It seems like a lot of the slop posters will just brag about it, like “I made this using Grok! 😁” Lately I’m seeing a LOT of AI shills trying to AstroTurf Lemmy one post at a time.
First off, screw Grok. Screw Musk and Altman and all the AI Bros anarcho capitalist pyramid schemer con artists hyping BS to steal from others, and all their acolytes. Screw the lazy GenAI slop posts, they can get banned or downvoted.
Lately I’m seeing a LOT of AI shills trying to AstroTurf Lemmy one post at a time.
Yeah… Well, to be clear, I’m one of those ‘AI shills.’
I’m not astroturfing. But I feel beaten down trying to make a distinction between a ‘self hosted ML tool user’ and ‘tech bro’ to a community that just wants to brigade and hate anything that even smells like AI. It just leads to false accusations against innocent, artistic posters like this, not to speak of artists hand drawing stuff but using ethical ML tools for post-processing or something. This just happens to be a more innocuous case where OP is around to reply and has instant proof.
IMO, dogpiling on posters one suspects of using AI (where it’s not obvious, and theres no profit/promotion motive) is like trying to dogpile on a poster over aspects of their personal identity. However you feel about any ‘AI,’ IMO it’s just not worth it: leads to paranoia and unfair persecution, and that culture is why many of us left Reddit.
It seems like a lot of the slop posters will just brag about it, like “I made this using Grok! 😁” Lately I’m seeing a LOT of AI shills trying to AstroTurf Lemmy one post at a time.
Well, would you rather them NOT tell you it is AI? I don’t think it’s bragging, it’s disclosure
First off, screw Grok. Screw Musk and Altman and all the AI Bros anarcho capitalist pyramid schemer con artists hyping BS to steal from others, and all their acolytes. Screw the lazy GenAI slop posts, they can get banned or downvoted.
Yeah… Well, to be clear, I’m one of those ‘AI shills.’
I’m not astroturfing. But I feel beaten down trying to make a distinction between a ‘self hosted ML tool user’ and ‘tech bro’ to a community that just wants to brigade and hate anything that even smells like AI. It just leads to false accusations against innocent, artistic posters like this, not to speak of artists hand drawing stuff but using ethical ML tools for post-processing or something. This just happens to be a more innocuous case where OP is around to reply and has instant proof.
IMO, dogpiling on posters one suspects of using AI (where it’s not obvious, and theres no profit/promotion motive) is like trying to dogpile on a poster over aspects of their personal identity. However you feel about any ‘AI,’ IMO it’s just not worth it: leads to paranoia and unfair persecution, and that culture is why many of us left Reddit.
Sorry to vent.
Personally I much do prefer handmade art, so yeah, I get what they’re saying.