I ABHOR how normalised AI has become on platforms around the World Wide Web

It’s lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity.

You are actively resorting to waste hydropower energy and drag us into potential water shortage pandemonium just to lobotomized what could’ve been a perfectly good joke.

This is one of the online exertions that treasonous vermin Trump wants you to enact to entail his horrible totalitarian deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions .

Stop appeasing to that oligarch genocide funding clown and his immoral calavry of fascist oppressors who operates utilities that are primarily made to pollute our ecosystem and increase climate change and ocean levels raising.

If I ever see another shitty No-effort AI Picture like this again, I will actively and violently scratch out my eyes with a rusty garden weasel wrapped in mint condition barbed wire and sandpaper the wounded sockets shut so I could never see slop take control of meme subculture.

Is it that sophisticated to edit Trump’s head over a keyboardist’s anatomy?

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Look.

    The thing about a new technology is that once it exists, it never un-exists.

    AI is here. It’s never going away. Ever.

    There are all sorts of actual concerning issues about AI that need to be taken extremely seriously. Personally, I could care less if it gets used to generate memes. It’s not like memes are meant to look like actual, real situations that could trick people into thinking something that didn’t happen did or vice versa. It’s clearly for a laugh. It’s not putting “meme artists” out of business because there is no industry for memes where people are putting their memes in meme galleries that people buy tickets to.

    Getting mad over AI generated memes specifically just seems like a waste of energy. Like you’re trying to find something to be mad about.

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    Great, another “AI sucks and I’m so much more enlightened because I don’t like or use AI” post.

    The irony of using the internet on a device to post about the energy consumption of AI while relying on that same general infrastructure and energy consumption to make and distribute the post is… rather fantastic.

    If OP really wanted to make a point about reducing AI usage, there is something amusing about using an internet-based service to make that argument.

    And the fact that the joke is considered unfunny specifically because it was AI-generated seems like a particularly strange criticism. Whether someone personally likes or dislikes AI is certainly their prerogative, but that doesn’t really tell anyone anything about whether the joke itself works. It’s a little like saying, “I don’t like this joke because of the tool that was used to make it.”

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      The irony of using the internet on a device to post about the energy consumption of AI

      Oh no. Another “you are critical of capitalism and yet iPhone” post.

      the joke is considered unfunny specifically because it was AI-generated

      It’s unfunny because it’s lazy and cheap. The AI only further illustrates how lazy and how cheap.

      You could have done this in paint.net inside 20 minutes.

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        You could have done this in paint.net inside 20 minutes.

        So you’re admitting it’s no work of art that should require lots of time and effort to create?

        So why not use AI? Clearly you believe memes are something that should be cheap, easy, and quick to do. I agree. Why waste valuable time making a meme? Memes should be relatively low effort jokes. So why not use AI? It’s one of the least harmful ways to use AI.

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        I apologize for bringing your logical fallacies to light. I realize pointing them out is intellectually lazy, but unfortunately it seems necessary when they make up the basis of the rebuttal.

        You’re conflating the effort required to manufacture an image with the effort involved in creating the joke. The context of the joke isn’t who manufactured the image; it’s who made the joke. The AI didn’t independently decide that Netanyahu, Trump, and Ed Sheeran standing on a stage would be funny. A person came up with that concept and used AI as the tool to produce it.

        You could have made the same image in Paint.NET in 20 minutes. Great. That doesn’t demonstrate that the joke is lazy, and it certainly doesn’t demonstrate that it’s unfunny. It demonstrates that you prefer a different method of producing the image.

        And “lazy” isn’t a synonym for “unfunny.” If I spend twenty hours painstakingly creating the exact same image in Photoshop, the joke doesn’t magically become funnier because I invested more labor into manufacturing the pixels.

        If you don’t find the joke funny, that’s perfectly fine. But that’s a subjective reaction, not an argument. If your argument is that the joke itself is lazy, then explain why the idea is lazy. The fact that the production of the image was automated doesn’t establish that.

