I agree with you almost 100% (except the copyright stuff), but,

The biggest source of resistance is people fearing for their jobs. That said, a lot of them have never actually tried AI, so they don’t know the limitations and why I doubt serious businesses will replace any serious creative work for years to come

…the business owners are just as ignorant. They are trying to replace people with AI, which will disrupt our lives while the CEOs refuse to admit their error and force us all to deal with it anyway. It’s a lot like outsourcing. It’s not as cheap and effective as businesses hoped, customers largely hate it, and we’re still doing it anyway.

AI will be disruptive, but over the long term it will settle down to a small disruption. But the journey to get there might suck a bit.

What is your degree to you? A means by which to qualify for a job? Or the lens through which you perceive and shape the world around you for the better?

Because AI might some far-flung day make the former obsolete, but I don’t think ever the latter.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment deleted there, but I blocked the instance anyway. Life is too short to engage with people whose values are entirely antithetical to my own. At least not on their home turf.

All of this. I just blocked the sub. It’s not in my interest to raise my blood pressure over what a bunch of chuckle fucks think of my choices. It’s fucking weird the pejoratives they invent. Carnist? That’s cool, like an artist. Whatever. They can live in their world and I’ll stay out of it. They aren’t affecting me.

lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.

Yeah. My sympathies lie with OP, but communities should be able to unapologetically curate their vibe.