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submitted 4 months ago by AEMarling@slrpnk.net to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.


AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.

All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!

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[-] beyondwakanda@mastodon.green 4 points 4 months ago

@paw @db0
Exactly, this is just a diversionist argument pretending that just because a theoretical possibility exists the problem can be considered solved in practice - it's like the decrepti old capitalist argument that "everyone can start their own company" if they don't like how they're treated as an employee. No they can't, not in the real world out there. That only works on paper, i.e. if you ignore the current distribution of resources and privileges in the existing society and economy.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

This is not theoretical. It already is in place and is already serving people. The only reason it's not growing more is because we don't have any marketing and we don't participate in the capitalist rot economy.

[-] beyondwakanda@mastodon.green 1 points 4 months ago

@db0
Yep, like I said: doesn't work as advertised "just because actual reality".

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me: "The system works exactly as advertised for thousands of people"

You, a wise person: "The system doesn't work as advertised because not everyone in the world is using it."

You're a very unserious person, so I won't engage further with this nonsense.

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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