I can tell you care, but counterpoint: what if a genuine image of a sad, shrugging minority child was used instead? And this exact text was put over that? Genuine child, used to make a meme…does that really change anything, anything at all? This is, as you say, artwork but kicked up a few levels. A lot of levels, as you say, hyper-realistic.
Memes are not messages from the meme format to the viewer; it is merely a picture. Artwork. I can make angry & happy faces, and you can put text all over them. “I love Biden!”. “Birds aren’t real 😡” True subject material (my face), false message. My face being used doesn’t make the message any more or less real.
Now if I were to AI render Trump having buttsex with Biden, hyper realistic, and I were to lie to you & tell you this totally happened & it’s real. Okay, now I am actively engaging in a lie. I am using AI to destroy the truth, like cops shooting black kids or something. That’s an entirely different matter, man.
Then it wouldn’t have any of the propaganda baggage along with it because it wouldn’t be a really transparent attempt to normalize the use of AI-generated images in propaganda, closing an avenue for unscrupulous evildoers to use to lie to the American people.
It’s not just about this one meme. It’s part of a bigger picture.
Memes are not messages from the meme format to the viewer;
Yes they are, stop lying. Stop downplaying the extremely powerful effects memes have on popular culture and stop handwaving away the very real dangers of people being allowed to use AI-generated images in them with no pushback.
Now if I were to AI render Trump having buttsex with Biden, hyper realistic, and I were to lie to you & tell you this totally happened & it’s real.
Guess what you’re helping to incrementally normalize.
Just because you personally don’t see a problem doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just because you personally think it’s okay to use false AI-generated images in connection with anything political doesn’t make it okay. And just because you feel like the use of memes is under attack doesn’t make it okay either.
What’s your endgame? Make AI images illegal and uncommon?
That would make them more powerful, because people wouldn’t expect them, but the creation of AI images is still totally possible. It’s better to just call out its usage as lame, and aside from that, to adjust your thinking to acknowledge the lack of certainty you (and we all) now have about digital visual data.
I can tell you care, but counterpoint: what if a genuine image of a sad, shrugging minority child was used instead? And this exact text was put over that? Genuine child, used to make a meme…does that really change anything, anything at all? This is, as you say, artwork but kicked up a few levels. A lot of levels, as you say, hyper-realistic.
Memes are not messages from the meme format to the viewer; it is merely a picture. Artwork. I can make angry & happy faces, and you can put text all over them. “I love Biden!”. “Birds aren’t real 😡” True subject material (my face), false message. My face being used doesn’t make the message any more or less real.
Now if I were to AI render Trump having buttsex with Biden, hyper realistic, and I were to lie to you & tell you this totally happened & it’s real. Okay, now I am actively engaging in a lie. I am using AI to destroy the truth, like cops shooting black kids or something. That’s an entirely different matter, man.
Then it wouldn’t have any of the propaganda baggage along with it because it wouldn’t be a really transparent attempt to normalize the use of AI-generated images in propaganda, closing an avenue for unscrupulous evildoers to use to lie to the American people.
It’s not just about this one meme. It’s part of a bigger picture.
Yes they are, stop lying. Stop downplaying the extremely powerful effects memes have on popular culture and stop handwaving away the very real dangers of people being allowed to use AI-generated images in them with no pushback.
Guess what you’re helping to incrementally normalize.
Just because you personally don’t see a problem doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just because you personally think it’s okay to use false AI-generated images in connection with anything political doesn’t make it okay. And just because you feel like the use of memes is under attack doesn’t make it okay either.
Think, man, think
You can’t unexist it. You have to adapt.
What’s your endgame? Make AI images illegal and uncommon?
That would make them more powerful, because people wouldn’t expect them, but the creation of AI images is still totally possible. It’s better to just call out its usage as lame, and aside from that, to adjust your thinking to acknowledge the lack of certainty you (and we all) now have about digital visual data.