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i mean, yeah. they clearly asked an ai to make an female version of the Chad meme.
Afaik this pic was around for a while. But it might've been made by AI in the first place, idk.
I wish more places adopted either tagging or outright banning of AI images
The least the user can do is be upfront about AI usage
that's fair. I just thought this one was particularly obvious. like it isn't even trying to not be ai.
I'm on the fence on this being a specific problem though. the individual tokens don't actualy take that much energy or water or whatever. the resource use is all in training. all of the infrastructure being built for ai right now is for training the next model. this looks like it was done with a model from a couple generations ago. like if you don't want to use a product that's bad for the environment then using an older model should be fine. especially if you run it locally, which is totally doable. this image looks like it used an older model.
as for plagiarism, this is a meme with no profit potential. if the internet cared about copyright in memes we would never share any image macros. the chad face that this is based on is also stolen art that the internet has been sharing for years. that's what memes are. stolen art shared without permission with no profit motive.
I'm a professional photographer/videographer who has directly felt ai hurt my career. it has also been trained off of my own images against my will. I generally hate ai, but i like to be an informed hater. all that said, there's really no moral grounds to hate this but not a version with the non ai Chad face.
It's a meme. They aren't trying to fool you into thinking it's something that it's not. It's not like it's misinformation.
Yes, but it uses an ungodly amount of power to produce an image from a plagiarism machine when there are many other femchad meme formats out there
I'm not saying I like AI images or think people should use them more often, I'm saying in this context I don't this a disclaimer is needed. If the only problem is "I don't like AI images because they're bad" just down vote or suggest to community moderators and/or instance moderators to ban AI images.
I have a piece of advice for you:
Get over it.
No thanks
Wha. You can self host stable diffusion on your home pc. There's nothing ungodly about the power requirements. The claims are wildly exaggerated, and worse, never verified by those using them as some kind of gotcha.
As I have done in the past, and nothing has come close to its level of power consumption. Similarly, there's more to AI than just making the images. By downloading and using generative AI, you're supporting their creation, which is currently using more energy than some small countries, even the open source ones
For a meme? No thanks, talk about over the top