The fediverse used to feel pretty anti-ai, but over the past month or two I’ve noticed a LOT of generated memes and images, and they tend to have positive votes.
Has there been a sudden culture shift here? Or is there a substantial percentage of people just unable to tell the difference anymore?
As long as it’s intentionally made by a human and the end result is high quality, I personally don’t really care what AI or other tools they did or didn’t use to create that result
I feel like the problem with AI generated content is it’s so easy for anyone to generate stuff, so there can be a huge amount created with little effort. There is high quality AI-generated content, but whew there’s a lot that’s total slop.
I don’t know what the best response is, though. Requiring disclosure of AI-generated comment doesn’t seem like it would help because that’s going to be mostly honor system. User-flagged could be used to brigade/suppress posts. Really it’s probably just a matter of blocking users and communities where you see consistent slop.
Yeah I agree. The issue is that image generation tends to result in maximally bland outputs, and the people who post it tend to put minimal effort in.
I’m not categorically anti-ai, but I feel like I am in practice.
what i’ve thought about for a while now is that when it becomes efficient enough that you can generate multiple images per second you can tweak settings and prompts live, which makes it a hell of a lot more of an actual tool rather than just a gamble that it makes something good enough.
when people can actually iterate on it and easily influence the result it’s no longer just algorithmic slop, it’s basically an image editor and drawing software in one, and you just start with a computer-generated base
of course there’s still the issue of unethical training of the models, but that will hopefully be solved in the near future as people collate ethical datasets.