Bye Social Media

Fuck AI theft (I mean "ArT").

I know this isn’t an airport and I don’t need to announce my departure, but I am.

Meta quietly shared their new AI policies and I don’t agree with them. The answer was easy and I didn’t even have to think about it.

I’m choosing to delete my artwork off of instagram and Facebook. As of now, I’m leaving my pages there so I have the handles, but that might change in the future and I might delete those too. Honestly, I have to admit it felt so cathartic to delete my work and give these corporations a giant middle finger. I’ve struggled with social media addiction for years and the only way I’ve figured out how to interact with it is to block it regularly, something I talked about a few years ago on my blog.

I’m exceptionally lucky and my publishing career was launched thanks to my work going viral. I know that I have a lot of my career (if not my whole career) thanks to social media. But I don’t need to stick around to watch late-stage social media steal my work and destroy my mental health… so I’m not going to.

AI ART IS THEFT.

IT’S MORALLY REPUGNANT TO SCRAPE CREATIVE’S WORK.

Artist’s were lucky and for a long time we got to use social media websites as a way to promote ourselves for free. The time has come where we are realizing that nothing is free. With the rise of AI, it’s clear that businesses value AI over creatives.

If you want to follow me and hear about my work you can do so here — on my blog (on my website) and my Substack, Planting Seeds (here). This is going to be where you can hear from me.

If there’s a chance you reposted my work to your own meta pages specifically, I ask that you please take it down. You can repost links of my work, but I don’t want hard posts of my work on social media sites. My books are different — they’re copy written and in the library of congress. Therefore it’s A-OK if you want to share my books or post about my books online. I know that likely that means my work will be scraped via my covers or the other amount of posted online from the past, but all I’m trying to do is limit the amount. If I can reduce the amount of my work scraped to feed an algorithm, then I will.

Thank you so much for your support on socials, here, in bookstores and libraries, and more. I know I say it a lot, but I mean it a lot. I really appreciate how your support of my work has enabled me to make this my career and I don’t take that lightly at all.

Stick around my blog (website) or on my Substack, Planting Seeds (here), to hear more about my work, my future books, and my updates. I’ll be sharing them exclusively here and there now.

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