on Bluesky who posts AI slop. Those artists are liberals, but they consider AI slop and all it represents anti-liberal.
A DU forum intended as a playground and showcase for people who love generative AI will send the wrong message about AI, period - and would especially send that message to liberals who oppose all the harm done by generative AI and the AI bros.
A pro-AI forum for people who like AI slop to post it would IMO be equivalent to having an anti-labor forum. Not to mention an anti-music forum, anti-art forum, anti-writing forum and anti-education forum. It would also be a pro-AI-broligarchy forum.
Remember how Blueskyers responded to the head of a teacher's union foolishly posting AI slop as "fun":
American Federation of Teachers president thought AI slop would be "fun" to share on Bluesky. Big mistake.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220895596
If you support unions (DUers should) but still think it's OK to post AI slop, see the hundreds of Bluesky replies
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220895856
And I want to emphasize again just how fast a forum for AI slop would fill up. Zero effort required from the AI users. Almost zero thought required.
And for what? The forum wouldn't showcase any real artistic ability, or any real ability to think and communicate with other people.
It would be a showcase for pretense via AI. Every single such use of AI requiring more electricity and water than any of the replies typed by people here. Every single post of AI slop by AI lovers in effect an ad for AI, and worse - a message by someone self-identifying as a liberal signaling they're still fine with generative AI and the genAI tools created by the AI bros in spite of all the harm being done by them.
What a terrible mixed message that would be for DU to send.
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