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That’s what you say today because you think it’s convenient to your argument, but it actually shows exactly what I’m talking about because the definition you’ve offered would make no sense at all to anyone a year ago, but people like you were still calling everyone Nazis then.

Well, I certainly do appreciate seeing people like yourself making an active effort to bring some sanity back to the web. Keep it up!

If you actually had a coherent definition of what a Nazi is, it might be possible to agree with you. But in reality, it’s used as a catch all by shitty people to justify their shitty behaviour.

Good luck with that. Volunteer moderation tends to attract some of the most toxic individuals on the planet.

We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.

Lots of artists have always copied style directly. The difference is when a person copies they invariably include fragments of their own take on that style whether they’re trying to or not, and if they get particularly good they will develop their own style.

I think your argument relates closely to something I’ve noticed happening over and over with more than just game developers. Far too often I see people expressing frustration that the Internet doesn’t give them more accurate information about the real world. Way too many people, apparently including many of the richest and most powerful people alive, have come to see the Internet as a magical machine that will do anything they want it to do… if only people would use it differently! Like, they legitimately seem to expect the entire population to post their entire lives online, unfiltered, so they can be used as automatons by people they’ve never even met.

Not sure if anyone listens to them fully, regularly, but I find they’re great if you want to use the song as a background track for anything, without having it start and stop again repeatedly.

Way too many people treat life like a movie, where anything other than gripping emotional drama is just stumbled through with eyes glazed over.

Turns out there’s a lot more to art than just tropes.

It’s absolutely worth an entire lifetime of exploration. But dismissing things you can’t explain away immediately with chemical processes, as some sort of unknowable sorcery, is exactly why I call it reductive. As far as I’m concerned, maintaining a reverence for the fact that you will never be capable of conclusively explaining such things, because there is vastly more detail involved than even a thousand lifetimes could ever uncover, is necessary if you want to actually begin to learn about what’s really happening.

Frankly, this kind of reductive deconstruction of human experience is a huge part of what’s going wrong with society. Music is created by people who dedicate themselves to exploring the world we experience, and discovering nuance which evokes feelings that can not be simply explained, betraying the existence of deeper layers of human experience than anything directly available to cold analysis.

Certainly there are then those who copy the form of works created by such artists, who actually do treat music that way, but the result is like the output of a LLM, and repetition of such a style is like training AI on it’s own data, progressively degrading what was once there.

That’s the point.

It was discussed as far back as Occupy, that the web would not be allowed to continue as it was, because allowing free discussion about issues that people faced was far too dangerous for those running the economy.

I mean, before the Internet people spent a hell of a lot more time just hanging around with a small group of friends. You don’t need to buy expensive tools or reach a prospective audience to do anything like that. Boredom motivates people to find ways to entertain themselves, which has unfortunately been one of the largest casualties of online ‘life.’

I’m not attempting to defend the system as they’re trying to build it, but rather to seek understanding of why they take these actions without imagining them as hateful, soulless people.

You could get a hobby. Maybe try to actually make something interesting out of your life instead of just consuming entertainment?

They want people to actually be productive though, not just zombies.

Believe it or not, some people actually like having more than a single mono-culture in the world. Everybody everywhere doesn’t actually want Lego and the Marvel Universe to dominate their own societies.

Yes. You don’t actually get to explore other cultures, you just get a bastardized, commodified version of it. The commodification of cultures for global dissemination is destroying unique cultures around the globe. It’s a massive humanitarian crisis, but it gets a free pass in the eyes of the western public because they get to eat tasty food and make pithy comments online directed towards people they hate. Xenophilia is a cancer.

I’ve got news for you: Many people from other places don’t particularly like xenophiliacs treating them like zoo animals.

Many of those who do play along with it are trying to get something out of you. Shitty people exist everywhere.

This is NOT what “fuck AI” is supposed to be about…