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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

That weirdly smooth skin and odd hair shape behind the neck are reminiscent of AI

Edit: Damn, I thought it was a pretty big consensus that AI was harmful to users and took away from human expression, but I seem to have found the last remaining bastion of the pro-AI movement here on Lemmy

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i mean, yeah. they clearly asked an ai to make an female version of the Chad meme.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wish more places adopted either tagging or outright banning of AI images

The least the user can do is be upfront about AI usage

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a meme. They aren't trying to fool you into thinking it's something that it's not. It's not like it's misinformation.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, but it uses an ungodly amount of power to produce an image from a plagiarism machine when there are many other femchad meme formats out there

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a piece of advice for you:

Get over it.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not saying I like AI images or think people should use them more often, I'm saying in this context I don't this a disclaimer is needed. If the only problem is "I don't like AI images because they're bad" just down vote or suggest to community moderators and/or instance moderators to ban AI images.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but it uses an ungodly amount of power

Wha. You can self host stable diffusion on your home pc. There's nothing ungodly about the power requirements. The claims are wildly exaggerated, and worse, never verified by those using them as some kind of gotcha.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As I have done in the past, and nothing has come close to its level of power consumption. Similarly, there's more to AI than just making the images. By downloading and using generative AI, you're supporting their creation, which is currently using more energy than some small countries, even the open source ones

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

For a meme? No thanks, talk about over the top

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that's fair. I just thought this one was particularly obvious. like it isn't even trying to not be ai.

I'm on the fence on this being a specific problem though. the individual tokens don't actualy take that much energy or water or whatever. the resource use is all in training. all of the infrastructure being built for ai right now is for training the next model. this looks like it was done with a model from a couple generations ago. like if you don't want to use a product that's bad for the environment then using an older model should be fine. especially if you run it locally, which is totally doable. this image looks like it used an older model.

as for plagiarism, this is a meme with no profit potential. if the internet cared about copyright in memes we would never share any image macros. the chad face that this is based on is also stolen art that the internet has been sharing for years. that's what memes are. stolen art shared without permission with no profit motive.

I'm a professional photographer/videographer who has directly felt ai hurt my career. it has also been trained off of my own images against my will. I generally hate ai, but i like to be an informed hater. all that said, there's really no moral grounds to hate this but not a version with the non ai Chad face.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Afaik this pic was around for a while. But it might've been made by AI in the first place, idk.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Are you telling me femchad isn't real 😭

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you familiar with the “Chad” meme? The whole point is the over-the-top obvious, smack-you-in-the-face image editing.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a difference between editing, and asking a program to make an entirely new, weird looking image using half a sun in power and more data than the entirety of twitter

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I pretty strongly doubt that even without power usage or quantity of training data that people would stop gatekeeping prompt-generated imagery. It's a whole personality trait to put on whatever the yiff equivalent of grinder is now.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You can't use AI for memes think of all the meme artists that will be out of jobs

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Once you use it for ad free cooking recipes.It's hard to go back.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

You can get kcal and protein per serving real easy.

Also you can say here's ingredients i have, what dish can we make where each serving has 400 to 700 kcals and around 50g of protein

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
1 (18.25-ounce) package chocolate cake mix
1 can prepared coconut–pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour

Don't forget garnishes such as:

Fish-shaped crackers
Fish-shaped candies
Fish-shaped solid waste
Fish-shaped dirt
Fish-shaped ethylbenzene
Pull-and-peel licorice
Fish-shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment-shaped sediment

...

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I'm generally anti-AI, but there's no hard rule against it in this comm.