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I don't care if it's in a shitposting community, a meme community, or a news community. If the image or text is generated it should be labeled as such, and failing to label it should be grounds to remove the post. AI slop is a plague and its only going to get worse as the tech matures (if it hasn't already peaked).

I'm so tired of having to call it out every time I see it, especially when people in the comments think it's a photoshop work or (heavens help us) real. Human labor has real tangible value that plagiarism machines can't even pretend to imitate and I'm sick of seeing that shit without it being labeled (so I can filter it out).

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this AI?
I can't ever be sure unless an anal retentive wannabe mod declares so.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Google image search

5 years ago

No, it's not AI.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I believe gravity exists.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I spent hours Photoshopping Elon Musk's face onto Scarlett O'Hara (took so long because I made myself do it with Gimp 3). If I could have done it with AI, the results would likely have been better and that time wasted making a meme is something I won't ever get back.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Id take the terrible photoshop meme over the AI slop meme any day. 1 takes effort the other wastes electricity

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not wasted completely time... you gained Gimp skills

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with you so hard, I actually have to downvote your post because of community.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You'd be surprised how many times I've gotten "well, it doesn't matter cause this is such and such community", which is why I posted it here.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I have no issue with your opinion and I doubt very many others do.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I thought this was the community for unpopular opinions?

[–] BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

You and the previous^2^ poster who complained about people complaining about AI slop should have a rap battle.

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AI slop should be banned in general

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think people should be free to choose whatever they want. But I also think it should be easy for them to make that choice. Currently there’s no easy way to identify all the AI images.

Maybe if we had some sort of intelligent algorithm that could filter things… (I kid. Crowdsourcing tags would probably be easier and more accurate.)

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not gonna disagree with that

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