Val

People aren't selfish or greedy. People are ambitious and in the current society those people are raised to believe that to be the best you have to be selfish and greedy. They aren't traits you are born with, they are learned.

But anarchy still is the best way to deal with greedy people as any kind of hierarchy will just allow the greedy people to get to the top. Hierarchies don't punish the greedy, they elevate them to the highest positions in society as those that aren't concerned with other peoples well being can always find a way to gain authority over them.

There needs to be something to try to prevent and/or punish that.

Anarchy has that something. You can counter abuse without being abusive yourself. We can build social structures that prevent greed without hierarchy. The solution isn't to give some people a monopoly on violence because that position will always attract the most violent. It's to build a social networks that sees problems before they happen and provides support. Punishment isn't a productive method of preventing harm. It's vengeance, not prevention.

What is currently destroying the US isn't libertarianism, it's bad education, mass media manipulation and a bunch of people following orders.

Learn some history

OK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina

If you are actually curious here's some links:

• Andrewism: https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism/videos
• Anarchist FAQ: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/index.html (maybe take a look at J.5)

This is an anarchist comm. We aren't masquerading anything. We fight against all injustice: state, class, gender, sexuality. You know. Liberty for everyone equally.

Your sentences inspired me to make my own.

If your quest for kindness leads you to violence, remember to use violence with kindness.

If your quest for kindness leads you to violence, remember to use violence with kindness.

The state is 100% something. It's 100% useless and harmful. source: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionB.html#secb2 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PV02IzWpo

This comment got me thinking about what an anarchist solution to school shootings is unsurprisingly crimethinc have an answer: https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/20/gun-control-no-youth-liberation-mass-shootings-school-walkouts-getting-free

or in shorter poster form:

simply put the solution is to reform education and let the students themselves build networks to protect themselves from violence, just like every other group.

or anecdotally: the solution to school shootings isn't to get rid of guns it's to get rid of schools.

The reason I actually responded to you're comment is because it was long and interesting so I thought I could get a nice discussion out of it. I'm glad to have been correct.

I didn't come across as you trying to police AI. You were just being very critical of a tool that I think has a lot of uses. I was trying to bring an alternate point of view to the discussion.

I also don't believe in artistic disability, my example wasn't about being unable to make art, it was about making art being just difficult enough for someone that they don't want to try. Perfection only exists in tightly defined systems, art most certainly cannot be perfect. But I do think some people have who are capable of art don't wish to learn how do make it to the degree that they can express what they want. I'm not saying they don't have ability. I'm saying they don't have the desire.

And even then you can use GenAI do only to small parts of your piece. An artist I follow used GenAI to create videos for their music. The creator of this meme uses it to create small intro pictures for their blog. GenAI has uses in the hands of creative people as well.

I'm an anarchist. As soon as you talk about corporations and value I point to the meme this discussion is under.

Also I don't use GenAI. I made a couple of pictures and did try to touch them up in order to actually be presentable but in the end it just didn't work out. I do have a drawing tablet and use it to make drawings. I've posted them in my community lemm.ee/c/anaval. I also know the basics of playing a bass guitar. I'm not defending GenAI out of my own need, but because I see potential in it for others.

and like I said previously It's made some stuff that I really love.

Your technique is so cool (/sincere), but a lot of people do not have the time, persistence or passion do develop skills like these. If they get a good idea for something I want them to be able to express it, to enrich the world with the chaos of their mind, and sometimes GenAI is the only tool they have for that.

Everyone has the potential to create something cool, and I don't want to take away what might be their only tool.

The core of my opinion on the topic isn't based on anti capitalist rhetoric, it's a lot simpler than that. I like the things GenAI makes so I like GenAI. If you don't consider that art I'm fine with that. I still like it and think it has value.

GenAI does have a place in art. Computer generated art gives people a chance to express themselves in a way they otherwise never could. Some people lack the ability to imagine shapes in their minds. This would obviously hamper their ability to draw but with a Image generator they could just write something and have the computer imagine it for them. They then could take a part of that image and add something to it, generate something else that fit with it. This is art. A human using a tool to create something, something that would not have been created otherwise. Or "AI gives a voice to those that don't have time, dedication or ability to learn a medium"

A practical example. The primary form of art I interact with is music and so when I hear this: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJAUfCkIaQ I think "Wow this is good", and it wouldn't have existed without AI.

But there is always a place for human created art and as long we have enough computing power to use AI there will be a place for AI Art. They are both important because they are both different.