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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/636389
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This comment section is gathering personal attacks so we are locking it.
Additionally: we don't have a rule against AI generated images, so we had a discussion about this and wanted to hear what the !buyeuropean@feddit.uk community thinks about it before acting on the reports.
Will announce more about the AI discussion soon in a separate post.
Now get a human to redraw this.
seriously, I'm thinking of blocking the users who keep spamming these AI bullshits.
perfectionism is the enemy of progress
This is a "buy european" community, not an anti-AI one. This image gets the message across. It doesn't have to pass a purity test.
Woah how can you tell here? I have been bamboozled
The text made me suspicious - I never really thought about why it looks weird, but from closer inspection it looks like almost every letter is unique. It just has such an uncanny look. If it was made with a normal font then letters should be near identical. I suppose some artists who hand draw text could be caught up, but I don't think that's common unless they're drawing a uniquely stylized font. For fonts like this that are just plain, it wouldn't make sense to hand draw each character.
The 2 apostrophes in don't and doesn't in the bottom left are a super obvious example
Not OP but when I saw the font it reminded me of the same font used in AI generated drawings with words. Can't be sure though, usually there's some defect in the words but not this one
I often see people giving others flack for switching to Proton because their CEO etc.
But any step in the right direction should be praised, Proton etc. Is far from perfect, but it's so much better then never moving away from Google / Microsoft etc.
Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.
You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.
Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.
The CEO was saying that Trumps pick to help fight big business was great, not that Trump himself is great, the fact that so many people didn't see to get that and instead just went, Proton CEO likes Trump! blew my mind
And he was also wrong about that point as well.
This reply by @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on the original post may help someone here:
Imperfect Allies Aren't Enemies
- Critique to build, not tear down
- Organize, don't just argue
- Movements win, not individuals
- Perfection is the enemy of progress
- Ego kills movements
- Plan for the long game
- Meet people where they are
- Power doesn't care about feelings
- Division is a weapon used by elites, don't play along
daily reminder that luddites weren't against new tech out of fear or misunderstanding, they were against the owner class hoarding all extra productivity as wealth instead of reducing workload and/or increasing pay for the workers alongside tech advancements.
I love how the propaganda bots have persuaded everyone to focus on whether or not this image was made with AI, and everyone completely forgot about the very positive and constructive message in this image.
All of these rules would have helped the Occupy Wall Street back in the day