I would tell you why your baseless assumptions about my knowledge are wrong, and explaining to you the myriad justified reasons I have for hating the technology’s current deployments and stated functions, but that would mean spending another second talking to you than I absolutely had to, and I’ve just decided that life is too short. Instead, I’ll simply link you to this other comment where I did that, and then ignore your response because I don’t care. https://pawb.social/comment/23967322

It’s extremely funny to me, though, that you don’t know what Midjourney is. Next you’re going to tell me you’ve never heard of an em dash.

Cool meme bro. What does it have to do with the debate over Midjourney again?

I did, and I found quite a few of the people you just said didn’t exist.

I found even more arguments that relied on almost as much faulty logic as they did incorrect facts. Strawman arguments about what I believe as far as the eye can see, with the occasional easily googleable falsehood about how AI or Nightshade works or doesn’t thrown in for good measure.

Oh, and an absolute shitton of people just believing that stealing art is fine actually, or that if people like redrawing AI art, they must be okay with it because they “copied” the AI’s idea. I can’t decide which is worse, that they’re not arguing in good faith, or that their sense of what art theft is has been so warped that they actually unironically believe it.

Funny how you went from claiming an argument was a strawman to defending it as soon as you were shown other people believed it though. That’s super interesting.

Have a whole subreddit full: https://reddit.com/r/defendingaiart

But I think what OP was actually getting at is the idea that people are demanding recognition for their AI-generated slop as “art,” and I just don’t think that’s what’s happening.

Do you live under an actual rock?

Nah. I’ve had too many in-person conversations about AI that minimize the harm it does (ecologically, psychologically, in terms of social dynamics) to believe real people are normal.

Or a free ride when you’ve already paid.

…Millennials are gen Y?

Ooh! Ooh! Make a school shooter joke! Those are always a hit!

Yeah. Why on Earth do you think I care whether a random unc thinks something I do is lame?

What if I do? Would that make me a disgusting creep? Would that make my argument invalid?

Oh what’s that? Because you personally find it disgusting? How’d I know you were gonna say that?

Well I’ve got news for you about your personal opinions and the ethics of insisting that other people conform to them.

A lot of kink is disgusting to most people. That doesn’t make it unethical. If someone likes getting peed on, or tasered, or verbally degraded because of their race (all things I’ve met people who are turned on by!), and they have a way to communicate to the person doing those things to them that they’re not having fun anymore and want it to stop, and that person actually does stop, and does so immediately, there’s no harm done.

No furry, no matter how depraved (and fewer furries than you’d think are horny for animal characters at all, much less quadrupedal ones), will ever actually fuck a dog, because real animals cannot consent and we know that. Furries who do actually fuck dogs get disavowed by the entire rest of the fandom almost immediately (see Hypnotist Sappho). This scenario is therefore entirely hypothetical, and if it’s still morally wrong to you and you don’t have an answer as to why, I think you have some work to do regarding prejudice.

I believe bestiality is wrong, solely because animals can’t consent, and for no other reason. In a hypothetical scenario where the specific animal in question can consent, you still believe bestiality is wrong, so clearly you have another reason. Why? What is that reason?

And you better not say “because it’s disgusting”

If it can consent, what’s the problem?

dragging his ass back to the witch that cursed him

excuse me ma’am could we get the same one again please

worse, i bet they said it with the hard N

(in place of the first G of course)

There are those who would fight you on points 4 and 5 on the AI side

“Yer a jizzard, Harry”

Alright, fair, probably a lot, but I’d wager much less than half, and in my experience you’ll have an extremely hard time finding people who still don’t like LLMs when they’re not being shoved down their throats outside the Fediverse.

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