You hit the nail on the head, my friend.

Assuming they are disabled, which a passerby like myself cannot be expected to know, that does not excuse the deliberate choice to use ethically unsound technology. It’s especially true in this case, as even if a disability limits your potential as a visual artist, you’ll gladly commission somebody if you have any respect for the craft. I know this because I too have such a disability, and it hurts. It hurts knowing I might forever depend on the hands of others to bring some of my ideas to life, but you know what? That only strengthens my appreciation of visual artists and their work. I’d rather commission a talented artist to mix my silly brainwaves with their personal flourishes and create something meaningful, ten times over, then throw some words at an industrialized theft machine to get soulless slop.

Agreed. Also OP is the moderator of PeerTube .wtf which I recently moved away from on account of being told I should waste my time, energy, and (nonexistent) artistic ability creating artwork for someone who already decided to “generate” slop instead of commissioning an actual artist.

Edit: lol I’m stoopid I just realized that I might be the whole reason this post exists hahahaha

Oh for sure, that’s one the benefits of open source stuff, you can do that in the first place. I just mean that seeing blame be misplaced gets under my skin, especially when it comes from such a disingenuous place.

Thank you. It’s so infuriating to come into threads like this to find “If you don’t like it, do it yourself” and shit like that. All it does is remove blame from the person making an ignorant decision, and place it on those rightfully upset because “Maybe the dev wouldn’t have been forced to use the environment destroying plagiarism machine if you have been more generous with your time.”

Nobody’s only policing those in arm’s length. I’m sure nobody mad at the Lutris dev over this are defending Google or Microsoft lol

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The dev “owes us” as people to not be a shitty person, or at the very least, we should expect them not to be one. It absolutely is a slap in the face to people who trusted that project and the person heading it to not be shit, because they are now being shit, and people are right to call them out. Because they’re being shit.

Also you’re right, more people should donate to FLOSS projects that they love and use frequently, as do I. As someone with no programming knowledge, it’s all I can do aside from recommending your software to others. Wanna know one way to ensure I’ll not only withhold donations but warn others not to use or trust your software? Defending and/or using AI slop machines.

Even if that were true, which it isn’t, there are plenty of other reasons to scrutinize any use of “generative” AI.

The shoes stay on during sex.

Yeah I never understood why people liked him in the first place. He was always so obviously fake. Its so off putting.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

110%. I still haven’t even played Sonic Frontiers all the way through bc the only way to play it without that shit is to emulate a console. The only emulatable version of the game is the Switch version, and my machine isn’t up to the task because of all the overhead.

And here I thought AMD was somehow a better option.

I like your thought process, but struggle to agree with you because I don’t believe there is a way for this kind of technology to be ethical without being rebooted (haha) from the ground up. Even so, about the only thing I think it should be used for is double checking what humans have already done, or perhaps printing text from human speech for quick and dirty subtitles. However, all that is assuming that the data it is working off of was not stolen, and that it is not able to “generate” anything “new” because that’s just theft and exploitation.

Right. Sorry, I’ll try to make the post clearer bc I’m not trying to mislead anyone, I’m just so upset that this is even being entertained by Linux devs, it’s boiling my blood.

That’s not the whole issue.

Linux, of all projects, should be opposed to these kind of things as a whole. Sure, we could argue it’s not as bad, but I’m not comforted by that statement. The fact that those in charge don’t see or care about the obvious problems is shocking.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems