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PSA: lemmy.dbzer0.com labels anyone who shows any dislike for AI as a "right-wing neoliberal" (lemmy.world)

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~~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:

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yeah its annoying, youd think piracy ppl would be anti ai generation since we grew up pirating adobe, autodesk, etc. programs, or at least I thoight that was common among pirates, I started with flash

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

TIL even the right-wing neoliberals hate AI.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for the validation. I’ve been really depressed lately with all the problems I’ve had with my government and my workplace dumping me and just everything else, and the hostility I had been getting from some sides of Lemmy was really exacerbating things. I also want to reiterate my point that some Lemmings don’t get which is that propaganda is still propaganda even if the views and message are both morally correct; it was the use of AI as an imitation of an honest human messenger that I considered “disinfo” or at the very least disingenuous. A lot of other Lemmings also thought my gripe was singularly with how AI art steals (“pirates” as one critic put it) from human artists to make its images, which is not the particular condemnation I was making in that case. Again, I really appreciate the support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do think the comment was somewhat instigative, but I don't agree with how it was handled. I think it was an overreaction and that admin's behavior elsewhere gives that a significant amount of validation.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The db0 post was a crosspost that itself was a Reddit mirror, and upon further investigation that Reddit post was also a crosspost with the Reddit watermark and the profile silhouette already overlaid on it. The db0 admin was several layers removed from involvement with its creation (and probably several more layers than we can directly deduce), and they had not yet acknowledged that it was AI generated. They had a hand in spreading disingenuousness in the fediverse, knowingly or unknowingly, which was the contradiction with their other mod role that I was pointing out. You can’t be both anti-disinfo and pro-AI as a conduit for messaging in media (unless you at the absolute very least include a disclosure about usage of the latter).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

I don't disagree with you, but more importantly I don't think that being a little bit instigative should be met with the treatment you received.

[–] BeigeAgenda -2 points 6 days ago

Wow that's silly of them, they can as well add the label Luddite.

I use AI at work and it does an mediocre/acceptable job when I find the right prompt.

The technology is still in its infancy and we still need to spend decades learning how to get something out of it.

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