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:
Locking this thread. I think it’d be good to add some civility-related rules to the sidebar. As folks know, this community has a lot of mods, and I don’t want to make too many of such decisions unilaterally, so to any of the other /c/fuck_ai mods who want to be involved in that discussion, please DM me. Worst case, we’ll set up a place to talk through the specific language. But if I don’t hear anything, I’ll probably just add something to the sidebar.
In the meantime, quit it with the direct attacks on other users. If you can’t make your point civilly, make it elsewhere.
I’d also like to thank db0 for dropping in to speak for the dbzer0 instance.
As an Anarcho-Syndicalist (basically as far left as you can possibly get), multiple things can be simultaneously true:
- Private property is theft as is copyright
- Art should be publically funded
- Capitalism is fundamentally evil
- AI is theft
- 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
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.
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.
SORRY, DIDN’T HEAR YOU.
ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME
Man wants to be in all caps, let him be in all caps. You do you and then appreciate that other people are different and still good people.
Hey y’all, dbzer0 admin there. We’re not anti Genai as a technology in general but we’re absolutely anti-corporate genai. I believe the only valid way to use genai is if all weights are open source and all output is in the commons. I generally hate the current techbro Ai bubble and we have no stake in it. However I will defend proles using genai for their own entertainment as much as I will defend proles using piracy likewise. We think the world is would be better without copyrights. AMA.
It’s weird to see the doublethink of people here.
“We don’t want corporations to control everything! They have too much power!”
“Exactly, we should ignore their requests and the copyright system they made!”
“Yeah! Copyright doesn’t help us! Pirate everything!”
“We can use their tools to dismantle them! Including AI!”
“Woah, I don’t know if I actually agree with copyright being abolished… Maybe copyright is actually good when companies get to abuse the laws they made… I’m for copyright abolishment in everything but using tools.”
How much do you want to bet that the people who think being Anti-AI is somehow revolutionary, shares memes and media without permission of the copyright holder of the images and media? Disney would love to enforce that sharing a meme with any of their IP is a crime and you must pay to do it.
The hypocrisy of these people never gets old. They’ll advocate for piracy and soulseek but the moment you ask a open source, single instance AI thing to make a meme, its suddenly an affront to mankind.
I believe that as it currently stands, AI is too closely tied to big corporations, especially for the average person. So, without specifically including the caveat of “this thing was generated using an open source, locally run model” or something along those lines, it’s reasonable to assume it was generated by using big corp-run AI giving them more data and power over the individuals. I also think giving too much credence to AI gives the big techbro AI bubble more value and power. Additionally, AI makes it exceedingly easy for low-quality or nefarious content to proliferate and effectively choke-out thoughtful content, similar to how misinformation/disinformation takes over factual information. Like I mentioned, I agree that ‘AI is just a tool’, but that doesn’t exclude it from being extremely frequently abused, which then puts a sour taste in my mouth. I could go on for why I tend to dislike AI in general while acknowledging what possible benefits there may be for it. None of my reasoning is founded on any of the claims db0 users were trying to force onto me.
According to your fellow admin and other very loud and rude users from db0 (whose behaviors have been validated by the same admin), that makes me a “right-wing neoliberal”. Instead of engaging in a discussion about it, those people instead berated me and kept pushing the same idea.
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To add to this, I think a big contention point is that there is no rule against stating that you don’t like AI or reasons to dislike AI, but the user’s hostility were a reaction as if that were the case. If there were an instance or community rule for that, then these reactions would be understandable (though, still an overreaction IMO).
It seems to me that if you go to a community and are rude about the memes being shared you should be able to take some rudeness back.
- Goes into a community.
- Ignores the rules and community and says they’re wrong for doing something in their free time on their own space.
- Gets the rules applied to them and told to stop, golden rule is applied to them when they were being rude in the first place.
- Complains about mod abuse on another community, claiming victim that rules were enforced on them.
Can we leave the “I have my first amendment rights to say anything I want, anywhere I want!” reddit bullshit on reddit? I know lemmy.world is Reddit 2 but man this is weird.
You’re now participating in what was described in db0 as a “brigade”. Especially with your disingenuous “”“summary”“” of events.
How much more hypocrisy can you db0 people rack up here?
Sure dude, its a grand conspiracy with all 4 people from db0 here. We run ultra-secret discords and matrix to target users by down voting them, the most intense form of harassment. /srs
If you go into communities, respect their rules.
The pure ironic hypocrisy is just 🤌
The hypocrisy of…?
I would agree with you if the rudeness was at a similar level, or if the claims made in response weren’t absolutely unfounded.
Not to mention a moderator, let alone an admin, should be held to a higher standard.
We’re anarchists. We absolutely demand to be held at the same standard as everyone else.
Well that would be nice if at least that was being upheld.
But the point of being held to a higher standard is because trust is an important factor. If an admin can’t handle themselves better than the average person, then they shouldn’t be entrusted with the responsibilities they carry. That’s a standard that is equal for all people. If you are entrusted with responsibility that requires a higher than normal amount of trust, then you are expected to handle yourself in those situations better than the average person
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You also just ignored the other point, the main point, so that you can virtue-signal how much of an anarchist you are.
