While low quality and simple, it has a soul and some effort put into it.
While low quality and simple, it has a soul and some effort put into it.
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I'll take the most chicken-scratch attempt at a meme over a photo-realistic (though still uncanny/off putting) AI generated slop any day.
At least when I'm putting a meme together by hand, I can reach a point halfway through and realize "this is stupid" and throw it away. 😆 And if you think my OC memes suck, you should see what's on the cutting room floor lol.
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Reminder: Your stick figure doodles during math class are worth more than the most gorgeous thing AI has spat out.
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The most gorgeous thing AI has spat out is images in a shiny/glowy artstyle that at this point everyone knows is AI, with almost-faces that give the uncanny valley vibes, and backgrouds or text that barely makes any sense because the AI has no sense of reality and allucinates shit.
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I mean if you want to stick your head in the sand and lie to yourself, then sure.
Look at a few of the recent top images in !imageai@sh.itjust.works and try to tell me that many of them don't look good. I'm sorry, but you are fucking delusional if you can't even admit that some AI models can, in fact, make impressively good looking images.
If you want to argue the morals of AI art, then yes, let's have that conversation. But to try and dismiss all of it by saying it doesn't even look good is just pathetic and willfully ignorant of reality. You want so desperately to believe that AI could never create something that looks good that you have deluded yourself into ignoring the truth.
The technology is growing, and it will leave you behind.
Like, fuck, man; am I just supposed to pretend like this isn't beautiful?
Or that this isn't cute and funny?
Am I not allowed to look at things like this and acknowledge that it's far better than anything I could produce without dedicating decades of my life to the pursuit of art?
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I’ll take this every single time over Ai slop being churned out by untalented hacks.
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bUt MuH pRoMpTs!
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[aggressively upvotes]
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AI bros when criticism:
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God, all these people using steel knives to cut their food for cooking, they're so lazy, it's so bad, I hate them so much, you can just do it with your bare hands
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You know, it would have been a good analogy... if it wasn't because it's still done by a human in it.
AI is more akin to a Thermomix. Something that makes things for you when you don't want to make them yourself. But then, you can't really claim any credit, or claim it was made by a human.
Oh, wait. I'm gonna vibe code an app and say I made it with AI as if it was the same as doing it with an IDE instead of using notepad.
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Luddites.
AI might not be producing the best content, and it will change the nature of how humans work (or don't), in good and (many) bad ways. But every culture which has resisted the inexorable march of technology has lost in convincing fashion.
I may not like it, but the current gen of AI is one tiny fraction of a step in a direction which cannot be stopped. Instead of fearing the machines we need to figure out how to best use them.
Reduce the natural resource consumption, and put the thinking rocks to work so humans can focus on what's valuable and important to us. If people are freaking out that their memes aren't drawn by hand, they'd probably be better served by not wasting their time on memes at all.
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Ask six people to identify the 'soul' in a piece of art and you'll get seven different answers. It's an entirely subjective concept.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the saying goes. Maybe we should stop gatekeeping what art people enjoy and stop brigading them when they dare to like something 'real artists' decide they shouldn't.
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Neither is worth while...the "effort" put in to this is so low it hardly registers, and soul it has none of. This is just as bad as AI slop, just in a different way.
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