Most of what we do here regarding AI is FOSS AI using community run or self-hosted generators. None of the corporate AI bullshit like you sometimes see elsewhere.

Regardless if you still don't like it and don't want to be part of it, then it's no big deal, just block or ignore the communities which are dedicated to AI stuff. The only thing you really shouldn't do in regards to that is Anti-AI trolling, like attacking people who do like it, or making bad-faith comparisons or accusations. If you don't like it just don't engage with it.

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I find the technology interesting but AI as a social phenomenon has been abhorrent.

I think most of us here have a similar view. Plagiarism machine is accurate, but that’s what a Google search looks like to someone from 1985. Not that I don’t prefer getting linked to information sources rather than getting incoherent slop.

I’ve not hated using local image generation to mock up ideas or turn around a private joke meme with friends. I have hated every advertisement bombarding me with nonsense buzzwords and leaders at work not understanding the technology. But I’m not an artist or writer whose work is getting chewed into a machine that gets all the credit. And I’m not a woman who could be blackmailed (or at least be robbed of agency) by fake nudes. Machine learning is a power tool, unfortunately people are just bastards.

You're fine. Generally the instance is anti-copyright, so arguments against AI or piracy based on copyrights tend to fall flat. At the same time, we also hate the corporate GenAI and the overinflated hype around it. We support GenAI only when it's done via FOSS and without relying on vulture capitalism.

I just ask you don't go around scolding people about using GenAI in this instance as it becomes tiring. Just block the GenAI comms.

You'll have no trouble blocking AI here. This instance federated with almost all others and leaves it up to you to block them how you want. I will say db0 is my favorite instance so far.

Just block the AI communities, you should be fine

Just block the communities you don't want to see. That is the power you have. Use it wisely.

I for one very much Enjoy reading up on AI stuff I'm visually impaired and use AI pretty much daily to read images and memes For me it's been a game changer

Block what you don’t like to see. Block users who you don’t like. Doesn’t matter which instance you’re on.

not really how this works

I like AI because of my leftist politics but as long as you don't hate minorities or the poor or plan to constantly beef with anarchists, leftists and progressives from a conservative perspective in general I'd have no issue with you.