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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Serious big brain/heart energy.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She was part of the ruling family in a crusader state and almost certainly killed her son after he developed leprosy.

Guy was unpopular because he was cruel and stupid. Guy was banished to Outremer in the first place because he participated in a kidnapping plot against Eleanor of Aquitaine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan

If you want to give Syballa a pass for being a woman in what's definitely a man's world that's one thing but her heart was as stupid as her brain and it got her killed.

On the other hand, she was part of the series of own goals that led to Saladin destroying the crusader states so maybe it's good that it was.

[–] 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 (4 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

[–] 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.

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

I have a piece of advice for you:

Get over it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago
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[–] 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.

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[–] 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

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[–] 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.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"You're not that Guy"
"I am that Guy"
- Amos

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s fucking hilarious, I want to know more

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, Guy de Lusignan was a bit of a twit, and the Frankish nobility were right to not want him on the throne. He got into a quarrel with the legendary Saladin (not as legendary at the time, but having just fucking united a vast empire taking up much of Turkish-occupied Anatolia and the Arab world, making him a bit of a threatening opponent for a little crusader-state to be picking fights with) and ended up losing everything in the process, including Jerusalem itself, to Saladin, kicking off the (largely unsuccessful, though very eventful) Third Crusade.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Third Crusade

Pippin would be proud.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

We've already had two crusades, yes.

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, it's THAT Guy

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, yes.

But it's sweet, at least, that she loved him that much

Well they sucked so bad it got the crusader states destroyed so that's good

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Hallmark lifetime movie energy.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sibylla no, she will not let him go

Let him goooo

Sibylla, she will not let him go

Let him go-o-o-o-o

She will not let him gooooooooo

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh mamma mia, mamma mia.

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

And then Saladin dismantled the outremer. A happy ending if there ever was one

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

And then the 4th Crusade took it back!

Wait, no, it says here proto-capitalists attacked Constantinople, crippling the Byzantine state instead?

That can't be right. It's so very stupid.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Look at the grumpy pope, this is top shelf

[–] MoribundMurdoch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The 2005 Kingdom of Heaven movie really did Guy and Sibylla dirty. I’m fairly sure the history was especially distorted because the writer and director were atheists and clung too tightly to a “religious tolerance is ideal” message, even at the expense of accurately portraying the actions of the actual historical figures.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're right, they should have made it more clear the crusaders were all evil and deserved worse.

Guy was exiled to Outremer in the first place for trying to kidnap Eleanor of Aquitaine btw.

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

I see what you mean but I will always love that movie (the directors cut) for many reasons, one being its portrayal of philosophy.

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good good, now add the link so I can read the whole article

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Guy bringing the strong D game.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

A classic loophole!

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

I don't get it. If she was married before, wasn't this guy Guy a king already?

[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, her son Baldwin V was king. Guy was Baldwin V's stepfather. Baldwin V died in childhood which made Sibylla the Queen, and her husband was temporarily the King-Consort or Prince-Consort or whatever the appropriate term was for a Queen's husband at the time.

But in this particular time and place, the Queen's husband typically became King at coronation and assumed the role of monarch in her place. This is what everyone expected to happen. All the vassals hated Guy and wanted her to pick someone else.

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