Rotating banners on /r/piracy

Phenomenal work as always!

My suggestion is mood and topic based prompts derived from the current trajectory of the sub, for example:

Always compared to the day before

• more swearwords = stormy weather
• more anti corporate speak = more punky/anarchist pictures
• more friendly words = sunny weather
• more people joining = more ships in the background
• more posts = more loot/gold in the background

This is pretty complex but would give it a unique adaptive vibe instead of randomness alone.

Just an idea. Thanks for reading. :)

While this is very cool, and a nice idea. I have to vote aginst it. AI art is just so uncanny and soulless.

In my opinion it'd be way better to have human-drawn art as the banner. For starters AI generated "art" can't really even be called art. "Art" implies that it has some meaning, value, message, or a memory even. AI can make art tho, when you mastered it and use it the same as painter uses a brush. I don't think a daily random gen in compatible with putting care into what you create. If we switch the banner every day with another auto generated picture, it'll be just that; a cool picture. But if we maybe switch it up every year (for it to not be stale) with an art competition it'll have love in it at least, with possibilty for all kind of valuables, such as refrences or a unique style.

You could get around this issue with an avatar. A mascot (of the community) if you will. After having the mascot fed to an AI it can generate it in any position doing anything with any background, allowing us to not waste the idea of another commenter (haui), who suggested that it should be dynamic, that it should change depending on what happened the previous day. It could be refreshed daily, it could be made dynamic, and it'll have soul.

I can't draw. But I think I speak for others when I say that I wouldn't mind drawing a character for a community that I can thank thousands of dollars to.

Yo db dont let these haters get you down. I think it looks like a really cool project and love the idea of a shifting banner than anyone can contribute prompts to. I also love the idea of backgroud details being influenced by various metrics of the community.

AI is a tool (just like photoshop, electric lawn mowers, and combustion engines). Anyone who thinks its replacing artists are really underestimating the editing needed to produce something good from AI generators. And this is comming from a writer who loves how much AI has helped with various parts of the process.

Hello! The idea is phenomenal, although I feel that some or most of the genAI images look uncanny usually. I would honestly prefer human made arts, but those could be really costly, so that's totally understandable. I'm impartial on this decision tho, do anything you like! ^^

Also we can lengthen the rotation process tho. A weekly or monthly change would be plenty sufficient, but it's just a small preference.

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?

I really don't have a say as a user on another server, but I'd think you should do what you want because a pirate is free.

Plaster AI generated images everywhere on the background.

Change the webui font to Comic Sans except set the letter h as Times New Roman.

Make everything pink, yellow and bright green so that copyright trolls manually viewing the site can't see anything without being attacked by awful colours.

Do what your heart desires, db0. Embrace chaos, or don't.

Not sure why people are surprised about AI images. You and this server have been using them for a while now. And many of your tools (e.g. Overseer) imo are great uses of AI.

Hey, this is awesome! I might have to set this up to change the banner on my own instance daily. I’ve written a decent amount of python in my time so maybe I can take a look at the code too.

Also wanted to drop a comment that this is awesome and a fantastic use of AI!

Dropping by to say I'm against the AI banners. The various reasons have been laid out and bickered about plenty already, just throwing my opinion in the ring. I think it'd be cooler to put a call out to the community for artists to whip up some banners with their tag for promotion and cycle through those, but that's just me.

I'm not here to die on a hill and argue so don't @ me if you're just tryna fight.

i dont like them. They look like the millionth ai-art-post and i am sick of this. I would prefer some ascii/ansi art - its more nerdy and fits more to the releases we consume.

My vote is no. While piracy is used to store and preserve media, at least for me. This directly deprives artists, something I can't support.

Ai in all its generative forms is bad for everyone and I do not support it or your use of it.

Very neat 👌🎉🎉

On a separate note, last one is probably a swordmaster with those 6 fingers lol

Be Weird, Download a Car, Generate Art, Screw Copyrights

Captain be taking his motto onto other levels

It would be much cooler to use some actual user submitted art instead of AI generated ... stuff.

They turned out pretty nice! My only suggestion isn't really AI related, but regarding the logo over it

The white border helps the black logo stand out, though maybe having an additional drop shadow could help it pop out a bit more, though that might be unnecessary. Just something I like to do when Photoshopping, but it's purely personal preference! It certainly looks good, even without it.

db0, can I write prompts like that for the image generators on AI hoard? Would it select one of the random choices within the brackets to use like your banner does? I think that could be fun.

Thanks for teaching some new techniques with SD prompting. I had no idea prompts could be done that way. Could try playing around with some negative prompting to steer it away from things at random… cartoon or plastic etc. I’d like to see a mix of more realistic looking banners, some orc pirates, maybe tiny fairy pirates.

Are you sure it won't create problems?

User and community profiles are updated at most every 24 hours...

Source

Perhaps there could be some skips since both happen every 24 hours.

I don't understand the federation enough, so I'd personally bumb it to every 26 hours. Not for any particular reason except that it's the next whole even number. Or maybe 30 when rounded to 10 which is nice. But I don't like the 3 so perhaps 40.
Although 250 hours also sounds good as it's even, a quarter of 1,000 and it's 900,000 seconds and not some odd number. But that's so close 1M...

Nevermind, I am just overthinking it. But perhaps a bit over 24 hours might be a good idea. I don't know, perhaps it's a stupid thought.

Very neat idea, though I do have a question, are these banners set to upload to the pictrs database or are they set to upload to a fixed location with the pointer in the community set to that location, it might be a better idea to do that i.e. community banner set to i.e. https://dbzer0.com/images/piracybanner/banner.png and have it overwrite that image when replacing without changing the hardcoded link in the communities. I've done this on my other profiles, using a hard-coded link to another site and changing the images there without uploading a new one.

A reason why that could be worth it is because on pictrs the old ones aren't normally deleted and they can accumulate fast. Of course you could also set up automated deletion of the old one on pictrs which would accomplish the same thing but could be a bit more challenging since I've heard pictrs management is a pain on Lemmy in its current state.

Just to make sure I understood things on my research correctly, AI Horde utilizes Stable Diffusion which is already trained with LAION dataset, is that correct?

I am just an user and not even part of your instance, but I think it would feel nicer to have a member of the community creating the images and the commissions being paid through community funds but well, since this is a piracy community this might not be a shared sentiment.

Fwiw this looks pretty cool to me

I would remove the watermark and also add a way for people to submit banners. Im also on photn and cant see it.

Are "multiple people, duo, cleavage, bitcoin" the negative prompt?

I can't see any banners in sync for lemmy :(