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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Pro-AI mod bans me from a bunch of communities I never even heard of because he didn't like my criticism of the fake slop that isn't art which he posts.
10 rooms for pro ai art and 1 for fuck corpo ai... lol that combo.
That's a busy first day on lemmy....
checks user history: 24 posts in the same 2 hour timespace on a 1 day old account with nothing but ranting, mostly downvoted. called someone a pedo,
ehhhhh, I'm not saying that they deserved the preemptive ban on all those sites, but they weren't really bringing much to the table even for FuckAI.
Lemmy Mods are as bad as Reddit Mods. Just a different site of the same coin.
I got banned from a ton of ai communities for some mild push back, saying that people value bad art that has a person behind it rather than AI art which doesn't feel like it has a human story and character behind it. Some of the softest people on the whole fediverse.
Why does a group called "Fuck Corporate AI" has a pro-AI mod?
Regulatory capture?
Take over the group/sub to push content you approve and deny that you disagree with
I'm guessing they're opposed only to corporate use, while endorsing individual use (my indicator being the trove of Stable Diffusion communities they also mod). I'd love to check it out, but db0 defederated us.
I've seen a few types about that mostly criticise the way companies use it at scale to replace human employees. Their argument is that generating and refining images with successive prompts produces higher quality "art" than the mediocre slop put out by corporations.
If you accept the premise that the value of art is the quality of the result rather than the effort that went into making it and acquiring the skills for it, that logic holds up well enough. It's just that most artists disagree, and once the sloppers start to claim that their effort is comparable, never having actually invested the time and energy into learning just how wrong they are, that their argument starts to crumble irredeemably.
Well, OP is now banned here...
It seems they're just really good at making friends all around. Getting banned both by the AI subs and by fuck_ai indicates it was never about AI.
Reason given in the modlog is harassment. Sounds about right.
These are ai art communities. If you just wanna shit all over ai I can see why they'd ban you.
These guys monitor downvotes and ban everyone who downvotes any post
How much of a loser do you need to be to ban people over fake internet points...
Welcome to Lemmy. Join the circlejerk or else. Fuck AI mods are good tho I can express my thoughts here.
Same mod (probably) banned me over one downvote. Thought about making a post about it back then, but decided that nothing of value was lost anyway.
It's fucked the log doesn't show the account that banned you
To be fair, I personally wanna know who to piss off. So probably for the best.
Lemmy has become just Reddit V2, but luckily, at least no one is profiting from it.
No, not really. I mean, part of it is humans being petty, which is hardly a feature unique to reddit.
The absence or corporate control, monetisation, enshittification and advertiser-placating censorship are significant differences, in my opinion.
That doesn't mean there's no censorship at all, but it's not "no nudity or google might cut your revenue" levels. Can't do much about personal convictions or governments cracking down on speech except moving instances, which isn't trivial (and probably should be made easier) but at least offers a freedom reddit doesn't.
The transparency of moderation activities also helps find, show and address abuse of power, which is another improvement over the opaque nature of reddit moderation.
Aaaaaaand, she got banned here too. What happened now?
Harassment, according to the modlog. I'm guessing the mods here didn't appreciate the whole "I intentionally made a new account to start shit, started shit, then whined about being banned for trolling" attitude.
Damn. Can't we all get along? Shame.
Well, I don't think we can get along with people peddling a technology we consider harmful and immoral, but there's a difference between "not getting along" and "making a new account just to call the other guys pedos and assholes, then pretending I didn't do anything to warrant getting banned from their space".
We could at least have some etiquette though. Not like this kind of venomous hostility is gonna achieve anything except galvanise the opponent.
They might be training from our comments.
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Oraly or analy?
both. One each way.
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Depends on the instance.
And that's why it's not reddit 2.0
Had the same experience with exactly the same mod. In my case, I was also banned from !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which is also modded by that person. I noticed months after the ban, when I couldn't post to that community.
That was the only ban I tried to appeal, cuz that was the only non AI community. To be fair, the mod unbanned me from there.
I bet they do this because they know modlogs are public and doing it will tarnish the good names of whoever they do it to.
Which mod? Or do we not say that anymore? I'm far too lazy to look it up myself
Tbf, your alt account is 4 hours old and has done nothing but antagonize these communities. I don't like AI either but you picked a dumb fight and received a reasonable mod response. I would have also banned you.
If you don't like AI just block those communities bro. Stupid attention seeking behavior.
Yeah, not to defend the mod, but sounds like he's acting in bad faith.
He's kind of a dick about it, here's just one example:
I bet most of their posts and comments are made with GenAI
Edit: Aww Jeena did I hurt your wittle feewings? Calling you out on the fact that you are a slopper? Well too bad I’m not stopping.
By the way this dipshit is posting AI slop in their comment images. Just look at their wonderful contribution to the news thread about the death of Norway’s king.
I get being anti-AI, but to have a account just for raging against it is a bit strange.
Oh well, its not my time they are wasting lol
It's poisoning the whole internet as well as the air and water. It's worse to not be mad about it and people who normalize it.
I don't disagree. I just have bigger problems than rage against AI-art. Maybe when my life is in a state where I don't have to worry about small things like keeping my mind from shattering or getting enough food for the month, I'll start spending more time on anti-AI art activities. For now though, I'll just keep blocking and ignoring users and communities that use and/or support generative AI to produce slop.
Rare example of a problem that fixes itself; ban me as well if you please.
Fuck the giptiy hold the line. AI is for the low IQ
They run a community about hating corporate ai and a bunch of corporate ai communities. I see they outsourced 100% of their brain function to Slop Defecation