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Followed by a sneering, rude as hell comment that’s actually praising them.

“Drama” One of the dev teams are literally huge bigots. I agree this community isn’t the place for it, that’s fine, but I can’t help but take issue people refer to real issues as “drama” and nothing more.

I might need to look into what the hell ChapoTrapHouse is now lol

Problem is, I’ve heard, that .ml and .world share funding and isn’t .dev tankie ridden too? Either that or it’s full of AI bros, I could be wrong.

Jesus is that what’s happening? I’m not strictly a communist or anarchist (tho I consider them my allies) but maybe that’s because the ones I’ve encountered are upfront and honest about who they are and what they believe instead of trying to obfuscate it lol Aside from outright trolling, what is even the point of acting this way? I genuinely don’t get it from any perspective.

I mean it seems pretty alive to me on a community level, it’s just that the devs make it’s failure inevitable, which is why I jumped ship over here to PieFed within two months.

I would, and did in another community, but my post got taken down by a Blahaj mod because they didn’t want to further the harassment even potentially, which I understand to be fair.

Jesus, that sounds horrible. And then that one anti-AI community doxxed an ml-type troll for some fucking reason and now they can use that as a “Look what they do to us! For shame, for shame!” And for what? Why would they fucking dox a troll? Who tf cares enough to do that?

Sorry, got off on a bit of a rant lol I’ve heard a lot about that incident but it seems we’re not allowed to bring it up or something at the risk of endangering that person again, so nobody has told me the details yet of what happened.

I’m following this community rn because of ML and I hardly know what Grad is, so that should tell you something.

I got the funniest responses to this comment. It was so bad that by the time I tried to respond, the mods had deleted them all already lmao

Yeah, exactly! That’s what I’m trying to say in response to OP talking about “liberals” defending intellectual property, which I took to mean copyright in that case.

Yeah, no. I understand the problems with intellectual property and copyright. Its not an issue at the core of my politics but I’m at least somewhat aware of it. That’s not why people like me are pissed off over AI. We’re justifiably disgusted that people are pressing a button to create amalgamations of other people’s work. Work that, unlike whatever an LLM spits out, has had time, effort and humanity put into it. These people give a middle finger to anyone who creates, helping mega-corps kill the planet while they do it, and have the gall to consider the slop “art”.

You’re smoking some hard shit if you’re coming into a leftist space defending the fascist project that is generative AI lmao

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So I’m not against what you’re saying (and maybe I’m taking the bate here) but are you implying anarchy is the only way to be free? If so, why use the term “leftist” at all, as it encompasses many ideologies, of which anarchism is one?

That’s true, people can grow and change. Heck, I used CharacterAI for a very, very brief period when I was lying to myself about it’s impact on not just the world and artists but myself too. I quickly realized I couldn’t defend it, and I didn’t like how it was affecting me personally either so I quickly got rid of it. Been strongly anti-“AI” ever since.

HOWEVER, I also think it is worth criticizing those who are only giving it up now, because that’s absurd. We’ve all know for ages that this stuff is horrible for everybody and everything an disrespectful to artists, and it doesn’t even take much thinking to come to that conclusion on your own. If this is the tipping point that makes someone give up “AI”, I still consider them a fucking idiot. I’m just glad their stupidity is harming everyone else a bit less now.

I cannot believe this is what it took for a boycott to go more mainstream. Tell me more about how so many people have no respect for the environment or the artists who’s work they gleefully consume.