Ah yes, the famously communist Russian Federation. The RF is nakedly an imperial fascist regime that doesn’t even have communist window dressing, it boggles the mind that self-proclaimed communists and anti-imperialists support them.

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  • The RTO discussion the text is about, if you didn’t read the text.

    What “moralizing corpo worship” do you see in my comment?

    • this isn’t AI
    • Even if AI, it would be better than posting the faces of unwilling participants
    • and even more even if AI, i can generate images on my own graphics card, no need for corpos, TYVM, and even if i hadn’t a suitable card, there are things like AI Horde where normal people allow others to generate pictures, free of charge (yes, not even paid with any ads or tracking)

    You have issues, mate, but i’m pretty sure i cannot help you, better talk to a therapist or smth idc


  • is that important to the discussion?

    It’s even better than a real photo in this case, because you don’t have to worry that any depicted person is real and doesn’t want their face plastered over the internet.

    I can’t wait until the novelty of GenAI wears off so we can resume concentrating on the message instead of the carrier medium. Either that, or until it becomes undetectable, which will probably be in 1-2 years at the current speed.



  • And that is exactly the situation in Russia: it’s an

    • right-nationalist (“rescuing” suppressed people from the evil Ukraine - that one is super ironic because it’s exactly the same argumentation Germany used with the Sudetendeutsche)
    • authoritarian (arrests for holding up empty pieces of paper, drafting for the war - but only in the poor areas far away from Moscow) regime
    • centered on cultural identity (anti-gay laws, “restoring the CCCP”, persisting propaganda comparing the Ukraine war with WW2, "we have to defend ourselves from NATO)

    It’s pretty late, so i don’t repeat the exercise for China or bring up more examples - i’m pretty sure that if you try to counter my points someone else will give you more examples.