After people reacted so positively to the banner I made I had the idea to do the same with c/anarchism. But what to draw? Well I took the existing image and traced over it, adding some more character.
License (as always): CC-0, no rights reserved. Especially since it’s traced over a generated image.
In all fairness an argument could be made that using generated images feeds the hype capitalists create around “AI”. eg. “Look even anarchists are using it”. Obviously they completely ignore the anti-capitalist sentiment or the fact that the models were running on local hardware.
However I don’t really think this matters, Our corner of the internet is small and no-one is going to subscribe to gemini because they saw some artwork generated here. Although I guess posting “This was made with locally. Fuck Corporations.” below every post wouldn’t hurt.
I don’t think they’re going to be pointing to us as an example. They very strongly dislike the idea of local AIs very much because they have no control over them. They can’t charge a subscription fee, they can’t force the use of guardrails. They can’t even force people to upgrade to new models.
I’m not really sure they would be thrilled about people being empowered to run their own models, which if you look at AI in anarchist spaces is what the majority of people promote.