where are these rapewolves coming from? 🤣

the admin of world self identified. Again misdirection.

“Death to Nazis” “Hey I’m a Nazi” should have people dogpiling the second person lol

Cute little shell game.

Some admin tattoos MURDER THOSE WHO DISAGREE to their forehead; community rallies to agree that yes, murder is the solution.

More like MURDER THOSE WHO SUPPORT AND ENDORSE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF A LAND ON THE BASIS OF DIVINELY GIVEN RACIAL CLAIM TO SOLE USE OF THE LAND.

Seems less weird when you actually spell out what Zionism entails.

I think it’s a pretty teenaged thing to do all in all but it’s pretty telling that everyone criticising them refuses to actually engage with what they set their name to and instead pretend it’s something far more broad and nutty

I get that your blood is up but dehumanisation is a bit much. They’re people doing believing in, endorsing, and acting out evil deeds.

Horrible monsterous people are still people. I think it behooves us to remember that.

Zionism isn’t something you’re born with lmao, it’s an ideology you choose. MurderAllZionists is about as offensive as HangAllNazis.

Like mate, there are people on the land. Zionism is an ideology of ethnic cleansing based on intrinsic mythological superior claim (rhymes somewhat with some other ideology methinks).

What a kook.

It is interesting that trump claims the usa sent weapons to Iranian dissidents https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/trump-says-us-armed-iranian-dissidents-via-kurds-kurdish-groups-deny-claim

It is unclear if this is true, or just more usa blather and zone flooding. If it is though, it does cast the crack down in new light (not saying it’s good but obviously most governments start shooting foreign armed rebels pretty readily).

It is antisemitic in the sense that Israel has claimed the word, in that it accurately portrays the reality of Israeli colonialism

Legit I encounter this attitude heaps and have difficulty communicating the problem with it. Especially the often invisible but implicit violent threat that precedes any violent resistance and thus causes the violence.

It’s really hard to explain why reasonable people resort to armed resistance and the associated atrocities without lighting up the parts of their brain that get them to go “Are you saying terrorism is good?” and shutting down.

Hard to explain without endorsing sometimes.

Umm cowbee, have you considered that by the oppressor’s own laws, norms, or terms the violence is legitimate? Whereas the stinky oppressed are doing illegal bad violence or terrorism.

You’d prefer to be ruled by a subset of them?

Romans tried that, sucked for them. Learn from history, don’t as Marx said repeat it as farce

I think your brain is maybe a little broken by the propaganda here. Democracy != westminster shite or tyranny of the majority. It’s just broadly rule by the people. Proper democracy works via consensus with protections for marginalised voices, and can grant people revocable authority when fast decisions are needed. Like you can democratically decide to listen to a firey when your house is on fire without giving that person dictatorial powers.

I think if you really experienced democracy you would believe that. Like when would democracy not be preferable?

Unsurprising when our government claims to be a democracy but isn’t really. Like obviously people would lose faith in democracy if you think that it’s voting for liblab despite wanting someone else, watching them be unaccountable, watching them ignore popular reforms, going to work under a dictatorship, experiencing oligarchy whenever you procure the means of subsistence etc.

Australia is not a democracy in any meaningful sense. I mean ffs you can’t even fire your member if they just lie lol.

My arthritis is playing up, if I come across as terse forgive me.

Technological development isn’t intrinsically harmful though, and that includes so-called “AI”. It’s the ways in which capitalism exploits new (and old) technologies that is harmful, because of the way capitalists use those technologies to drive down labor costs and eliminate jobs.

I don’t want to argue a strawman position (i.e. that technological development is intrinsically harmful) but I do adopt the position that certain technologies lend themselves more readily to good, and conversely bad, ends. I think this is extremely obvious and won’t bother explaining further unless asked.

In the field of so called AI I will admit that the underlying technology, the transformer model, is freaking awesome. Huge step forward, unlocked giant leaps in computer vision among many other things. The chatbots and diffusion algorithims? not so much, genuinely I struggle to think of positive social impacts. Most people give me are based on fundamental misunderstandings of how they are made and what they do, e.g. they are an appalling way to learn a topic or improve your writing (see semantic ablation if you need that last one explained https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/).

Mass manufacturing anti-information not only misleads people but also buries real information in a tide of slop. They are fundamentally designed to seem plausible, aka to deceive a user that information/communication/language/art is happening when it is not.

There are many open source models available.

This is a popular refrain and it based on a misunderstanding of what they are. They are open weight models, the source (the information used to make them) is not shipped. They are more like shareware. In theory you could tweak them, like you could go to neuron 65423455 and tweak the weight but as the models are by nature inscrutable this is not a useful exercise. You cannot study what training went in, analyses sources for bias, replicate the creation, or anything else a truly open source model would be, you can simply run the finished product.

Hobbyists and anarchists can deploy a locally hosted AI to work against capitalism, with none of the downsides. It’s perfectly possible to use AI tools ethically and responsibly.

Can you? The technology is fundamentally nondeterministic, impossible to analyse, extremely convincing which makes disinfo/bullshit (in the Frankfurt sense) much more dangerous. Further because of the compute required to train them and the lack of source these models rapidly become outdated and of diminishing use. I think capital is better undermined by building solidarity, sabotaging these machines/their training, and making sure you retain your ability to operate without tools created by them.

But folks aren’t fighting against them by complaining to us, they are instead directing their energy to fighting with an anarchist instance which is dedicated to fighting against capitalism, including corporate abuses of “AI” tools.

I don’t think anyone is trying to harm the instance, simply convince people. Are people ddosing you guys? doxing people? If you believe someone is doing something harmful you basically have a moral duty to try and convince people don’t you?

Are we responsible for any of the harms associated with corporate AI? No. And we have never “promoted” AI, at most, we have just defended the way in which we use it, because it isn’t harmful in that context. And yet…

The horde is interesting but I do think that it is dependant on capital as outlined above, and that in general using these things devalues language/art/humanity and harms your brain.

In terms of relative harms, the anti-GenAI crowd on lemmy has done way more actual harm than anyone on this server has by posting an AI image.

There are many devoted leftist that are against this stuff, there are many horrible techbro types that love it. It is not reasonable to smear a position based on the worst people that hold it.

I mean, you don’t become a head of state without a certain degree of approval. Seems a bit oppressive to try prevent people, especially since it’s probably combined with mourning the destruction of a country in an illegal war.

This doesn’t engage with the point at all. There are places and times to fight particular battles.

fwiw i think slop machines are boardline useless and largely culturally harmful but even if they worked well. Like if extruded images were worth looking at and chatbots were reliable for things other than lie and cause psychosis then promoting them at this stage would be harmful.

Capital controls them, it is intrinsic to the approach that massive amounts of hardware and energy are needed to create them, as well as input data and unpleasant human labour. They will be used to crush labour, making revolutionary action harder, and atrophying skills and becoming dependant on them is placing yourself at the mercy of silicon valley freaks.

Resisting further degration of working conditions and bargaining power through imperfect means is a good tactic. Disney or whatever gets way more power from being able to fire all the writers, animators, and actors than keeping control of some fucking cartoon for another few years.

I better set this up this arvo. Myrient archives so many old games that you literally cannot obtain all in an accessible way.

Losing the files would be a digital book burning.

It’s a shame you feel that polluting our cultural heritage with bullshit, and damaging people’s brains, is worth being able to sit on your arse.