Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn’t go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
So your telling me that if I go downvote a bunch of stuff in one AI slop community someone will ban me from all of them for me and save me the work of blocking them all?
I complained about slop in the other thread and got banned from at least two, hopefully more. Only found out when I went to block a couple of communities someone linked.
I think I would be willing to pay for a lemmy experience that replaces ai slop posts with ads. Ads with autoplaying videos and sound. Ads that when accidentally clicked open the app store to some obvious malware. Anything that doesn’t kill one rainforest tree per post.
I noticed just yesterday or maybe two days ago that MysticMuchroom had banned me from [email protected] calling me an “Anti-AI Troll” in the modlog. I’m fairly certain I’ve had exactly zero interaction with the stable_diffusion_witches before or since.
My guess is that ze had previously banned me from [email protected] for downvoting too much and preemptively also banned me from stable_diffusion_witches when ze first created it.
Then ze had the gall to come to this thread to troll and file reports to me (I’m a mod here on [email protected]) about people calling zir out for basically exactly that behavior.
Oy.
I think the need for more explicit rules in the sidebar is getting more crucial. I might see about trying to make that happen soon. I’ll probably start by DMing @[email protected] and see where it goes from there.
Edit: And now I think MysticMushroom is evading zir ban. Either that or someone else is impersonating them.
I believe that db0 is here to brigade this thread with downvotes, as well. In the past they have done the same with the admins themselves participating and inciting it even, leveraging plausible deniability to do so but it’s very obvious to those willing to entertain the idea.
They just handled this issue
I can’t even imagine the mental gymnastics required to be both “pro-labor” and “pro-AI”. I mean, yeah I’m all about workers rights…but imagine how much money my boss could make if he just replaced us all with robots?
So in an ideal world we would have ai/robots doing labour jobs, while humans are free to do what they want and enjoy life without the wage slavery to survive…
But we do not live in such a world and instead, ai is doing all the creative fun bits and humans are loosing their jobs and not getting any support to live… 🙃
That’s a clear strawman, irrespective of how you feel about the topic. The pro-AI left position is that opposing AI is trying to futilely treat a symptom when one should be fixing the root cause of capitalist exploitation, or in other words: “All your problems with AI can be solved by overthrowing capitalism”. If you disagree then disagree with that position, not a strawman you made up.
All your problems with AI can be solved by overthrowing capitalism
Overthrow capitalism and then I’ll stop complaining about AI, then.
Your instance admin is a piece of shit if he would ban you for being Anti-AI.
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See, now you’re disagreeing with the actual position. If I cared to have this argument (which I don’t) we could now have an honest-ish conversation about the merits and demerits of opposing AI instead of a meaningless circlejerk.
It’s not really, because the “AI” people have gievances with in context is the LLMs that are being shoved down everyone’s throats by every silicon valley giant, with literal trillions of dollars invested in them. Very, very not left wing. I’m left wing - that money can be MUCH better spent elsewhere.
When people complain about AI evangelists they’re complaining about the people who fawn over the aforementioned tech giants, wholesale theft of training data, and enshittification of all platforms by AI slop - not ‘AI as a concept’, so in other words, you’re very much crafting a straw man of your own there.
When people complain about AI evangelists they’re complaining about the people who fawn over the aforementioned tech giants, wholesale theft of training data, and enshittification of all platforms by AI slop
Yeah these are bad things (well mostly, I don’t recognize intellectual property of any form as valid), but that’s irrelevant to my point. I wasn’t criticizing the anti-AI position; I was criticizing circlejerking by pretending the other side doesn’t have valid reasons to think what they think.
The pro-AI left
There is no such thing as “AI”. And most of the “left” in this context is not actually left.
But don’t you get it? Once capitalism and its shackles are overthrown, AI will not be a problem. It will be a tool for communist utoparadise. 🫠
AI consumes more resources than Bitcoin, at this point. We are accelerating our own demise, all for the spectacle of watching a computer hallucinate on command. There is nothing more decadently bourgeoisie than that.
AI development and usage isn’t about to be stopped under any economic system, any more than computers were. But the instance is exclusively anti-corporate, pro-open-source AI. It’s not like they’re waiting for a revolution to try to use the tech more responsibly.
They should, though. The Earth is burning.
