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!
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.
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?