My point is, even a racist bridge has uses as a bridge. The solution is not to tear down the bridge, it’s to address the systematic racism. Likewise with GenAI tech, we are not involved in making it, nor do we promote that the way it was created was correct. We just say that people using it are not necessarily reinforcing the problem, anymore than a random pedestrian crossing that bridge would be reinforcing racism.

Yes, the way the tech was created and is being used, is problematic; an imperfect creation of a deeply flawed system. I’m not disputing that. I’m disputing that any and all uses of an imperfect creation are by necessity “fascist”

I feel the author routinelly conflates technology with technological implementations to make their point. For example, they conflate surveillance, with camera equipment and they conflate bridges, with city planning. What me and others are pointing out, is that we’re not hostile to GenAI as the technology (like cameras, bridges) but we’re absolutely against the popular (i.e. corporate) GenAI implementations.

I feel there’s no harm whatsoever to use GenAI to personal gratification. Games, Porn, Shortcuts on boring but known tasks etc. But there’s absolutely harm to using corporate AI to do so, and there’s absolutely harm in using it for purposes outside of it (facts, propaganda, agents etc)

And yes, any technology built in capitalist systems, will be inevitably corrupted from its inception from those systems. This is not exclusive to GenAI as a technology however.

We don’t consider that.

Alternatively something with recursion :D

Which makes this discussion even funnier :D

Luna? Isn’t that shutting down soon?

And Lebanon too

Running your own instance is so far outside the skills of what even power-users can reasonably do, it’s not even funny

The thousands of work hours spent canvassing, phone calling, fund raising etc rtc

I appreciate that AnCap isn’t even there

Unfortunately voting requires electoralist action, which takes a lot of effort and motivation from those doing it (literally year-long amount of man-hours) which absolutely is mutually exclusive with actually useful things

What is it about then?

It’s authoritarian to do direct democracy? OK then, I guess words mean nothing anymore.

Not gonna lie, that was a hilarious pwn @[email protected]

My gawds, some people need to learn what’s a homage and also stop being upset on behalf of others. This comic is fine, stop bellyaching. This is what terminal permission culture does to a motherfucker.