In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture. Generative AI is (in most cases) just a fancy way for cooperations to steal art on a scale, that hasn’t been possible before. And then they use AI to fill the internet with slop and misinformation and actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art. Because of these reasons and some others, it just feels wrong to me, to be using AI in such a manner, when this community should be about inclusion and kindness. Wouldn’t it be much cooler, if we commissioned an actual artist for the banner or find a nice existing artwork (where the licence fits, of course)? I would love to hear your thoughts!

  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    The community has shown it cares little for the time, effort, and skill involved so somebody with an hour and stable diffusion would win out over the multi-day process of making something meaningful

    I mean if the end result is shittier than some AI slop then not sure the effort matters much. I could pour hours of work into a painting and it’d still be total shit because I’m a really shitty painter. I wouldn’t expect anyone to value my painting just for the work I put in.

    Exception being parents when they get their kid’s shitty painting they did at school. They have to pretend to think it’s good and appreciate it.