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.
Edit
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?
„Not sure if this is AI”
He had a serious work accident and couldn’t afford proper surgery, so he’s forced to go to work with an arm sewed back on backward.
And he still doing construction? Isn’t that a OSHA violation? :P
Ableist scum
(/s)
NEVER SLOP!
This is ai and it’s pretty bad lol
The 4 panel is probably 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:
A gun is only as evil as its user
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.
Criminal negligence is a type of evil
And if 99% if guns were sold by Satan Inc. , would that be enough to call guns evil?
If 99% of guns were sold to angel inc. would you call guns good? If so, then it’s still not something inherent to the guns. If not, then your Devil Inc. Analogy isn’t very good since it’s not at the core of your reason for disliking them.
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.
Really awkward formatting. Someone def made this in AI and then clumsily collaged them together.
As for the “tool neutral, usage good” argument, I think of it like Operation Paperclip or Unit 731. Be damned sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
Good time to remind everyone: There’s no such thing as Just a Tool
As for the “tool neutral, usage good” argument, I think of it like Operation Paperclip or Unit 731. Be damned sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
Both are not tools or technology, but Nazis being used, right?
Is it about AI researchers?
Even there, the military/surveillance-AI companies and personnel would be the ones similar to Unit 731, right?
kill computers
what did the artist draw this on then?
Mescaline, presumably
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
“unbalanced pacing” ¬_¬
We’re now judging the pacing of image macros
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.
Ai bring controlled collective doesn’t change shit about its insane and damaging water usage.
Does it use that much water? How does it compare to water use by regular datacenters?
And if it is controlled by a collective, they can reduce wastage and use renewable sources, recycle water etc, without having the profit-only main motivation, right?
“What are you worried about? I just use the plagiarism, propaganda, csam and deepfake machine created by technofascists to make political memes.”
Indeed why the technofascists should not own and direct the tech and why the collective should be owning it.
What “collective” owns locally run llms and slop generators?
Who do you think you’re paying for access to the software?
What do you think that software was trained on?
Or are you just trying to justify your use of the slop machine by claiming you’re using it for some noble purpose?
Don’t pay for access to AI. There are plenty of free ones.
What noble purpose?
Spreading democracy and freedom, fighting authoritarianism, plagiarism etc?
And I am not saying that the collective owns it now. I am saying that it should be under public ownership/control rather than the current scenario.
What noble purpose? Spreading democracy and freedom, fighting authoritarianism, plagiarism etc?
Yes, that noble purpose.
So my questions remain:
What democracy do you think you are spreading by using genAI?
What authoritarianism are you fighting by paying the fascists for access to their slop bot?
What plagiarism are you fighting by using the plagiarism bot?
It isn’t going to be collectively owned because it isn’t made for the collective to own, and locally hosting a version of it isn’t going to make it a tool of the masses.
It’s made to convince tech illiterate ceos and politicians to throw money at it until the techbros selling it can get their companies bailed out by the world governments that they convinced to put it into their mass surveillance and military systems.
Paint.net and GIMP are two prime examples of free image editing software that I’d suggest using instead, because even a poorly drawn image made with a mouse in 10 minutes holds more value (literally, in almost all cases) than anything a slopbot is told to generate.
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.
Half of this website annoys me. AI this, AI that, AI bad
Sadly “AI this, AI that” is the entire world rn
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.
It’s so much worse on mastodon lol
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.
“He’s going to swipe your cookie”
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
“I can upgrade the thing bro, just trust in me” The result:
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?
