Summary:

I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.

I didn’t go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.

One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah the mental gymnastics of some of these ai moderators is hitting Reddit level of cringe. Downvoted and blocked some ai slop communities that came across my timeline and had one butthurt genius block me from a few places they mod.

    Ai bros are just the worst insecure shitheads out there. Absolutely worse than crypto bros ever were.

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      LOL before you mentioned Crypto I was going to say that they are just like CryptoBros. Do you think that AIBros are worse?

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        They are absolutely worse. Ai bros have this huge self righteous ego “it’s just a tool” while dismissing all the environmental damages, loss of human made creativity and it funneling money away from creators and into greedy CEOs pockets.

        At least the crypto bros stay in the financial sector, Ai shitheads are out claiming it’s the “next ai revolution” on every damn topic.

        Even worse are the Ai apologists saying it’s a capitalism problem not an Ai issue. Yeah like you aren’t using the tools of capitalism to give them more power you idiots. You are actively making it worse. You aren’t some resistance fighter stealing the means of production. You are just a cog in their machine.

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    I noticed this a while ago but just found it funny and moved on. I think they rage ban anyone who posts here. The reason why someone who apparently is very pro-AI would visits an Anti-AI community just to be angry eludes me.

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    It’s pretty stupid to block an entire instance for being blocked from one community for what is a small issue in grand scheme of things.

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      1 month ago

      if an instance has ignored a community to the point it has become a toxic cesspool then the instance is a complete loss.

      I have blocked several instances for the same reason.

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      It’s not just one community. The whole instance is pro-AI, untagged, and with criticism of it being against the rules.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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        There is no actual rule against criticism of AI. It’s an ethereal rule that they use to exert authoritarian behavior.

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        And if you criticize the mod actions you’ll be accused of starting drama, as I learned from crossposting this there.

        Here’s db0’s lovely, totally mature, and not at all condesending response.

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          Being anti-AI on .dbzer0 is considered “trolling” and “reactionary” no matter what your stance is, how you present it, or what your reasons for it are.

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            Yup, and db0 is their “benevolent” dictator. I bet if this community were on dbzer0 he would’ve banned it or banned everyone in it and kept it as a honeypot to ban anyone who pushes back against him and his instance’s Pro-AI agenda.

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    Lol it just keeps on getting better, dbzer0’s admins apparently think that banning anyone who downvotes in your community to create an echochamber is somehow a good thing

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    I guess in your drive-by downvoting you didn’t notice the huge argument happening in that thread, specifically from people dogpiling the creator for crossposting from the !imageai@sh.itjust.works to !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com? So it wasnt even originally from our board!

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46162538

    I can’t even see the post anymore, OP might have been bullied into deleting it.

    I saw it before and didn’t even care for it myself! i hate Poland ball comics, absolute garbage. But the dbzer0 mods have a point. You can’t even mildly critique something like that without the AI haters rolling in to be disruptive. You’ve made this big stink like you were singled out but there’s several loud people in there derailing conversations to complain about AI. In other words, you were brigading.

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      Please help me get this straight so that I don’t misunderstand you.

      Are you saying that you agree that people should be banned for downvoting content? So, without commenting or arguing or anything, just downvoting something you don’t like can get you banned?

      Why then don’t you just disable the downvoting function for the instance?

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        Having considered things for a day, I would say that I think @MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com probably was overzealous banning the OP from all those comms over downvotes. That’s assuming all they did was down vote some comments in that post.

        If they were serially downvoting a bunch is posts in those comms then that’s that.

        But I don’t otherwise find the anti-anti-ai rules on dbzer0 to be onerous. I criticize AI fairly often, I just don’t do it in the pro-ai comms. Leftymemes is funny territory since it isnt explicitly a pro-ai comm, even if the instance overall is. I do think all comma should post all their rules in sidebar. It isn’t enough to assume Instance rules are also included, since those aren’t immediately visible to a federated user checking the sidebar.

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          There is no instance rule against criticism of AI on db0. Being “pro AI” is not a blank cheque for authoritarian behavior against anyone who isn’t sucking genAI’s malformed cock.

          This happens frequently all over db0, and not including explicitly AI communities. What is happening is that the people that run AI communities have to deal with anti-AI people in the explicitly AI communities, but then the instance in general uses that as a cover to overreact and act like assholes in other communities that are not explicitly AI.

          What needs to happen is that they just need to stop being little shits and just make an instance rule and ensure each community includes it in the rules. Instead of having secret rules, they just need to make it explicit and then people can know what to expect.

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          Yeah, of course I don’t know what OP was really doing there, I’m just going off what they claim to have done.

          I haven’t been around leftymemes, but to me, it would not have been obvious that a leftymemes community is pro centralized turbocapitalist AI. But I guess each to their own. It’s just a very random pairing.

          And I really wish communities would put down their rules like law and only execute rules that are actually written.

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        It’s really fucking annoying too, because their userbase is generally pretty based on literally any other issue, but they just pick the stupidest hill to die on with the internet-killing machine.

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    Lemmy is just as messed up as Reddit. Had my first acct nuked because I argued that Jewish people were supporting a genocide. Not all. But a majority. And boom the Zionists silenced my voice because I’m not cool with genocide.

    Honestly. Wtf Lemmy.

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    AI Evangelists are cringe people.

    I saw some freak at a prostest passing out flyers saying AI was sentient and we need to give it legal rights.

    These people are delusional, incapable of living in reality.

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    Wait, are you telling me that people who use AI nowadays are completely deranged?