In-group signalling isn't helping

People on here will be like "ai is bad because it tells you what you want to hear which is bad for your psyche and makes you less capable at conflict" and then refuse to have a conversation with anyone who has ever had even a slightly different opinion than them.

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

That would have to become a real problem with real societal implications first. I know, your older colleagues refusing to learn how to use Moodle is a bother, but that's nothing compared to literally 1984

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

Honestly, I think they it sure is quite telling on how dumb AI discourse is, if people will equate using AI, let alone being lenient towards it, as the same as being a misogynist, a racist, a pedophile, a nazi, and every other -ist in the book, which surely shows just how low their own morals actually are compared to the person they’re making fun of.

literally everyone on earth believes in social policing. we are social animals. everyone believes that there are valid reasons to socially exclude people from certain social spaces. Its just completely embarrassing to call that sort of thing "cop thinking" or pretend you don't believe in it. you do! you just quibble about where the lines are and how to decide who needs to be on the outs. so let's be honest about the fact that that is what we are arguing over - not whether or not people should be socially excluded, but who, for what, and how!

Telling disabled people that they should use their tongues and feet to draw just because you dont like ai art is ridiculous and inherently ableist. Disabled people shouldn't be forced to go to unbelievably painful and nigh impossible efforts just to make you comfortable

I feel it would be good to have a word that's like not ragebait but shamebait, where you can read a post and just go 'ah, this person just wants me to feel ashamed of myself and is not engaging with the issue in a constructive or useful way. I do not have to participate in this actually' and like. move on with your day

what is probably one of my least popular takes from seeing people post "obvious AI slop" fanfiction roasts is that. like. besides the fact that i honestly can't always tell. by extension, i just flat out admit that I think it can genuinely still be good, and that there are plenty of times when its style just straight up does feel to me like an appropriate fit for the context it's in. like. i also think living in constant paranoia of a technology where its express purpose is to mimic human output, and to progressively be made better at doing so, is kind of just a doomed endeavor that will sap your ability to enjoy art in general, mold you to think more and more like a cop, and make you more and more likely to misdirect your resentment into infighting, moral absolutism, and moral purity crusades, all of which become counterproductive regardless. like imo. i was not "owed" anything by someone who generated AI fanfiction. not wanting to support them is perfectly fair, but on the other hand, harassing them is an overreaction that just ends up feeling like entitlement. ultimately, their goal was to communicate an idea that others might enjoy. AI helped them do so. And I feel like dogpiling people for it will never actually stop it from happening, because anxiety, shame, and lack of self confidence are likely some of the primary drivers for why someone would feel more comfortable using AI in the first place. So like. You can't reliably break a cycle like this by intensifying the same emotions that started it, anyway.

not even joking this is one of the worst possible changes that i could've reasonably conceived of to happen to video games.