I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas.

I ABHOR how normalised AI has become on platforms around the World Wide Web

It's lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity.

You are actively resorting to waste hydropower energy and drag us into potential water shortage pandemonium just to lobotomized what could've been a perfectly good joke.

This is one of the online exertions that treasonous vermin Trump wants you to enact to entail his horrible totalitarian deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions .

Stop appeasing to that oligarch genocide funding clown and his immoral calavry of fascist oppressors who operates utilities that are primarily made to pollute our ecosystem and increase climate change and ocean levels raising.

If I ever see another shitty No-effort AI Picture like this again, I will actively and violently scratch out my eyes with a rusty garden weasel wrapped in mint condition barbed wire and sandpaper the wounded sockets shut so I could never see slop take control of meme subculture.

Is it that sophisticated to edit Trump's head over a keyboardist's anatomy?

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102 Comments

poccalyps@sh.itjust.works · 136 pts · 1d (15 replies)

Your writing is shit, buddy.

EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 57 pts · 1d (4 replies)

At least it isn't AI.

I'll take irritation fueled spelling error littered rants over a succinct, correctly parsed AI slop response any day of the week

Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1d (2 replies)

How can you tell? It might very well be considering how many fancy words were used there. Nothing about that reads as not-AI.

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d

One of my fellow journalists writes like this. We have to tone it down for publication. A lot.

werty@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d

a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity

SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

I'd rather be a lousy illiterate doofus than a gutless GPT-reliant hypocrite.

shweddy@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 1d

Bro fell out of the thesauraus tree and hit every branch on the way down

ryannathans@aussie.zone · 40 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Maybe use an LLM to clean it up

kingofras@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d

Ouch. The stupid thing is that this existed 4 years ago too. This doesn’t have to be anything AI. We’ve been photoshopping since the printing press was a thing.

What a misplaced post to rant about a tech that may have nothing to do with the picture.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d

Then they will be yelled at for that. There’s no winning for someone like them. And someone else in the thread still said it looks like AI as it is.

fartsparkles@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1d

It’s like Joey with a thesaurus.

BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 11 pts · 1d

I can't tell if it's a joke, it's so comical.

SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 21h (1 reply)

IKR, But i have sincere communication deficiencies and struggles to paraphrase sentences.

I'm a fucking prolapse to the reproductive system of the queen's English.

verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 19h

It's been enlightening to see how many people lash out at you personally, using the sleights they hope you'd consider most offensive, in response to your opinions on a technology.

edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 11h

Excellent contribution and a shining example of lemmy discourse.

SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1d
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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 83 pts · 1d (1 reply)

This post looks like it was written by an ai that had a stroke.

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23h

Chatgprrrrrrttttrrrlll...

robomuffin79@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Not reading all that. Free Palestine!

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 1d

No reason to read it.

OP is more than mildly annoyed.

Yelling from his front porch. Shaking his fist. While reposting slop.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 1d (3 replies)

"It’s lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity."

dafuk

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20h

AI.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11h

Do people just turn off spell checkers now? Or, completely ignore them?

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 21h

You heard them!

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d

the - sau - rus

terreggfied@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1d (4 replies)

As with pollution, the biggest contributers are not the individual consumers.

No, your AI prompts aren’t causing an energy crisis

snooggums@piefed.world · 22 pts · 1d (3 replies)

They still contribute by counting as usage to help justify more datacenters for training.

Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Even just cloud storage uses a surprising amount of energy. I’ve my students calculate a price per rick roll just to start seeing that there are actual energy costs and usage associated with things like google search, storing a cloud file, etc. I forget the paradox name, but we’ve made storing files and the cloud (that is, using other people’s computers) so easy and efficient that we are now using even more energy.

crank0271@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d

calculate a price per rick roll

So... how much is it? It must be significantly more than a goatse.

terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d

Doesn't count nearly as much as all the water used to farm alfalfa in the desert for the Saudis. AI sucks, this is just a way for corporate AI to push blame on consumers. They want people to push this line cause it's catchy and easily countered.

