In the good timeline the Soviet Union would be the one carrying out the anti-monarchist operation : (

“If you’re homeless just buy a house” type of energy.

This style of thought is a stones throw away from simply devolving into Strasserism.

Overall weird thoughts

Again, don’t bother, they’re purity policing you by saying that because you want to credit artists you must love copyright. They’ve lost the plot.

If you go back through some of their comments you’ll see that they genuinely despise artists for some bizarre reason. Like to a vitriolic degree. An artist must of stepped on their toes at some point because it’s genuinely bizarre.

Don’t bother, you just didn’t mindlessly agree that GenAI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that hurt their feelings.

You will worship the capitalist slop bot and you will like it

Not the photography argument 😭 lmaooooo

Also that says trust in AI, not love of GenAI. AI is going to be very useful in making medical discoveries, helping calculate large datasets, and easing communication breakdown in planned economies, and so on. Not when it comes to making slop “””art”””

I trust AI will be a useful technology; but even in a socialist economy GenAI is still garbage with negative societal worth

Lmaooo, discussion with you is impossible, because why bother engaging when you can just lie about what the other person said, right?

Where did I say that art is reserved for some high artisan class? It’s reserved for the masses, for everyone, that’s the entire point behind everyone being able to do it. A fascist slop machine is not art creation, it is relegating ones ability to connect with their fellow worker to a machine built by fascists and capitalists that seeks to establish a totemic cultural hegemony.

Imagine worshiping a capitalist machine.

A loud contingent isn’t “the majority”, you literally highlighted voting, not replies. There’s also a whole lot more than 2 people if you’re not going to be facetious.

Maybe people just don’t enjoy getting dogpiled by the AI-bro division? Wonder if that might play a part in anything.

It’s not reactionary to be hostile towards a fascist slop machine.

Seems like the opinion is pretty heavily split, that’s nowhere near a “majority opinion” despite what you might tell yourself.

Calling someone out for being facetious is not reactionary lmao

And who decides that exactly? The poster? Or grad members?

I am not personally attacking anyone nor being reactionary. What was the personal attack? Claiming that opportunistically using amputees as shields is disingenuous as a defense?

I’m not even talking about working artists, I’m talking about the masses casting aside any method of self-expression other than the machine provided to them by the capitalists.

Because I do not view human self-expression on an individual scale as something that should be automated away as superfluous labour. Art creation is already socialized, that’s the entire idea behind anyone of any skill level being able to do it. Cooking, indie film, paintings, memes, shitposts, doodles, cartoons, singing, music, all of these avenues of expression have readily accessible entry points, and some of them like pencil drawing don’t cost more than 2 dollars a year no matter what skill level you are. I view art created by the masses as the proletariat attempting to reclaim the humanity that capitalism has alienated them from. Relegating that last vestige of connection with their fellow workers is not only dystopian, but antithetical to communism’s end goal of de-alienating the proletariat.

The internet is a communication network. A phone is a machine. I don’t see how these items are replacing anything except less-efficient technologies. If that’s what you want to argue human art is then that’s where we disagree. Human expression isn’t a “technology” that can be automated into obsolescence, because at the end of the day, why? What is accomplished by allowing a machine to create a mono-culture where all works are inevitably the same?

The exception does not make the rule. How may people with no arms do you think there are relative to the population of the globe? They also don’t need to draw if they don’t want to. They can write, using voice to text, they can use a specialized mouse to create 3D animations, they can sing, they can express themselves beyond a slop machine. Hiding behind the poor and amputees is disgusting.

I believe AI is perfectly dialectical in regard to medical research for example, but not in automating self-expression. All that will do is lead to the “sameification” of human culture.

Why should the proletariat strive toward replacing their self-expression with mindless, autogenerated slop manufactured by a machine? I genuinely cannot think of a more effective way a capitalist society could create a false-consciousness and cultural hegemony. Not only are large studios and producers part of the superstructure, but any and all individuals part of the masses should be conditioned into giving up the last vestiges of ideological resistance and means of preventing alienation from their fellow worker.

I’m not even talking about working artists, I’m talking about the masses casting aside any method of self-expression other than the machine provided to them by the capitalists.

Are slop consumers entitled to a creation tutorial under every meme? Or can they just politely ask for information and have a conversation?

You think people on the grad should be slop consumers?

Automating the proletariat’s necessity away.

Anyone can pick up a paper and pencil. Art books are widely available in libraries, or for piracy online. Some communities have communal art events or clubs. Digital art and graphic design programs are all cracked online or open source. Hundreds of thousands of Youtube and Bilibili videos and tutorials. Your own imagination is also perfectly free to use. Famously no poor people have ever drawn or created any form of art, ever, in the history of humanity.

How is this a class issue? Are you saying poor people aren’t able to pick up a pencil and doodle for 15 minutes if they wanted to, or open photoshop or blender? Hiding behind the poor as an excuse is an insane defense for a corporate slop machine.

Instead of a poor trying to come up with a way to express themselves, they should instead type their thoughts into the capitalist machine and alienate themselves further from their humanity and self. No need to improve, no need to think, no need to interact with the world around you.

The current piece, or the original post?

The original post was in the generic GPT style with weird plasticy people, general incoherent composition, elements that were just straight goofy, Lenin speaking in nordic runes and tongues, and a weird mass-produced slop feel, among other issues. As was mentioned in another comment, the original post felt like the Marvelification of Lenin.