MysticMushroom1776

There is no brigade. You need to stop trying to redefine that term. There is no coordination, no plan, no private organizing. What you see is an entirely natural, decentralized reaction to an obnoxious and harmful trend.

This isn't something you can deny or prove innocence of, as brigaders and astroturfers are known to lie about their intentions, but FYI by trying to deny the existence or nature of brigading you've already failed and made yourself look even more suspicious. They always are "individual opinions" or "grassroots movements" according to the ones participating but the proof is in the votes and comment history of the users, and yours doesn't make you look particularly good.

lol, showing your true colors now I see?

That's a very overcrowded prison cell

YDI, what did you expect coming into a leftist anti-copyright community on a leftist anti-copyright instance? You whine about AI in every post and comment using it. You need to learn to block them, otherwise you'll keep having experiences like these.

You need to use the block function instead of brigading communities and users who post AI content here. Activitypub services provide you with ways to stop seeing content you dislike in your communities. You're choosing not to use it and instead complaining that the content exists, when it and the users who post it have more than every right to post it in this community.

If you are an instance admin you can choose not to federate with it but you aren't, you're a user. So either suck it up or block some people and communities.

@[email protected] you should've given this idiot a perma. I've seen them before trolling in similar ways. They're absolutely not someone who benefits this community.

And in order to buy into the anti-AI argument you have to accept the argument that IP property rights are legitimate, so it’s essentially a neo-liberal position.

This is also a good argument for outright banning anti-AI trolling like this instance wide. At best it's a hypocritical position, at worst it goes against our core values.

People shunning or putting down training AI with pirated images while engaging in and promoting piracy themselves are hypocritical idiots because they're engaging in the very thing they are shunning. You can't shun copyright infringement and take part in it at the same time, that's idiotic and destroys your credibility.

Piracy was never stealing, anyone who said it was is either an idiot or a troll (those anti-piracy astroturfers would fall into the second category).

Considering who lobbies for and enforces copyright these days (rich assholes) and the amount put into anti-piracy and anti-sharing campaigns I don't think it's helping much in those areas. Companies these days often violate GPL with little to no consequence (name one time a company got in trouble and there's probably 100 that didn't).

I've been putting off cleaning my bathroom for way too long now, it's scary in there... 😬