They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.

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After second look, that’s not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other “off-topic” comments.

Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI

Here’s the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015

Also, here you can see other’s seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don’t think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594

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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:

  • kittenzrulz123
    36·
    24 hours ago

    As an Anarcho-Syndicalist (basically as far left as you can possibly get), multiple things can be simultaneously true:

    1. Private property is theft as is copyright
    2. Art should be publically funded
    3. Capitalism is fundamentally evil
    4. AI is theft
    5. Tech bros are bootlickers

    AI is a fundamentally reactionary tool, it does not serve the worker and does little more than serve the capitalist. It feeds off of real work that real workers do so that capitalists can claim that they can do work like real workers. However they cannot, only a true worker can make art and music. Art and music comes from what fundamentally makes us human, thats why AI and Capitalists cannot make art.

    DOWN TO REACTION, DOWN TO THE DECEIVERS, DOWN TO THE TYRANTS

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      22 hours ago

      I think a key point here is that none of the admins or mods of dbz0 have claimed its real art, or that something else is lesser art, as far as I can see. I may be completely wrong, and I’ll amend that claim if so.

      However they cannot, only a true worker can make art and music. Art and music comes from what fundamentally makes us human, thats why AI and Capitalists cannot make art.

      Indeed. My favorite musicians are in fact human. Art is not made for money, art is made to express something, something intangible. I think the moment people get into a “who would pay for this” instantly lose the argument, as art should not be profit focused.

      I don’t sing in the shower because I think it’ll be a smash hit on TikTok or whatever, I do it because its fun to sing in the shower.

    • jsomae@lemmy.ml
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Hey I would appreciate it if you didn’t use all caps like trump, makes me want to not be associated with you even as a sympathetic left-liberal.