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.
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.
They aren’t pro corpo Ai.
They’re very much against the mass scraping/ddos ai companies are doing.
Hell, db0 contributes to !techtakes@awful.systems a lot.
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.
Strongly agreed
I see what you’re saying but fuck copyright.
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.
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.
@irelephant@lemm.ee .
Everyone should block that corporate bootlicking pro-AI shithole, they’re bad news and nothing good can ever come of them.
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.