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Re:Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion am... by marcinzm on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:42PM (#34129251)
>Unrelated to all of this, I'm starting to feel like I'd just prefer if platforms stopped trying to make moral judgments on our behalf.

Platforms overall don't take a stance for moral reasons but for perceived monetary reasons. If they believe they'll lose more money from users or advertisers leaving due to certain content than they gain from that content then they will get rid of that content. Whatever brings the most money will win in the end. Artists, as best I can tell, hate AI image models with a passion so presumably Kickstarter was afraid of losing a lot of campaigns from artists.

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Re:Kickstarter shuts down campaign for Unstable Diffusion am... by concordDance on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:49PM (#34133299)
This isn't actually true.

The CEO can have moral opinions or the board of directors might or Black Rock might or a large proportion of employees might. Any of these groups having a very strong opinion and the others not having one is sufficient.

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