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Last Updated on August 31, 2026 by o

Social Media

  • Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don’t have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai They did sell the data to OpenAI, but there is an opt out, and they block GenAI bots. The report about it is here. Shaky ground. Leans more toward Pro-AI. (See comments for correction and added last sentence).
  • Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I’d still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won’t let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won’t feed your work into a machine, but also don’t ban it through robots.txt.
  • Bluesky They don’t use an AI algorithm except for in the “Discover” section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don’t seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you’d still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). They also still allow people to post AI images/text on the website. There is no opt-out because they don’t need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots). Theyrrefused the restrictive Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3VpRIFEcM
  • Mastodon *might* have some anti-AI art community servers on it. When I looked there are some servers that are explicitly aggressive about being anti-AI in moderation. It’s a bit difficult for those not tech savvy to use. Because of its decentralized nature (more so than Blue Sky) it’s easier to filter for anti-AI art. Because it’s decentralized, though, the rest of the servers ould have AI art.

Cannot find AI stances for:

Final Draft who refuses to make a stance either way.

Celtx threatened to go proAI/LLM during the screenwriter’s strike of all times. I wrote them a really strongly worded letter (without swearing) which basically was a, “Are you serious when you know what this strike is about?” and then they went radio silent. I think they are hoping it blows over so they can be pro again.

By the way, I worked on two (free) templates for Scrivener to replace Final Draft and Celtx somewhat:
UK version: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
US/AUS/NZ/CAN: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791465354153082880/better-screenplay-scrivener-template-north?source=share


Here are two extra language charts I also worked on.

https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/792470521010880512/sorta-an-easier-way-to-language-chart-phonemes?source=share

PaintTool Sai *only* works on Windows. Located in Japan. Updates are slow. It only does raster (Clip Studio Paint technically does both raster and vector). As it’s shareware, it’s not reliable to say if the creator is anti or pro. Unlike the defenders say, it’s NOT open source, so no, that doesn’t guarantee anything at all.

Search Engine Replacement

  • Searxng– If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It’s easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you’re determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn’t and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn’t spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
  • DuckDuckGo (Find in the pulldown menu)- You can turn off the AI results for images and AI. Link shared by selkie-on-land in reblog. It’s not perfect, but can be done. Change the default search engine default to: noai.duckduckgo.com (This is better results than web.google.com) DuckDuckgo (from my searxng search engine) also gets consistently non-slanted results for topics like ai, etc. For Firefox go to Search->Search Shortcuts->Add->plug in for the Site Name: No AI DuckDuckGo; URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=%s->scroll up and hit “Default search engine” and change it to “No AI DuckDuckGo”
  • Ublacklist extension: DuckDuckGo is not perfect, so how do you make it perfect so it’ll block places like Diffusion AI and the other egregious and gregarious websites? Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe?hl=en Note that the default setting is for it to work ONLY for Google, but you can expand it to other results.

    Options->”Other search engines”->flip the switch on the search engines you want it to apply to.->It’ll give you a dialogue box when you first do it, confirm.

    There will be some blank results on your page and it might take a little longer to load, but it is better than having a fit every time you see another picture of waifish waifu in non-hanbok. (And yes, I know waifu is a Japanese word, that’s the point) or historically inaccurate clothes that make you want to stab someone, preferably the programmer who thought that Victorian clothes all look the same by decade and location. My search results are much, much better.

Remove GenAI from Firefox

  1. Super annoying. Especially with pop ups. 2. The person who had this idea needs to be corrected repeatedly. 3. Poor implementation.
  2. https://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-and-remove-all-ai-features-in-mozilla-firefox/
  3. Not going to click the link… even though it gives you visuals. Three hamburger menu->Settings. Uncheck “Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups” This results in annoying popup menus. (The link misses unchecking this)
  4. Under General->Browser Layout->Show sidebar Uncheck AI chatbot in the sidebar.
  5. Then go to about:config, accept the risk, search for “chat” and change the settings for: “browser.ml.chat.menu” to false (click the double sided arrow). If you hate it that much, you can also change the footerbadge, menubadge, shortcuts, shortcutscustom, and sidebar also to false.
  6. Go curse the people who decided to add this and implement it and ask them to permanently remove it.

Writing

Obsidian-It’s a writing and organizational tool. Plugins may contain genAI company doesn’t vet them according to borealtwilight in comments.

AO3 (Archive of Our Own)- Gets Data scraped. So they made an AI statement, but it’s on Neutral ground. They are protecting lightly from scraping: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888 But you still have to do the work yourself to block the bots and put yourself on private. They will allow GenAI words. They’ve been scraped twice already. https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1k6a3t6/ao3_has_been_scraped_again_for_genai_purposes/ O.o; I’ve never seen a site cooperate this much with “researchers” that they are willing to get scraped and not block scraping. They are blocking the specific GenAI bots. Your choice in this case. Leaning more neutral neutral, in this case, given the statement.

