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Anti-genAI art platform Cara has been scraped a second time and the AI bros are taking sheer perverse joy in the distress it's causing the artists who contribute to the platform

Twitter thread by founder Jingna Zhang

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

For people that like messing with technology, couldn't writing an AI poisoner software also hit the same dopamine spot?

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago

Do these people really think themselves autistic because they know enough English to ask Claude to put together a scraper?

[-] cybervegan@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

Fuckin hell. I'm Autistic, but I'm not like that. Can't claim Autism for being a gobshite.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago

Dawg that isn't autism, you're just an asshole.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

The trait all assholes share isn't their religion, race, gender, sex, neurological status, or social class.

It's that they're fucking assholes.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I get it, though. Even if you aren't pro-AI, some just do it for the lulz.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago

Hate to break it to ya, but you're an asshole too.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Oh, get off your high horse. Tell me you've never once trolled someone on the internet.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

Destroying someone's online safety and torching whatever job security they might try to cling to for a laugh does not constitute """trolling""", shitbag.

Go touch grass for a while, and contemplate how you became such a contemptible human being.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

You should follow your own advice. Becoming a lolcow is not gonna stop slop jockeys from trolling artists.

[-] petrol_sniff_king 7 points 15 hours ago

I always knew AI boosters were rapists.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] petrol_sniff_king 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No one wants them there, and yet gleefully they rip open barriers and insert themselves anyway. These are the thoughts of a rapist.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Uhh, I dunno man. These guys are assholes, but equating art theft to rape is a brain damage take.

[-] petrol_sniff_king 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It isn't, but not knowing how metaphors work might be.

Then these artists reward them with giant melodrama filled rants about how awful and violated they feel. It's like a free dopamine hit.

These are the words of a rapist. Straightforwardly.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 20 points 1 day ago

Us true autistics don't get a thrill from pissing people off or stealing because autists have a strong moral compass.

I'm now pissed about the theft of this art AND this assholes suggestion that autists are to blame.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Pissing people off means thinking about them and thinking about people makes my brain hurt.

[-] cannedheat@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago

Yeah that "speedrunning" shit is not autism. That's just being an asshole. An autistic person would probably know the difference, which I guess is ironic.

[-] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

People thinking autistic lack empathy because they don't engage in the two faced bullshit social games everyone else does, when actually they have a better sense of morality and ethics and social boundaries and empathy than any of these fuckers ever will.

[-] babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

It is not the tism but I bet you don't stop when they say no

[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 2 days ago

This is a bad person even outside of the Ai context.

"I get a dopamine hit from emotionally disturbing other people"

this is a bad person.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago

They got a blue check on twitter, is it any wonder they are a trash person?

[-] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 158 points 2 days ago

Leave the autism out of this, AI Bros are narcissists, whether they have autism or not isn't really relevant.

-An Autist that can't draw, write or code worth shit, but still hates genAI with a passion.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I know artists who are autistic.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah. "Autistic" does not and should not imply "ethically stunted". I am autistic. Of course I am driven to solve problems. The drive to solve any particular problem, however, is greatly reduced when a large group of people whom I consider peers band together and state as loudly as they possibly can that they do not want it to be solved. Anyone who endeavors to solve such a problem anyway should re-evaluate their life choices and consider whether their clearly impressive talents could be put to better use.

Sincerely, an autistic programmer who can't draw for shit but still hates genAI with a passion.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

Yeah. "Autistic" does not and should not imply "ethically stunted".

Greta Thunberg is autistic. The person who said "The IDF bombed our flotilla, so we have to try again," and she said it in the most casual tone, like she was talking about running to the store for a loaf of bread.

Autism is a super-power, but like all super-powers, it all depends upon how you choose to use it.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago

Do Autistic People Have a Stronger Sense of Morality?

In some respects, yes. A number of autistic adults describe an almost visceral discomfort with dishonesty, favoritism, or bent rules, the kind of thing many neurotypical people shrug off as “just how things work.” That’s not a quirk. It shows up repeatedly in research on moral rigidity and rule adherence in autism.

The pattern seems to trace back to how autistic cognition handles consistency. Where a neurotypical brain might flex a rule depending on who’s involved or what’s socially convenient, an autistic brain is more likely to apply the same standard everywhere, to everyone, every time. This is explored in depth in relation to moral rigidity and its connection to a strong sense of right and wrong often seen in autism.

https://neurolaunch.com/autism-and-morality/

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Came to say this. Leave autism out of this. You can be a narcissist asshole without being autistic. And techbros are just narcissist assholes, autistic or not.

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[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago

These clankers and AI Glazers tend to have dark personality traits. I am not surprised that they are so callous and cruel towards people just to glaze their latest golden calf (which will fail, as it is so very hated). How very heartless of them, unsurprisingly they have a paid blue check mark on a fascist site.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

which will fail, as it is so very hated

Even if everybody loved AI, there's no way it could succeed. The more popular it becomes, the more money they lose.

[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, nobody would be able to pay the realistic prices required to keep these LLM twats running and profitable. The only one who was ever going to profit was NVIDIA and hardware manufacturers. At least until the next snake oil product is peddled...

[-] Jiral@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

Part of it to be certain; I notice most of these clankers seem to be mind blind and aren't very creative artistically.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Won't anyone DDOS these motherfuckers?

[-] pnwpixel@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

I hope the fury of a million meth-fueled fire ants set up a colony in this person's urethra.

[-] babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

thats a good sentance

[-] METATRONSTUDENT@lemmy.today 35 points 2 days ago

Ai bros, are factually the dumbest people to ever live

[-] Cherries@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

New dumbshit bubble dropping in 3... 2...

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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Somebody is bitter my goodness

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Just to weigh in here- as an autistic person myself one of the things I love about computers is how predictable and repeatable they are. Yes, I know that bit flipping and memory errors exist, but compared to human brains computers are consistent and beautiful. I largely try to model my own mind on how computers work.

I find AI to be absolutely disgusting for how it violates this. All of the other issues are important but solvable (the economic and social impact, the environmental impact, copyright issues, safety guardrails, etc). Like, I dont expect any of then to be fully solved but I could imagine a world where they are mostly solved. They are technical and legal challenges. Renewable energy infrastructure, universal basic income, reverting copyright law to pre-Disney levels, and a bit of responsible stewardship could do wonders (though I dont expect any of that to actually happen). The core concept of making computers less certain is not solvable, but a fundamental aspect of the design that I find abhorrent.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago

Oh my god, this. I thought I was the only one.

The despair I feel when I hear imprecise, natural-language English described as the only viable future of my profession, precisely because it is going to allow people who are not analytically minded to become professional programmers, is difficult to properly describe.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago

Finally someone who says it

I never got the point of asking an unreliable non deterministic model to write code for you when programming languages are literally right there, they almost always do exactly what you write

And there's plenty of deterministic ways to do code assistance too

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

I like it when they don't consent.

[-] fluxx@mander.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

Didn't know autist=psychopath /s

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