• @pinkdrunkenelephants
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    -29 months ago

    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.

    Think, man, think

    • @bastion@feddit.nl
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      79 months ago

      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.