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AI slop
Just stop it. Spotting these is getting harder and it's not a useful skill to practice.
Memes seems like an appropriate use case for AI image generation.
Why?
Memes are low effort. Its so everyone can make them. The accessibility that allows all kinds of people to make memes makes memes relatable.
An example of the opposite would be fiction books. 99% of fictional characters in books hate math and love language. That's what creation being inaccessible does to a medium. It twists it into something not relatable.
Because it's inherently low art, by which I mean the ideas communicated are barely above a snip of text. That's not a bad thing, but it means a machine processing prompts can, with adequate discernment, produce an adequate output. It's not short circuiting a creative human process, it's helping you make slightly better stick figure drawings.
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?
I'm deeply concerned about the rush to so-called "AI" and the use of synthetic text in all aspects of life, particularly when it substitutes for productive labor in policy generation and implementation.
Meme generation is not the same. Stock images are already trash, designed for bulk distribution as filler. If a machine can output an image that's equally functional, no artist is deprived of the opportunity to create something meaningful, no onlooker is deceived into believing that a human mind orchestrated this camera angle or that brush stroke.
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?
I prefer the soyjak original
Same, but I still like this recreation. It has a culture jam aspects to it, like Sonic 'Ethical consumption' memes.
At this rate, randos are gonna have to spend hours at a time analyzing if a single meme posted on the internet is AI, just to accomplish absolutely nothing.
Looks good OP.
I, for one, insist you homecook me rustic poorly-edited memes daily. Taking a meme and editing it is not what memes are about!!
On the other hand, AI recycling could be an issue on other platforms where user reputation matters more. We don't have ads or karma tallies by default so its less abusable here.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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