know privacy is very important to me (and many others, I imagine) and a good way to show that Scratch does care about the data safety and privacy of its users would be to allow users to easily opt out of the CLA using their projects for training as well as not using AI to personalize project recommendations.

TheWolfyGirl wrote:

I kind of been a little less active as of recently, so it's been a REALLY big shock that Scratch was doing this. Although, I guess it shouldn't be all that surprising. Scratch is trying to squeeze money out of the people aka the children that use their children's website targeted for children and constantly used by children on the daily because children like this children's website that is targeted for children and has been stated multiple times that this children's website is for CHILDREN (can we see the issue here?). The moment membership came around I already had a feeling they would end up digging a little lower.

Lo and behold, they dug lower.

While it's been very clear they barely even listen to the actually good suggestions on this forum, I feel as if this suggestion is THE most important out of just about every single suggestion ever suggested here. AI is not ethical. I mean, little at Twit- I-I mean… X….(such a stupid name bro :brokenheart… The AI on that platform is being used for straight up evil and absolutely nothing is being done to stop these literal predators from preying on others. While, of course, Scratch's use of AI in this context doesn't necessarily mean generative AI, it's still AI. While I'm not against all AI, as there's different types, generative AI is a very huge issue that I think most of us that use the head on our shoulders can all shake hands and agree with. AI training is just as worse as generative AI because it feeds directly into generative AI and further allows corporations to keep running with it as far as they can go.

I am fully against this. I am severely disappointed that they went this route, even if it's unavoidable. As an artist, this is an insult to not only myself, but to the whole purpose of this website and everyone in it. It leeches off the creativity of others so it can be exploited for no good reason. Not to mention, this is a children's website where there are children. I can't stress enough how the main demographic is kids. Exposing kids to AI like this is literally bad for their brains. There is SCIENCE behind it.

Next thing you know, they aren't just training the AI, they're implementing it. It'll go from some useless assistant to a chatbot. Then it'll be image generation before you know it. “But it's rejected!” You say, but Scratch has already proven to be no stranger to breaking their own suggestions. What they're doing is only going to get worse from here.