Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 年前

Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 年前

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

Kolli ( Kolli@sopuli.xyz ) · 3 年前

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 年前

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

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 年前

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 年前

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.

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 年前

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

I didn’t advertise Stable Diffusion. I posted about a cool new automation I developed. You’re really stretching credulity here…

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.

I wouldn’t and can’t pay artists to make banners for a random community. Ergo I’m not taking anything away. Likewise someone who can’t pay for media, is not stealing money from the artists mouths like the corporate mouthpieces you’re parroting like a tool would argue.

knightly the Sneptaur ( knightly@pawb.social ) · 3 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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 年前

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.

db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) · 3 年前

My random banners don’t stop anyone from opportunities to practice their art. What kind of drugs are you on? Also, you realize you’re in the /c/piracy community, yes? Do you also go and complain about copyright violations?

Electricity spent to provide humans with a comfortable working environment isn’t wasted.

Your comments are anything but “a comfortable working environment”.

Anyway, my point is that your comment “waste” is below trivial. Just like my genAI images. My computer is far more wasteful in a single session of video gaming. Or are you railing against those too?