CACKLED ALOUD AT THIS

wtf im honored

lefty who makes rhetorical memes here: while i post them to lemmy and all over the internet, i don’t usually post them here because why would i preach to the choir.

i don’t know if i am alone in this experience or not but if not it might explain some of what you are expressing.

i would rather eat glass than read this again

There’s nothing wrong with opposing technology as it currently stands. Maybe there’s room for nuance in language, but that doesn’t break their argument.

As it currently stands, the user above is right, and the labor of human artists is being siphoned into corporate profit with zero compensation. In the same way, at the beginning of the industrial revolution the labor of children was siphoned into profit with low compensation and deadly work conditions.

The way the textile industry was “fixed” was by opposition: speaking about the issues related to the technical developments and advocating for better treatment of the laborers. The only way AI as it currently stands can be “fixed” is also by opposition. Being critical of AI doesn’t mean “turn it off,” it means speaking about the issues related to the new technology and advocating for better treatment of the laborers.

Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers is a good thing

Except often it’s not even traditional entry barriers. Look how bad Google search has gotten, overrun by AI blogposts and advertising slop. Those aren’t entry barriers, those are “hold up, is this even content?” barriers.

But more to the point, the genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of objection is going to stuff it back in.

We regulated the assembly line and gave laborers compensation and safety rights when power tools increased their capacity. So too, we could force OpenAI et al to compensate the copyright holders from whom they scraped data. No one is calling for the genie to go back in, only for the corporatists to stop being the ones with all the wishes.

It’s because AI enthusiasts are genuinely proud and in awe of their work, and those that are still staunchly pro-AI are unaware of how much damage they have already done.

Two key facts:

• Generative AI is powerful and amazing
• Generative AI was immediately sold to the capital-owning class and is now being developed and guided by the motivations of profit

Freya Holmér does excellent analysis at around the 43:00 mark. She notes that AI represents a story of human triumph, and the innate quality or “coolness” that lies in that. But on the other hand, she explains how generative AI has quite quickly become entirely devorced from positively amplifying human expression. Exceptions to this exist, where people use AI creatively as an extension of themselves, but are exceptions only and not the rule.

I see other threads here discussing “is there even demand for authentic human art?” And those discussions ignore that yes, there is, and that authentic human art was scraped from copyright holders on the internet without their consent. “Is there even demand for human art?” is what is being asked, when the technology in question was immediately bought up and exploited by billion-dollar companies who are gaining immensely more value from generative AI than even the most lucrative AI-artist.

I encourage “AI bros” reading this to look around and engage with the art world. Genuinely. If you have always wanted to be a screenwriter or painter hobbyist, go engage with those stories. Go and see the human experiences, training and techniques that are visible in every line and brush stroke. Creativity is quite a wonderful and powerful thing and I always encourage it.

Then, after you have experienced these works to a new degree, look back. Don’t even ask “is AI good”—because we all agree, it’s an amazing feat. Instead ask “do I want this technology to be monopolized by corporate interests?”

you call it laziness where some call it loving wear and tear

YDI. report dangerous content (which i agree this is) to admins for moderation or defederation.

but blanket downvote trolling is a real issue that any community mods should be allowed to address.

It’s more likely a field thing. People who work in fields highly dedicated to equity (esp. those working in healthcare) are especially concerned with their language and so create style guides that people outside those fields have gleaned from.

Example:

• National Institutes of Health
• American Heart Association
• US National Archive

to get engagement

…yeah? exactly what i said? i don’t disagree at all except you possibly ignore that the butt of the joke is the woman, normalizing the very repression she attempts to subvert. it’s undermining and mocking the woman’s identity intentionally by asserting the dominance of patriarchal schemes over her own life and decision. (perhaps unintentionally, but nevertheless really.)

in America, historically Black names are also dominated by the history of slavery and white supremacy (different functions, but the end result: subjugation, is parallel). i would post a similar comment hating on a post mocking Black folk for resisting these patterns as well! :)

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with no ill will for you, OP, genuinely fuck this boomer ass “joke”

a woman’s name is her name. she lives with it for 1 lifetime, absolutely no shorter than her grandfather does. “male” is not somehow the default human identity. stop trying to enforce that standard.

congrats on understanding its a troll community. you almost understand the premise of a joke here but fall short immediately. you should look up “commitment to the bit”

yeah you ever think that getting posted to the biggest drama sub would result in brigading? and maybe that would result in locking the community?

this post singlehandedly ruined all the fun. yall pissed in the ball pit and your defense is “it’s actually a latrine but the toilets look often nonsensically like balls”

it’s depressing, really. you came into a little tiny satire project with like 12 active members and insisted that you were entitled to be judge jury and executioner on the person running that project.

meanwhile your entire defense is consistently “i didn’t get the joke.” okay??? block and move on. yall ruined a space people were having harmless geeky fun.

you just don’t get the elite sense of humor we have

your fault you took a modpost in a troll community seriously haha

you seem like a joy to be around 😒 blocked for being no fun

trolling and doing satire is literally the second most common form of expression on the internet and yet still people defend everything like it’s serious

you ate the onion, my friend, and when we told you it was an onion you said “well maybe the onion is psychotic it looks like an apple to me”