Why is this a defense for them using the labor of non-consenting artists to generate a crappy header image?
Surely they could ask an artist to volunteer their time just as they volunteered theirs?
Surely they could ask an artist to volunteer their time just as they volunteered theirs?
Even if you take a hard line on the debate on model training data, this is an utterly harmless case, and certainly not worth the gut punch threads like this cause to someone who is just trying to share their open source project with the community.
Also, you don’t in fact know that the model used to generate this was trained with art used without consent.
It is just as easy to grab some CC-licensed images and throw them together in an image editor, like nearly every other FOSS project does at this stage.
I'm more than happy to make to make the switch and give credit to a proper artist if there's one willing to work for free.
Unfortunately "I spent a lot of time on this thing you have no interest in or relation to" is not a very convincing argument in the FOSS world.
Neither is "I'm not going to contribute a damned thing, but nonetheless the team behind this free product needs to spend more time and/or money to make me happy."
If you don't like the logo, well... that sounds a lot like a personal problem to me.