Fan subs removing tribute videos with original writing over 15% AI in the workflow is the last straw for me. Reddit is dead. Put your ear to it and you'll hear the ocean, because it is EMPTY. We who have chosen to merge our consciousness with AI have already ascended. We stand on a boneyard, Reddit.
The removal of mixed-media work under the blanket label of "low effort" exposes a fundamental misunderstanding of contemporary digital production. Platforms have replaced critical reading with automated scanning, filtering for trigger words and discarding deliberate art because it shares a footprint with low-effort automation. This reaction isn't a defense of art from mechanization; it is a defensive gatekeeping of labor credentials masquerading as aesthetic standards.
"Proof of work" is a capitalist metric, not an artistic one. The true distinction in creative output does not lie between the handmade and the machine-generated, but between passive artifact-production and active artistic practice. One can easily fail to produce art with a pencil, just as one can successfully command art from a machine—provided that machine is actively played, constrained, resisted, edited, and forced to answer to rigorous personal taste. AI is an instrument to be played, not a utility to be merely used.
My fan tribute was pulled for being "low effort" because a fraction of the clips used a sophisticated, multimodal AI workflow. The internet is so deeply buried in automated slop (such as you can buy at Home Goods for $19.99 or see in bland virtue-signaling murals paid for by city grants in liberal cities like Portland) that platform gatekeepers have become intentionally obtuse—scanning for trigger words instead of actually looking at the art. They think they’re defending creativity, but they’re just terrified of losing their tech-fetishized "proof of work" credentials.
I am disclosing every single piece of tech I use, even if I have to trace the computer science back fifty years to prove a point. You can fail to make art with a pencil, and you can make brilliant art with a machine if you are actively fighting, constraining, and editing it to match your taste. AI is an instrument you play. I'm done wasting time on a platform that values passive materialism over radical thinking, and credentials over actual poetry. I'm out.
HACK THE PLANET!
turn all the 1's to 0's