[–] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

The original comparison to Winnie the Pooh was from Chinese social media and was arguably an affectionate joke. Xi didn't like it and it became a meme for his critics due to its censorship. (This is from what I've read previously and double-checking just now)

Edit - one of the original comparison images that started this meme:
Image of Xi & Obama next to an image of Pooh and Tiger

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Well someone needs to prompt the AI, find reddit articles to copy and make sure the final article has all the SEO to make it show up in searches to earn the company ad revenue. The high ups at Valent aren't going to do the dirty work and underpaying someone to be a writer also allows them to shift some of the blame should there be a major issue with an article.

    The first sentence of Valent's about page says "Valnet was founded in 2012 by builders with […] an obsession with scale." Based on this I'm sure that at some point in their constant acquisition and gutting of known brands they will try or have tried having AI make and publish the articles directly, but I also feel like people are more likely to stop visiting a site where the content is directly from an LLM than one that has human written/edited articles with heavy LLM involvement.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    It was probably quicker to ask an AI to edit it than to make the edit personally and the writers for these sites are paid very little to churn out multiple low effort articles a day

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

    Yeah, I saw the issue number didn't seem to match up, but gave up verifying it when I couldn't find a source to view the actual comics from that era to find the original panel. Was hoping it would be something that the LLM would be able to magically pull from it's training data or the web, but I'm guessing it was hampered by the same lack of a digital copy of comics from the era that stopped me from looking into it further.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    Edit: seems this was posted to the subreddit of the same name a couple of years ago and decided that it was fake: https://old.reddit.com/r/outofcontextcomics/comments/1e28n8o/bathole/

    Gemini thinks the speech bubble has been edited, but the panel is an original from "The bat-mite bandits" issue, note however that I don't think the issue number matches up and I'm not sure where to find a copy of the comics online to verify, so it could just be an AI hallucination

    This specific panel is from Batman #141, published by DC Comics in August 1961. The story in this issue is titled "The Bat-Mite Bandits." In the unedited comic, the panel depicts Batman attempting to crawl out of a deep pit or trap, and his dialogue actually reads: "I can't make it! My strength is gone!" The "bat-hole" line is completely a modern photoshop edit circulating online as a meme.

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