Comrade_Spood

Its not me trying to protect IP, its me standing in solidarity with artists. They need jobs like everyone else and I feel using AI is enabling corporations to take those jobs. Its an issue of right now we live under capitalism and need to help each other survive, and AI is hurting artists. Once capitalism is gone and artists don't need to work to survive I have no issue with AI being used cause you aren't hurting anyone anymore. I do not feel you can be in solidarity with artists and writers and also use generative AI as a medium as opposed to a tool.

I feel a good example is the Luddite movement. Industrialization can be good, especially in terms of reducing labor and increasing productivity. But in a capitalist world it comes with people losing their jobs and thus means to survival. The workers sabotaging the machinery were doing it because their jobs were at stake, not some moral issue with the tool. The tools are immoral because of how they affect people. Until you can get rid of that affect, it is immoral to use it. If we want to use GenAI we need capitalism gone. We need to work in the reality that exists presently, not the ideal future.

I don't care about copyright. I am an anarchist. What I was getting at though is AI is stealing jobs from writers and artists, and so I was arguing the use of AI is scabbing.

I wasn't talking about whether it was good or bad. I was talking about the ethics of AI. You didn't engage with any part of what I said.

You're example is a good case of using AI well. However I think there is a difference between using AI to help with something, and using AI for the whole thing. I have no qualms with using AI to ease or automate the tedious work, but using it for the whole thing is gross, lazy, and often times scabbing. For example I love Romantically Apocalyptic. Its artists uses an AI trained off of his own art to speed up the process of making art for his books. The images are not 100% AI generated, and what is generated is made from his own art. This I feel is a good use of AI in art. A bad use of AI art is training a model off of other people's art and generating a whole image out of it. Until we live in a society where artists and writers don't need to work to survive, we can't ethically use AI to generate whole works using other people's work imo.

Yall tend to forget that not everyone lives in cities (or even well developed cities), and not everyone wants to. Sure yeah your idea is good for those living in well developed cities and want to live in them. But those of us who don't really do need to own a car. Public transport is not a one size fits all, and yall need to stop pretending like it is.

It was definitely created by millenials, but that doesnt mean it wasn't used by gen z. Generations aren't as clear cut as people like to pretend

Some of this was Gen Z slang. Like ROFLcopter. Early Gen Z was part of the stuff like Gay Luigi, the troll song, nyan cat, yeeee, rick rolling, swag, 360 no scope mlg, etc

There's a pet store on the inside of a tiny mall thats part of a strip mall. Every other business in that part of the mall dies, especially since the dmv relocated. Only thing that has remained consistent for the nearly 30 years I have walked this earth is the pet store and the nail salon. I at least see customers at the nail salon.

Nietzsche vs Nietzsche

I probably will do both. And nah I have no moral issues with piracy. Thanks for the suggestion

I feel like audio books might help me, but I also really prefer having physical books (one reason is I distrust digital media services).

Personally I find it a kind of privileged and toxic perspective. You never know why someone isn't taking medication. I am not and gave my reasons in a reply to the original comment. How people cope is their business as long as it isn't harming themself or others. And posting memes in communities to feel heard and not alone is an entirely valid way to help cope.

While I don't know the context of your ban, it doesn't sound like it was a valid reason for it and I am sorry for that. And while I don't think the original comment that we are replying to deserves to be deleted (definitely not banned), I wouldn't be opposed if it was because I do see it as toxic and privileged.