The guy replying to me is (as far as I can tell) the sole owner and moderator of .wtf, which is the instance I've been using up until this point. I kinda already knew they allowed AI slop, as there's nothing in the rules that says otherwise, but this interaction really sealed my decision. "Hey, person who makes music. If you don't like another musician using the fascist plagiarism machine, how about you offer to create art for them? After all, if people simply donated their time and effort, maybe they wouldn't have to resort to pissing in the face of their fellow artists of a different medium. Think about it."
Also, I think you can donate to the instance in crypto?
Fuck right off with that.
On another note: PeerTube itself uses Whisper for automatic subtitle generation. It's something I don't LIKE, but I approached the devs about it and they responded very thoughtfully. I'll admit I don't know all the differences between locally run, open source models that are used for accessibility and the horrible plagiarism machines we all despise the most. I suspect they're still built off exploitive tech / trained on stolen data and whatnot, and Whisper being the product of OpenAI doesn't inspire confidence, but Framasoft only uses it to detect speech, not create it. That's hardly "generative" at all, is it? It's just creating subtitles. Now, that doesn't mean the program itself is ethical given how it was likely created (as the devs acknowledge), and we SHOULD push for ethical, FLOSS methods of doing these sorts of things. I'm sure it can be done, it wasn't exploitative before the AI boom, right? This is where my knowledge ends and I ask for feedback. Any thoughts?
If you're already making music how hard is it to make a fucking album cover??? Kids these days are lazy as fuck. I was making shitty album covers in gimp when i was 6, and I'm not intelligent.
I blame parents.
That's funny because I leave songs unreleased for the single fact that I can't commission art for all of them, and I have no skills personally, so I DO find it harder to make cover art then music! But you know what I still do? Get an actual artist to make something for me! At some point!
Oh and I get that, I probably came off jerkish saying that people can just do it themselves but yes there's always the option for collaboration. Thats the worst thing about llm slop, it further pushes us to a hyper individualistic capitalist hell.