DaveyRocket@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 20h (1 reply)

Bro, this would just be the top spot in photoshop battles. A skillset that used to be really really accessible is now no longer even fun because well-done results will be considered gen AI.

Also, your writing seems like an AI prompt that says: be outraged at AI, make every mistake.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11h

Yep. You need to make them shitty now.

chunes@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d (6 replies)

Views on AI have nothing to do with left or right. It's actually split right down the middle on both sides.

Kushan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d (4 replies)

But the left wouldn't be the left if we weren't fucking fighting each other all the time instead of the right.

kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 23h (3 replies)

liberals and socialists fighting eachother isn't leftists fighting eachother, as liberalism isn't left wing

that's what the case is almost all the time when people call something "leftist infighting"

yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23h (2 replies)

Idk... Anarchism and ML have history lol

kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 23h (1 reply)

yeah but anarchists aren't relevant, and real anarchists recognize that marxism is preferable to capitalism

i'd argue that "anarchists" who prefer capitalism to what is in their opinion the wrong type of socialism and spend all their time fighting against "evil tankies" online instead of fighting capitalism, are just edgy liberals larping because they like the radical aesthetic of anarchism

The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 22h

Lmao in one sentence you perfectly exposed why anarchists hate MLs. Aside from all the historical bs, anarchists are just expected to go along with ML because it's "better than capitalism", but you'll never see any ML giving any ground to anarchists.

Ironically that makes you quite similar to liberals, who always want the left to support them but never give any ground :)

Personally, I can fight more than one thing at a time. But since you don't think that's possible, why are you more focused on fighting anarchists in your comment than capitalism? Is this projection? Are you a liberal? 🤔

yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23h

Yes and no. AI (the ideal) is labor replacement, similar to the first industrial machines. But instead of manual labor, it is replacing cognitive labor. Under capitalism, when profit is always the end game, labor saving tech will not be used to liberate, but to further exploit the people and rape our planet. This is no different, I think. Usually this kind of capital is held mostly in the hands of one class of people, but this tech is unique in that it has the ability to, once trained, be copied and iterated on by others. Open source, or eventually hacked. Software yearns to be free, in the sense that it can be copied easily. Point is, control over the development and distribution of AI is so difficult that even the "common sense" right* end up feeling betrayed. It mainly benefits the far right and the oligarchic class.

For now, it is not the ideal. But the intentions of the most powerful people seem to continue to race towards unregulated, privately controlled AI. They talk of slowing down, but I don't have my hopes up after everything that's happened.

BC_viper@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d (2 replies)

BC_viper@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d (1 reply)

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Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 12h

Jesus christ that text post was mildly infuriating. Please slow down and use words you both know how to spell and how to use in a sentence.

kthx.

DigDoug@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d (6 replies)

The ironic thing is that this post reads like it was written by an AI trained on only thesauruses.

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Thesauri? Thesaures?

SGforce@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Thesauropods

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

The nerdiest of dinos.

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 21h

Thesauropedes

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Let me guess, people were supposed to edit and rewrite the AI output to "make it theirs"!

DigDoug@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

I'm not pro-AI if that's what you're asking.

drcobaltjedi@programming.dev · 15 pts · 1d

Honestly, just take a generic picture of any band and just use paint or gimp to slap their faces on. Hell doesn't even have to be good

Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 19h

Make your own version and post it in the comments.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Can we also talk about how his #1 song is promoting heterosexuality? More than 80 % of children who heard Shape of You in the 2010s now identify as heterosexual, and it continues to air on the radio and show up on streaming services without as much as a content warning. What the fuck?

lenocolomo@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1d

Copypasta?

Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 19h

All this cultural exposure is making me too heteronormative. How dare they influence me without consent!

BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 22h (2 replies)

without as much as a content warning

Why would you need a warning about promotion of heterosexuality?

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 21h

Also make sure to censor the language in the warning.

Ok i can't do it with the markup rules, I suck

village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 16h

They're being facetious because people say that about stuff with non-heterosexual content.

