#generative images

[f-identity]

[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@octodon.social dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

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[igotswag77]

Saw this somewhere else. Dr. Martin Luther King as a Jedi Master with a lightsaber.

[sufficientlylargen]

"The opening shot from Martin Scorsese's Goncharov (the greatest Mafia movie ever made), featuring Goncharov himself standing under the clock in the train station."

I dunno, very few gonchposters had the artistic abilities necessary to make photorealistic fake frames... I'll bet we'd have a lot more random lore about scenes from Goncharov if people had had the ability to take screenshots of it like this...

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

[sarahdraws16]

Fuck Meta

[rideroftherange]

Looks to me like someone keeps passing a $10 between their automated sock puppets to take advantage of the algorithm. All they need is for handful of real humans to give them money for generated images and they make a profit with almost zero input of cash or effort. And DeviantArt gets a cut and inflated numbers, so they don’t really care.

Maybe it’s money laundering or stock manipulation, but I’d think they would want a strategy that was harder to look up and find evidence of…

so twitter user wyerframeZ posted this and im mystified, enamored, wondering what is really going on the new AI infested DA

[lynayru]

@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[netscapenavigator-official]

Once the bugs get ironed out, AI Image Generation will forever change propaganda and how easy it is to make and distribute.

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[leam1983]

Something for the AI bros...

[sexyaiworld]

Blonde in paradise

@sexyaiworld

[rideroftherange]

I just figured they were on sites like DA, generating thousands of images and passing the same 10$ between sock puppets. Until finally, some poor kid who doesn’t know the difference buys an adoptable.

Dozens of bot farms and a little starting cash to build a self sustaining money engine that runs on plagiarism.

I'm confused by people openly making money off of AI-generated images.

Specifically, that people would knowingly pay for them.

It's not even a "how could they ignore the ethics?" thing. It's a "if you're going to pay for AI-generated images anyway, why not just make your own?"

Don't mistake that for an endorsement! I'm just saying, given what they're already doing--and I smell torches and pitchforks. Someone mistook that for an endorsement.

And yes, pitchforks have a scent.

Anyway, I'm going to skedaddle.

[taiyo-tenebris]

My two pieces for the 2024 Pokemon TCG Illustrator Contest! I didn't place in the top 300 but I still had fun drawing it anyway.

[mangakasanakajenw]

These picture generating prompters have no shame.....

[emerald-honey]

[nmdry]