Based on your own actions, or lack of action, it doesn’t seem you are here with genuine intent and instead it seems you are here more for damage control.
Our instance trusts us because they can initiate a a recall vote against any admin at any time.
I trust ya more than people who get mad at communities having their own rules and then complain on other communities about it. I don’t think I’ve ever really had a major issue with ya.
You also just ignored the other point, the main point, so that you can virtue-signal how much of an anarchist you are.
Right wing buzzwords, no wonder you don’t like anarchists.
I also think giving too much credence to AI gives the big techbro AI bubble more value and power. Additionally, AI makes it exceedingly easy for low-quality or nefarious content to proliferate and effectively choke-out thoughtful content, similar to how misinformation/disinformation takes over factual information.
You say two contradictory things – that we shouldn’t give AI credence, but also that it’s dangerous.
I don’t see how those are mutually exclusive points.
By “too much credence” I mean giving it more credit than it deserves. As in making it seem like it can do more than it’s currently capable of. “Too much” does not mean “any”.
Just like misinformation and disinformation, the information itself should not be given any credence, but the impacts of spreading it is that it takes significantly more effort to counteract than it does to spread it. In the case of AI, giving the same level of a platform provides an easy entry for low-quality or false-information content that’s AI generated to overpower more thoughtful content at a rate that is difficult to combat.
Ugh, that’s disappointing. The screendumped list of arguments that “leftists are per definition pro-AI” is reductive and cherrypicked. I guess they can get into the sea with the rest of the “AI” bros.
To be perfectly clear, I don’t think the copyright system is anywhere near perfect, especially not the way it has been expanded to benefit corporations rather than actual creators. But it is really the only available legal protection against the gross ethical infringement on human artistry that the “AI” corpos have committed to tran their models.
I’m as black and red as they come — as well as an artist and arts teacher — and that litany of BS arguments does not represent me in the least. I would and have made art without certainty of compensation. That doesn’t make my art or anyone else’s up for grabs to create piss poor replacements for our skill and craft.
“GenAI” is not a threat to human creativity in itself— it only reproduces lowest common denominator results from the material it’s trained upon. But the fact that indiscriminate morons actually think those statistically miscalculated songs, texts or images are as good as what people make? That’s the real existential crisis.
I completely share your sentiments. Especially about copyright. It’s a really shitty and fucked up system, but it’s the only tool available for people to use for protection.
For AI, it’s important to repudiate all of the bad uses of AI so that we can distill out any possible good uses for it.
In terms of “AI”, I find the scare quotes important because we absolutely do not have actual AI, only a misleading hype phrase to sell a miserably underperforming product. I’m with Ted Chiang that what we do have is applied statistics.
But I agree that there are reasonable, constructive uses. Primarily in, yes, statistics and language research, but that’s not where we see the technology making its most hyped inroads. Probably because they’re neither sexy or profitable enough to return the investments that have gone into developing these contraptions.
The most infuriating thing to me is that the companies behind are willing to not just steal creatives’ work in the mad dash for profitability, but also diminish the standing of our crafts and raze our already limited fields of income to do so.
And then some tw—t on an online forum decides that “”“AI”“” is the required tool for a socialist revolution? Excuse me while I go punch a wall.
Getting reports over content in different instances. -_-
If someone comes here pushing AI slop then yeah I’m not opposed to whipping out the banhammer, but I don’t really care what folks are posting elsewhere, and I’d rather not see Fuck AI become focused on drama in other communities.
Up or downvote as you see fit, but please don’t use the report button as an ‘extra big-ass downvote!’
When an instance admin is pushing an “AI or else” attitude, I consider that relevant. Though, it does have a significant drama element to it. If that’s still not acceptable in spite of apparent relevance, just let me know and I’ll excuse myself.
I don’t have an issue with the topic you posted in-and-of-iteself. It’s not like we have clear-cut rules here beyond the name of the community, to which absolutely it’s relevant.
What bugs me is how heated people are getting over an incident that’s not even in this community. I’m not going to take mod action here over posts in another community, and it seems silly/petty that the conversation about it here is generating so many user reports.
And I mean, look at my own post history - I get heated about shit too. I get it. We -self included- need to just take a fuckin’ chill pill sometimes.
So checks notes people who are against capitalist corporate Generative AI LLM’s because they’re just thieving all and sundry and ignoring any laws that might stop them are checks notes pro-capitalism Alt-Right supporters who… Checks notes a third time support Trump and all the capitalist companies bolstering his presidency in order to prevent regulations of Generative AI LLM’s.
Did I get that right?
Did I get that right?
No.
The db0 instance has been the #1 disappointment for me on Lemmy.
If you count yourself as a leftist and advocate of electronic freedoms… but you find yourself on the opposing side against Robert Evans, Molly White, and Cory Doctorow, you might wanna reconsider whether you’ve been scammed into a libertarian tech bro version of Freedom™.
