Post #2037813
2026-05-05 16:04 UTC
#OpenTuningFestival in our 'hood is a cool initiative with amateur musicians playing from their porches and garages. My youngest was going to volunteer this year but noticed that all their posters and website uses gen ai art. They wrote an (I thought) very constructive comment to the FB group expressing concern about ai stealing from artists and surely there are small local artists that could do illustrations, etc. The mod deleted their comment as “rude and unnecessary.”
https://opentuning.org/
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@Undercat@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-05 16:17
@bgm What a cool idea and how tragic that they decided to go the AI route for art and stifle any discussion of the implications. We recently went through something similar with our local community theater. It's led to a lot of seasoned crew and actors boycotting the theater over their decision to use AI art for their promotional material.
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@elsemusic@musician.social 2026-05-05 20:28
@bgm I may risk missing a lot not using Facebook (many local music events are only organised and promoted there) but I'm pleased to miss things like this.
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@bgm@musicians.today 2026-05-06 22:08