David Gerardthis is much funnier when you know it's an AI pumper special pleading for the fedi to stop telling AI bros to fuck off, and who posted an AI-reprocessed Harry Potter trailer over on bsky
Seiðr@davidgerard At this point I don't think it matters anymore that I tried to not even make it an even obvious subtoot. https://mstdn.social/@Illuminatus/116357643314230369
@davidgerard Also, extra points for comparing the slop-pushers to the Black community. The tasteful, sensible, well-meditated argument of a competent 60+ years-old professional who's got his success out of hard work and effort, I am convinced.
JP@davidgerard the prompt is his friend and he just wants people to stop picking up the baseball bat when it shows up at the bar with _that_ shirt and cap, just wanting a beer and a chat
Claire, The Ultimate Worrier@davidgerard you definitely are not losing an argument when you start saying everyone who disagrees with you is a white man when you yourself are a white man
Mark Mason@davidgerard holding back the fediverse from what? Being like Xwitter, great. Winning the competition for the most users, it’s not a competition. Making the most money, that’s kind of the point.
Old Fucking Punk@davidgerard "free" equals militant...okay...block and move on.
Not to mention, the half-assed "I'm an ally" white dude taking a poke at white dudes. #FTFY
He's an open-source capitalist trying to tell the rabble how to behave.
FoolishOwl@davidgerard Oof. Thought I had that guy blocked.
I checked his timeline and he compares critics of AI to fascists.
@davidgerard Incidentally I was talking to relatives yesterday and one relative, a career journalist, was complaining about the trauma of using social media because of all the genAI swamping everything, and how it's done enormous damage to independent journalism.
I made a point of recommending the Fediverse as one of the few places where tech critics of genAI weren't being silenced.
Marc ☀️🌊🏖️
F@davidgerard
He's becoming self-aware
He's becoming self-aware
Gavin@davidgerard I can’t* believe he actually went ‘big tent’…
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358989446113326
*can
Scott Jenson (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I agree with everything you're saying. This conversation has become far bigger than I intended. All I wanted was to say "it would be nice if we had a bigger tent" The people that reply "you can just spin up your own instance" are missing a key point: people actively hunt down and harass people they don't like. I *can't* just spin up an instance if I'm getting harassed. And to be clear, his has NOTHING to do with AI. But 'asking people to be nicer' is somehow seen as, I don't know, promoting pedaphila (I was *just* accused of this) It's this toxic misunderstanding, and the need to chase people away that I'm taking issue with. Not your more reasonable "people vs ideas" point (which I agree with)
Matt Godden@gavin57 @davidgerard As soon as you let NAZIs in your tent, it's a NAZI circus.
@metaning @davidgerard Precisely.
EduCoder@davidgerard I may be confused, but his original post really smacked of "you're doing it wrong" energy by coming in with prescriptive actions, instead of attempting inclusion himself. If you want to be included, be worth including.
Just zero self awareness with this crowd. They think it's their right to be agreed with; maybe they've gotten a little too comfortable with their sycophant token generator.