Pro-AI mod and self-proclaimed 'communist' got mad for being downvoted.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31072292

Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.

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Pro-AI mod and self-proclaimed 'communist' got mad for being downvoted.

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I immediately block any community built on slop. I would be elated if they did the work for me.
- If only people would follow your example instead of bullying and harassing our mods.
  
  I have been banned from at least two slop communities for that reply. The moron in charge really got me. I can't contribute nothing to society now.
  Guess it's time to hang up my hat, walk up the stairs, say bye to mom and dad, and go outside and touch grass.
- I have also been banned from some stupid communities because of mods who just ban users from everything they mod. Being banned removes the ability to block the community, but doesn't hide it from All.
  
  Have you tried blocking them manually from Settings> Blocks?
Eh I think this post is just attempting to keep the drama going now that the original died down.
Stick to judgement about the bans, don't start rehashing and slap fights about genai here.
- I'm not I was simply posting about what happened which is that the mod bans anyone who downvotes them or their community.
  
  Mhm. Sure.
Seems fair enough to me. Why would a mod of a genAI community want people with a history of being anti-genAI in their community causing problems? And why would you even want to go visit that community in the first place, unless you wanted to cause problems. Imo this is a win-win situation. YDI.
- You think it's good for mods to ban anyone and everyone who downvotes to create an echo chamber where only those who fully support them are left?
  
  It's an art sharing community, not a debate forum.
YDI. !fuck_ai@lemmy.world is cringe. Let people enjoy things
- mm yes under 1 day old account
  
  we all gotta start somewhere
Upvotes and downvotes aren't a "I like/dislike this" button, they're meant to highlight comments that are contributing positively and constructively to the discussion, showcase insightful comments, or to filter out irrelevant content.
YDI for misusing the buttons.
The entitlement is running strong in those anti-GenAI evangelists, thinking they can just wander into someones home turf and behave like shit, and then complain if there are consequences. YDI
- To be fair, the typical defenses of that technology are the most maddeningly empty headed shit I've ever read, including conversations with real life fascists and work with people deep into senility.
  Listening to enough of them has genuinely given me a substantial vein of anti human 'most of this is just unrefrigerated meat, there is no spark of intellect, no consviousness, no beauty to be found here' type thought.
  I wouldn't go into '/stable diffusion fruit' to throw a fit about it, but my first instinct when someone says that tech is good is just straight up assuming, whether its on silicon or meat; the thing im talking to is not a person in any way that matters to me.
  Im occasionally wrong, and have to adjust course, but it has become an unsettling oft confirmed default which i very much resent.
  I just really want to emphasize here:
  this technology is often defended with a stupidity so profound and so stubborn that it has broken the last shreds of my love for humanity, a love for humanity that survived being thrown away onto the street like trash as a child, no small amount of rape abuse life unhoused and tending to those who had suffered so much worse than I. In its place that stupidity has awakened a creeping suspicion that there never was such a thing as 'humanity', and I'm utterly alone in a howling void.
  
  I might be able to give you another perspective.
  This technology is the first time that humankind has ever been able to create an interactive snapshot of human culture. Everything thats been written, scanned, drawn has made their mark on those models, and it gives you glimpses in what else there might be in the human cultural space. It's not intelligence, but it's distilled human culture.
  I am very critical about the fact that this technology is mainly in the hands of corporations that want to use it as a cost cutting tool. I am also not a fan that GenAI is pushed into everything just to get sweet investor money. I am far less alarmed about the productivity increases themselves, or about copyrights which are normally only wielded as a weapon by the rich.
  The power consumption argument doesn't even apply here - the generation of those images does not cost more energy than playing a computer game for 2 minutes, is often done on consumer grade hardware (like the one running here now while i type this), and the training of the models is not necessarily very power hungry if done smart (deepseek used a fraction of the power that GPT4o needed). Also, with the massive expansion of solar power generation (we're at the point where the price starts becoming negative at peak solar output) the power itself starts becoming a non-factor.
  Copyrights themselves are a clusterfuck, which is an statement that many artists would agree with. I personally wish for the following (copied from the vote-thread regarding the rule we're discussing):
  I would make a case for creation of datasets by a international institution like the UNESCO. The used data would be representative for world culture, and creation of the datasets would have to be sponsored by whoever wants to create models out of it, so that licencing fees can be paid to creators. If you wanted to make your mark on global culture, you would have an incentive to offer training data to UNESCO.
  I hope i could give you a bit hope in humanity back - there are still idealistic people out there.
I banned you and I banned that dipshit who posted on Fuck_AI and I have no regrets. You are awful people and your behavior is harmful to this community. YDM. If lemmy.dbzer0.com wasn't as lenient as it is you'd have instance bans from here as well.
- Gotta love how now db0 is under the ire of .world because have our own rules and way of doing things.
  Also that one weird alt account claiming to be you and oddly talking about pigs is fucking weird.
  
  What, you don't love people bitching that they can't walk into special interest communities and break their rules?
  I bet you don't like dummies in the comments trying to get the instances to defederate either, and that's ableism or something.
  
  Yeah those people are some of the most sad and pathetic trolls imaginable.
- Can you unban me from your AI slop communities and apparently Europe ?? so I can Block the communities so they don't show up in the All feed? Apparently that option goes away with a Ban so I still have to see your slop and a community I can no longer participate in.
  I promise not to 'systemically downvote' those communities first, whatever the fuck that means.
  
  You can absolutely block communities when you are banned from them, this is one of the most sad and pathetic excuses to be unbanned I've ever heard, request denied.
Broke the rules, got punished for it. YDI.
I downvoted an AI post once and a mod banned me from multiple AI subs for being involved in "Vote manipulation".
- So was I, and I wasn't even aware of it until I saw the original post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and decided to check myself. That idiot banned me too. They ban everyone who downvotes their posts and I don't even remember what I downvoted or if I just made a comment about AI. Those mods are unhinged.
YDI
I think the mod in question has a simple script that bans anyone who comments in the fuckAI sub.
I caught a ban and I am definitely not anti-AI.
- I think the mod in question has a simple script that bans anyone who comments in the fuckAI sub.
  That's actually worse, do you not see how that's worse, how that's even more PTB?
  
  Except that you two completely fabricated this "simple script" story. So you are arguing against a strawman.
  
  I never said I approved. I was literally banned as well...
I wonder if the users who champion AI crap ask ChatGPT how to respond to critics?
Hmm...this repost is really making me regret softening my stance in the original thread yesterday.
~~PTB. If OOP went to that sub and started mass downvoting it would be one thing, but it looks like they were banned for actions on a completely different sub? That's pretty unhinged, broski.~~
Judgement redacted due to special circumstances.
- ThIs is the sort of abuse the mod is getting, simply for moderating a genAI community. And it's not the first time. That's why there's a zero tolerance policy in those communities.
  
  Hey @TheDude@sh.itjust.works @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works would you be able to investigate this user and potentially permaban them for transphobia, trolling and impersonation of another instance's moderator?
  
  🤔
  Alright I'll make an exception here. These dudes freaks.
- What the actual fuck???
  
  Spam bot
- It's yet another example of the sort of harassment and bullying towards mods that the anti-genAI crowd employ on a regular basis. Lie down with dogs and you get fleas I guess.

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