Small AI models can be hosted on a laptop. It’s the corporate AI’s that are burning the world.
They can’t be trained on a laptop. It’s like arguing that beef can be cooked on an electric stove, and ignoring the emissions from the agriculture.
https://www.databricks.com/blog/stable-diffusion-2
We’ve replicated Stable Diffusion 2 for less than $50k, and we’ve open-sourced the training code so you can too! This is a 3x cost reduction from our last blog post and an 8x reduction from the original Stable Diffusion 2, making training large-scale diffusion models from scratch more accessible than ever before.
AI model training is getting more efficient over time, not less. And each model only needs to be trained once, so your analogy doesn’t quite work.
https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/main/en/tutorials/basic_training
You can absolutely train a small, specialized model on minimal hardware.
It’s also locally hosted and free to use, so each image generated does not directly incentivize the training of future models, unlike cloud-based subscription services.
Worrying about open-source AI while corporate AI burns orders of magnitude more resources every day is much like everything else with climate change. Even if you somehow stopped it, it would barely be a drop in the bucket against the massive, inefficient behemoths destroying the world.
I think the same was said on ozone destroying gases and leaded gasoline. Look where they’re currently. Or should we also encurage the “anti-corporate” use of those? Maybe even stop our fight against big plastic, because open-source plastic making could be an advantage over the corporate stuff?
These are laughably incomparable. You literally can’t use freon or leaded gasoline without causing damage. You can run computers entirely on clean, renewable energy. The issue is the energy generation and mass-scale inefficient use of resources.
Small AI models can be hosted on a laptop. Unless you are advocating for abandoning computers as a technology?
If we didn’t waste energy and resource on the AI, it wouldn’t be as accessible and advanced as currently is, which is fine by me, but not by those who think the AI is like a “little person in the computer”, or that a super AI will solve all of humanity’s problems, including those caused by said AI.
Those are issues with generalist corporate AI designed to replace human labor and search engines. Not small, open-source image generators.
The issue, as always, is that we have dragged our feet on renewables for over half a century, and allowed massive corporations to steer our usage of resources to massive, inefficient “convenience” systems designed to extract as much wealth as possible at the cost of the environment and humanity’s future.
I feel like comparing AI to computers is misleading. AI can obviously be really good, computers can do so much more
Also, its not like all AI has to be so big, stealing from and competing with artists
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I’m fairly sure doing mental gymnastics and hypocrisy are fairly popular these days. I can come up with a bazillion of other topics where people like to do it. And it’s often both sides, and the people interested in the truth and facts are a bit more rare.
Same thing here. It’s easy to have a strong opinion and to vocalize it loudly. But I have zero information whether this is legit or someone went through 20 posts and downvoted someone because of a personal vendetta. This could be a warranted ban, or not.
I have a hunch though, because I know how that mod moderates. And it’s often because of zir personal agenda.
But I have zero information whether this is legit or someone went through 20 posts and downvoted someone because of a personal vendetta.
Is there really a difference between downvoting posts that show up in your feed and downvoting posts in a shitty community?
I fully admit that if I see a stupid looking community I might click on it and downvote a bunch of posts on the first page that appear to be spreading misinformation or are malicious trolling. Then I skim and if they are mostly downvoted it gets blocked. Sometimes I do the same with users to see if they are shitty overall vs had a bad comment.
As an extreme example, if I downvote a bunch of posts and comments by racists does it really matter if I stumbled across individual posts or comments in the All feed vs looking at a community or user as long as I am doing it because of the content and not their username?
Yes, I think it’s bad. I mean some people have it coming and I’m not mad at you for downvoting those. But a bunch of people do what you do. And once you’re part of a niche community or one about a controversial topic, you tend to get that a lot. Random people wo aren’t members coming by and leaving some negative drive-by comment, or a bunch of downvotes. And most of the time it’s not a well-informed take. Or it’s been debunked countless times already, or not even the specific topic at hand. But more someone pushing their uninformed opinion or the prevalent sentiment… And I mean how would they know it they don’t know a lot about what’s going on, since it’s just someone browsing the “All” feed and leaving drive-by interactions?
