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.
see what’s on the cutting room floor
Show it then
maybe start an /unfinishedmemes thread and have the community help finish them
and so it begins
I like y’all too much to subject you to the reject pile lol.
I’ll take this every single time over Ai slop being churned out by untalented hacks.
bUt MuH pRoMpTs!
Reminder: Your stick figure doodles during math class are worth more than the most gorgeous thing AI has spat out.
Apart from my other comment, this post was a response to another post in the programmer humor community
This is the AI pic
and this is a drawing made by a commenter
But again, tell just how much betttttttttttttttter AI is
Muh prompts tho /s
I’m an engineer. A prompt engineer! /s
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.
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?
Look at this
And tell me how it looks good. Not the pic itself, but the artstyle. It’s still has traces of that shiny shitty AI artstyle.
Y’all treat AI as the fucking holy grail of technology. At one point, everything will be plagued by the cheap, shitty version of the AI images, and the better models will be trained on that instead of actual art, and then these cutting-edge models will be just another shitty image generator because it got more shitty AI images than art fed into it.
The main fucking problem with AI’s quality is that most people aren’t using these high-quality models, most people are using the first thing that they find. And since the people who know about the hugh-quality one are a minority, the internet will be plagued with low-quality, soulless art.
Look at my edited reply and try to make the same argument.
The two first you linked had very notable AI artstyle (specially the second), but that last one was way better. Yet, not the models or efforts the average netizen will use to get AI images, so internet will get plagued with the bad quality ones with uncanny valleys and errors everywhere.
Lmao, try to make the same argument for anything else. “I don’t want people to paint. Most are seriously bad at it and I don’t want my feeds filled with their ugly artwork. Ive already seen that style anyways.”
You don’t even know why you don’t like it, you’re just doing what you’ve been told to do. Jfc.
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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.
Maybe we should stop licking the boot of the tools of Capitalists explicitly designed to remove humanity from the human experience.
You should probably, and I mean this kindly, touch grass
Ah, a 2mo old account slop from Reddit? Say less.
AI bros when criticism:
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
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.
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.
