Dear Coffee Community at LemmyWorld,
Thank you for the marvel you do…
I am sorry, but just to clarify, may I ask… why ever use the so fake, effortless, worthless, void-empty, horrible, and sorrowful meat-ground set of bytes… as the very main banner to represent the so ineffably magnificent art, history, and human effort… as Coffee… and more than 10,714 Members of the Community, too…
There are so many artists out there who have art attributed… and if you haven’t chosen a work of your own, have you considered a competition between the current Members to choose the artwork for the banner? A moment of photography would already be a marvel…
Please… please do consider the noise, emptiness, and unintentional but possible disrespect… towards the miracle… divine elixir… the coffee…
Best and kind regards
Translation from the Arabic…
O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all cares, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
This is the beverage of the friends of God; it gives health to those in its service who strive after wisdom.Prepared from the simple shell of the berry, it has the odor of musk and the color of ink.
The intelligent man who empties these cups of foaming coffee, he alone knows truth.May God deprive of this drink the foolish man who condemns it with incurable obstinacy.
Coffee is our gold. Wherever it is served, one enjoys the society of the noblest and most generous men.O drink! As harmless as pure milk, which differs from it only in its blackness…
Delicious beverage, its color is the seal of its purity.
Source: by Abd-al-Kâdir ibn Mohammad al Ansâri al Jazari al Hanbali [1587 AD; webarchive]
// cc @martijn@lemmy.world ; @dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ; @Xariphon@kbin.social
Are you going to pay an artist to make something? Steal some stock images? Make it yourself?
Easy to take a good pic yourself. If I wasn’t away from home I’d go arrange a couple pieces of gear all neat and tidy and take a decent pic just as good if not better than the slop. Zero reason to generate this.
Also away from home, but also willing to do the same here. I even have an old-school coffee grinder like the slop generated. Got a couple of proper Bialetti Moka pots and a Hario grinder too. Maybe have my old gen Delonghi Magnifica in the background. I’ll check back in here on Monday, I wanna see where this goes.
Why does it need to have a banner photo at all? Couldn’t it be left empty until someone comes along and offers one?
Thank you for the response!
I would, of course! But I haven’t yet had a chance to take a photo of anything so marvelous as antique coffee grinder, and the closest coffee-related works I have are not so appropriate for the header banner I believe… such as a single mug on random background, or the following I’ve just found in backups I captured:
- https://imgur.com/gallery/n29NSUM
Direct preview of the first from gallery
If we consider non-virtual (e.g., video-game screenshots) but physical photography, for more than 20 years I’m into photography of mostly nature as sky and landscapes, or human works as architecture and statues etc.:
- https://imgur.com/gallery/6yh8JfC
Hence, the fair competition mentioned! There are Members in the Community who have ineffably awesome photos or hand-crafted artworks, I believe!
And, using LLM/“AI” is already a stealing, isn’t it? Where:
- 1. Vendors of these “AI” sell not even their works
meat-groundprocessed through their algorithms;- 2. The actual, authentic, original authors of these works become unknown;
Related:
- https://lemmy.world/post/48289309 (The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music…)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 (Extracting books from production language models…)
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