I’m on the fence about this too. If Ai images have been good for anything it’s amusing 30-second shitposting and not actual artwork. Although I think vintage hand-made memes have more cultural value overall.
That being said, if you’re gonna image-gen, I think it should be done on local hardware rather than spamming downtown-sized super-mega-data-centers using up an entire county’s water supply to cool servers generating surreal Spongebob horror.
…and? It’s not any worse than using any meme template.
Honestly it’s not bad for AI
Right, did a great job with the fingers, and only part that makes me suspicious is the quality of snowflake on the sweater
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/generative-ai-energy-environmental-cost
Reduce, reuse, recycle applies to digital content as well. When you can, just use a meme template.
Meme responsibly.
I’m on the fence about this too. If Ai images have been good for anything it’s amusing 30-second shitposting and not actual artwork. Although I think vintage hand-made memes have more cultural value overall.
That being said, if you’re gonna image-gen, I think it should be done on local hardware rather than spamming downtown-sized super-mega-data-centers using up an entire county’s water supply to cool servers generating surreal Spongebob horror.
My 2¢ anyway.