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
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    1 day 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.