• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    I just love how the AI slop crowd always comes out of the woodwork as if every meme has to be crafted by an artisan. Just get over yourselves.

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    7 hours ago

    People get so worked up over AI-generated memes. They’re just memes, folks. They’re not taking away anyone’s livelihood, and they’re not going to be hung in the Louvre. They’re ephemeral.

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      7 hours ago

      Except that to make that shit they wasted 10x times the resources that are needed to change the text from the original meme with photoshop/GIMP/whatever and contributed to damage artists by using a collage machine of other people’s art

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        4 hours ago

        This is what happens when you refuse to actually understand how anything works. These kinds of images can now be generated by small models running on your laptop. For example, Z-Image Turbo is just 6b params and will run on even modest hardware.

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            3 hours ago

            One made up number is no better than another. The point is that generating images doesn’t take any more power than most other things people use a computer for. So, what makes it so special that is needs to be singled out?

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            Then how else does it “damage artists”? And how much damage is that in comparison to the damage the former status quo did to people who weren’t considered “artists”?

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          I pretty much disagree with the “…democratizing creativity…” because creativity was never a thing that only a few selected people can use, it’s comes in the human package

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            But as soon as people use their creativity in ways that are “not approved”, they get called uncreative, unable to learn, not human, etc. etc. etc.

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              Neither i am, but it can be learnt, you see my pfp? I drew it, i couldn’t do it some months ago! I thought i wouldn’t ever be able to

              Her? I drew her myself too, 5 months ago i said “hell naw i can’t draw, i tried but i just can’t!” and now i proved myself wrong, i could do it, and i did it, i was so fucking wrong

              It’s not the best art piece of course but that’s because i barelly train myself and don’t have any expirience; you can also just trace over photos or art if you need to, there is no shame on that and many professional artists also do that

              Edit: I get that someone may not want to learn how to draw but for that there are art commissions

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                Anything can be learned given enough time, but the reality is that people only have so much time in their day. If you have the inclination and time to spend learning how to draw, that’s fantastic and good for you. But doing that is an opportunity cost of learning how to do something else.

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                I don’t disagree with anything you just said. I can’t draw nearly that well, but then I’ve never really spent the time. I’ve learned a lot of things, but can’t learn everything; there are only so many hours in a life 🤷