        For the record, your rebuttal relies on several logical fallacies. The “you criticize AI while using the internet” comparison is a false analogy because my point was about the irony of criticizing the energy consumption of one internet-based activity while participating in another, not that you are somehow forbidden from criticizing technology you use. Your claim that the image is lazy because it was AI-generated is essentially circular reasoning because you are using the use of AI as both the evidence and the conclusion that the work was lazy. And saying that it could have been made in Paint.NET in 20 minutes is a non sequitur: the amount of effort required to produce an image does not establish whether the underlying joke is funny or whether the person who conceived it was creative. Those arguments don’t establish your conclusion; they simply assert it from different directions.

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    Whoever made that could have easily done it with basic photo editing skills instead of AI. Even if it didn’t turn out great, it would still show that a person cared enough to try doing it themselves.

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      Who cares? It’s a meme. You look at it for a few seconds and never think about it again.

      Why spend time with an editing tool for something that gives people a quick laugh and makes you zero revenue?

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    “It’s lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity.”

    dafuk

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    Bro, this would just be the top spot in photoshop battles. A skillset that used to be really really accessible is now no longer even fun because well-done results will be considered gen AI.

    Also, your writing seems like an AI prompt that says: be outraged at AI, make every mistake.

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      Bro fell out of the thesauraus tree and hit every branch on the way down

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        Ouch. The stupid thing is that this existed 4 years ago too. This doesn’t have to be anything AI. We’ve been photoshopping since the printing press was a thing.

        What a misplaced post to rant about a tech that may have nothing to do with the picture.

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        Then they will be yelled at for that. There’s no winning for someone like them. And someone else in the thread still said it looks like AI as it is.

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      IKR, But i have sincere communication deficiencies and struggles to paraphrase sentences.

      I’m a fucking prolapse to the reproductive system of the queen’s English.

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        It’s been enlightening to see how many people lash out at you personally, using the sleights they hope you’d consider most offensive, in response to your opinions on a technology.

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    Views on AI have nothing to do with left or right. It’s actually split right down the middle on both sides.

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      But the left wouldn’t be the left if we weren’t fucking fighting each other all the time instead of the right.

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        liberals and socialists fighting eachother isn’t leftists fighting eachother, as liberalism isn’t left wing

        that’s what the case is almost all the time when people call something “leftist infighting”

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            yeah but anarchists aren’t relevant, and real anarchists recognize that marxism is preferable to capitalism

            i’d argue that “anarchists” who prefer capitalism to what is in their opinion the wrong type of socialism and spend all their time fighting against “evil tankies” online instead of fighting capitalism, are just edgy liberals larping because they like the radical aesthetic of anarchism

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              Lmao in one sentence you perfectly exposed why anarchists hate MLs. Aside from all the historical bs, anarchists are just expected to go along with ML because it’s “better than capitalism”, but you’ll never see any ML giving any ground to anarchists.

              Ironically that makes you quite similar to liberals, who always want the left to support them but never give any ground :)

              Personally, I can fight more than one thing at a time. But since you don’t think that’s possible, why are you more focused on fighting anarchists in your comment than capitalism? Is this projection? Are you a liberal? 🤔

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      Yes and no. AI (the ideal) is labor replacement, similar to the first industrial machines. But instead of manual labor, it is replacing cognitive labor. Under capitalism, when profit is always the end game, labor saving tech will not be used to liberate, but to further exploit the people and rape our planet. This is no different, I think. Usually this kind of capital is held mostly in the hands of one class of people, but this tech is unique in that it has the ability to, once trained, be copied and iterated on by others. Open source, or eventually hacked. Software yearns to be free, in the sense that it can be copied easily. Point is, control over the development and distribution of AI is so difficult that even the “common sense” right* end up feeling betrayed. It mainly benefits the far right and the oligarchic class.

      For now, it is not the ideal. But the intentions of the most powerful people seem to continue to race towards unregulated, privately controlled AI. They talk of slowing down, but I don’t have my hopes up after everything that’s happened.

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        AI and people using it to make memes are not the real enemy.

        The real enemy are the assholes using it for actual nefarious and greedy purposes. Using it to make memes doesn’t fall into the nefarious or greedy categories.

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          Using ChatGPT/Grok/Gemini/Whatevs to create memes is supporting the enemy, yes. Ultimately feeds the bourgeoisie by utilizing their services and pumping up their stock.