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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Though this is about Lemmy.world I think sh.itjust.works has a similarly sad story.
We had a vote for the banner when sh.itjust.works started where a bunch of artist came forward with art for the banner and some AI guys came in with art as well. This was clearly stated by the AI guys, with no trickery. The community voted in the agora to reject the art of its users in favour of this stable diffusion slop.
I think you can tell I dispise AI art. The reason for it here though is that the community voted for it over real artists time, dedication, and love for the community.
If someone really wanted to change it though one could create a discussion post in the agora, our community voting community, to have it changed. They'd likely need to provide new art which, as an artist, I'm unwilling to do. The community has shown it cares little for the time, effort, and skill involved so somebody with an hour and stable diffusion would win out over the multi-day process of making something meaningful
Is 'agora' just a metaphor for expressing preferences via commenting, or is it Fediverse polling software I don't know about?
It's a Greek term used by the head mod for their community. Sorry for the confusion
I mean if the end result is shittier than some AI slop then not sure the effort matters much. I could pour hours of work into a painting and it'd still be total shit because I'm a really shitty painter. I wouldn't expect anyone to value my painting just for the work I put in.
Exception being parents when they get their kid's shitty painting they did at school. They have to pretend to think it's good and appreciate it.