I'd go as far as argue memes may be the most legitimate use of all for imageGen AI. A meme is literally a quick throw away idea that's meant to agitate. It doesn't need to be a beautiful piece of art, or have any sophistication. It's just a quick way to get the message across. And you often want to make it quick in response to some world event. What Iran did with Lego videos also perfectly illustrates just how effective this can be. While western left keeps doing hand wringing over AI use, people living in countries being attacked by western regimes are using this tech to get their message out.

I think you are greatly overstating my reaction here. All my comments are relatively long because I suck at being concise and I don't want to be misunderstood, but I maybe should have been a bit wiser and notice that there are literally no good intentions or good faith in your attitude. It is after all required to act in bad faith to get this defensive about AI slop and get this far assuming other people's intentions.

Also, literally told to my face that it was good Indians were colonized cause at least that brought capitalism there, as tho free trade never existed in the region before. 🙄

I'm sorry about this, I guess? I quite literally did not mean this and it came to me as a surprise that you got this from my comment, and it's the reason why I am replying once again. I apologize if I said something that implies this or results from colonial bias implying this. I want to make it clear that this claim is very much not in line with my world view. It is also not clear to me what I said that led to this misunderstanding.

That said, this apology is certainly half-hearted. I have enough reasons to assume that you are acting in bad faith and pulling the most inflammatory accusations you possibly can.

The miku meme is cool, though. I wish it wasn't accompanied with such an incendiary caption.

Socialism is when no iPhone, because electronics would inevitably move towards user serviceable designs that aren't made to wastefully be replaced every year.

Can't even exploit my workers without these leftists purity-checking me these days! /s

please explain how running an open model like Z-Image on my machine normalizes corporate-owned tools, I'll wait https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo

then he's standing alone in his formal suit, framed as the only rational thinker in an exotic desert.

I saw it as two different people.

His hair and face seems different, with a darker tone.
I see it as Westernised non-Westerner, noticing the lack of attention and support.

I do understand that interpretation, although this is not just a feature of AI generated memes. Most memes posted here use only white characters or have western opinionated bias although I don't see anyone having issues with that, it's only when it's AI generated.

The person who created this meme had the option to make the characters in the meme to of various ethnicities but didn't. It's not particularly difficult to prompt AI's in specific ways so it reveals your creative vision rather than allowing the AI to make the decisions for you.

But then we are using the internet, social media and devices controlled by corporations.

Lemmy is technically better, without corp control and by having pro-socialist instances. But is the hosting free of corpos too?

I really don't understand this idea that it's the fault of individuals when massive corporations and investors greenlight all of these horrible things. You can't blame AI growth on individual users. The investors and board members made those decisions and the blame needs to go on them, not any of us.

When consumers and workers are blaming each other for the faults of the rich we will never be able to unite against them.