Pieplup (They/Them)

The penguin communist party.

You are assuming we want a for profit system to exist. I am against copyright because i don’t believe for profit systems should exist cause i’m a marxist. Because it’s a tool of capital in an egalitarian society, communist society. copyright should not exist because it has no reason to cause it’s sole purpsoe would be to stifle creativity and cut off access of it for the people. The main purpose of copyright has always been to stiffle creativity and sharing something among people. As such it’s a capitalist system meant to protect profits.

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I haven’t noticed this being the general consensus among leftists. Generally leftists dont’ care for copyright. As in practice it’s just used to stiffle art and generate profit for the bougiose. My objection to ai is that specially in a capitalist society it’s a net negative to society. I kinda agree with kavernacle in that it should not be easily accessible for public use. It’s just going to lead to the degredation of culture. People are going to start using ai, to do personal things like write speeches for weddings. And in a capitalist systme it will inveitably lead to the destruction of art on a larger corporate scale. As AI slop is more profitable. There might still be some actual art going on but it will lead to the further sloppifying of media content that has been going on in the last decade or so.

Most memes atleast graphical ones do not come from art. They come from photos and pictures of people tv shows or internet clips. The ones that aren’t this usualyl are just simple edits of photos like the socially awkward penguin meme. Of the ones I can think of the creator was either a part of the community it becmae popular in and had no probelm with ti becoming a meme (troll face), or created it for use in the same way it is used now (epic face). Pepe is an example of one that became adopted as a very popular meme but the creator ahd no involvement in it being adopted and they seem fine with it. There is defintiely some very morally questionable thigns involving memes but turning art into memes is not one of them. Also it’s just not ip theft. It completely falls under fair use. And is often jsut literally sharing the image like troll face or epic face.

For me when the morally questionable parts come in it’s when you turn people into memes. Like Hawk tauh girl.

I haven’t talked to my mom since before trump even ran for president so.

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