A ton of good and bad obviously, a good voice or a bad voice can be amplified.
In this case, in my opinion, it’s a net positive providing someone who wouldn’t have been able to create on their own to spread a strong message of peace and unity, one that’s able to break through the controlled media ecosystem.
AI has good uses in my opinion, those in power do not wish to use it as such though. They simply want to replace labor at any cost, including our energy, water, land, air, and lives.
How do you feel about this? What if it were made by a local model? What if it inspires human artists to take a stand and create similar art spreading a message that challenges people (arguably one of the main ideas of art, to communicate)?
Personally, I’ve got mixed feelings, but it makes me want to pick up my bass and/or sax and start writing a similar message in response. I haven’t seen much music being made (some exceptions of course) that’s pushing an anti-war or anti-regime message when we need it most. I imagine that’s in large part due to the financialization of…well everything. Our culture and art has been morphing more and more to be made to please algorithms, to go viral, to make top sellers lists, to appeal to a commom denominator.
Arguably, the AI video here has more of a human message than a lot of mainstream art today.
Iran is going to abuse people either way. If they used real artists for their propaganda they would be coerced under threat of violence.
The Iranian government is a violent institution, and that is a piece of their propaganda. What’s happening to the Iranian people by way of the US is wrong, and isn’t justified by what is happening to them by way of their own government.
Also, there’s something broken here when an account less than 1 day old can post a positive spin on government propaganda.
I don’t disagree. I don’t care for the Iranian government and never proclaimed as such. Though, I think that’s also part of it as well as that we look at the Iranian government and conflate it with the people themselves. Under that understanding, even as we fight against our fascist regime in America, we, individually, are also responsible for the decisions our leaders make.
Which, at some level, is true. We could have used our 2nd amendment a while ago, for example, but we’re still here, just working and paying our taxes to bomb the world.
Also, I think that’s also exactly the point. We all have to be manually approved as a measure against bots. A federated, decentralized platform allows freedom of dissenting ideas to be discussed. Hence why I even asked the question as I was looking for some genuine thoughts around all that complexity (AI usage, good or bad, Iran, good or bad, working class message of peace from both, good or bad?) Though, seems like people are more focused on the Iranian government more so than the message being spoken or the method by which it was created. Broken clock and all that 😅. Both things can be true at the same time. But given the downvotes maybe I didn’t communicate that well.
If we can disagree with our government and want better, why can’t others? No matter where you are in the world, we are human beings. We should not let those in power define us.
Oh fuck off