The issue is not you doing it or one person. But that quite some people do it. And at the other end it’s just a constant stream of it. And if you want to discuss something you then have to make the rules more strict, start to ban people. And then it might lead to some outcry on yepowertrippingbastards or something like that. I think it’s just a lose-lose situation for everyone. It doesn’t create anything constructive or with substance to it. Main thing it does is drag down the place and poison the atmosphere. I’d rather you just block the community if you don’t like the content, and move on with your day.
Make of this what you will. I also downvote misinformation and bad content. But rarely do I scroll through something just to vote on it or make my opinion known to everybody. (With some minor exceptions.)
I think the main difference is that I don’t see downvoting terrible stuff as the same thing as downvoting positive stuff.
There is a lot of nuance to it. I’d say receiving one downvote feels as annoying as it feels good to receive 5 upvotes. At least to me, so I’d say downvotes are worth more. But yeah, this is kind of a different topic. Upvoting bad stuff or downvoting good stuff is both very stupid. But this isn’t a competition or an excercise in stupidity. Just downvote bad/terrible content and upvote if you think other people might want to read it, too. And use your brain before using the voting system for different purposes than those.
I think “pro-AI” is an overstatement for one comm about generated art. They just want to enjoy the art without the drama.
That;s a great way to put it.
Its like denouncing all of reddit because of one subreddit (not saying you shouldn’t denounce reddit).
Maybe the comm needs a better name than “leftymemes” if that’s what it’s for 🤷♀️
.dbzer0 is an explicitly pro-AI instance. It isn’t limited to specific comms, it’s every single comm, AI images are allowed untagged and criticism of them is banned - unless that comm has an explicit rule against AI images, and when I asked a mod (Unruffled) for a list of comms like that, they responded by mocking me.
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AI Evangelists are cringe people.
I saw some freak at a prostest passing out flyers saying AI was sentient and we need to give it legal rights.
These people are delusional, incapable of living in reality.
That’s what happens when you let AI talk for you, draw for you, speak for you, and even think for you.
Modern “AI” doesn’t think … but then neither are the goons promoting it so rabidly, so…
Exactly my point
Do you remember #freesydney.
Those people were delusional.
You’re exaggerating, right?
Right?
Damn, that’s off the deep end.
Yeah the mental gymnastics of some of these ai moderators is hitting Reddit level of cringe. Downvoted and blocked some ai slop communities that came across my timeline and had one butthurt genius block me from a few places they mod.
Ai bros are just the worst insecure shitheads out there. Absolutely worse than crypto bros ever were.
LOL before you mentioned Crypto I was going to say that they are just like CryptoBros. Do you think that AIBros are worse?
They are absolutely worse. Ai bros have this huge self righteous ego “it’s just a tool” while dismissing all the environmental damages, loss of human made creativity and it funneling money away from creators and into greedy CEOs pockets.
At least the crypto bros stay in the financial sector, Ai shitheads are out claiming it’s the “next ai revolution” on every damn topic.
Even worse are the Ai apologists saying it’s a capitalism problem not an Ai issue. Yeah like you aren’t using the tools of capitalism to give them more power you idiots. You are actively making it worse. You aren’t some resistance fighter stealing the means of production. You are just a cog in their machine.
I have seen that capitalism argument. Cringe.
They get defensive about their virtual girlfriends.
Lol so true, I bet db0 himself has an AI girlfriend, maybe an AI boyfriend too.
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I blocked the whole community after seeing bullshit like “no rule against AI means you must imply that any criticism of AI is against the rules”
I have been debating whether or not to block the entire db0 instance because of its pro-AI stance. It’s weird to me that a self-proclaimed anarchist instance is so pro-GenAI garbage. Even the reasoning of being pro-AI because it’s anti-copyright is dumb as fuck.
Yeah they see themselves as “seizing the means of production” but they aren’t doing shit. You aren’t a freedom fighter using Ai. You are just another tool in their machine and you are giving them more power.
They aren’t pro corpo Ai.
They’re very much against the mass scraping/ddos ai companies are doing.
Hell, db0 contributes to [email protected] a lot.
You’ve been posting on this instance for 6 days, yet you seem so knowledgeable about the user in question. Insteresting…
Also: Did you really accuse me of being an alt of him?
This is my new account. I was on lemm.ee but they’re shutting down.
