Hey m@tes, as y’all know, this instance has been anti-corporate GenAI positive since it’s creation and as such we’ve typically allowed such content to be posted freely. However in the last few weeks we’ve had a bunch of drama from GenAI haters who insist on coming into our comms and starting slap-fights. This caused us to vote on a new rule to have the mandate to clear out this constant friction. This worked to an extent, but I think we can help foster a better community with the larger threadiverse.

One issue a lot of anti-GenAI people keep bringing is that while they can block dedicated comms like !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com, they don’t have an easy option to avoid GenAI content in random other /0 comms as there’s no way to filter it out. This kind of content has been seen to cause a lot of strife, because people complain about its existence, while /0 admins and mods based on the above rule, tend to sanction those complaining. This then causes drama loops with /c/YPTB and /c/FuckAI etc.

There is a good point to be made here that while we don’t mind GenAI content in /0, there isn’t a reason to not help others avoid it. So we want to institute the following soft rule by now:

Simply tag your posts which consist of primarily GenAI content with the [GenAI] tag in their title. Not only will frontends like Tesseract will natively parse this as a tag and display it accordingly, but people who dislike such content, can simply filter it out of their feeds. Eventually lemmy will add tags which will make this tagging more seamless, but for now a manual tag in the title will suffice.

This rule only applies to posts in non-explicit GenAI comms. The assumption is that people can simply block those comms completely anyway.

As I said, this is a soft rule for now. Soft in the sense that you’re not going to be sanctioned for forgetting it, but we hope people will remind you to do so. This is a good-faith attempt by us to co-exist and help others avoid what they don’t want to stumble onto, much like [NSFW] tags. So I hope you’ll add do a good faith attempt to help us in this. Furthermore, people who come to posts tagged as GenAI explicitly to scold and start slap-fights, will give the admins and easier justification to clean up, since they could have just filtered out that content in the first place.

Cheers

  • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

    the fact that it is becoming less and less viable of a career path is depressing. Far less people will pursue art even as a hobby in a society that requires working and won’t pay for art.

    But that is true about anything. Wood working, farming, furniture making, clothes making, soap making, journalists. Even before AI,people stopped paying well for journalism. And yes, some midwest people DID love their job. I know, because I grew up there in the 80’s when it all happened. I watched ENTIRE TOWNS die because of job loss. That’s way worse and more impactful that some dude not being able to draw comics like he dreamed of.

    I’m not saying loss of jobs should be celebrated, I’m saying it’s no different that what has happened before. And I was also around in the 90’s and 00’s when mass layoff happened and white-color people shrugged and smugly said, “Learn to code.” To fucking farmers.

    Now those same people are crying about “coding” jobs on the horizon of being eliminated.

    The vast majority of people work jobs they don’t love and they aren’t passionate about. Artists are not more special than anyone else. People who are truly passionate and want to create, will keep creating. Just less will be able to do it as a sole source of income. But MOST people have never gotten to do their passion as a sole source of income.

    Especially worldwide. Peopl are fucking spoiled. “Oh the UA is so hard now.” “So scary.” “Art jobs are going away!”

    Ya’ll need to fucking go live in the real world and see how good we have it compared to everyone else. There are people that work their fingers to the bone, every day all day, just to survive. And do it all their lives.

    And you people are crying about art jobs going away. Give me a fucking break!

    Again, I’m not celebrating it. But that’s not where your “sad” should be aimed. Your “sad” should be aimed at the class warfare that happens everwhere.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      41·
      3 days ago

      Obviously many of us have it better in the US than most of the world, that doesn’t mean we can’t complain if it’s actively getting worse and harder to live. I can’t get enough work, I don’t eat enough and struggle to afford rent, my family was homeless in the past. While it’s better here and I’m not getting bombed like many people are, it doesn’t mean people in the US aren’t struggling too. I am sad at the class warfare aspect of AI more than anything, it is being used by the wealthy to increase their power and wealth further, and in my view by using their services we are aiding their goals, even if minimally.

      • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Obviously many of us have it better in the US than most of the world, that doesn’t mean we can’t complain if it’s actively getting worse and harder to live.

        Of course not. Yes, homelessness, rent, etc, those are real issues! And likely to get worse. For sure. And worth working on solutions.

        Being mad because SkateboardCyberpunkFurry999 can’t pursue art as a passion and draw naked anime all day because ai slop is posted on dbzer0, seems like an inane thing to cry about. And I am seeing a lot of crying about it. lmao