this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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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.

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So many people use "anarchism" in their identity that I just don't trust it. I mean there's anarcho-capitalists for starters... If there's a strong culture of pro-AI there, thought, that may be enough on its own to just get rid of them.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In my opinion dbzer0 is an important instance in the fediverse, along with blajah, shit.just.works, and even hexbear (which I blocked). These are instances that cater to communities that have no place in corporate social media. Thankfully, we have options to block users, communities or entire instances. If you find AI offensive (I find it useless and wasteful), you should absolutely block those communities, but dbzer0 is not an pro-AI instance as a whole and I think you would be missing out on very useful content. IMHO

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

but dbzer0 is not an pro-AI instance as a whole

It absolutely is, explicitly so. Go ask Unruffled if .dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance as a whole or not.

The rule there is that AI images are allowed, untagged, in every comm, and being anti-AI is against the rules of every comm.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Go ask Unruffled if .dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance as a whole or not.

Then why are there several users who are anti-AI and not banned?

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml -1 points 13 hours ago

Inconsistent enforcement. The mods consider it within their rights to remove content purely on the basis that it's critical of AI. Giving some of it a pass (for now) doesn't change that.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I started off strongly disagreeing but you make a good point. I think I would honestly be "happy" to see something like /r/conservative move to a decentralized platform (though that might be a bad example because it's purpose is more of a propoganda-spreader than a true "community").

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The consolation of social media into giant "cath all" dumpster fires forces everyone to engage, or at least be exposed to, shit like nazis.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right exactly. A "community" like /r/conservative can't really exist on the Fediverse in the same way because it's current function depends on outsiders to engage with.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I miss the days when white supremacists were relegated to shitty forums like stormfront.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al -3 points 1 day ago

When I see hot takes that range from "WTF!?" to actual batshit insanity, I always look at the source. lemmy.world, shit.just.works, and a few others (including dbzer0) seem to always be the host.

Increasingly I'm wondering if it might not be best to just shove these into the "block site" box. The trigger finger hasn't yet itched enough for it, but it's getting closer.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Unruffled, the second in command admin, has also pulled this bullshit of banning people for criticising AI. It's absolutely a pro-AI instance.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anarcho-communsit, explicitly.

db0 isn't pro-corpo-ai, its pro-ai-the-technology.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it pro-ai-the-technology or is it mainly pro-generative-ai?

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's the claim. Yet, it seems to change whenever it's convenient to exert authority over others. Ironic.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm anti-"AI" ("scare quotes" because we can't even define intelligence yet, let alone build it), so sounds like it's a no-go for me and filled with the kind of people I really have no time for.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That's mostly not true. You can block al the ai comms (I did, I'm not too much of a fan of Ai images) and its fine.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Definitely not ayn-cap.

I don't think there's a strong "AI" scene there. They just have a sub for generated art.