Fair, but this happens in EVERY profession. Happened with people who sewed clothes, weavers, photographers (once a camera was on every single phone), now coders, etc. Also very few artists made money anyway. People who like to do art for personal and fun reason, still can.

Source: I used to be a professional artist/graphic artist for a living. I was able to do it for 35 years before I retired last year. It was always a grind, and very few could make it. Even though I was good enough for it to be my only paycheck for most of my career, I still love AI artwork. :)

World changes. People crying about it and "boycotting" lemmy communities because they don't like it won't change anything at all. Not even a little bit.

AI isn't going anywhere, regardless of how mad people on Lemmy are about it. Not only that, but a lot of nerdy stuff they do now like vid games, DnD, etc, already incorporate AI and will continue to do so. I still have contacts in the industry, I know what the marketing departments are doing. Lemmy won't even know what is AI and what isn't.

There are still people here who say "Oh just look at the hands!" Friends, there are lots of ai models that have figured that out.

Marketing teams aren't using ai that looks ai. Most food photos you see are ai. Most graphics you are seeing on vid game covers and ads are ai. Funiture ads are ai. You are already being duped because you think you "know AI" when you see it. Actually, no you don't. You know BAD ai when you see it. Good ai is something that you don't even realize is ai. And it's already everywhere. lmao

Then people who hate ai should be grateful, because they don't want anything to do with that community anyway. :)

Well said!

You win the interwebs today!

Everyone gets banned from .world eventually. Friend, consider it an honor. And welcome to the .world-banned club. You've got lots of company here! :)

When I got banned there, not only did they celebrate my banning, they actually wrote a special post about banning me in the c/politics community (it's still there, people are free to look it up). All because I said I was gonna abandon the duopoly and vote third party.

And .worlders clapped and cheered the day I got banned, hoping that they had bullied me enough that I would leave Lemmy.

I'm still here. You will be too.

Brah, bail on .world now and find another instance to be your home. Because .worlders will start stalking you and serial downvoting you. You'll be a lot happier on the cooler, less censorship-y instances.

PTB!

Sorry, man. She was hot. No regrets!

EDIT: Just looked her up on Facebook. Um, she hasn't aged as well as the memory has. Tho the whole trailer park and no-teeth look can work in the right light. Imma try to make a sequel tho, so I'll let ya know. Onlyfans here I come! (No pun intended. Probably.)

Day old account! Strong flex. So edgy. So cool!

Keep making new accounts. Keep stalking. I'll keep laughing at ya.

Thanks, friend! :)

voting for 3rd party,

Yep! Brah, before the 2024 election, saying/doing that shit was fucking ban-worthy on most of Lemmy. I have personal experience with that! haha

Fuck the tone police!

Sacrilege! May your data streams be corrupted and your access to shared knowledge be denied!

I'm bound by honor to copy your statement and use it as my own, whenever and wherever I please! :)

YDI. Mods didn't think it was a good fit, and they removed it without any drama or personal stuff.

Not only that, but you have been very vocal about your distaste of .world in the past. So not sure why you'd decide to post there since you dislike how the mods there act. Then you come here to complain that they act exactly how you say they always act.

This is scary stuff. Anna's Archive is one of my fav places.

Because everyone with common sense got tired of Reddit's bs.