Not sure if this is AI. If so, then it is an example that AI content need not always be bad.
But it is on who owns it and uses it for what. Collective control over AI, directing it for the benefit of the people would be good.
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Anyway, since this is causing discussion: Anyone with the meme making skills see a non-AI version of this? Or anyone who has the skills to do that? Or anyone who can share the tutorials to easily/quickly learn how to do that?
This is the best use for AI image generators imo: throwaway meme slop that isn’t really supposed to look very good, wouldn’t have been made otherwise, doesn’t make any money off of other people’s labor, and did not take away a labor opportunity/labor power from anyone. It’s not like the AI companies are making money off of this, not even close, they’re all bleeding to death.
Oh it’s wasting water and electricity? The water and electricity were already wasted by training, you can’t un-waste the water or electricity. In fact, if you refuse to use the AI model they trained then the water and electricity were wasted for nothing!
Oh it’s plagiarism? Oh not precious property rights, I didn’t realize we were fucking capitalists protecting the sanctity of copyright.
It’s not an example of AI usage being good, on account of it’s soulless garbage slop with unbalanced pacing, which adds nothing to the original strip that it was stolen from
Ai bring controlled collective doesn’t change shit about its insane and damaging water usage.
You can generate AI locally.
Also can we please stop talking about AI in terms of water usage? The amount of total carbon it emits is a much bigger concern.
You trained that AI locally too? With only content you own?
I don’t pay for models in any way so I’m not responsible for the emissions during training. AI companies decided to create these emissions, not me.
I did a bit of research and the full emissions of AI is relatively small compared to other things but still far from negligible. If we take this guardian article at face value the total emissions of AI is 80 million tonnes. Which is about 1.3% of total carbon emissions (about 6 billion tonnes). I did a bit of research and I just thought I’d share.
„Not sure if this is AI”
NEVER SLOP!
You know it’s slop and you posted it anyway?
Yep.
Better to share it than not. Maybe someone will make a better version and share it.
And then, I can delete this.
Booo
Yes its AI
But you know what? That damn first panel (a version of it that isn’t garbled by a bot, anyway) has been floating around forever. Getting a narrative arc to properly finish the point is… so very gratifying.
kill computers
what did the artist draw this on then?
This is ai and it’s pretty bad lol
A gun is only as evil as its user
A gun cannot be evil.
It is like saying a rock is evil. The user, the suppliers, the distributors n all can be evil or not, according to what it is used for.
Tho, guns are potentially dangerous tools, since they are mainly used to take lives or threaten people with its ability of taking lives and can lead to escalation.
So, there should be enough care and awareness on its use and ownership.Yep, pretty much what I was getting at.
Thank you
A rock is a rock. It’s there through natural happenstance and cannot control what a person will do with with it.
A gun is a gun by design. A tool made specifically for the purpose of harming or killing another individual. Often bought and owned by people with fragile egos, or those who believe that have too much to fear, but never own by rational people.
No lol. Also the worst example, the weapons industry is so bad, what are you on about?
Tell that to the 100+ children that die from unintentional gun accidents every year. It doesn’t require malice to kill someone with a gun. Incompetence and negligence do it just fine.
The 4 panel is almost certainly AI, but the first panel is based on work originally by Denis Lushch from Australia and was first seen in 2019. I always thought the guy with all the cookies is supposed to be Rupert Murdoch.
It’s based on that, but it clearly has been run through the AI slopinator and fucked up the original image.
to compare against the one the bot zeroxed out:
Half of this website annoys me. AI this, AI that, AI bad
It’s so much worse on mastodon lol
it’s filtered through an american lens – one that prefers to blame the technology rather than ever taking action against the epstein class that wields it to our detriment.
No. There is no world in which LLMs and the resources they devour is worth whatever hypothetical use case it has. Saying this is an “American” thing is fucking frankly disgusting.
it’s a reality in china – the people who control it get to decide.
It doesn’t matter who controls it. What matters is that it is of little value if any to humanity and consumes unfathomable amounts of energy and water to run the data centers that power it. There is no argument that will ever convince me that there is any worthwhile tradeoff there. I don’t give a shit if it’s China doing it, it is still bad.
You’re the one true leftist who knows everything and all AES are bad because they don’t follow your random made up rules, am I getting this right?
Ultras = useless
all AES are bad because they don’t follow your random made up rules, am I getting this right?
What a ridiculous strawman. I do support AES I still think LLMs are bad and not worth the resources they consume fuck off.
Oh in that case are you not interested at all why they have five year plans for technology you simply write off as “bad”?
Think about it. What do they see, that you don’t see?
It’s ai and tree died for this
How many trees?
And how many tress did our comments here take? How manu trees does a youtube or porn video being streamed or uploaded take?
Or is it the issue that the output does not have enough value for a tree to have died for it?
