There was a connection? I never got past the 404 error.

1. They exist
2. They shouldn’t

Me neither. In fact, I might just start donating to them. LibreOffice has been my go-to tool throughout school this past little while.

Mandatory fuck AI comment

And I shall dance on its graaaave~

Ew, AI.

You hit the nail on the head, my friend.

Assuming they are disabled, which a passerby like myself cannot be expected to know, that does not excuse the deliberate choice to use ethically unsound technology. It’s especially true in this case, as even if a disability limits your potential as a visual artist, you’ll gladly commission somebody if you have any respect for the craft. I know this because I too have such a disability, and it hurts. It hurts knowing I might forever depend on the hands of others to bring some of my ideas to life, but you know what? That only strengthens my appreciation of visual artists and their work. I’d rather commission a talented artist to mix my silly brainwaves with their personal flourishes and create something meaningful, ten times over, then throw some words at an industrialized theft machine to get soulless slop.

Agreed. Also OP is the moderator of PeerTube .wtf which I recently moved away from on account of being told I should waste my time, energy, and (nonexistent) artistic ability creating artwork for someone who already decided to “generate” slop instead of commissioning an actual artist.

Edit: lol I’m stoopid I just realized that I might be the whole reason this post exists hahahaha

Wayyy ahead of you!

“Drama” One of the dev teams are literally huge bigots. I agree this community isn’t the place for it, that’s fine, but I can’t help but take issue people refer to real issues as “drama” and nothing more.

Yeah, exactly! That’s what I’m trying to say in response to OP talking about “liberals” defending intellectual property, which I took to mean copyright in that case.

Yeah, no. I understand the problems with intellectual property and copyright. Its not an issue at the core of my politics but I’m at least somewhat aware of it. That’s not why people like me are pissed off over AI. We’re justifiably disgusted that people are pressing a button to create amalgamations of other people’s work. Work that, unlike whatever an LLM spits out, has had time, effort and humanity put into it. These people give a middle finger to anyone who creates, helping mega-corps kill the planet while they do it, and have the gall to consider the slop “art”.

You’re smoking some hard shit if you’re coming into a leftist space defending the fascist project that is generative AI lmao

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So I’m not against what you’re saying (and maybe I’m taking the bate here) but are you implying anarchy is the only way to be free? If so, why use the term “leftist” at all, as it encompasses many ideologies, of which anarchism is one?