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!
Yeah, and I don’t expect you to. You are still profiting from artwork, that was involuntarily stolen from artists to train this AI. You are not directly copying them, but you are indirectly using their work without their consent. Like I said, I don’t expect you to pay any money for the banner, but you can either search for existing artworks on the internet, that is creative commons (like on pixabay), or if you find something else (from an actual artist, that fits, just ask them nicely and I am shire they would be happy to let you use their artwork for such a purpose for free. I would also be happy to search for something like that myself and suggest you one, if that’s OK for you. It’s not about paying a bunch of money, my point is just, that we should respect artists a bit more.
I have, over the years, done all of the above. I had a site that was adjacent it a minor UK ISP that was even promoted on there forum as a first stop that I asked a photographer if I could use one of their photos that wasn’t CC (before CC/libre was mainstream) with attribution for the sine and associated app.
OK, so why do you still have the AI banner then?
Why should I change one?
Well, I guess you don’t have to. I just think it’s a bit depressing and also pretty disrespectful to artists (I think, I laid out pretty clearly, why I think that). Now, if you don’t care about any of that, I can’t stop you, I guess, this was just meant to be a friendly proposal.