Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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These people are fucking unhinged. According to them AI is bad, but ongoing transphobic trolling campaigns towards someone who moderates an genAI community is fine and dandy? Glad they've got their priorities straight.

Must be nice to know everything.

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.

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.

When it starts to become disruptive to the running of the community, and the enjoyment of the community users, then it's entirely justified imo.

Aww bless, YDI.

Except that you two completely fabricated this "simple script" story. So you are arguing against a strawman.

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.

TIL... thanks for that informative précis :)

Was it? I was under the impression @yogthos wrote it.

Check out the AI horde which is a bit like folding@home but for AI.

It all looks healthy, not too many slugs and snails in your area I'm guessing. Apparently a saucer of beer is a good low cost way of dealing with them.

Great post, thanks for sharing.

[...] I guess I have no choice but to block the instance.

And I'm the one who's dying on a stupid reactionary hill?? Lmao.

Lol must keep your eyeballs pure eh?

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers

Sorry that your position is massively unpopular?

What data are you basing this ridiculous claim off? It's already been thoroughly debunked. In reality most folks simply don't care about it, or are ok with using genAI. That's certainly true of our instance users, in any case. And looking at genAI posts in this community, they have way more upvotes than downvotes. Nobody has been able to explain to me how that equates to GenAI as being "massively unpopular". It's unpopular with a bunch of liberals on LW, and a handful of mostly western leftists who are so entrenched in the neo-liberal economic mindset that they can't conceive of fighting against copyrights. Of course artists should be properly paid, but not via this ridiculous system of copyright law which mainly acts to protect corporate interests over individuals.

How is this post an example of that when it isn’t tagged?

It is mentioned in the original post that it is an AI generated image, which is why this discussion started in the first place because it wasn't otherwise obvious. I'm saying even though this post was tagged, it didn't stop off-topic hate comments about genAI from derailing the comments.

Does “saying AI is bad” count as “significant bullying and harassment?” What about, “saying comments shouldn’t be removed for criticizing AI?” Because apparently those things count as, “trolling” so I’m not sure what standards you’re using here.

This is a disingenuous comment. The removal reason for those off topic comments wasn't "bullying and harassment" it was "comment trolling" which is why there were only removals and no bans. If the post isn't about AI then yes, that's just comment trolling as far as I'm concerned. Online bullying and harassment over this topic is absolutely occurring, whether or not you are aware of it. One case is documented in the !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community post I previously mentioned. We moderate this instance accordingly to the overwhelming majority preference of our instance users on this topic, and I don't apologize for it.

If the community rules don't ban GenAI images then you can assume a) they are allowed, and b) complaining about them is not allowed.

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers on almost every post containing AI images to pontificate about why they think "AI slop" should be tagged (although even when it is, they shift the goalposts and we still get complaints - this post is a good example). In effect this completely derails the post comments to be all about genAI instead of the community/post theme. Some of our community mods have experienced significant bullying and harassment over this topic, which is why we put the rule in place. I'm not going to re-litigate it here, but if you check out our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community there is an extensive discussion about it there.

How is this a meme?

These anti-ai trolls are like religious zealots... always happy to give you their unwanted opinions.