I hate all the AI ‘enhancement’ of old cartoon memes. I don’t need Bugs Bunny to be unnaturally smooth, you’re killing the fucking art that went into painting those old animation cels!
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Dude it's with everything, the fucking thought is always in the back of the mind, it's annoying as fuck...
If you're on Lemmy you don't need to worry about that.
Uncs still spreading 10 year old memes like they're fresh.
I just had that problem last night. There was a very funny meme post with a bunch of bald eagles. I linked it to Discord and then when to the comments. There were a fair few comments saying they couldn’t find any information on the incident the images were from, and that it was probably AI generated. I deleted the shared image after seeing those comments. I didn’t want to risk sharing potential AI when my friend group and I are against it.
I propose a new timeline that starts in 2023. Pre 2023 is BC, before clankers, and post 2023 is AC, after clankers.
If the meme is funny, does it matter?
Keep drawing. That cat is beautiful.
That shadow is unrealistic and the back of the feline is clearly sloping towards what the AI thought was a 5th leg.

Merry has no concept of space, this was a self portrait.
It matters as much as how many child workers made our phones, or how many rivers were polluted so we can have cheap plastics.
In theory, yes. In practicality, probably not, unfortunately.
Let's say I gamed for 6 hours using my GPU at 100%, and then generated some meme using the same GPU for half a minute.
Can you elaborate on how is that comparable to child slavery?
Yeah, less than a fraction of a percent of these memes are made on home gpus. Most are using publicly available, datacenter based ai prompts.
These datacenters gobble up power and fresh water from people who need it to sustain their existence. This is similar to child labor in that it is exploiting a vulnerable populations resources for a profit.
So okay, instead of doing it at home at 80% something efficiency, I then do it on specifically designed data-center that uses even less power to achieve my task. Why is this worse?
We already know the water argument mostly fails.
Because now you are counted as a user gives prompt them (companies) more to make new data centers which are a totally disaster for the enviroment, whoever has to live near 'em and whoever was forced to move away from them— oh and they sometimes even ignorethat nearby water sources are used for the city water and pollute it
The big spenders and consumers of AI aren't people occasionally generating some meme. It's not even close.
Then it shouldn't matter that we're telling the occasional memer to not use AI and that a human made meme is better.
It kind of does. This is a joke community, memes. Lighten up and stop hating joke AI creations, it's essentially toxicism at this point because them spending an hour to create something versus half a minute generating it is a statistical noise in resource consumption. It's a nothing burger, at least the resources are not used to generate child p
Yes it does, I want my shitposts to be 100% human made.
But the joke was human made, not the shit
No, but don't get caught saying that on Lemmy.
Are you willing to discuss on the "why" behind it?
It's a hypothetical joke. It is axiomatic that it is funny, that's established in the premise... there is no 'why'.
If someone wants to try to argue that objectively funny joke isn't funny because of the reader's anxiety that they may accidentality be laughing at something made by AI then they're welcome to try.
Keep in mind that the meme isn't 'It IS AI so it isnt' funny' the meme is 'It is funny but I can't laugh because AI exists'.
It doesn't to anybody who actually enjoys comedy.
Imagine being so social media brained that you can't laugh at a meme without purity checking yourself.
If you're so anti-AI pilled that you can't enjoy comedy because you can't purity check it for AI then you should probably touch grass.
I'd love to touch grass but the widespread expansion of data centers for AI is actively destroying the grass I should be touching.
You're the reason why I made this.
Anti-AI extremism isn't when people don't want to laugh at AI memes. Some people have legitimate AI-Fatigue and realize the political extremists behind AI. Meanwhile real anti-AI extremism involves not bringing up statistics and such. 😀




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