It's pretty weird to see self-described leftists pearl clutching about technology while you're out here churning out effective agitprop. I guess you're supposed to spend multiple hours of labor for every meme? Can't utilize dead labor since it's a product of capitalism.

Too worried about the aesthetics of free-range, artisanal consumption.

I wonder if people were this up in arms when the printing press came out 😂😂😂😂

I liked it.

Honestly we need to stop calling LLMs/Image generators AI because it actually causes so much misunderstanding about what that technology actually is - AI usually conjures up images of a terminator/sky-net endtimes.

Oh gosh what a contentious discussion. I used to be anti AI and am still reluctant about it. But for reasons i admit that are not practical. And when it comes to practability.. art has always been both practical, and ideal. The first cave paintings are of practical use, they serve as guideposts and acts of communication. However, their depiction— of humans playing, dancing with animals— are ideal. They set intentions to reverence, even though the practical reality of humans and animals is predator and prey. They give a moment of awe and imagining to other possibilities. Worship is implored, and through this culture an interconnection cosmology forms.. humans arent just predator, they are receiever/giver. This translates to practical understanding of cycles and relationships both important and integral to hunter-gatherers.

At a more personal level, I recently had a partial finger amputation. I'm a musician of 30 years. You can imagine my grief. I felt ruined, that my art could never be seen again. Yet now i have even more drive as an artist. I use electronic instruments and incidental sounds which perform themselves. I do the orchestration, composition and conducting. I, having an ideal objective, am letting go of my decades of training as mandatory for that practical expression.

Maybe I can never play music the way i could ever again. But I am still an artist and still I express. Whether its ability or accessibility aids, an artist articulates the material as expression in form. A brush stroke or stable diffusion are tools, just as a violin or algorithmic synth program are tools, to express their ideals in practical, material ways.

With all due respect commands. This is the most pathetic, utterly asinine struggle session I have ever seen in a leftist space. Hexbear ain't got shit on the level of mouth foaming hate that some of you are spewing. The fact that someone could come in and post a meme made with AI and some of you all will rabidly attack your so called "comrades" over it to these extent I am seeing in here really ought to cause some of you to sit back and contemplate of you really should even call yourself a comrade.

This shit is utterly disgraceful.

On side note, I thought it was a pretty cool little meme. Can I get my mandatory 3 or 4 downvotes for not spewing hate fueled vitriol about it now?