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Ewww AI slop :((( you could have just used any meme template, its barely any effort
Not created by me.
And as an Indian, I do not have an issue with the AI image, as long as it improves awareness.
GenAI is a product of the capitalists you're criticizing. You're being hypocritical by using it.
So are iPhones, this is just a retread of the "you critique capitalism but use an iPhone, curious" conservative joke.
"Cannot criticise capitalism while existing in capitalism", "Should not criticise the British colonisation, because they built some trains in colonised India. Indians who used it cannot criticise the colonisation" logic?
I do not subscribe to that logic.
GenAI is built by capitalists, but the data n info is mostly not theirs. Ending up reliant on their tool would be the bad thing.
And tactical boycotts can be good, lime how we Indians had a period where we boycotted British products. But it had an aim. Is there a current formal aim?
A big share of AI is made in china under the five-year plan, which makes it a product of the communists.
Could be racism, but could be misdirected anger at AI too.
I think people should direct it at the corps which own and direct the AI, developing it by taking content without remuneration, especially when AI content can create copies and reduce chances of work for the people whose content is taken. Ultimately it seems to be an issue of capitalist ownership. Specific attention to it is good.
I also understand the issue of using AI for important things, creating reports, etc. with how AI can hallucinate and people being more aware there.
But I don't see the issue with an AI meme? Are they afraid that it is not human? But AI is trained on human data, developed by humans and used by humans too. Like, if their issue is AI 'stealing' stuff in the case of a meme, then are not most memes using the screenshots from movies, series', YouTube videos etc. are used without prior permission or remuneration?
So, the aspect is indeed the issue of job security for regular people vs corpos who do not care about public wellbeing, broadly the issue of capitalist ownership, right?