Anarchism

I hate to get into an unrelated discourse, but I think there's an understanding to be reached.

OP your use of AI is... fine. It's okay. The image itself is weird and perhaps takes away from aesthetics, but that is a subjective opinion.

I am surprised that it is a hill to die on issue for some people. People citing water usage etc. seem uninformed about the scale. Asking individuals to not play with AI on their own machines is akin to asking people to "check their carbon footprint" while corporations spew a lifetime amount of carbon in an hour.

You can't just pick a side and call everyone else names. Understand the nuance, understand why you hold an opinion.

You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance then they’re no friends of mine.

I wholeheartedly agree with you and wish this post had gone better for you but it has to be said your point was obliterated by your obstinate defense of your complimentary AI image. Clearly people do not agree with your stance that your AI, though locally grown, open source, and energy efficient, is not in theory stealing. In my opinion, unfortunately, it sort of is stealing unless you source the input data yourself. I read somewhere in the thread you possibly did source your own data and thats really cool if so. But I think that it just goes to show that at least on Lemmy your receptive audience just... doesn't like AI art in principle. I'll say it universally looks groddy to me and I had the same gut reaction to seeing the art even though I like what it depicts and love the message (and title!).

Another thing is... Know your audience. The premise of this thread already means you were going to be engaging with prickly Marxist-Leninists to begin with... Since they do practice whatabohtism as you stated, they just need a thing to dig into to discredit you, and you sort of gave it to them. Not saying you have to be the perfect flawless diplomat with how you comport yourself online (god knows I'm not) but to an audience who aren't receptive anyway your defense of your practices while not broadly clarifying the source of your training data is just going to lead them to thinking of you as a reactionary in favor of art regurgitation, indicating you are more about your aesthetic than your message. I think you have pirate party politics and I respect the long term vision of a world without constraints on how art is shared and understood, but this specific tool we're discussing requires far more attention than not in order to be wielded ethically. People are gunshy just seeing it, even if theoretically they don't know what you're showing them is a home made original piece with original constituent data.

You can't really wear a big hat on the internet that says ASK ME ABOUT MY ETHICAL OPEN SOURCE AI but perhaps you could have user flair in your nametag. On your blog you could caption your art with a disclaimer and a github link to the resources you use/used to build it.

Keep your AI shit out of anarchist spaces.

This is AI garbage

Reminds me of this reply to my comment on lemmy.world simply asking if there was a non-liberal non-authoritarian apologist communist:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/15506678

On mobile trying to paste

authoritarian regime

Both of these terms are obfuscstory propaganda that mean a person hasn't placed enough scrutiny on what they have internalized. That might sound like I am simply attacking you, but I mean this as a way of answering your (combative) question: you want a space where people have some basic ideas about cold war propaganda but where they retain a significant amount of chauvinist framibgs from that propaganda. You can find like-minded people wherever left education arrests itself, which is why you won't find it in organizations or spaces that require reading on these topics.

To explain my response, I'll go over the two words.

Authoritarian. This word is poisoned beyond clear meaning. Every state is authoritarian, so what is the meaning of calling a particular state authoritarian? Every revolution is authoritarian, so do you also criticize them as such and seek out anti-revolutionary spaces? In reality, I know that this term is just thrown around in chauvinist contexts as a dog whistle. In this context it just means "bad" and "the enemy". It's the liberal version of, "they hate us for our freedoms".

Regime. This term is synonymous with givernment or state, but just colors it as, again, "bad". Venezuela must always be described as being led by a regime, not a government. As a target of imperialist propaganda, it must be implicitly propagandized as illegitimate and bad. Think of someone saying, "the Biden regime". How often do you hear that phrase? If you've heard it, it was a socialist trying to make this point and even the playing field.

If you remove the propaganda aspects, your framing becomes, "still not pretend it isn't a government". Becomes less spicy, doesn't it? Despite having no differences in meaning outside of implying it is bad.

Finally, Xi didn't make himself president for life, he must be regularly reelected. The government itself removed term limits in the normal way: with a vote. Imperialist media calls this "president for life" because they are chauvinists. When the US had no term limits, was every president "president for life"? Aren't term limits antidemocratic, i.e. more authoritarian?

In short: please do some self-criticism on this internalized chauvinism and you will find it easier to find comrades. You are currently in an incoherent position and that means you'd only find comeradery among the incoherent snd incurious. Be around people that challenge you based on their reading and knowledge.

This is hilarious. Nice post, well argued