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Power Is The Enemy Of Agency
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Optimist 💜🥲 anarcho-transhumanist 🏴💙 peer-to-peer software nerd 🦀💾 anti-capitalist market believer 🤝🍄 agency-maximizing consequentialist 🧠📈
Star trek fans will see the federation imprison genetically engineered humans from birth to death, prevent them from having careers or reproducing, criminalize having genetically engineered children, and be like "no you don't get it, the federation needs to institutionally suppress those genes in order to fight eugenics"
Some software business models I like:
- Paid support/management tier: The software is free, but for a price, the creators will deal with deploying it for you and/or be on-call for support.
- Patreon style. Creators create software, those who want to ensure its continued maintenance and perhaps further elevate its quality set up recurring donations.
- Gofundme style. Creators with a new expensive idea and established reputation raise donations, if threshold is met they use it to make the thing.
- Paid support/management tier: The software is free, but for a price, the creators will deal with deploying it for you and/or be on-call for support.
- Patreon style. Creators create software, those who want to ensure its continued maintenance and perhaps further elevate its quality set up recurring donations.
- Gofundme style. Creators with a new expensive idea and established reputation raise donations, if threshold is met they use it to make the thing.
RailingWish I could say I'm surprised that "anarchists" are defending intellectual property in response to AI art. Technological conservatism seems to be the default left wing position these days.
The funny part is that if they want a fraction of the zero-sum financial benefits of IP without relying on government enforcement, they should support NFTs, which they also oppose for all the wrong reasons.
beka valentinethe correct way to do decentralized moderation:
anyone can offer to moderate for anyone else, and anyone can request others moderate for them.
moderation consists of tagging content in ways that are requested by the user of the moderation
the requesting user then can filter out posts, or not, based on the tags and who supplied them, in their client app
tagging can be done by hand if desired, and also by software, this is entirely up to the moderator
I've seen several people complain that it's easy to use. This is the moral equivalent of "not even wrong."
I've seen someone complain that its training data included medical images it scraped from google images which the patients did not consent to be publicly released. This is clearly the fault of whatever medical professional put those images on the open web! It is not within any software's capacity to fucking magically detect past errors in some opaque medical bureaucracy. This is also inconsequential.
I've seen someone complain that the images it create can be racist. It's a tool. Would you blame a pencil because it lets you write racist sentences?
Backlash against AI art comes across to me as reactionary thrashing against a thing which threatens to upset the stability of "artists" as a class of people with no principled stepping back to think about whether maybe hating peoples' expanding agency because it makes them less dependent on you is evil. Intellectual property is incoherent + evil (and even if I believed in it this is clearly fair use) yet it is probably somehow the _least_ inane post-hoc justification I've seen for hating AI art.
@MurkyConsequences hehe *defeases you*