They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.

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After second look, that’s not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other “off-topic” comments.

Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI

Here’s the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015

Also, here you can see other’s seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don’t think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594

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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    85·
    1 day ago

    i don’t care about them copying things to train their models. I care about people taking the output and posing as artists.

    That is fine, I can agree with most of that. It’s not stealing, it’s just slapping a new label on something. Maybe plagiarism is a better term.