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Exactly. The whole point of memes is remixing a shared cultural context to create new meanings. If you're just whistling up a bland piece of shit image to convey a thought, that's just political cartooning with, if it can be believed, even less effort than usual.
We used to value creativity on the internet. Images we had never seen before, words we've never read, jokes we've never heard.
But then memes templates took off like a cancer. The same handful of jokes over and over and over, words overwritten to be about a different topic. Why make something new when you can just copy like a middle schooler substituting their own wit for South Park quotes?
And we ate it up. Now it's not just people trying to be funny, it's people trying to get followers. It's people hoarding folders of every edit of the same movie screenshot to pick from when they want to seem funny but have nothing to say.
AI memes are only a small step down from the usual slop that floods the Internet. Do we still find the joke we've heard a thousand times funny or are we dogs hearing the dinner bell?
Copying has been part of art since the first people put their hand prints on cave walls.
Ai is worse than copying. It’s like tracing.
AI is like asking someone else to trace for you.
The copying you describe is recreating the original, it's not at all the same with memes.
That analogy doesn't make any sense. Memes are exactly like tracing (literally copying 99% of the original pixel-for-pixel), I have no idea what that makes AI
It's worse than cheap, it's tacky
Meh, I fail to see how taking a copy of a screen cap that someone already copied and changing the text is somehow better than coming up with a completely original idea but not having the artistic ability to pull it off.
The few posts I've done in Gimp are trash. They would have been improved had I used AI. It's not like I drew Musk. Instead I took a screen cap and cut and paste his face over a screen cap of Scarlett O'Hara. AI would have done the screen capture instead of me. There would be no art either way.
I'm pretty on the fence about it but I'm inclined to agree overall. It's not like you were gonna pay an artist to make the meme, would it really that bad if you used AI?
The questionable legality of its training data is mainly what makes me dislike AI images but it's not like people are getting permission to copy non-AI memes
What am I gonna do with all this gate oil without a gate to keep?