Rotating banners on /r/piracy

db0 · edit-2 3 months ago

Rotating banners on /r/piracy

@knightly · 3 months 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 · edit-2 3 months 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.

@FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago

You are fighting a losing battle and are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I am willing to bet the people complaining about things being changed wouldn’t have even noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. LOL.

db0 · 3 months ago

Oh totally. The irony is that the previous banner was GenAI as well.

Draconic NEO · edit-2 3 months ago

Yeah that person is very clearly a troll. They probably don’t even believe some of their arguments and are just fighting back for the sake of fighting back and gatekeeping.

Honestly this level of pearl clutching is hypocritical in a piracy community which is why I think a lot of them (not all of them) are likely trolls who probably feel this same way about piracy, even if they won’t admit it.

@Kolli@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 3 months ago

wouldn’t have even noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out.

Yes and I think that would’ve been a good way to roll the change. There will be people who dislike the change or the concept (me included). Roll the change quietly or posting about it on project relevant communities. Then on the site displaying the banner have a note about the project leading to further reading about the project, such as posting similar to this.

This way there would be information for those interested, not only about the project, but the change that had occured too. And ideological opponists would be blissfully ignorant about the whole matter.

But this is just one way to do it. Any way works. Have a good day. 👍

Edit: unaunerisming the post

@knightly · 3 months ago

Removed by mod

db0 · edit-2 3 months 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 · 3 months 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.

db0 · edit-2 3 months ago

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 · 3 months ago

I didn’t advertise Stable Diffusion. I posted about a cool new automation I developed.

If it was just “cool new automation” we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

I wouldn’t and can’t pay artists to make banners for a random community.

You could have displayed someone’s already existing art and credited them with a link to their social profile, though.

Ergo I’m not taking anything away.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

Likewise someone who can’t pay for media, is not stealing money from the artists mouths

Again, the marginal cost of distribution approaches zero, but the cost of production does not. Artists should be paid to do work, not for restricting access to work they have already done.

db0 · 3 months ago

You could have displayed someone’s already existing art and credited them with a link to their social profile, though.

No, because that’s boring and not creative.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

Perfect! No comments.

@knightly · 3 months ago

You could have displayed someone’s already existing art and credited them with a link to their social profile, though.

No, because that’s boring and not creative.

You do realize you’re stating that in defense of generic, machine-generated imagery, right?