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!
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.