IDK. I don’t like AI for commercial applications. But for frivolous things? That’s it’s critical application. I’m not taking food from the mouth of any artist if I post some AI meme image I generate onto a social media site. There is no universe where I’m paying an actual professional artist to make meme images for me to post to social media. I’ll sometimes use AI slop, but only in slopworthy applications. Screwing around on fediverse and other sites is such a slopworthy application.
Yeah, I view AI slop images like I would any copy-pasted meme image from years past. Technically, we were all violating copyright when we screenshotted images from random sites and news events and turned them into memes. Some photographer took those shots, and we stole them and used them for cheap laughs. And no one cared, because again, no one was going to pay to license a photo for a random internet forum or social. No photographer was going hungry because of meme images.
IDK. I don’t like AI for commercial applications. But for frivolous things? That’s it’s critical application. I’m not taking food from the mouth of any artist if I post some AI meme image I generate onto a social media site. There is no universe where I’m paying an actual professional artist to make meme images for me to post to social media. I’ll sometimes use AI slop, but only in slopworthy applications. Screwing around on fediverse and other sites is such a slopworthy application.
I feel like this is what people don’t see.
Yeah, I view AI slop images like I would any copy-pasted meme image from years past. Technically, we were all violating copyright when we screenshotted images from random sites and news events and turned them into memes. Some photographer took those shots, and we stole them and used them for cheap laughs. And no one cared, because again, no one was going to pay to license a photo for a random internet forum or social. No photographer was going hungry because of meme images.