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aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:
I suppose the one good thing to come out of "generative AI" is that I understand what "no cops" means. I don't like how large language models or diffusion models are used and spread around, and I hate to share anything made by them. I can feel this desire, in me, to inspect everything and make sure it's "real".
But not only am I not qualified to do so (it's an exceedingly difficult problem), the act of attempting to identify is caustic to me. Instead of enjoying what people make and share with the world, I can feel my hackles raised and in defensive mode. I've found myself immediately looking to the "signs" that something is fake. And that keeps me from enjoying, and trusting, others, and the things they create.
Just because tech bros have broken the assumption of trust does not mean I should not trust. My response to creative commons becoming "unsafe" cannot be that of a cop; I am not here to police what people make and decide whether or not it is real. I might be right sometimes, but I will also always be wrong, eventually. And I'll have spent my time squinting at people, wondering whether I can trust them, inspecting everything to the nines... instead of just trusting, or not, and moving on with my day.
I can feel how corrosive the distrust is. I can feel the want to trust, and a desire for a simple metric for trust. But acting as the slopcop isn't the way to do it.