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.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      All your problems with AI can be solved by overthrowing capitalism

      Overthrow capitalism and then I’ll stop complaining about AI, then.

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      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.

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        23 hours ago

        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.

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      1 day ago

      The pro-AI left

      There is no such thing as “AI”. And most of the “left” in this context is not actually left.