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AI slop memes and the plot to make AI legit (piefed.social)
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I watched a deep dive video into the weird and wonderful world of AI slop memes which revealed a plot/campaign to legitimize AI "art"

Video source but I am going to summarize to the best of my ability:
"The Bizarre Rise of Tung Tung Tung Sahur (And the Lawsuit Nobody Expected)" https://youtu.be/6BdRjuaGlJ0 (~22 minutes). Side note: I think Frankie Fey does an amazing job with researching and presenting these bizarre insight into what the "kids" are up to these days.

tl;dw
Gen Alpha and Gen Z use AI to make what they thought are public domain memes.

A RoBlox game called "Steal a brainrot" created by "SpyderSammy" used these memes in a Roblox game that prints money for the developer (Millions of USD per Month).

September 2025, SpyderSammy removed a very popular AI slop meme character called TTT (initials, name is much bigger) because of "Mementum Lab" demanding compensation. Mementum lab is trying to seize control of public domain memes - https://www.mementumlab.com/

Lots of drama ensues along with an escalating legal battle.

April 2026 the the AI slop meme character TTT shows up in Fortnite as an skin (think of it like an aesthetic costume for you player character) with a one time approximate purchase cost of 10~12 USD.

https://fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id=22470

Fortnite is a game created by Epic Games which is a massive money printing machine masquerading as a game. To be fair it has an almost cult like following and is supposedly a lot of fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite

Epic Games is owned by Tim Sweeney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney

In my opinion, Tim Sweeney is a greedy and disingenuous asshole billionaire.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/epic-boss-tim-sweeney-blasts-steam-for-putting-ai-tags-on-games-says-move-is-irresponsible-of-valve

Tim Sweeney also owns the Unreal Engine (a massively popular and ubiquitous tool for making games that is also a money printer).

Put it all together. MemetumLabs is trying to turn AI slop into property with a monetary value. They failed to extract money from the Roblox meme game made by SypderSammy LLC. Tim Sweeney via his game Fortnite has swooped in to help try and make MemetumLab's more legitimate.

Additionally there are substantial rumors that the next version of Unreal Engine (version 6) is going to be packed with AI slop generating "features".

Not relevant to this post, Fortnite is why Wall Street has murdered a big chunk of the games industry as they try to make their own perpetual money printing machine.

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk, please exit through the Gift shop.

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[–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They're certainly trying their damnest to outspend each other to be the last man standing.

The open models vs the leviathans (Gemini, Claude, OpenGPT, etc) share a lot of the same architecture with some major differences:

the first difference is parameter count. Very rough example: we know the difference between right vs right or green vs green. That distinction or concept is basically what a parameter is. These tiny little details may be an entire parameter or just a marginal shift between 0 to 1. Each parameter is anywhere from one bit to two bytes with the size further influencing the nuances of various patterns. In application, a model with 300 billion parameters needs 600+ gigabytes of fragile and difficult to mass memory chips.

Second difference is the ability to handle a large context window. I understand this enough that it gives me a headache but not enough to explain fairly well enough. Models you can run on consumer hardware is unlikely to a have a large context window.

Third difference is speed. There is a scifi book series about space faring clones of a guy named Bob. In one of the books, two Bob clones are slowly losing their minds because an alien librarian will only answer one question at a time when it reaches the front of a massive queue of other questions. Every time I have worked with a model, its usually a rapid fire process to zero in one the desired result. That's not happening for most normal people who don't have a micro cluster of computers in their home.

On the tail of that last one, they are seriously trying to hook these things up to nuclear power plants to make them financially viable. At home, having a computer running full tilt can translate to a dollar or more of extra electrical costs. $100 added to the power bill at the end of the month on top of not being able to do anything else with an expensive computer is dead on arrival.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You're describing a system where anyone (with money) can just jump in and compete if prices get too high, with plenty of cheaper (if less appealing) options.

    I guess if someone really has a massive infrastructure that is massively efficient they can offer a better product at lower prices and thereby capture the market, but that seems like a long shot;

    And since AI companies were positively BURNING capital in order to look productive, they haven't really even TRIED being efficient, and I don't know that the market is willing to sustain at-cost pricing long enough for it to happen.

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