I would like to emphasize the message “RUGS”.

I’m asking you again: why use up the resources for a synthetic image if it upsets people and the expected quality is so low for memes, anyway?

Why synthesize a fucking Wojak template?

Says the person scouring my comments to try to dunk on me.

Butthurt?

That’s totally how sarcasm works, comrade. /s

Smoked ham!

See, I can do non sequiturs as well! /s

You’re not a punk if you don’t care about so-called “AI”. You’re a bootlicker with attitude.

Using it, not all that energy intensive

According to this article, this is not considered true anymore:

As conversations with experts and AI companies made clear, inference, not training, represents an increasing majority of AI’s energy demands and will continue to do so in the near future. It’s now estimated that 80–90% of computing power for AI is used for inference.

I think there’s a reason why OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Facebook hold the energy consumption and water usage numbers so close to their chest.

Be specific.

Adjust your goddamn tone, when speaking with humans. You’re not prompting a so-called “AI”.

Because it’s inherently low art, by which I mean the ideas communicated are barely above a snip of text

So why not use a graphics program and stock images? The above example already had a template which was put through a synthetic image generator. Hell, I saw this exact meme in the wojak format.

It’s not short circuiting a creative human process, it’s helping you make slightly better stick figure drawings.

Why would I want that if stick figures would suffice? Many people don’t want to engage with synthetic text on meme communities. Why do you want to be complicit in so-called “AI” so badly?

Why?

It’s supposed to be black-white-red, which are the colors of the German Empire pre Weimar.

It’s a synthetic image. Look at the hats.

AI slop

Just stop it. Spotting these is getting harder and it’s not a useful skill to practice.

Yeah, you lose the friends because you have shitty life goals.

My house? In this economy?

How were they able to sue Palworld, then?

“Putting a piece of yourself” is magical thinking to me.

It’s a metaphor. You’re ndt supposed to take those literally. 🙄

Any creator will inevitably put their worldview and skill level into their art. So-called “AI” has neither.

Ai makes mistakes too

Those mistakes stem from a mathematically inaccurate model. Human mistakes tell something about the creator

people rant endlessly about how useless it is and that is what people used to call ‘slop’.

Not why it’s called “slop”, homie.

f a human making the mistake makes it desirable instead then this is once again not the reason but a justification.

Not what I said. Any detail in human art is there because a human put it there. It’s a form of (sometimes involuntary) communication that computers lack.

But that’s the issue, you don’t know what oop prompted to make this. They could have been arbitrarily simple or elaborate with what they asked and you couldn’t tell beyond that they were happy with this result enough to post it. And I’d argue the amount of intent in a prompt is still independent of its length as they could’ve tried longer descriptions and found that the results of shorter ones align with what they seek better.

Again: not what I said. I’m saying that the intent behind so-called “AI art” starts and ends with the used prompt.

I choose to believe the joke came from them and given that this is an internet meme that exists to deliver the joke, I don’t dwell on the visuals.

Then you choose to be complicit in the normaliztion of so-called “AI art”, which leads to tangible problems in the real world.

Intent is a concious thought. Just because the artist had an intent while making the art doesn’t imbue every detail with the intent. Every subconsious microdecision doesn’t necessarily align with the artist’s intent and neither could I hope to extract meaningful information from them. I can only understand what the artist intentionally put in there. But I get what they’re saying, there are countless conscious decisions an artist makes while making their thing.

I disagree. The fact that art includes the intended bits, as well as the unintended ones makes it so interesting IMHO. The fact that you always put a little piece of yourself (as well as your artistic abilities) into the art is amazing and impossible to recreate from a machine.

Take the sanic meme, or “It’s Friday” by Rebecca Black. None of these people wanted to make “bad” art, but they still put it out there and the imperfection made the pieces so popular.

Anyhow, IMO the visuals of a meme is the last place to seek artistic intent. Especially with these ‘joke with visual assist’ kinds of memes the grand majority of artisitc intent is the joke with the visuals being a tool to adapt it to a visual medium. If anything I think the visuals of this meme have more artistic intent than the recurring characters of a webcomic strip telling a joke to each other.

Even the worst webcomic carries more artistic intent than some AI slop. You can clearly measure the “artistic intent” of whateis contained in AI slop: it’s the prompt. If I prompt an AI “Make a funny comic”, then the artistic intent is “make a funny comic” (and maaaaybe all the other prompts beforehand that I didn’t want to propagate).

This article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite well, I think.

The lack of artistic value.