piefed.social’s admins have had a history of banning people for personal vendetta or petty reasons. You shouldn’t worry about it too much.

PTB if it wasn’t clear.

People have aggressively harassed me for being trans and having AI communities. Most of them were brand new accounts from open signup instances like Programming.dev. Instances creating tooling to stop bad actors from easily creating burner accounts to harass others is a good thing.

If people don’t like that, registration applications and intent monitoring of your instance is and always has been an option.

This is good, this is what any server open with automatic sign-ups should do. They’ve had a serious problem of new accounts spamming hateful shit in DMs and attacking people. I’ve been harassed and doxxed by troll accounts from there and I’m glad they’re doing something about it.

I don’t like AI for writing except for situations like creating generic responses for people I don’t want to talk to. I don’t think AI stories are that interesting but I don’t think reading is that interesting. What I read are practical stuff mostly. Recipe books, gardening books. Books on herbal medicine. I wouldn’t trust AI models to summarize or get stuff like this right. Also summarizing this kind of stuff isn’t great because the devil is in the details.

I’ve never written code of any kind with AI or otherwise. I have no doubts that it will be full of bugs and if someone doesn’t know what they’re doing or and don’t care to learn they shouldn’t write code period.

GenAI art is trash because LLMs don’t have an ontology. They aren’t drawing things, they’re generating statistical translations of tokens into pixels. You will never fix visual glitching because it just doesn’t work the same way as a human does. They’re not compatible models. Now, there are some use cases where that doesn’t matter. I think it could be fun, as long as you’re not using a corporate model.

I have a somewhat uncommon perspective when it comes to this one. I agree. I don’t think that AI art is a replacement for humans. I wouldn’t say that AI is a replacement for human artists, and I don’t think anyone but the most hardcore Altman shills are saying that. However I do think that (with non-corporate models like you said) AI can be its own form of art. And one thing in AI art that I don’t think is taken advantage of is the noise, the glitches. As part of art. It’s great that they aim to improve the quality of art produced by AI sure, but I think that the noisy, generated aspects of it can be used as a form of art in and of itself. Ultimately that’s just for fun, and when I share stuff like this it’s not meant to be compared to art by real people.

Translation: “I hate AI, I think it’s stupid and my opinion is the objective truth! You said things that made me uncomfortable and I hate you. I’m just going to call you names because I have nothing else to say!”

Why are you even on dbzer0 if you feel this way? You know this instance stands for everything you hate and are so deeply against.

FYI @[email protected] is very Pro-AI and doesn’t hide it at all.

From the instance description:

Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Screw Copyrights, Do Maths

Communities about Anarchism, Generative AI, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software. (And Math!)

I think that it is good to make an attempt to credit artists when possible, and if I made a model in an ideal leftist world where copyright trolling was extinct. I would credit all the artists I knew who’s work went into it. Obviously a big challenge is orphaned works, since we don’t know who created them.

Great feedback. I edited the second section to add some info about FOSS AI. How it uses less energy and is also user configurable.

Most FOSS AI models I know of doesn’t take into account consent or crediting. I don’t see why one couldn’t though. Should they have to? No, but I can see why it would be nice to at least credit the people who contributed with their art, at least if they’re known.

I don’t think most people dislike it either. This is mainly an online discourse thing, since online arguments benefit from being emotionally charged. Which is why you see angry troll comments in this thread on an anarchist space.

And I do indeed hate abusive SEO practices, AI tools indeed make such practices easier.