Thank you for the encouragement! I graduated too lol, just last month with my masters. This is just some research to do during the summer while I look for further education or work.

They only have three fingers 🤔

I think the fact that you cannot tell if I'm real already demonstrates why we shouldn't normalize posting AI-content unless it's clearly labelled.

But to put your mind at ease, could I maybe link you some furry porn to prove I'm real?

It's politicized.

It even works in hindsight. I pointed out some cherished fan remaster of a TV show made years ago was machine learning processed, which apparently everyone forgot. I got banned from the fandom subreddit for the no AI rule.

The ironic thing is this works in corpo AI slop's favor, as anti-AI sentiment hurt locally runnable, open weight models and earnest efforts more than anything.

idk if this image is AI (i cannot tell), but AI image generators are, currently, unethical.

personally i don't have a problem with the idea of AI image generation, I have a problem with companies taking artists' images without them opting in to it, then attempting to "replace" artists with an algorithm that's trained on stolen work. I also have a problem with the technology's environmental impacts. i think this is a common sentiment.

edit: on further analysis, i'm around 70% sure this is AI-generated, due to the TVs looking the same while having a different art style, and due to the strange facial expression in the 2nd panel. also, in the 2nd panel, it would make more sense artistically for the character to be lying down while thinking that, showing that it can look the same on the outside.

Yeah seriously it's so fucking annoying. I wish Lemmy would just shut the fuck up about AI already. The AI haters are more annoying than the tankies.

containing complete, working instructions for making the cure for cancer

Did it contain it once? Or did it ever contained exclusively mindless slop mangled together from bits of stolen art, carefuly put together to be simultaneously as unsettling, as unappealing, and as insultingly bland as possible?
You out there defending shrimp Jesuses as if there is any merit in copypasting it ever. You had to invent a scenario that never happened and can't possibly happen, to paint us as unreasonable, meanwhile all that "your side" produces is exclusively derivative slop that costs precious resources to make while removing value from the world.
It's not that we hate on perfectly good images because it's made by computer, we hate on offensively terrible images flooding our world. The fact that you can shortcut it to just hating generators is our point actually

Yes.

Find a fitting meme template or create a new one. You don't need amazing photoshop skills. Or share your idea and let someone else do it.

Don't waste electricity and water, or legitimize generative AI to get your point across.

AI is distasteful to artists, disrespectful to our environment, and dangerous for the creativity of future generations.

Apparently so.

Slop means shitty and disingenuous to me, which is not this comic. Frankly, it hits me hard.