This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.
I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.
My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.
I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.
Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available.
There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.
Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.
whenever new media drops u get like 48 hours of actual analysis before shippers flood the tag with the smut fics i hate it i hate it i hate it
a book/tv show/movie/comic/what have you will be about something serious and/or depressing and everyone will only be talking about who should fuck who. endless self insert fics im so sick of this
and then when u complain about this because there is other ways to engage in media that isnt smut fic ppl call you pretentious and pull the “let ppl like things” like DO YOU even like this media or just like seeing characters fuck???
When you examine your work as a writer — it is vital that you approach with a mindset such as “This didn’t quite turn out right, but [this] is what went wrong, [this] is what I learned from it and [this] is what I can do to improve later on,’’NOT ’‘This is terrible therefore I am terrible.”
Growth is possible. Illogical writing choices is not a death sentence, approach with consideration.
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supporting artists and writers and humans in general is so important actually. leave a few comments or give a nice compliment to those who have touched your soul. so important actually