I still think it’s disgraceful to generate and defend AI slop over copyright ideals. To me, it says they admire bullshit computer generated phantasms more than actual, human art.
I see what you’re saying but fuck copyright.
Strongly agreed
They aren’t pro corpo Ai.
They’re very much against the mass scraping/ddos ai companies are doing.
All of the self-hostable LLMs and image generators (or at least, all of the ones capable of the quality people have come to expect for the last few years) people are using today are trained on massive scraped datasets far beyond the reach of hobbyists. There are many so-called “open source” models which are free to modify (eg, by fine-tuning) and to redistribute, but the data used for the initial training (which hobbyists are allowed to build upon) cannot be published because doing so would obviously be large-scale copyright infringement.
Also, even with the data (which in many cases also needs to be labeled/annotated using human labor), the cost of training such a model from scratch is astronomical.
As a pirate myself, I totally understand how, after reading that Meta’s training data included 82TB of pirated books they torrented, one’s first thought might be “🤤” … but to imagine that this makes Meta our ally in the fight against copyright is some temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire kind of thinking.
Everyone should block that corporate bootlicking pro-AI shithole, they’re bad news and nothing good can ever come of them.
Those fascist pigs accused me of being a troll and banned me from there simply for crossposting this thread there
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Ok, very disappointed by dbzer0…
Uhhhh lemmy.dbzer0.com is the pro-AI instance.
Yes, but also quite anarchist(at least from what I have seen) and this is more abuse of power in my opinion.
[email protected] tends to side with the pro-AI side, it’s not very neutral
Yup as evidence by db0’s behavior when I crossposted this thread there, first thing he did was to accuse me of sowing drama, then act condescending as fuck. And they have the audacity to call us neolibs?
Edit: Fascist pigs banned me from their pro-AI mod abuse community, good riddance.
I agree. This is less an AI problem and more of a singular abuse of power from an individual of the instance inside their moderated communities. I wouldn’t tack it on to the whole instance itself. Plenty are here for pro-anarchy or, like myself, just pro-piracy (in the case of giant corporate powerhouses charging disgusting prices for games and “ad-less” tier streaming services). I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an anarchist, though I do align with some of it’s views, but I wouldn’t call myself anything else, either. I pretty much just don’t enjoy politics.
This is a clear case of mod harassment, rather than instance harassment. But if the only thing they can do is ban OP from instances they don’t even want to see… well, they didn’t accomplish much. So much so, that this could get legitimately posted in “Saved You a Click”. However, its good to put antics like these in the spotlight. Some people need to be power checked.
Like rain on your wedding day.
also quokk.au
Really? That’s a shame.
quokk.au is also anti voting
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LLM generated polandball comic
WHY
i literally just made one in like 5 minutes, and i didn’t even need a good or interesting idea. i put in the minimum amount of effort. they are literally balls with no mouth, nose or any other detail, just a circle, a flag and two eyes
AI bros aren’t logical, they’d rather put in no effort to have a machine barf out crap then claim they made it.
Thing is, as someone who has fooled around with locally hosted image gen, it’s actually sometimes a whole fucking lot of work to try and bend prompts to get the stupid algorithm to spit out what you want. They’d rather put in a shit tonne of effort for an objectively worse result.
That is also my thought. If you want to make AI generated content, which is going to cost the environment a ton (40 phone charges per prompt, people) and do prompt after prompt after prompt - then WHY would you waste all that time and pollution on a fucking gag comic that you could draw yourself in five minutes?
To me, that is peak retardation when it comes to AI fanboys. At least use that time and pollution on something worthwhile.
Ha! Was curious and just checked - they recently banned me from the same communities. I certainly don’t go looking for AI stuff to downvote but probably have done so a couple times if I see it in /all and it’s egregiously bad. Guess that was too much for them.
Imagine being so incredibly fragile that you ban folks because they downvoted a post on a site where karma doesn’t exist and you had an AI create the content you posted.
I think as more people get sick of AI bullshit, the cheerleaders are seeing the reaction and thinking it’s some dark conspiracy when it’s just folks saying “Hmm, that’s kinda crappy, isn’t?”
You downvoted me for posting a bash script, I guess I know why now. Vote count does matter a little bit because you’re pushing someone’s post down so others can’t see it. Kind of a bummer when I’m just trying to grow a small community and share with people.
