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!
A couple things. I don’t think the attached image makes the entire post “next to useless”, and you know you don’t have to set a banner image at all, right? Or, if you want one, you can put on a contest in the community, or just make one in paint or Photoshop yourself. You don’t need to jump to the slop machine, AI images are usually worse than nothing at all imo. An AI banner is “next to useless”.
well it does, the post as it stands makes little to no scene with the attached image.
I don’t have to set a banner, and 4 of the 6 communities I mod/admin that have banner images I own the copyright on, 1 is a photo from my brother and the last is AI. The banner on the instance is CC by a local photographer