It’s an unbelievably stupid decision imo. Talk about tone deaf.

I agree with you in the sense that that corporations are stealing jobs from artists by usurping content creators on their massive platforms and replacing them with highly profitable (because they don’t have to pay anyone) GenAI images. That’s not a problem with GenAI though, it’s a problem with corporations and capitalism which prioritize profit above all else.

And the question of fighting for the rights of artists to rent seek an income based on 100 year+ IP rights (or whatever ridiculous number it is nowadays) is hard to square with a leftist position. Aren’t we supposed to be against that sort of thing?

I agree the ethics of corporate ai are problematic from an environmental and use case perspective, but not from a copyright perspective. Ethically, copyleft makes a lot more sense. Copyright only serves capitalism and is a fundamentally neoliberal concern.

Sure but what is a good or bad meme is extremely subjective. Bad memes from an artistic perspective often do very well in getting the message across. I mean I sort of get what you are saying but I think there’s a lot of subjectivity involved. If we look at the post numbers, the ratio is the same as earlier. +671 to -122 = so downvotes are only 18% of where the upvotes are sitting, which isn’t bad considering all the brigading. And anyway, we have a good mix of different types of memes. Only a small handful use genAI. It’s completely been blown out of proportion by a very vocal minority.

Tbh that just shows Drag doesn’t understand leftism very deeply.

1. Being anti-AI is an intrinsically reactionary position to hold.
2. Leftists should be trying to seize the means of production, not trying to destroy them.
3. The anti-AI movement puts heavy emphasis on the impact on artists, but most leftists don’t believe in copyright or the ownership/privatization of ideas and that includes things like art. Artists absolutely should be publicly funded and properly compensated for their work. But simply fighting against AI tooling will accomplish nothing, and arguably serves to perpetuates copyright rent-seeking by corporations and individuals.
4. Fighting against or banning the use of AI tools in leftist spaces will accomplish nothing, except to give the capitalists an advantage over leftists. The genie is already out of the bottle. AI tooling, although incredibly annoying in some aspects (such as when it gets inserted into fucking notepad) is also extremely powerful and useful for certain applications. Why would we want to fight with a hand tied behind our backs over some romantic idyll of pre-gen AI times?
5. A hammer can be a tool or a weapon. Same with AI. Nobody is talking about banning hammers, despite the fact they are often used as weapons or for nefarious purposes.
6. The anti-AI movement is primitivist and regressive in nature. It hearkens back to the “good old days” when artists were well compensated by rich patrons, and artisans and skilled craftsmen filled every small town. It’s a fantasy that never really existed, and one that will never exist under capitalism.
7. FOSS AI projects are available such as Db0’s AI Horde which seeks to democratic access to GenAI. There is no requirement to use corporate tooling.

Simulator checks out lol

That’s good advice, thanks for letting people know.

Talk about blowing smoke up your own ass.

It’s not just you 🙊 The official mirrors seem to be down too.

Since it’s freely available on YouTube, on this occasion I won’t enforce Rule 3. Don’t request or link to specific pirated titles

They are streaming the Women’s World Cup 2023 on BBC and ITV in the UK which you can access for free with a suitable VPN (results may vary as BBC in particular actively blocks them) or using something like Smart DNS Proxy which is a paid service, but it’s cheap and in my experience much more reliable for accessing UK channels. See this page for the full schedule. You can also watch on 7Plus which is an Australian tv/streaming channel.

To clarify, it’s generally ok to post a link to a landing page of another site that contains download links. We just don’t want any direct download links on here, for obvious reasons.

These comments are why I love this community.

If it’s a keygen then you should just assume it contains a virus and run it in a sandbox. You’ll only need to run it once anyway to test the key.

Last warning, stop spamming posts just because you didn’t like the answers.

I’m not sure it’s a bot, but it’s very questionable advice, and completely off topic. But I’m inclined to wait and see just how many downvotes it can accumulate just for the lolz 🤣

Linking to a home page is totally fine, thanks for sharing.

I do miss the days when you could just download a keygen and get something licensed. Nowadays most keygens are just virus/malware installation packages unfortunately, with a few exceptions. To be honest it’s probably easier and safer to just use one of the repacks from a trusted source since they are ‘precracked’ and that work has been done for you.

For those who don’t know it’s a direct download site from the Megathread. I suspect people are downvoting because they assume the name is just bot gibberish.

It’s working fine for me. I have no idea what would cause that. Only thing I can think of is maybe if you have your qBittorrent (or whatever) bound to your VPN connection and you forgot to turn the VPN on?

Just before this gets too off topic, please remember this is c/piracy, not c/politics. Any further political posts will get removed.