Who honestly keeps track of who down votes what? What is this…
I’m constantly getting down votes because of the community topic. I’m making sure that it’s not someone habitually downvoting. If it were then I would refer it to the admins. People think flipping = scalping so ancaps and others kneejerk downvote. I fixed some broken consoles this weekend and now I’m going to re-sell them, but they don’t understand that. Just like someone downvoted me for using an llm as a search engine to learn how to so something new.
So you keep track of everyone who votes you, then if you decide they’ve down voted you too much you report them? Instead of accepting they disagree with you often?
I think using an LLM to actually learn anything technical is a bad idea too. I implement and maintain AI systems for our company, I understand the wild amount of confident hallucinations it can have. I would down vote that too.
You seem way too fragile to be online honestly. I don’t mean that as an insult, really. But if you get that upset by down votes that you track who down votes you and report them, then the real world will be tough. You can’t let that stuff get to you man, especially from nameless, faceless strangers.
Just a suggestion - don’t say you “created” something when you then go on to say you had AI do it for you.
Except that I wrote most of it first and had to fix problems myself because it was buggy as hell. It really only gave me the jq urI part.
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Wait, are you telling me that people who use AI nowadays are completely deranged?
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My dude you’re downvoting AI posts in an AI community explicitly against instance anti-brigading rules. You deserve it.
Edit: It seems I misunderstood the situation. That is questionable.
Is one person voting on their own from a single account considered “brigading” now?
When you have dozens of that one person the effect is the same. Downvoting something you don’t like in an instance dedicated to that something derails the conversation and inserts unnecessary negativity ala downvote bots; at this point block the community and move on. Imagine if Lemmy had dozens of religious people downvoting the shit out of all posts on c/atheism or c/atheistmemes.
I’ll downvote whatever I want to thanks.
Okay I guess, if you want to be a dick that’s your call.
Stop brigading the FuckAI comm with your pro-AI rhetoric lmao
The irony is palpable
I just got a good idea for a photoshop gag
use a orange juice just carton and make it “more palpable” instead of “more pulp” and maybe add in another visual gag.
I’d do it in gimp but I didn’t sleep very well last night and am feeling too lazy.
I COULD use a bullshit ai tool to make it for me but fuck that noise, better to just let the idea die
When you have dozens of that one person the effect is the same.
My dude. That’s voting. If everyone organically decides to not like a post, they can downvote.
Briggading is the very specific case of organizing a bunch of users from one forum together to downvote something on another.
If you don’t like AI posts, then you shouldn’t be on pro-AI communities. That’d be like an atheist downvoting everything on c/christianity (which is probably not a thing) or vice versa, a religious person downvoting everything on c/atheism. If you fundamentally disagree with what a space stands for, then your vote is indistinguishable from brigading.
If you fundamentally disagree with what a space stands for, then your vote is indistinguishable from brigading.
Like downvoting posts in a nazi community just because they promote genocide. If you don’t like genocide, then just ignore the community and let them enjoy their thing!
Some people actually believe that generated images of witches is not nearly as bad as genocide. They believe the two ideologies should be treated differently. Can you believe that? Shocking!
… Are you fucking kidding me?
You’re the one who made that argument. You just don’t like when your own logic is used consistently.
That’s the promblem. Your analogy is flawed because OP and others like them (I copped a ban for my participation in that thread) had no reasonable way of knowing in advance that c/leftymemes is a pro-AI community. It didn’t say anything about it in the community rules at the time, and it’s only when people reacted negatively to someone posting an AI image and the mods cracked down that we found out.
I don’t, and I assume OP also does not, go around commenting in comms for genAI content. If I see one in my feed, I just block it. It just wasn’t really knowable that c/leftymemes is a genAI comm.
Lefty memes isn’t pro AI (though they’re not exactly anti-AI either); I saw the bans and thought they were downvoting stuff on the communities in the mod log. Also OP was in flippanarchy (which also isn’t explicitly pro, though also not anti, AI), not lefty memes. It seems the mod banned OP from their comms on their pejorative, at least with the information we have. I edited the parent comment to that effect.
I just brigaded tf out of you then
Thanks ;)
Imagine if Lemmy had dozens of religious people downvoting the shit out of all posts on c/atheism or c/atheistmemes.