If you would like to block scrapers (suggested by Benwvatt on tumblr), then try:

https://tricksofloki.github.io/ficpoison.html

WARNING, though, that it will block text readers, so may block dyslexic, Low vision, blind, etc readers.

It randomly inserts words into the sentence at random intervals when the fic is downloaded.

So it goes like this, originally Nanowrimo crashed out over GenAI because of ProWritingAid. Then Novlr SWORE they were anti-AI. Then they decided to backstab everyone and INTEGRATE ProWritingAid when got its data from GenAI. Not all grammar programs use AI as I’ve delineated before, but this one uses stolen data and their TOS is very murky. In case of total ignorance, I pointed this out to Novlr on Blue Sky (because what’s the point of lecturing when you don’t take action yourself?) They tried to back that it was integration only and would not correct either the claim that theirs was the first program to be made by a writer (As I said, I fact checked this and the creator of Scrivener was also writer first, a programmer second. And then Ywriter was on its heels soon after and blatantly said they were a writer when they created it).

Lifting open projects on grammar isn’t that difficult since word processors are one of the first programs to be made. So making a grammar integration isn’t that difficult, especially one without GenAI and LLMs attached. But they continue to blatantly support ProWritingAid. This makes them pro-GenAI.

They KNOW that ProWritingAid is pro GenAI and that Nannowrimo crashed out over it, 100% because I told them so. And then they doubled down. I would say this makes them shady at best and pro-GenAI.

They did revise and kick out ProWritingAid after I repeatedly told them, and they proudly were like “But we are good with ProWritingAid~~ And totally A-OK with them selling their user data to AI”. To be clear, I reached out on Blue Sky and via their e-mail and gave them multiple chances over months before I wrote the final verdict because I am careful.

But they still have things that can tip them towards AI and given their previous claims, they go towards AI neutral, not anti-AI until I see a true dedication towards anti-AI and they do the work.

The claim they are the first (group) writing program for writers. (Also still false). Scrivener still beats them. And even after that, Ywriter. They didn’t check their claims.

  • The exorbitant price for the “Lifetime” 499 USD! Scrivener is 49 dollars to buy outright. It’s barely changed priced and it has constantly improved.

BUT it’s Lifetime~~~ Yeah and people lose interest and die and things are constantly changing. What lifetime? You are supporting them being lazy, adding no new features, saying they are good now, lacking the ability to innovate and have zero knowledge of UX, or they wouldn’t have made the blunder above.

  • The subscription model which is one step away from trying to get investors.



The free version only has 2 projects to play with. Ywritier is free and has unlimited.

The subscription is more than Scrivener and you have to *keep paying for it* and be connected to the internet to use the program. Remember how Adobe backstabbed users?

To get the “Full” version of Scrivener, it’s 59 dollars as of August 2026 and cheaper during the holiday season. All the features. To buy this for the same time period with all the features will cost you oof 192 dollars without any real baseline improvements.

Themes in Scrivener? Can do that for free. Customer support? You get that for free in Scrivener with a super active forum with the programmers often answering in less than 24 hours to bug complaints or helpful tutorials or why it’s hard to program a feature request. “Novlr site” not worth it. Grammar and style checker. Native to Scrivener. Unlimited projects: Native to Scrivener. Ywriter, too. In another words, It’s Scrivener for more than 3.25 times the price. Did they check UX before launching. Absolutely not.

There is no added value to this product and their claims look spurious and still read as deceptive.

AND the writing community should know up front here, they 100% copied it from the Scrivener and YWriter creators. Ywriter, again is free and open source. and Scrivener’s creator was a writer first, a programmer second and posted their troubles about programming online which is why they could copycat it. Neither of them even close to hiccuped in saying they were anti-AI. Just sit down, save some coffee money and buy Scrivener or spend an afternoon downloading Ywriter. Skip Starbucks coffee for about a week and there you go. But Novlr, one of the only companies in the “I copied Scrivener and YWriter” didn’t do any surveys, “Made a monumental blunder” and did zero UX, then are going to charge you 500 dollars for it. Ha!

(Other copycats are not this bad. One said the “full version” was 100 dollars… lol and that was just adding “publishing tools” horribly.)

Don’t help them to stagnate doing UX. If you really, really don’t like Scrivener or YWriter that much, then prove you got the sauce and have people pay less for it. BTW, if you want to see someone who did it well, the Ellipsus did their UX carefully, waited, listened for a year, asked what their users wanted to see, fixed the program, and then rolled out carefully a paid version that doesn’t have the “Lifetime” nonsense and the monthly goes towards paying for a full version with no added price. Reward the innovators and people who listen with your hard earned cash. lol 499 USD.

