To the several people who reported this post:
This community does not have a ban on AI generated images. Especially ones as silly and harmless as this.
Should a user abuse AI generated images, such as spamming them, then action will be taken against them. But one-off silly images like this are fine.
There are ethical concerns with the use of AI, especially image generation.
c/dogs has a strict no AI policy, and it seems to be appreciated by our users.
This take is this community’s equivalent to the sole c/dogs mod (who very recently took over) banning people for putting up facts about pitbulls: pitiful
Removed by mod
But I enjoyed it
Don’t worry about that. Some people just made AI-hate their whole personality. They take pride in fact that they don’t understand these new tools and can’t use them. That’s a relatively new trend, but it’ll pass.
Some people just made AI-hate their whole personality.
It’s being used to replace human workers by the exploitative wealthy, and it’s actively destroying the environment we live in. If you are not against “AI” (that is, generative machine learning models - there’s no intelligence involved) then you are colluding with the robber barons.
That is caused by Capitalism, not AI.
Unless you are training your models at home on your own private server, the current generation of ML models are dependent on the capitalist corporate model. They are trained on large datasets collected by corporate surveillance using server farms owned and operated by corporations, by developers paid by those corporations.
The capitalism and the “AI” are inextricably linked. If you use any of their apps you are patronizing them.
Luckily there’s hope:
I’m actually not sure how to interpret this image in this context… are you implying that the argument over AI is part of the culture war distraction? or are you agreeing with me that AI is a tool of “they”?
How many human workers lost their jobs because of this meme?
Here is the answer for self-assessment:
spoiler
zero
Uh huh, and how many graphic artists lost their jobs because of this model (and others like it) being sold to companies as a way to produce marketing material without paying an artist?
And how many unnecessary pounds of carbon were pumped into the atmosphere because of this meme?
This post is bad and deserves 20 “ai slop” comments because somebody did something else somewhere else using a similar tool? Is that what you think?
You either object to the acceleration of exploitation and environmental destruction and refuse to participate in it, or you are a collaborator.
It normalizes the use of genAI for even more things.
Today it’s just shitposts, where quality isn’t important.
Tomorrow it’ll be one off projects that their creator really wanted to be out, so quality won’t be important.
After tomorrow, it’ll be small group efforts becoming “solo endeavours” with lower quality artwork.
After that, it’ll be corporations within the creative fields that really want to lay off their workforce, even if it means lower quality work, because they can make up with the lower production costs and higher quantity.
And one day, we will wake up to a reality, where everything is AI generated slop, and we won’t be the “idea guys”, who write the prompts for them.
If you ask: not all other technologies were all good either. Cars made us dependent on them, forever restructuring our cities, atomizing our communities. Hell, some of the tools that made creative endeavors, such as home recording and easy to use game engines caused “the bedroom djent kid” and “fetishization of solo indie devs” problems respectively.
That reminds me of Putin’s argument on why a person who threw a plastic drinking glass at a policeman was arrested: “Today they throw plastic drinking glasses, tomorrow they’ll start throwing molotovs, then - killing people.”
The irony in this is that autocrats really love generative AI, especially when it is used to dismantle democracy.
But… but… the children in the meme mines will go hungry tonight, you monster
Then copy the picture yourself
At least those people have a personality…
Are you implying that people who don’t like AI are akin to Luddites?
I just don’t like AI art.
That idea of that post is really cute, someone could have illustrated that and it could have been lush.
AI art is just an updated version of airbrush art you’d find on the rides at a fairground - it’s tacky.
I have no issue with using AI in research and problem solving where it actually exceeds humans. For meme making, OP could have at least made sure it draws an actual hierarchy instead of every node connected to every other node. Or at least fix it in Paint afterwards.
More importantly, let’s stop calling LLMs AI.
Dude. This is a Lemmy community for cats. Your standards might be a little excessive. 🤷♂️
My standards would have accepted a doodle made in Paint. This is lower effort than that, for way more computational power wasted (which, in turn, means more energy and heat wasted).
Concur
Is this AI generated?
AI art bad
AI haters bad
I don’t hate AI. I hate technology that disenfranchises workers, even moreso when they make a living from their art as I do.
anyone who actually genuinely likes the technology should despise how it’s used, like how oppenheimer hated his work being used to vaporize people.
we could be living in a world where models are exclusively trained on public domain content and things made by people who actively consent to it, but instead rich shithead techbros just blithely throw the entire internet at their massive server farms every week in the hopes that it’s 0.2% better this time
Is this ai
🤮 garbage Ai slop
Scrungus is my favorite, but he is absolutely not a friend. He is a menace.
This portraits feel AI generated, there’s something off about them
My stance is on AI is that generative AI being used to do all the work and stealing jobs is wrong but it can still be used as a tool to help workers get their jobs done faster
I enjoyed the meme LadyButterfly. the Lemmy AI hate train has gone full circle-jerk meltdown with this one, sorry it happened to you. Thanks for the laugh.
Thanks Smokey, I’m just sorry it got referred to the mods! It’s more work for them over a circle jerk
No need to be sorry. I’d step down as mod if dealing with stuff like this was too much work for me.
Plus this isn’t the first time a post with an AI image has gotten this kind of response. I just copy-pasted the same comment I made the last time this happened.
Thanks skyler… good luck managing this from now on!
You shouldn’t be sorry, you didn’t do anything wrong content wise. If anything you helped the community by sparking a important conversation leading to better defined guidelines which I imagine will be updated if this becomes a common enough issue.
That’s really nice of you thanks 😊