That would be almost as awesome as all of us independently deciding to downvote you.
No.
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn’t go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post that showed up on my feed
In an AI community. It’s literally called “stable diffusion mycology”; they’re not exactly subtle about it. If you hate AI then block the instance instead of derailing the conversation by downvoting pro-AI comments in a pro-AI instance.
Oh no. I didn’t do that.
It was in flippinanarchy (or however it is spelled) community.
Edit: It was LLM generated polandball comic. Which is objectively pathetic as fuck.
Wait really? Because the log shows you’re being banned from stable diffusion mycology and stable diffusion witches, not c/flippanarchy. If they saw you downvote pro-AI comments and banned you from all AI communities then that is certainly weird and a little powertrippy.
Yes. The user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
Just checked, it was in leftymemes community not flippinanarchy.
Let’s see if I can help cut through the communications problem by assembling everything in one place with short, simple bullet points:
- OP was in leftymemes and spotted an LLM-generated meme he didn’t like
- OP exercised his right to downvote a post he didn’t like in a forum he was participating in
- the person who posted the meme got salty and banned OP from the communities they moderate
- these communities happen to be hosted on dbzer0.com, a noted AI-boosting instance
- OP took a look, started blocking some of the more extreme voices before deciding to just block the whole instance
(This is what I get from reading the original post and a bit of extra in the comments. If I’m wrong on any point, OP, let me know.)
Does this help clear up the misunderstanding?
You right
I really doubt they got banned for downvoting a single post.
More is going on that they conveniently left out.
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Imagine demanding that humans draw your ball comics. Lowest form of “anti-AI” activism possible. The zio regime is literally using “AI” to commit genocide. Grow up.
in a post that showed up on my feed,
The call is coming from inside the house!
also having c/privacy in there is a bit conflicting, as most discussions about AI are not aligned with privacy.
dbzer0 isn’t an AI instance; it’s an anarchist/non-tankie leftist instance. People that far left tend to not recognize intellectual property as valid so they play nice with AI and piracy, but the point of the instance is still eating the rich, not posting AI stuff.
Disagree tbh
Cool story.
OP is fighting the good fight in [checks notes] stable-diffusion-mycology and stable-diffusion-witches. So brave! smh.
I keep seeing dbzer0.com paired with some unhinged opinions. Is it a good site to block in general, or should I continue my current trajectory of just blocking the names I see making these opinions public?
dbzer0.com is a good instance for things like piracy, privacy and other “non-standard” uses of technology. It is very anarchist.
So many people use “anarchism” in their identity that I just don’t trust it. I mean there’s anarcho-capitalists for starters… If there’s a strong culture of pro-AI there, thought, that may be enough on its own to just get rid of them.
In my opinion dbzer0 is an important instance in the fediverse, along with blajah, shit.just.works, and even hexbear (which I blocked). These are instances that cater to communities that have no place in corporate social media. Thankfully, we have options to block users, communities or entire instances. If you find AI offensive (I find it useless and wasteful), you should absolutely block those communities, but dbzer0 is not an pro-AI instance as a whole and I think you would be missing out on very useful content. IMHO
but dbzer0 is not an pro-AI instance as a whole
It absolutely is, explicitly so. Go ask Unruffled if .dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance as a whole or not.
The rule there is that AI images are allowed, untagged, in every comm, and being anti-AI is against the rules of every comm.
Go ask Unruffled if .dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance as a whole or not.
Then why are there several users who are anti-AI and not banned?
Inconsistent enforcement. The mods consider it within their rights to remove content purely on the basis that it’s critical of AI. Giving some of it a pass (for now) doesn’t change that.
Unruffled, the second in command admin, has also pulled this bullshit of banning people for criticising AI. It’s absolutely a pro-AI instance.
I started off strongly disagreeing but you make a good point. I think I would honestly be “happy” to see something like /r/conservative move to a decentralized platform (though that might be a bad example because it’s purpose is more of a propoganda-spreader than a true “community”).
The consolation of social media into giant “cath all” dumpster fires forces everyone to engage, or at least be exposed to, shit like nazis.
Right exactly. A “community” like /r/conservative can’t really exist on the Fediverse in the same way because it’s current function depends on outsiders to engage with.
