Rotating banners on /r/piracy

Hey mates, recently I've developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I've done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com and the lemmy.dbzer0.com.

So now this is now active!

Here's some sample images that will be created

If you have improvements you want to see on the prompt, do let me know in the comments. In the future I'm having thoughts of allowing the community here to automatically send adjustments ideas to the prompt for funsies.

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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?
- My brother in christ, you have a banner either way. What exactly is bothering you?
  
  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.
  
  It's a change in something about /c/piracy. Where else would I publish this?
  
  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?
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Oh totally. The irony is that the previous banner was GenAI as well.
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  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?
  
  Your personal feelings aside, this doesn't practically affect you in any way from how it used to be until now.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  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?
  
  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.
- 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. :)
- 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.
- 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.
- it's just banners dude, you won't even see them unless you navigate to community.

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