I think the problematic AI tool here isn't AI that helps artists finish artwork or automate menial tasks, but AI that has been fed with every copyrighted artwork on the internet and is sold as an artist-replacement tool.

Sucks if you’re an artist but the automobile and steam engine sucked for those whose profession was stabling and shoeing horses too, yet we can’t hold back progress. People will still commission artistic works, it’ll just revert to being very skilled artists and very wealthy people.

Can't believe I'm reading this take on a communist website. If you're arguing from a capitalists' standpoint, then there's the counterpoint that the existing art generators are full of copyrighted artwork taken without the authors' permission, and so they should be deemed illegal (this would be true under socialism as well tbf). Then further generators would only be allowed to use either public domain or properly licensed artwork as its training set, which will inevitably lower the variety and quality of the outputs (sorry programmers).

From a communist standpoint we should stand in solidarity with the artists whose livelihoods are being put in risk and oppose unethical AI art.

Capitalists are not about to allow banning of a cost-cutting measure any more than they would have allowed banning the steam engine or mechanical factories to save the jobs of workers. They’re just not.

This is fundamentally different because the generators were fed basically every artwork on the internet, no matter if they were copyrighted or not, in order to make the thing work. They should have never been able to become public services, much less PAID services, and should have been restricted to academic circles as proofs-of-concept, due to the blatant and massive copyright infringement taking place. This is allowed to go on because artists are usually poor and have no individual leverage, but say, if tomorrow an AI movie generator was released that was fed every Hollywood movie ever and could output a Marvel-quality blockbuster with just a prompt and enough time, believe me, shit would be sued to destruction in days.

Artists should be collectivizing right now and preparing a lawsuit against those operating AI art generators fed on their copyrighted artwork. So yes, the proverbial machine can be smashed in this case, if only because it infringes copyright law in such a massive way.

In a January 2021 wiretap, Testa said he “would make a massacre like the one in New Zealand, but I wouldn’t go to the blacks, I would go to the barracks in Marigliano.”

Ukraine, US and NATO will now be responsible for unleashing Nazi terrorism upon Europe. All just because they wanted to own the Ruskies.

This is what I was gonna say. What the fuck

What the actual fuck, NSFL warning on that first link (it's not a picture but the description is graphic as fuck). I swear I learn about a new US atrocity every other day here, each more horrific than the last.

Here's a very good text about Belarus and Lukashenko:

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428

That's interesting. The fact that capitalist developers are still building using the commieblock urban format nowadays proves how practical and functional it is.

Oddly satisfying

Some think the Palace of the Soviets was excessive, but no, that was just a life-size Lenin on top of it:

A CIA-directed website defending fascists? Color me shocked

Are there any made in amerikkka consumer products even left?

I had the same feeling and it was tiresome to even browse the front page here until I blocked all of the communities dedicated to posting libfash cringe. There's actually a surprising amount of actual communist content in here which is very enjoyable to read and reply to, but it gets lost among all of the cringe. I don't know if you're already blocking those communities but either way, this is how my block list looks like: