Memes quickly assembled in Gimp should be sitting on a throne considering the skills required
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I think AI memes can be as amusing as other memes. Imprecision and misinterpretation are basic foundations of humor.
Raised a question:
How much longer until it requires a forensics team to determine whether a meme was handmade or of synthetic origin?
I am at my sexiest when badly editing memes in GIMP, which isn't saying much but it is fact
I asked ChatGPT to make a cutting edge, unique, creative, evolutionary meme that appeals to Gen Z and...this is what it did.
Ew.
The capybara with airpods, lol. Are capybaras particularly popular with Gen Z?
It's interesting to me to see the airpods aren't even in its ears, which I take as the LLM not recognizing that the capybara's ears are ears. Or maybe it doesn't recognize that airpods belong in ears, and just sees that it generally goes on the side of the head where ears usually are. It really is fascinating technology, shame it's used in the way it is.
LLM? I would've thought they'd use an image generation model for this rather than a language model. But yeah, it just does approximations without a lot of reasoning.
Yeah good catch, I used the completely wrong word there.
Capybara are extremely popular the past few years.
i wouldn't consider it an inherently LLM issue, given how many animal cartoons we have who also wear headphones where human ears would be.
it's such a human error
There’s a TikTok sound/song about capybaras, and videos of them are fairly popular.
Because we are better than you. 
Invincible is pretty good for this.
I make all memes in Figma
Never used it, but sounds lowkey genius actually
*you're
By definition AI is an attempt to imitate the source material, so yeah, it can only be a little worse or a lot worse, but never better.
Full definition is predicting but if you predict wrong enough you can hallucinate stuff and once in a while it's close.
And only cost is enough money to end homelessnes 30 times over.
Unless you unignore the ethics side, then there are a few extra costs.
Just like your mom
I’ll take your shittiest MS Paint meme over your finest AI design.
I want the human element! I’m not relating to a machine. I want something made by another ghost in a meat suit.
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“No corporations were enriched by the creation of this content”
It's not just that. If it was, I'd have been convinced by the new-era freedom fighters using fucking ai horde, or whatever sloppers call their latest open-source [citation needed] model instance.
The biggest issue is the shameless, continuous abuse of creative workers by sucking up all their works without consent.
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👑Memes hand drawn in crayon
Even worse is, many AI generated memes also feel like if they were made from vague prompts the AI did not correctly understood.
Because they are
GIMP is not low effort. If you can 'quickly assemble' memes, it's because of previous effort. (I'm studying to be someone who can quickly assemble memes in GIMP)
That program has a unique UI philosophy. Does it resemble Photoshop? I've never used that.
Gimp 3.0 is finally actually something you could use to make something quickly
It still makes some baffling decisions (seriously I fucking hate that deselect is CTRL+SHIFT+D and not CTRL+D. I get why, shift is the "opposite" modifier, but GIMP is the only software I use that does this) and isn't perfect, but for meme making and general Internet use it's probably at long-last ready
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I just find it rich that most of these memes are just made with a website that adds captions.... "Hurr durr my 5 clicks are more valid than your 5 clicks"
Art is the idea and its expression. Bunch of pretentious snobs.
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