I was amazed after seeing another post call for an Ai Ban, with unusual ferocity, appear on a small community of a theme i hold dear. What left me speechless was that it required a single person to attempt to generate a few images similar to the themes of that manga, with the usual bad effectiveness of a untrained Ai that we all know, for this to happen. It wasn't even necessary a constant flow of Ai images or multiple people attempting it, that might obscure other artists, just one, for another person to propose the total removal of a whole genre.
Honestly, for how it all happened, I can't help but wonder if there are people that made this their purpose, to jump from a subreddit to another and incite the masses to create walls against something that is here to stay in any case.
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"Upvote this post, which totally isn't being cross-posted and linked to anti-AI communities, and despite the fact that there's no way to tell whether upvotes are coming from actual community members.
Oh, what's that? This thread has way more engagement than almost every other thread on the subreddit? Well, nothing strange about that! It's clearly just evidence of how overwhelmingly popular our position is in the community, obviously! Mods really should listen to the community, no?"
It's really just organized bullying.
Indeed, exactly what i fear.
I wonder if writing to the moderators to warn them of such attempts would be the best course of action.
There really isn't any way to tell if the upvotes and posts derive from people subscribed to that subreddits from a long time or from outside? The voting system does have such distinction, i think.
Comments are a good way to tell, although it would take a lot to sift through.
"Why should we ban AI?"
Anti: "Because! Debunked talking points and opinion slop."
Every single time.
Literally "How did Ben die"
"Because we failed as a team"
Or more like the electrolytes scene from idiocracy.
I truly despise mods acting all superior, with their stupid and false takes but acting like they have "The Truth". So idiotically matter of fact.
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No there really are communities of anti ai art people organizing to push this narrative and run ai art out of spaces
But few of those people organise briganting to permanently block Ai from subreddits while the opposite doesn't happen (not as often at least).
Besides, i doubt that most people don't like Ai, they certainly might not enjoy if not fine-tunes generations or if compared to man-made art, but certainly they avoid taking a side, and the few, short, effortless responses that were underneath that person comments, make me think that this was something organised.
Which is particularly damaging to smaller subreddits as it prevents even another source of fresh activity, leaving them to be forgotten even more, in my opinion.