Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 7 months ago

Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 months 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@pawb.social · 7 months 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@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 7 months 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@pawb.social · 7 months 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@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 months 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@pawb.social · 7 months 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.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 7 months ago

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?

knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social · 7 months ago

My random banners don’t stop anyone from opportunities to practice their art.

Exactly, you never intended to commission an artist because you think so-called “AI art” is good enough to replace them.

Do you also go and complain about copyright violations?

Of course not, the marginal cost of duplicating an existing digital work is trivial. The cost of producing work is not, which is why freelance artists work on commission.

your comment “waste” is below trivial. Just like my genAI images.

If the images are so trivial then why spend so much effort defending them?

You clearly care about this, just not enough to pay an artist for custom work or even to copy something an artist already created.

My computer is far more wasteful in a single session of video gaming. Or are you railing against those too?

Again, of course not. You’re a person and not a machine designed to replace paid work with a generic plagirism laundromat.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 months ago

Exactly, you never intended to commission an artist because you think so-called “AI art” is good enough to replace them.

You gotta be fucking kidding me…I didn’t commission an artist for an image per day A) because that would be insane and B) I’m poor and C) Because the point is being creative myself!

Of course not, the marginal cost of duplicating an existing digital work is trivial. The cost of producing work is not, which is why freelance artists work on commission.

I assure you, the cost of reproducing downloading a single mp3 greater than the cost to generate a single image.

If the images are so trivial then why spend so much effort defending them?

The…what? Read again The cost of creating such images is below trivial! Therefore the potential waste of such an action is not a concern.

You clearly care about this, just not enough to pay an artist for custom work or even to copy something an artist already created.

Yes, because read above.

Again, of course not. You’re a person and not a machine designed to replace paid work with a generic plagirism laundromat.

And as a person, my making the automation to generate these images gives me fulfilment like a video game. Are we done here?

Bilb!@lem.monster · edit-2 7 months ago

Exactly, you never intended to commission an artist because you think so-called “AI art” is good enough to replace them.

Weird argument to make on a piracy sub, honestly. The existence of an AI generated image does not imply that a somewhere an artist lost a commission. Nobody was replaced. It’s not a choice between AI art and commissioned art, it’s a choice between AI generated images and nothing at all because that was the point of his project.

Whether we find it tasteful or interesting is another topic.