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The tone of the quoted section is just so self-righteous! Clinical language and do-gooder spin for, in other words, "We need to find more people to identify as sick to put through the torture machine* but I prommy this is helping them for their own good"

*I'm not super active in autism community but I've seen ABA particularly for kids regarded as forcefully inducing trauma

I didn't say that "we should agitate people with petit bourgeois aspirations to side with the working class [their real class] via gen ai tools". I guess I got ahead of myself when I said there already have been efforts to convince artists that gen ai or tech in general isn't their enemy, corporate monopolization etc of tech however is because capitalists are;; (eg yes there should be said efforts, maybe better/more efforts in that regard. but anti-ai is very entrenched at this point)

However I did point out that these people are, influenced by a combination of (self-circulated and corporate) propaganda and their own petit bourgeois aspiring class interest (resisting acceptance of proletarian status), pitching their weight with our (and their own) class enemies; with gen ai/ai art as the driving wedge at this present moment but any new tech that reshapes the material landscape would be treated similarly -- my comment isn't about ai in particular, rather it's more about the art community in question.

Or, maybe I wasn't clear enough? Anti-ai art frenzy in the artist community is being funnelled towards support for harsher ip and trademark laws, by companies who would actually still be using gen ai but want to hoard and control (and expand) "their" datasets. Yes more people on the side of the working class is good but class traitors exist and if these people, after explaining that technology itself isn't their enemy but capitalists are, still want to be willing pawns then, well, for on,e I have better uses for my time and energy, and yeah I'd agree with m532 they're "dumbasses"

case in point: this is a project borne of the anti-ai craze: unvale.io ; here's a tumblr post they circulated (since there's a sizeable art/artist community on tumblr who are anti-ai) but digging into the replies, people are fully disambiguating the draconian, PG, family friendly TOS and pointing out that posting to their platform makes an oddly convenient place to harvest virgin (un-touched by gen ai tools) and corporate-friendly data. Not everyone looks through the notes however and plenty of people are still reblogging just the first post and "spreading word about an awesome new no-ai platform!!". Also, lol @ #supportourtroops shit :: no oct 7 or 9/11

*outside of this direct discussion there's also extreme ableism among the artist anti-ai crowds as well.

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I think the anti- "anti ai artist" sentiment at least online is (or rather should?) be more directed towards the semi-hobbyist to small-business-petit-bourgeois types that pitch their weight with our class enemies, eg will side with stricter intellectual property laws to the point of agreeing that "art style" should be included in trademark/ip law. They also happen to be the loudest crowd when it comes to anti-ai art noise, to the point of also attacking and brigading professional artists who use ai tools. In my observation, the "small business owner" type artists are the most resistant to being proletarianized and act accordingly; in any case, many wage laborer artists also have self-biz hustles like online stores for periodic sketchbook/artbooks/prints (I point this out in a neutral manner not to detract from their primary[assuming] wage income but to color the discussion of petit bourgeois aspirations among the "[digital] artist" community).

I have seen efforts to "convert"/"deprogram" parts of the artist community away from supporting harsher ip laws and explain why Disney or record companies etc benefit the most and supporting harsher ip/etc does not benefit them, and in fact works to empower exploitative schemes of capitalists, but these efforts have a harder time gaining foothold amongst the typical anti-ai/ai art black-and-white views entrenched in the community, especially as call-out and cancellation brigades roll out regularly in those circles.

edit: I dunno if yall were around from deviantart to [idk what platforms certain art communities use anymore][idk artstation?] era but the absolute EASE that online "artists" throw the word "steal/theft" to apply to whatever they didn't like (petit capitalist mindset where "inspiration" becomes "mimickery" becomes "copying" becomes "stealing" eg "actually deprived me of money") has been around for decades at this point. I think there are still circles who treat tracing(for practice) and even referencing as untouchable/sacrilege.

re: 我只有一只狗 ；firstly I want to point out that the first 只 would be pronounced with 3rd tone while the 2nd instance (量词 count-word) would be pronounced 1st tone

I don't have official etymology on this but as a native speaker for both mandarin and english I suspect this case is somewhat similar to what's going on with the English "the more the merrier". So, articles (part of speech) like "the" ”a" "an” or the more general/wider classification of determiners (part of speech) like "both" "this" "that", aren't exactly the same as 量词 count words in Chinese but I'd say their functions are very similar. However, what's happening in "the more the merrier" (or other "the x the y", "the less [they know] the better“ or whatever), "the" isn't acting like an article at all, where you expect it to modify or accompany a noun, but it descends from "tha" from middle english rather than from the/article and somewhere along the way "tha" lost other places where it would be used, only retaining the "the x the y" umm linear graph relationship(?if that's the best way to describe what's happening between linking conditions together?), and converged/merged with "the" whose main use is as an article (part of speech). Although, for 只 I don't think it's quite recessed/withered on the "only"(3rd tone) side as much as english "the(tha)", because it's still widely used as "只是" (only/but/however) and is just as common to see it there as seeing it as a 量词 count word.

There are a bunch of other cases of single characters having multiple meanings/pronunciations, plenty of them being "less used case" and others being "specific case/always pronounced one way when used in specific 词"

-- example A, 乐 usually pronounced le4 on its own, means "joy", more fleshed out would be like 欢乐 huan1 le4 ; but if you see it written out in 音乐 "music" it's always pronounced yin1 yue4;; (eg 乐器, musical instrument, yue4qi4) [this is the most drastic example I can come up with off the top of my head, most other alterations in pronunciation/meaning overloaded onto single character are tone diff)

-- example B, 好 usually just means "good" (depending on context might also mean "oh those two are going out", still this pronunciation) most often seen this way and pronounced hao3, but when used in 爱好[ai4hao4] "hobby" or 好奇[hao4qi3] "curiosity" it's always fourth tone hao4