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!

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    102·
    2 days ago

    That applies to all of capitalism, though, we shouldn’t oppose smartphones just because of the same reasons, but oppose capitalism and imperialism.

    • happyfullfridge@lemmy.ml
      33·
      23 hours ago

      I agree actually! No ethical consumtion and all that, no need to be engaging in easily available AI art usage because “well other things are also unethical”. two wrongs dont make a right

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        51·
        21 hours ago

        The point of “no ethical consumption under capitalism” isn’t that we should focus our efforts on being as moral and upright within capitalism as possible, but on actually overthrowing capitalism.

        • happyfullfridge@lemmy.ml
          12·
          16 hours ago

          good plan, while we do that we can avoid using ai slop, especially because it’s so easy. and i absolutely do think we should put in our best efforts to live ethically, within reason ofcourse

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            3·
            15 hours ago

            We can do our best to live ethically, sure, but being ethical does not mean rejecting technology whole-cloth that is simply used to its worst extent and fashion in capitalism. Not every image that exists needs to be painstakingly made in artisinal fashion, like stock images, and at the same time AI art will never be able to replace art as a human expression.

            AI has use cases, and cannot replace art, but it can make some more tedious tasks that don’t need artistry faster and more accessible, like this banner. If I quickly jotted down a sketch of the banner, it would not have any more artistic value just because a human drew it. Photography also has use-cases, but has not eliminated the use of sketching or traditional art forms.