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!
I mean is it really a problem if the only problem is that it’s AI
Uhm, yeah… That was the whole point, I was making.
I think your point was AI is bad.
Mine was does it matter if it’s bad.
Yes it does, for the reasons I mentioned
I mean if you want to commission an artist to make a banner and replace the one we got I’m all for it. Idrc what the banner is. I think a quick, cheap and cute slapped together picture that is somewhat related to the topic of the community is serviceable.
AI is also bad because it uses basically slave labor; people in 3rd world countries have to look at horrible shit all day to filter it out of the training data. using it endorses this, along with environmental damage, the intellectual property isn’t the only issue with it
That applies to all of capitalism, though, we shouldn’t oppose smartphones just because of the same reasons, but oppose capitalism and imperialism.
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
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.
Your phone was made with basically slave labour. Your clothes probably too. Chances are even the food you eat employs workers with less than acceptable standard of living. Are you gonna stop using any of those?
I’m already profiting from unethical labor practices, might as well add to it? That’s not very sound logic ngl
Every comment you make is being stored on hundreds of hard drives, I bet you can guess how ethical the entire process of creating those was.
Better not continue, otherwise you might continue participating in unethical consumption.
The contribution made is done, its not like every time the image is loaded it gets remade in the AI data centre.
Yes, bad things are bad
Your phone was made by underpaid workers in developing countries, are you gonna stop using it? My feelings on the banner are the same.