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Got another mastoscold yelling at me for "using the platform to promote" my photos.
For the record, I don't generally sell my photos, here or anywhere else. But even if I did, I fail to see why that would be a problem.
Preventing artists from making a living is a strange hill to want to die on.
@mattblaze Why do they follow you, if they don't want to see your pictures? Don't they know, they even can prevent picture loading?
hm 
might be lack of information or ignorance
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Michael Downey :notAI:
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Having AI boosters trying to guilt trip me into a soft/open stance on LLMs has pissed me off to an unbelievable degree. This. is. not. how. you. fix. mass. burnout.
You need to stop. Possible forever.
We don't know who's funding this stuff for sure, there was the vibecoded analysis that came to the conclusion of Meta, but I suspect that could be true but Meta wouldn't be alone.
Who stands to benefit from this? A lot of forces of centralization, and anti-LGBTQ orgs:
- Microsoft, for sure, since they are seeing Windows' dominance threatened?
- Apple, for similar reasons?
- Peter Theil and similar surveillance company owners and operators?
- Anti-queer orgs and think tanks like the Heritage Foundation?
- Cloudflare, who will probably run the age verification paywalls everyone will be forced to deploy?
Who's behind this? Who's getting politicians so excited about it? There's such a swell of bipartisan support seemingly out of nowhere, and my suspicion is a lot of that enthusiasm is coming from check-writing.
So who's behind it?
@cwebber Meta is the biggest donor, Heritage Foundation second. These guys have done an amazing job of investigation: https://tboteproject.com/
Michael Downey :notAI:
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I think the most frustrating part is so many people trying to push for "it's just a tool" when the consequence of said tool are so absurdly clear. I have seen where this ends. The only salve for this is making every aspect of your community openly hostile to LLM usage. Degrade the technology, mock it at every turn, name and shame bad PRs, remove individuals that cannot respect anti-llm policies. They can come back when they are done with their power trip and rip out all the weeds they planted.
Shutdown irrelevant whataboutism for being irrelevant whataboutism. "yeah, and?" that shit into the can.
Wow, reading the #Socialcoop local feed is quite illuminating!
People are posting a variety of interesting and cozy content which is nice. They are also getting a fair amount of "engagement". Yet there is also almost zero chance I would have seen any of this in my main timeline because of how Mastodon works.
@octothorpe yes, but what I’m doing is funnier
@thomasfuchs fair.
@serigala_tropis Merged and deployed!
I credited you in the commit, thanks!
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/6571/changes/14b325641f16e207415db5ed77d6989d1c7dee01
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Michael Downey :notAI:
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AI booster are gonna write blog post about contributing to your project with AI. They are gonna boast about it on linkedin. Humble brag their FOSS cred on X. And everytime they do you will see a 10x increase in signal-shaped noise. And you will drown. This is the goal.
@lasombra_br Happy almost Friday! :)
Aww. Long-distance long-term BFF I have seen way too little of just messaged “was dozing off and thought of you - love ya!”
And with all the things there are to hate about how these digital FOMO generators and corporate entrapment trackers have ruined us … that’s just so nice that that can happen. I’m a little less agitated at being awake in the wrong side of everyone else’s days now.
@violetmadder @anton @glassresistor there is no blame here, only the idea that we are all imperfect and maybe we can work together on that, because it is incredibly difficult, and every single one of us is fighting a hard battle that we cannot see
@codinghorror @violetmadder @anton i can agree we are imperfect. can you agree that "users demanded free" is ahistorical. users pirated because digital media was overpriced and inconvenient, users happily paid for records and books while pirating photoshop.
people love paying for spotify now.
the move to free with ads then paid without ads to finally pay for less ads was always the strategy and one planned pretty early on. the valley has been chasing leverage over profits for 3 generations now. people didnt choose this CEOs did and made us think we did.
@iamkonstantin mornin 
@rdnt 👋
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Michael Downey :notAI:
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I really like how watching the uxn channel on the concatenative discord has really left a permanent mark in my brain. Me and the rest of the mods basically let it operate as an automous zone in the discord. I even had it muted for the most part. Unbenounced to everyone outside that channel however, an AI booster and vibecoder had joined.
In a matter of a month or so, he killed the whole channel. Strangled it with his refusal to think. Every word someone said was feed straight into an LLM. Then, thrown back at chat cause the LLM could predict the correct code, and he could understand anything.
Eventually everyone grew so tired they began leaving. One fucking person leeched off a whole community. Never. Again. Ever inch you cede to LLM contributions in your community is another step towards its implosion. There is a reason so much of the art community has vehemently rejected whole sale.
But programmers need their new toys. And programmers demand every space follows industry trends and recommendation. And programmers cannot handle the idea of someone saying "no, we don't do that here". Cause nobody gets to say No in the software world. Things are always forced to evolve, consequences be damned.
I made the mistake once. I will not be making it twice. Do not help build the new car depedent infrastructure or everything you care about will be paved over.
some people never recover from being the smartest person in their high school and you can clock them immediately
@Daojoan At the risk of humble-bragging, I was never the smartest in high school, but I was definitely among the smartest in college. I never really treated it as a big deal because I was really interested in the course, had already learned loads around it (using computers since I was a teen) and was eager to learn more. Well, maybe that doesn't make me the smartest, but it did set me up to excel in that environment.
I wonder what people would make of me now. I wonder would they think I haven't got over myself? Possibly.
I wonder, what are some of the red flags that alert mere mortals(*) that someone is such a person?
() yeah, I'm not actually that stuck up (I think) that I look down on "less smart" people than myself. Or maybe I am? Anyway, if I *do resemble that insinuation, it would be nice to understand the signs...
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This is now fixed in mastodon/mastodon git HEAD, and the PR to fix it also is vaguely portentous
