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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yeah the identical styles get old real fast

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Its also the weapon of the enemy.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

"Hey look, it's Steve! ...oh wait."

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Perfection is the enemy of progress. Way to derail <3

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

This is like talking about awareness and then driving away in a Tesla. The people who are feasting upon our institutions made AI. The same people we are protesting that infested this regime.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a critique, not a tear down.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is silly. They literally just expressed that they wished AI wasn't used.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

And look how much it has derailed the conversation.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Treating criticism like an attack is the enemy of progress, and ironically more perfectionist than being able to acknowledge flaws in your messaging too.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

There are always the snobs that prefer nobody else be doing shit either so they can feel even more superior.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where’s AI? Is the whole image AI or just the art?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You've improved my AI detection skills, thanks.

But you seem to be ignoring the message.

Perfection is the enemy of progress. Organize, don't just argue

and

Imperfect allies are not enemies.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I'm not. The message is good. But its spouted from atop the corrupted bloom of our stolen labor.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you know the post is AI and you don’t delete the post, that is tacit endorsement of using AI as a propaganda tool. You seem unbothered by that.

I do ignore the message if the medium is artificial. I won’t bother to read the image’s text or attempt to process the intent if I know the delivery is not genuine. I’m not going to waste my time or sully my brain by valuing and evaluating something posing as human expression.

You want me on your team? Don’t send a robo singing telegram as a recruiting tool. Convey your message like we’re humans instead of speaking through a fundamentally false impersonator. I don’t ask you to be a perfect human — I ask that you and your messages are genuine if you want me to listen. Trickery isn’t used to gain allies; it’s used to exploit the unwitting.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That good ol' purity spiral.

A message isn't a genuine message, because the choice of instrument to prepare it is disliked. Even if the text is the same, it's the product of a "false impersonator" & "trickery".

Genetic fallacy & non sequitur.

Edit: specifically, style over substance.

[–] rimu@piefed.social -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alright now get back to the drawing board, and don't come back until you have a meme you made in Krita

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a meme you made in Krita

Nah, didn't you read?

Some royal majesties

ignore the message if the medium is artificial

and will not have their attention sullied with

something posing as human expression

Anything digital, electronic, or mechanical is artificial. They want "genuine" human expression, and the printing press is impersonal, mass-produced schlock.

Gotta go full quill & parchment on this, hand delivered.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

You're absolutely right: reed stylus & clay tablet all the way. Gotta brush up on that Sumerian to leave something for archeologists to unearth 1000s of years from now, so they too will know of our pragmatism in building stronger movements.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s distasteful, but a useful weapon. We need ways to create content that is good enough and really fast to make. A grassroots movement doesn’t have the funds to pay marketing teams to do our work for us.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

What did people do before AI? It wasn't that long ago.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

AI is being used every social media site the world over to hamper discourse, embroil people, to enrage people...

I don't know of another way to combat it except with more AI. Maybe at some point people will completely get off of the internet with the thought "There's no real people on the internet any more".

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You poison it and you dont use it. That'd how you fight AI. With tarpits and poison. They're like Mentats.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn’t work, based on the results we’ve seen so far. All attempts to poison AI have quickly been bypassed.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any source to this claim?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, a quick google search turned up this, published just four days ago:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10962550

Or here’s a discussion on r*ddit about how Glaze is totally ineffective against poisoning image generation AIs. (Same principles apply to others like Nightshade)

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/12f9otc/so_the_whole_entire_glaze_ai_thing_does_it/

Basically every poisoning technique is by its very nature too specific to be useful for poisoning all the types of AI out there, or is too invasive and ruins the content for humans too, or is not strong enough and it gets lost in the cacaphony of data anyway.

Really it’s a clever idea in principle but in practice AI poisoning isn’t really a mathematically viable way to combat AI.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ban AI where you can and talk about how bad it is when its relevant

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They are never going to ban AI. It replaces too many workers. Hell, it's smarter than half the people I know -- even when it makes mistakes.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who is "they"?

But i know AI wont be banned in most countries ever. The point is to try to make people avoid AI or avoid things that use AI

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't avoid AI or things that use AI. We've been using these statistical models WELL before they became mainstream. And they mimic human authors well enough that it's impossible in many cases.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Its impossible in some cases, but possible in others

If people are openly using AI, others will be encouraged to do that to

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this critiquing to build or tear down?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Critique. This wouldnt have been hard to make in a presentable way without AI. I get it, I'm just saying now is the time to burn all bridges. Change is coming either way.