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Did you eat a thesaurus?

Hegar@fedia.io · 16 pts · 1d

You do realize they're exctinct?

realworldschlitz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d

So it’s still about the leftists ???

Correct me please but when we have an AI pic with Trump and Netanyahu it’s still about the leftists?

Exatron@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 15h

Whoever made that could have easily done it with basic photo editing skills instead of AI. Even if it didn't turn out great, it would still show that a person cared enough to try doing it themselves.

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 20h (2 replies)

Honestly there are bigger fish to fry, and the world isn't black and white.

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

I'm sure theres a few other idiom's I'm not thinking of.

FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 19h (1 reply)

A bad photoshop or paint would do the trick too. Abd arguably it would be funnier too

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 19h

I agree. I'd also accept microsoft paint level quality.

SeaDawg@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 6h

Credits to pmjv

gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1d

I liked the imagery of you scratching your eyes out.

Don't mind the people shitting on your writing! It's fine.

Also, I wonder about this. I don't like using GenAI for a few reasons, one of them is the environmental impact, but it's by no means the biggest. Not even close. It really is barely a reason at all.

It's a tool... I think it's immorally constructed and mostly in bad taste, but the environment is really a much deeper failure than the individual, I think. I don't think campaigning against people using something mindlessly, ignorantly perhaps, blithely even, does much good, when you could spend that time convincing them that the big stuff, and there's big stuff like data centers if we wanna just stick to AI, should be banned or regulated to oblivion.

"Don't use GenAI" is fine, but "Data centers suck" results in the same thing and doesn't attack the individual for some perceived moral failing for doing something innocuous while surrounded by terrible shit.

Hopefully you get what I'm getting at!

Lectral@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 17h (1 reply)

OMG the irony of using AI to rail against the use of AI.

marmotini_enjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 12h
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wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Bluesky leftists really like using AI for some reason

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

The industry paid a lot of money to influencers like Taylor Lorenz to do some entryism.

Epp@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 7h

Maybe they have phones.

Epp@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 7h

Someone somewhere used a computer to do computer things. Boohoo 🎻

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 16h

It's not humorous, it's cheap, derivative slop. This used to be a passing thought you would have on the can, accompanied by a chuckle and a fart, forgotten minutes later.

Now someone parlays the flatulence into a voice prompt and suddenly it's as much part of the record of humankind as Hammurabi's code. Fucking disgrace.

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15h

mint condition barbed wire

Mint condition is probably the worst condition to be using barbed wire in the given circumstances. You have weasels ripping your flesh and shiny new barbed wire? What you're setting yourself up for is a case of rabies and for some reason leaving out the lockjaw you can get from rusty barbed wire. So you'll have a case of the rabies and not have a case of lockjaw to stop you from biting your friends.

Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1d (11 replies)

Anyone know any studies comparing the energy usage of an AI image generator vs manually photo shopping. If a person spends say a half hour on a computer finding a photo and editing it in photoshop to this quality it could cost as much electricity as an image generator.

I think people are starting to overestimate the energy usage of AI while underestimating everything else we do. Like an image like this would take my computer ~30 seconds to generate, meanwhile I'll use my computer for hours at a time to play games and don't think much of that.

SGforce@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d

It would take 30-60 seconds for one image. But the chance of getting the right one is slim. You'd probably generate hundreds, settle on one, then modify that one further. Depending on how precise you want it, it could take over an hour of GPU use. Services that do it online are doing the same thing in the background, maybe generating even more and iterating and evaluating them. All while using many GPUs at once. This isn't so bad for an image, but videos are way more resource intensive.

verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d (8 replies)

I didn't realize people shut off their computers after having AI do something they might not have otherwise done anyway. Brains, yes. Computers, no.

zout@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1d (7 replies)

They do actually. And for the people not running local models, the idea of cloud computing is that once you're done with it, someone else takes over. If you're talking about the necessity of it all, sure, but we're also not exactly advancing the human race by being on Lemmy are we?

verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 23h (6 replies)

