Asklemmy

That's your opinion. I disagree with it. Keep the banner as it is. Someone surely took the time to make that image. As it's pretty good even more for the time it was created. You are just dishing that person's work. I respect that person work, so the banner should stay.

It would be fine if it was possible to ask the person who made the banner how did they made it and how long it took.

Your complain seems to be mostly based on AI being able to do things faster. At that point why stop there.. don't hire digital artist. They took jobs away from traditional artists. Pretty sure the only good thing we could do I commission the banner to a full crew of sculptors to do the 3d mesh on granite and then a full tome oil painter for a year to capture the image into canvas. That would make sure that not technological advances would steal anyone's job.

Edit: It's fucking ironic that anti-AI people use downvote/ upvote bots. But I catched it. Fucking ironic.

The AI sector is not pushed by consumer money. A consumer strike won't alter at all the macro-dynamics happening at the moment. If you want to resist AI, go blow up some data center or unionize some tech workers.

You're making a moralistic point, blaming consumers instead of corporations, which leaves not much room for action.

AI bad. Upvotes please.

actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art.

Are you sure that's happening? Under the previous mode of capitalism, what kind of companies were hiring artists?

As I understand it, that isn't the actual gripe from the general perspective of the artist. Instead it's about copyright, a concept I fundamentally disagree with. I don't think it's necessary, and that the artist's capacity for prosperity being tied to copyright is a symptom of a bigger problem than being usurped by software.

I think there is good art and bad art. I think there is good AI art (tbh I can't think of any examples, I just think in principle AI art has the capacity to be good) and bad AI art. I think the relative ease of access skews people's exposure towards slop. I use the term slop as a descriptor for AI art that is sloppy or wholly derivative; not to prejudge it.

I think perspectives like yours haven't compelled me to think they are meaningfully different from that of the Luddites, or those opposed to implementing computers in the workplace, etc. I genuinely sympathise with those groups, but ultimately wouldn't have us go back.