I miss the days when white supremacists were relegated to shitty forums like stormfront.
When I see hot takes that range from “WTF!?” to actual batshit insanity, I always look at the source. lemmy.world, shit.just.works, and a few others (including dbzer0) seem to always be the host.
Increasingly I’m wondering if it might not be best to just shove these into the “block site” box. The trigger finger hasn’t yet itched enough for it, but it’s getting closer.
Anarcho-communsit, explicitly.
db0 isn’t pro-corpo-ai, its pro-ai-the-technology.
That’s the claim. Yet, it seems to change whenever it’s convenient to exert authority over others. Ironic.
Is it pro-ai-the-technology or is it mainly pro-generative-ai?
Both.
I’m anti-“AI” (“scare quotes” because we can’t even define intelligence yet, let alone build it), so sounds like it’s a no-go for me and filled with the kind of people I really have no time for.
That’s mostly not true. You can block al the ai comms (I did, I’m not too much of a fan of Ai images) and its fine.
Definitely not ayn-cap.
I don’t think there’s a strong “AI” scene there. They just have a sub for generated art.
All instances are a group of individuals. If you’re looking for a community without any assholes at all, let alone instance, you’re in for a very unhappy surprise.
I’m reminded of an old small-community MMO I used to play where one player literally blocked anyone who said anything they didn’t align with. It wound up with them pretty much asking questions in world chat and wondering why no one would answer, even though they got like 4 answers.
So if you’re out to block every instance that has people in it with unhinged views, your lemmy is going to be very quiet someday. That might be how you want it, so I’m not saying don’t do it. You do you. I’m just saying that you can’t find gold without digging through dirt. Blocking a whole instance based on individual comments/posts that you’ve seen just seems a bit extreme to me.
dbzer0 instance admin is pro-LLM slop. I’m fine with blocking the whole instance.
Some of it is, yeah. I think a lot of it is pro-technology. I’m a little iffy on AI myself. I want to be an author, and I feel that these days I’d be accused of using AI to write.
Hell, I enjoy using semi-colons, but have had to stop because people think that any semi-colon in a post or comment is AI generated.
Hope I caught you before you hit that block button. I wish you the best of luck and for what its worth, I’m sorry this happened.
Oh I can read your comment because this is a different instance.
Oh. I was under the impression that blocking an instance would block all users of that instance as well… I’ve never blocked an instance before, so I’m not sure how any of this works. My mistake, lol. 😅
Oh, I’m aware that “no assholes” is an impossible dream. But if I start seeing assholes and idiots increasingly attached to specific instances, it’s incentive to perhaps just drop that instance. Different instances have different moderation policies and different target communities. For example “hilariouschaos” is an instance for people who’ve never left that 13-year old sniggering stage where “bewbs” is a word with intrinsic hilarity. So I can axe them comfortably.
I mean, fair. I don’t think we’re all horrible here on dbz, though. Whereas I’ve never blocked an instance, I do like that the option is there.
I still think a lot of us here are just pirates who enjoy self-hosting. And some of us are simply ADHD and autism comrades, as dbz is understanding and inclusive about us.
Plus, I have instance hopped, too. I had lost my .world 2fa, so I moved without researching and found myself in the middle of a war that I was not happy being in. So I do get it.
It’s libshit as fuck.
Here we go again… For your info, the general sentiment of the instance is pro-AI for no commercial purposes. So yeah, you may see more AI stuff there, but it’s not full on tech bro mentality
Heck, they promote AI horde which is one of the most ethical way to do AI as a service IMO. And even if I’m against AI, I’d rather have people use the horde instead of an overpriced subscription for the GPTs.
It’s best to not start a war as it’s best to not be seen as an extremist community
There’s no point in trying to debate or reason with anti-AI trolls, most of them are neolibs or just regular libs anyway. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be barfing out the same tired ass talking points and using ad-hominem to attack logical rebuttals to their arguments.
What a lovely sentiment 🥰
I’m only talking about the instance, not the individual people. Of course there’s bound to be a few bad apples, but what instance doesn’t have them?
Mods set the tone. People act like they have no power but they do clearly dend the conversations the way they want them to go.
If a large community moderator is doing this, it is the instance’s stance.