We appear to agree that AI simply increases the amount of energy usage rather than supplanting it, and that energy-intensive AI data centers are the norm for AI usage (such as the use OP is talking specifically about).

zout@fedia.io · 3 pts · 20h (5 replies)
  1. I never claimed that computer usage goes down thanks to AI, and honestly I don't see how that could be interpreted from my comment.
  2. I never implied offline models are the norm anymore than you implied ChatGPT sits idle once a user logs off.
verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 19h (4 replies)
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zout@fedia.io · 4 pts · 19h (3 replies)

I'm not going to do that, because I hate it when comments get edited in such a way that the whole context changes. However, to clarify: to your reply "I didn't realize people shut off their computers after having AI do something they might not have otherwise done anyway" I answered that yes, people actually do that. If they run a local model, the model also shuts down. If they don't run a local model, they can still shut down their computer and the next user can use ChatGPT or whatever online model they use.

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

If we take the AI industry's reports in good faith, not counting the training, the computer the prompting was done wasn't used for other things afterwards, the AI one-shotted the image and the user didn't ask for revisions (which "anti-slop" AI boosters are against), etc.

Squizzy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22h (5 replies)

How are people doing these so common though, the big models wont do real people

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 22h (4 replies)

Local models?

Squizzy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h (3 replies)

Are they that common? There is so much of it out there, are there that many dipshit memers running local models?

lps2@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 14h

Anyone with a gaming PC can spin up ComfyUI and produce an image like this with a fraction of the power of playing a single round of CS:GO.

Epp@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 7h

Shit, I can generate AI images on my phone. Locally. Using 'Local Dream.'

Oh no, a rainforest burned down and the oceans turned to desert because I used my phone! /s

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 19h

Reposts are very common too

mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10h

Great, another "AI sucks and I'm so much more enlightened because I don't like or use AI" post.

The irony of this person using the internet on their device to post about AI's energy usage while using the exact same infrastructure and consuming energy to make the post and complain about it... is... fantastic!

If OP really wanted to rally against AI, they would have shut the fuck up and not posted about it at all.

And the fact that he doesn't like the joke specifically because it's AI-generated is one of the most pointless statements I could think of. No one gives a crap what you like or why. It's also one of the most useless pieces of information an individual can provide to another person.

ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 7h

I can't wait until it becomes so normalized I don't have to see this constant fucking bitching about AI in every goddamn thread even vaguely related to slop.

Nonprophet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11h (1 reply)

dracc@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 6h

Love Sinead but AI/the Bourgeoisie is the real enemy.

DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 2 pts · 4h

Tbh many people don't use PCs at all, and the advent of cheap generative ai for image manipulation makes this kind of creative task more accessible to those people. I hate it. I would like to put the touch screen genie back in the bottle. But it is too late.

Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4h

The verbosity of your interlocution is positively sesquipedalian.

Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 9h
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Frettchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13h

OP

000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 22h

Mildly

zeb420@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 6h (1 reply)

While I do agree that AI is not environmentally friendly, the only way the hype train is going to die is when investors quit dumping money into it.

While many of you may hate me for this, I intentionally waste it. Arguing with it saying the sky is green, asking it to write code and telling it the code doesn’t work, etc.

Maxing out my free account usage intentionally by just asking pointless questions and never giving up. Every prompt drains just a little bit of these investors confidence that their investment will ever turn a profit.

Profit is clearly the only thing they care about. Hit em where it hurts.

story@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 4h

you are not more clever than the cocaine you consume

njm1314@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 18h

I think i can sum it up a little more concisely. You can't fight the Epstein class with the tools of the Epstein class.

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 1d (1 reply)

If you ask me, the ones doing this type of shit are either plants from the other side and/or unknowingly one of them.

I got no issue demonizing anyone and anything that uses genAI ( not the normal stuff you get from phone 10 years ago that are basically just over glorified filters, got different issues with them ) for image generation no matter the use. So I am absolutely with you on hating the image.

Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1d

Lemmy try not to unnecessarily divide the left challenge (impossible)