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people talk about “compromise” like it is inherently a virtue and not a certain tactic for certain situations

Please, please, have a seat.

I’m here to debate Steven Universe with you

"do you seriously think you're above the rules" the stupid ones yeah

yoooo what if tumblr was a paramilitary mercenary group!! we could have squads for all the differb fando

we’re you born a misogynist or do you think society (porn) made you that way?

society (porn)

Yay! Yippie!

How exactly do you advance AI ethically? Considering how much of the data sets that these tools use was sourced, wouldnt you have to start from scratch?

a: i don't agree with the assertion that "using someone else's images to train an ai" is inherently unethical - ai art is demonstrably "less copy-paste-y" for lack of a better word than collage, and nobody would argue that collage is illegal or ethically shady. i mean some people might but i don't think they're correct.

b: several people have done this alraedy - see, mitsua diffusion, et al.

c: this whole argument is a red herring. it is not long-term relevant adobe firefly is already built exclusively off images they have legal rights to. the dataset question is irrelevant to ethical ai use, because companies already have huge vaults full of media they can train on and do so effectively.

you can cheer all you want that the artist-job-eating-machine made by adobe or disney is ethically sourced, thank god! but it'll still eat everyone's jobs. that's what you need to be caring about.

the solution here obviously is unionization, fighting for increased labor rights for people who stand to be affected by ai (as the writer's guild demonstrated! they did it exactly right!), and fighting for UBI so that we can eventually decouple the act of creation from the act of survival at a fundamental level (so i can stop getting these sorts of dms).

if you're interested in actually advancing ai as a field and not devils advocating me you can also participate in the FOSS (free-and-open-source) ecosystem so that adobe and disney and openai can't develop a monopoly on black-box proprietary technology, and we can have a future where anyone can create any images they want, on their computer, for free, anywhere, instead of behind a paywall they can't control.

fun fact related to that last bit: remember when getty images sued stable diffusion and everybody cheered? yeah anyway they're releasing their own ai generator now. crazy how literally no large company has your interests in mind.

cheers

The democrats are now running ads equating immigrants with violence and unsafeness

i'll be honest tumblr I really do not want an internship at the fbi

Like the fact that a solid 50% of people who have anti-AI art hysteria aren't like. even actually seemingly concerned with the actual labor rights concerns it brings up. They are literally just upset that people are calling themselves artists and the things they make art. like they're just fucking furious at the idea of people who they've otherwise determined aren't talented enough (or haven't worked hard enough) to call themselves that are calling themselves that.

identify as a redditor ?

I would never "cop" a feel. ACAB

in a alien abduction documentary i was watching they noted that havana syndrome actually sounds just like an unexplained ailment experiencers have been reporting for decades. and i did not like that as it felt like an attempt to agree with the existence of havana syndrome. and also to say that cuba is using alien weapons on people. neither of which seems true to me

Did you join the Chinese Communist Party?

Have you joined the Chinese Communist Party?

Will you join the Chinese Communist Party?

When will you join the Chinese Communist Party?

ITS TOO EARLY I MISREAD THIS AS "SELL HEROIN"

leftlibs seem to think capitalism is when there is walmart, and communism is when walmart is balkanized into a million local businesses

re: holodomor reblog i think the generic term 'genocide denial' is deeply pernicious because 'holocaust denial' is so heinous and an obvious declaration of genocidal intent precisely because the holocaust and its scale and intentionality is so well-documented at literally every possible level. the evidence is incontrovertible, and so the only possible way a denial of that can be interpreted is as a declaration that jewish suffering and death is fundamentally invalid, doesn't count, is even desirable. denying the holocaust is a statement of genocidal intent.

& so even if you do believe that e.g. the ukrainian famine or china's oppression of the uyghur people constitute a genocide, treating people (who often, you will find, agree on you on the majority of the established on-the-ground-facts) who don't think either of those things constitutes a 'genocide' as somehow equivalent to holocaust deniers is, like, tremendously and irresponsibly downplaying the magnitude of holocaust denial. & this is going to remain the case until people can come to understand genocide as a specific type of action rather than the extra special bad word for when a crime against humanity is Like, Really Bad This Time

speak now or forever cope and seethe