Cat

Ok, if the Pope can do it, then so can we:

The use of "AI" to generate "art" is antithetical to paganism.
Literally the only one thing we all agree on as pagans is that climate change threatens life on Earth, and we should do something about it. It is our one unifying tenet.
Wasting precious resources to prop up a planet-killing fad just to generate badly plaigerised "art" goes against this single, definitive belief.

#paganism

Jun 7 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadnagaram6d ago
@Cat_LeFey

No notes other than personal moral objections shouldn't need to be justified through religion.

But that's a different problem.
Show threadCat6d ago
@nagaram that's true, we dont need religion to tell us to be decent people, we should just do it anyway.
This was in response to people posting about paganism and using machine generated "art" for their blogs, it's just extra icky
Show threadnagaram6d ago
@Cat_LeFey

That's fair.

I've been wanting to practice my water colors more to make art for my blog, but that feels weird to me for some reason. I really like text only as my personal aesthetic.

I did used to generate fractals based on the date and word count of my professional blog, but that's a different kind of "machine generated art" not based off stolen art and it ran locally which was cool.
Show threadSuzanne6d ago
@Cat_LeFey unfortunately I do know quite a few pagans that vote far right and believe conspiracy theories about climate change not being real.. I do not think they use AI though.
Show threadCat6d ago
@suzannespirit See, this is where bullying, as a social tool, is actually useful! Just like with white supremacists who call themselves pagan, aggressive and visible shunning from the wider community is the antidote.
Show threadmirabilos🐈‍⬛6d ago

@Cat_LeFey this is what I said to one about two years ago who, indeed, used them as covers for his podcast editions. Got me a block. Some people…

"I can’t afford to hire an artist for every episode!" Then have no episode-specific covers is not what he wanted to hear.

Show threadKit Author6d ago
@Cat_LeFey As a veterinary chaplain and ecospiritualist, I agree.