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!
You should definitely support artists! You know how good it feels to support someone you know? I’m personally going to give my music away for free. I think intellectual property is meant to be shared, but I do recognize that we gotta eat in this parasitic system, yo. How about this? We support artists with our commonwealth? It’s fucking important, man. Culture matters. No need to shift the blame to the individual when it’s the system that’s rotten. Two more ideas, then I’ll fuck off. Guaranteed dignity in death, and defensive, non-coercive, no entanglements protection of holy sites. I’m a deterministic atheist through and through, but man, we gotta heal our fucking souls.