Art

Sites

  • Newgrounds: Stronger on the no AI art side, but still allow pieces in specific cases, it’s not a total ban. Allowed AI is highlighted in bold to make it easier to skim.:

AI-generated art is not allowed in the Art Portal. This includes using tools such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and CrAIyon, in addition fractal generators and websites like ArtBreeder, where the user selects two images and they are combined into a new image via machine learning.
There are cases where some use of AI is ok, for example if you are primarily showcasing your character art but use an AI-generated background. In these cases, please note any elements where AI was used so that it is clear to users and moderators.
Tracing and coloring over AI-generated art is something best shared on your blog, as it is much like tracing over someone else’s art.
Making art from scratch that is inspired by an AI piece is ok. Here are two good examples: Maiden of Flames and Hermin. Both pieces reference the AI art they are based on while being original pieces in their own right.
Bottom line: We want to keep the focus on art made by people and not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines

Cara is totally anti-AI in contrast. You would be too if someone profited from your artwork by simply reversing it and changing the color scheme a little.

BTW, It’s BS to call Backgrounds not real art. Tips it more towards pro-AI.

Wacom?: This one confuses the hell out of me, but apparently Wacom is running contests, etc with GenAI. Apparently they did this a few times. Proof: https://x.com/meganroseruiz/status/1743759432268607843. Honestly makes me a bit reticent about Yuify… https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/yuify Look, I love Wacom, I really do, and was a loyal customer long before screen tablets were a thing, but this seriously confuses the hell out of me. Why support the technology that will make your tech obsolete? The problem is Wacom has done this repeatedly. For contests, promos, etc, in Japanese and Japanese people have also called them out repeatedly. (They are now owned by a pro-AI company testing out users). I get you want more reliable source, so here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24031468/wacom-wizards-of-the-coast-mtg-artists-against-generative-ai

This is seriously confusing where to put Wacom. It’s split loyalties at this point.

Other tablet companies? Huion continues to “teach a course on AI” and XP Pen says they don’t promote GenAI and got scammed by an artist, but have not used AI art in their promotions since. Reddit, but they link to the evidence in the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/190lubo/promoting_ai_art_and_forgoing_real_artists_just/

Suites:

ToonBoomHarmony– This is an animation suite, since it has a set of programs. No Anti-AI statement. There are AI tools (not the same as AI) which is heavily being questioned on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBoomHarmony/comments/1j8s9yc/ai_tools_harmony_is_cooked/ with some implications they are stopping listening to customers since they took down their forums and are now switching to the next mode of enshittification Stage 3. People objected heavily, hating on the AI tools, the implementation was horrid, they didn’t fix any of the base bugs before launching (which UX people would tell you not to do). When customers flooded in to complain about the AI tools being terrible, they shut down ALL of forums by DELETING THEM (which is enshittification step number 3). While not GenAI, it’s implied that might be a next step to please the investors.

They are a hair way from putting in GenAI anyway, despite objections to the AI tools.

Enshittification

1. Good to their end users, but needs to find a way to lock those end users in.

2. Platforms abuse their users to tempt in business customers. Business customers become locked into the platform.

3. Claws back all the value from business customers and end users.

(Oh look, a cloud the company owns. Oh look, we own that cloud. You’re OK with that, RRRRIIIGHHHTT). And then it’s betraying the customer base for the stockholders and the program becomes hell and then the company shuts down when it loses it’s customer face in a huge Pikachu move. I Didn’tKnowYouHadtoPleaseCustomersFirstToMakeMoney So they are at step 3 out of 3. Harmony essentials is USD 29.00 / month, Advanced is USD 73.00 / month, Premium is USD 133.00 / month. Storyboard Pro: USD 75.00 / month Producer “cannot access files unless they are uploaded” How much is your first born worth? Oh and UX people would have effing told you to fix your bugs with the release of new features… say like SIMS4, without adding new ones. SIMS4. I paid over 5,000 dollars for a game that functionally breaks because it’s built on a house of cards of not fixing the base code and doing patches instead. (My Dad [a programmer] had an hour lecture on why this was a terrible idea too and told me this was why Microsoft Windows kept getting hacked).

Online Art Programs

  • Milanote?- Moodboard software. To get full features you have to pay per month (which isn’t ideal since the free version is very, very limited) There is no pro or anti-genAI statement I can find. But so far there is no GenAI on the platform. This is a *not sure* category.
  • Creativit– is offline, free and on Mac only Moodboard software. It’s a pretty straight forward program, so no AI. Has snapping features and no frills. Since they are small, it doesn’t have AI, but there is no anti-AI statement either.

Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)

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