Nonsense. If people used genai the way we suggest in dbzer0, AI techbros would be in ruins. We’re also generally in the same camp as those people you mention (even though they’re still libs) but we still have disagreements since, well, we’re not libs and don’t think there’s any merit to things like copyrights.
Tech bro is a snappy phrase, so it consumes more than it should. What snappy phrase encompasses Cory Doctorow? I want that label.
$5 says they used an LLM to make that response
AI doesn’t work without the availability of highly scalable compute, such as AWS or Azure. “Means of production” is a questionable concept when applied to digital things, since there isn’t scarcity, and “goods” can be infinitely copied once produced. If anything, encouraging usage of AI in its current form increases our dependence on large corporations and the infrastructure that only they can build and subsidize.
I thought that point was rather questionably argued.
You can run that shit locally if you want to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for a high end GPU, but I agree with your overall point.
I’m banned from a lot of dbzer0 for the sin of downvoting AI slop
wait, you can’t have been banned from there from just downvoting slop…
According to modlogs that’s the case
Based on the screenshot, they were mostly banned from GenAI communities.
Which seems like a rational response, because they don’t want GenAI images in their feed, and now those communities won’t be in their feed.(edit- maybe not lol, I should learn more about activitypub)
As much as a downvote feels like a “fuck you” button, it’s not really productive to downvote a community’s content on principle. That’s what the block button is for.
now those communities won’t be in their feed.
Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.
it’s not really productive to downvote a community’s content on principle. That’s what the block button is for.
Definitely, provided that’s what actually happened.
I would agree that it’s a rational response as a way to protect the community from that kind of behavior.
Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.
Huh. I don’t know why I assumed a ban worked both ways. My bad!
No big. There’s a lot of idiosyncrasies to Lemmy that are unintuitive. I wouldn’t expect everyone to be familiar with all of them.
this pretty much solidifies my belief that the dbzero0 instance is a grassroots left wing qanon Russian troll farm that’s desperately attempting to divide us further.
been blocking any dbzero user as they make themselves obvious.
That’s a pretty narrow view. I joined db0 for piracy discussion. Not everyone subscribes to all aspects of the instance next to their username.
like I said, as long as they “make themselves obvious”.
you seem like a level headed user, however there have been some folks from your instance that tend to instigate. those are the ones I block.
“We’re consistent in being anti-copyright, from all companies and corprations.”
“Wow, psyop much? Weirdos, having moral consistency.”
I hear OpenAI is pretty anti-copyright as well. Weird how you agree on that.
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Nah, most of 'em are okay on any topic that’s not directly related to genAI. It’s just that their takes on this one issue are completely abysmal.
Do you happen to have any evidence at all that they “delete any comments that complain about AI”? Because it seems unlikely, given that the only thing you came up with to support that statement is a comment expressing opinions about AI with which you presumably disagree.
I’ve blocked the instance at this point, but that comment thread was on yepowertrippinbastards in response to a thread that got practically nuked.
Here’s the thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43418415
Although the removed comments are not showing up in the moderation log, I see that your tireless devotion to the topic over the past 24 hours has provided us with at least one screencap of what seems to be one of the deleted comments. It was pretty low-quality, mildly insulting, and not worth thinking about for more than the 5 seconds its author did. Anyway good luck with your crusade.
Since I don’t think it would be right to assume you’re just stupid, the only explanation for mischaracterizing me is that it’s intentional in order to demean me and make it seem like you have some sort of valid reason for it.
You’re making some big assumptions on the intentions behind my actions. Apparently, to you, if you respond when you get a notification because people reply to your comments, that means a “tireless devotion”. I came across a post calling out the moderation actions of a thread I was a part of and commented on that, then shortly after I realized any meaningful discussion was never going to happen and I blocked the instance, I then come across a post on “fuck_AI” and thought I had a very relevant experience to post here. And now I am on a “crusade”.
Well, it’s a good thing you only have intentions of being an asshole, because the alternative would require being pretty damn stupid.
… I then come across a post on “fuck_AI”
For a moment you had me going there, but no, it really does say OP beside your username.
Yes, I came across another post on this community and remembered it existed. After having a very recent experience that is relevant to the community, in that an instance admin is pushing an “AI or else” attitude, I thought it would be something people would be interested to hear about.
You’re making me second guess that your intention was to be an asshole. But, now that I think of it, it could be both!
That’s too bad. I joined because of piracy. But they are a bit rigid in their ideologies as one would expect from a niche tech community but this is too much. Where should I go next?
You’re pro-copyright in matters of AI but anti-copyright in matters of piracy? Weird.
EDIT: If you’re pro-copyright then you shouldn’t be pirating media, you’re stealing from the hard working and poor creatives at Disney and Universal Studios! That’s evil and bad to copy a 1s and 0s! If you’re anti-copyright, why do you care about what people do in their spare time?
You’re pro-copyright in matters of AI but anti-copyright in matters of piracy?
Sure, yeah. All seems above board.
Well that’s disappointing
