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"Putting a piece of yourself" is magical thinking to me. Ai makes mistakes too and when it does people rant endlessly about how useless it is and that is what people used to call 'slop'. If a human making the mistake makes it desirable instead then this is once again not the reason but a justification.
But that's the issue, you don't know what oop prompted to make this. They could have been arbitrarily simple or elaborate with what they asked and you couldn't tell beyond that they were happy with this result enough to post it. And I'd argue the amount of intent in a prompt is still independent of its length as they could've tried longer descriptions and found that the results of shorter ones align with what they seek better.
I choose to believe the joke came from them and given that this is an internet meme that exists to deliver the joke, I don't dwell on the visuals.
It's a metaphor. You're ndt supposed to take those literally. ๐
Any creator will inevitably put their worldview and skill level into their art. So-called "AI" has neither.
Those mistakes stem from a mathematically inaccurate model. Human mistakes tell something about the creator
Not why it's called "slop", homie.
Not what I said. Any detail in human art is there because a human put it there. It's a form of (sometimes involuntary) communication that computers lack.
Again: not what I said. I'm saying that the intent behind so-called "AI art" starts and ends with the used prompt.
Then you choose to be complicit in the normaliztion of so-called "AI art", which leads to tangible problems in the real world.
Was it not called slop because it wasn't pleasant to consume, just like slop?
Yeah you didn't and that's why I responded with my comment saying that's not the case. I wasn't recapping you.
I don't understand which part you're saying you didn't say. Regardless, with the ai art just because ai fills in the details does that subtract from what the creator intended to communicate?
In total honesty it is rare for me to feel this (seemingly unconscious) communication you keep talking about which is why I called it magical thinking. Sometimes, some media does make me think things about its author due to the way it is made (as opposed to its explicit contents) but that meda is almost never internet memes. And while I don't use ai art myself I also try not to be swayed into the love-hate cycles the internet goes through with every new thing.
Hence why I (and apparently hundreds of other people) didn't have an issue with this meme. It is not lacking anything I normally find in this genre. I can see that there're also tons of people opposed to ai generated memes but I think the way that opposition is framed is often dishonest.
Then please comment about the tangible problems instead of falling back on the tried and true 'slop'. I agree that ai art is bad for artists and it is a problem that needs to be solved before it's too late. But that has nothing to do with how it looks or what it communicates
Edit: tweaks