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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 2 hours ago

People are talking soyjack this, caricature there, but there's a third alternative: the second character being featureless to not represent anyone in specific.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

oki imma hide dis post... meks me sad...

peeps here mek me feel sad im nt an artist.. i dun evn use image gen, becuz i alsuu lack skill ;(

[–] Incogni@lemmy.world 78 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is one of the least readable fonts I've seen in a while.

[–] Truscape@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I remember reading an article on how our eyes are better at discerning dark, opaque text on a light background, I guess here's a practical example of why that is.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Oh my god it's literally the "i drew you as a soyjack, your argument is now invalid" meme 😭🙏

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That but with the 🫃 one

It has another layer tho, because that piece of art is something the AI generator probably wouldnt create if you ask it to. I mean there are of course uncensored generators but the big ones are very limited.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 33 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Accessible

Bro's mum only lets him to buy genai subscriptions, rather than a piece of paper + pen or a tablet

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hate the accessibility argument because it's so disingenuous. Yes, technically if I used these models it would have allowed me to keep making art when my wrists were in such pain I couldn't use my stylus for longer than 30 seconds. But the problems with AI way outweigh that potential good.

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is just like how drum machines ruined music by forever eliminating the need for a competent well paid human drummer.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The difference is creativity. If a completely uncreative person and an actual artist both used AI to make something, I'm willing to put money down that the actual artist will produce something a lot more interesting and profound than the uncreative person.

Especially when you get down to the kind of people that didn't even realise which machine was being raged against and who have zero media literacy or reading comprehension. It doesn't matter how good the AI is, the work they produce is still going to be bottom tier crap.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

That's usually why these kinds of people like AI. They are utterly lacking in creativity. The accessibility argument is such bullshit too. Yes, if we ignore the glaring theft issues with training these models, then in a certain sense it would've allowed someone like me to continue making art when my wrists were in such excruciating pain that I couldn't even hold my stylus. But that's not why these chuds like AI.

They like AI because they hate art and they hate artists. They hate artists because artists have those skills and they don't. So they want to automate them out of existence. They want to make those skills that make them feel inferior worthless.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

This led me down a sonic OC rabbithole where I discovered Mpreg Greg, the pregnant echidna gang leader.