Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

Rotating banners on /r/piracy

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

This is the kind of wasteful BS that will make me unsubscribe from a whole instance.

I’m here for piracy news, not bad art. Who is this supposed to appeal to?

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

My brother in christ, you have a banner either way. What exactly is bothering you?

Kolli ( Kolli@sopuli.xyz ) · 3 years ago

I understand the commenters point, even though I find it poorly conveyed. Some may find this a cool AI-generation project. Does it have anything to do with piracy, the point of this community? Barely if at all. So while it may be foolish and silly to berate the owner of the system, I think this is not the right place to publish about this project.

And I really don’t think people can be blamed either for bringing out this issue.

Please consider my message in good faith.

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

It’s a change in something about /c/piracy. Where else would I publish this?

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

The better question is why else you would publish this.

Why did the old banner need replacement? Why not just replace it instead of setting up a bot to waste resources on a painfully generic new banner every day? Why not make it a community effort rather than a soulless corporate one?

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

There’s nothing corporate about what I do here.

As to why? The because I thought it would be a cool idea to have a new banner every day and because I like randomness, chaos and emergent order. Why do humans change things? Because we can. Because we find the idea cool. Because we like experimenting with creative tools and coming out with never seen before ideas and interactions.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

Removed by mod

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

So? I also use a PC with components developed by AMD,Nvidia and half a dozen other corporatiosn. I live in a house developed by corporations. I eat food developed by corporations.

And unlike all those, Emad doesn’t get a dime from my random banners.

Same fucking energy

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

So? I also use a PC with components developed by AMD,Nvidia and half a dozen other corporatiosn. I live in a house developed by corporations. I eat food developed by corporations.

And if you posted about those here in the piracy sub you’d get the same complaints.

People here who care about art don’t want to see it replaced with generative genericness any more than they want it locked up behind a corporate paywall. Media pirates should be giving artists exposure, distribution, and donations, not reasons to switch careers.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

I have problems with so-called “AI” image generators at every level. Economic, ecological, functional, artistic, and moral.

Do you want an essay or just the bullet points?

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

Your personal feelings aside, this doesn’t practically affect you in any way from how it used to be until now.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

Practically, if a website I use implements features that I don’t want to see, then I am effected. I quit Facebook for similar reasons 15 years ago.

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

Facebook implements things that affect what you get to see and experience (more ads, less people you follow, propaganda etc) for their own profit and empowerements at the cost of the whole society. This just replaces one GenAI image with another for funzies. But sure, if that’s the hill you’re willing to die on, do what you have to do.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

Facebook implements things […] for their own profit and empowerements at the cost of the whole society.

The same could be said for the electricity you wasted because you didn’t want to make your own banner.

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

You realize that making my own banner would waste order more electricity, right? The electricity expended to generate one new image is about as much as the amount you wasted writing these comments

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

Electricity spent to provide humans with a comfortable working environment isn’t wasted. Electricity spent to deprive an artist of the opportunity to practice their craft absolutely is.

katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) · 3 years ago

I’m here for piracy news, not bad art. Who is this supposed to appeal to?

hi it’s me. i’m here for both. :)

Halosheep ( Halosheep@lemm.ee ) · 3 years ago

Instance owner: does something they thought would be cool and was likely interesting to implement

Weird lemmy users: tHiS iS wAsTeFuL bS

You being butt hurt about something INCREDIBLY inconsequential like AI art isn’t going to make it go away.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 years ago

Removed by mod

Brickfrog ( brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 years ago

Keep in mind the instance itself hosts generative AI communities, it is even mentioned in the sidebar of https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/

as well as the instance’s local communities list

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities

Anyways this all seems like a non-issue IMO, most people don’t even see the community homepage and would hardly ever see the banner pic. And db0 isn’t talking about flooding /c/piracy with AI art posts, just updating the community banner… though this instance does have a local community !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you’re interested in seeing AI art posts.

spiderman ( spiderman@ani.social ) · 3 years ago

it’s just banners dude, you won’t even see them unless you navigate to community.