I’m about to leave shitjustworks because they have an AI header. I’ve had an account here on hexbear for three years, but I’ve also made an account there right before Hexbear started federating, and I’ve been using that one more. I largely stayed out of the drama between the two instances when that happened, so you may say I’m late to pick a side… But now I’ve definetly had enough of AI crap, so I’m falling back on this account.
Now, I just wanted to check how the logo was made. I don’t think it’s AI, it doesn’t look that much like it and I remember it’s been the same since before AI got that mainstream… But to check I wanted to see if the artist was credited on the banner, or the sidebar, or the lines below… But nothing. So, who’s the artist and why do I not see them credited?:
I can confirm that the logo is not AI because a) it is a vector graphic composed of basic shapes, b) I have the SVG itself on my drive and have used it to make emotes such as
and c) it was made in 2020—before diffusion models caught their stride, i.e. 2021-2022. Before the field’s adoption of diffusion models, basing any design in of AI image generation isn’t really a recipe for anything coherent? Even if so, you’re either really lucky or you’re filling in gaps. To give a better idea of the timeline here, this was novel in 2020:
data science major btw