I think the problematic AI tool here isn't AI that helps artists finish artwork or automate menial tasks, but AI that has been fed with every copyrighted artwork on the internet and is sold as an artist-replacement tool.
Sucks if you’re an artist but the automobile and steam engine sucked for those whose profession was stabling and shoeing horses too, yet we can’t hold back progress. People will still commission artistic works, it’ll just revert to being very skilled artists and very wealthy people.
Can't believe I'm reading this take on a communist website. If you're arguing from a capitalists' standpoint, then there's the counterpoint that the existing art generators are full of copyrighted artwork taken without the authors' permission, and so they should be deemed illegal (this would be true under socialism as well tbf). Then further generators would only be allowed to use either public domain or properly licensed artwork as its training set, which will inevitably lower the variety and quality of the outputs (sorry programmers).
From a communist standpoint we should stand in solidarity with the artists whose livelihoods are being put in risk and oppose unethical AI art.
Capitalists are not about to allow banning of a cost-cutting measure any more than they would have allowed banning the steam engine or mechanical factories to save the jobs of workers. They’re just not.
This is fundamentally different because the generators were fed basically every artwork on the internet, no matter if they were copyrighted or not, in order to make the thing work. They should have never been able to become public services, much less PAID services, and should have been restricted to academic circles as proofs-of-concept, due to the blatant and massive copyright infringement taking place. This is allowed to go on because artists are usually poor and have no individual leverage, but say, if tomorrow an AI movie generator was released that was fed every Hollywood movie ever and could output a Marvel-quality blockbuster with just a prompt and enough time, believe me, shit would be sued to destruction in days.
Artists should be collectivizing right now and preparing a lawsuit against those operating AI art generators fed on their copyrighted artwork. So yes, the proverbial machine can be smashed in this case, if only because it infringes copyright law in such a massive way.
As a non-American I find it amazing how, in [current year], after 30+ years of the USSR's defeat, communism still lives rent free on everyone's head. I know, I know the State Department is trying to build up this new see see pee bogeyman, but still, you'd think Americans would be more confident about their system being the best and gommunism being dead and buried? The way everyone there hyperfocuses on whatever is going on with official state enemies and no other countries is pretty funny as an outsider.
Could have been worded "Canadian pop singer Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in China for over 30 instances of rape including minors" but they chose to make China the active subject because that's more important than the actual crime, apparently.
To anyone who wants to embark a large-scale piracy project: remember this has happened since the dawn of digital piracy. Copyright capitalists don't take things like this lightly. It happened to the creators of TPB, it happened to numerous warez and media piracy groups; this is always an occupational hazard. Stay safe, and don't trust the west.
In a January 2021 wiretap, Testa said he “would make a massacre like the one in New Zealand, but I wouldn’t go to the blacks, I would go to the barracks in Marigliano.”
Ukraine, US and NATO will now be responsible for unleashing Nazi terrorism upon Europe. All just because they wanted to own the Ruskies.
This is what I was gonna say. What the fuck
Lol I love this interview. Basically told them to cope and seethe lmao
Here's a very good text about Belarus and Lukashenko:
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428
That's interesting. The fact that capitalist developers are still building using the commieblock urban format nowadays proves how practical and functional it is.
What time were these built? They are quite tall and colorful so I don't think they were during Khrushchev's era
Oddly satisfying
Glad he unclowned himself
Some think the Palace of the Soviets was excessive, but no, that was just a life-size Lenin on top of it:
I had the same feeling and it was tiresome to even browse the front page here until I blocked all of the communities dedicated to posting libfash cringe. There's actually a surprising amount of actual communist content in here which is very enjoyable to read and reply to, but it gets lost among all of the cringe. I don't know if you're already blocking those communities but either way, this is how my block list looks like:
While I agree thoroughly I don't think we should be promoting that guy's blog
Of course greedy fucks will preach that being like them is a virtue, but if everyone had the privilege of being as greedy, lazy, exploitative and opportunistic as they are, nothing would ever get done. Maybe they're social parasites and not role models after all...
We should leave the metaphors and euphemisms behind and say it like it is: kill all capitalists, imperialists and reactionaries. Try to co-opt that, libs.
China is more democratic than any western country and Xi is the real leader of the free world
Preach!
There is a difference. You're a human, not a machine. Don't compare yourself to one. We artists don't compare ourselves to them, either. But you're right in that, to a layperson, AI art seems to evoke the same emotions as human art. But you know why that is? Because AI art is also human art, just remixed by a machine. The problem is that the machine can't tell you its sources because either the programmers didn't care about coding in credits and only took copyrighted artwork in bulk as raw material, or it's very hard for the neural network algorithm to tell you how it came up with an output.
On the topic of inspiration, we as artists love it when other artists are influenced by us. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" as they say. If another artist likes us they're also a fan. That's great. But we're not fond of an AI pretending to be us in front of non-artists, because 1. it's just a program that took our art (without permission) from its database because it was tagged as appropriate, and 2. it doesn't even give us credit. I mean, as far as we know, the programmers who coded the AI didn't even take one look at our art, they just mass downloaded whole websites and our art came along with them. We don't like that.
Edit: Whoever downvoted me, at least refute my points.