And yet, again, the instance has communities for every single big tech genAI model.

Where do you see that? As far as I see, we only have comms for stable_diffusion, which is an open-weights local diffusion model. I couldn’t find any corporate comms like OpenAI or Copilot or whatever. If we did, I don’t know if I’d delete them tbh, since they’re not explicitly against our CoC, but it would be something I’d be concerned and raise with the instance if they would be too “bootlicky”. But nevertheless, we do not at the moment.

And where do they get the training data for AI Horde?

The AI Horde is using open-weight models only. We don’t train them. We just use them once they’ve been trained.

PS: We are also anti-copyrights, so complaints based on copyright violations don’t fly with us.

You know what “democratized” art and made it freely accessible to everybody? The pencil.

I often see this vacuous argument and it never convinced tbh. It assumes everyone has enough time to train on making art, which most wage-slaves undoubtedly do not. It’s an inherently classist argument to assume everyone has the free time to master any artistic skill.

And this is why I say that it depends. Horde AI could be great - so long[…]

This is an argument against capitalism, not against GenAI itself. You’re arguing that because capitalism is bad and exploits workers, a tool that can also be used to further exploitation needs to be opposed. But we say it’s not the fault of the tool being used for exploitation, it’s the fault of the system allowing exploitation. I.e. If you remove the capitalist system, this argument against GenAI is moot. And we’re very much anti-capitalists in our instance. It’s a similar argument against piracy as well (and we’re also pro-piracy btw). I.e. sharing media is not a problem in a non-capitalist society, in fact it’s a positive. It’s only a negative due to capitalism.