By definition AI is an attempt to imitate the source material, so yeah, it can only be a little worse or a lot worse, but never better.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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I asked ChatGPT to make a cutting edge, unique, creative, evolutionary meme that appeals to Gen Z and...this is what it did.
Ew.
The capybara with airpods, lol. Are capybaras particularly popular with Gen Z?
It's interesting to me to see the airpods aren't even in its ears, which I take as the LLM not recognizing that the capybara's ears are ears. Or maybe it doesn't recognize that airpods belong in ears, and just sees that it generally goes on the side of the head where ears usually are. It really is fascinating technology, shame it's used in the way it is.
There’s a TikTok sound/song about capybaras, and videos of them are fairly popular.
Capybara are extremely popular the past few years.
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Even worse is, many AI generated memes also feel like if they were made from vague prompts the AI did not correctly understood.
At least LLMs know the difference between your and you're
You forgot the biggest one:
Made with Memetic
Memetic is actually pretty solid
👑Memes hand drawn in crayon
I’ll take your shittiest MS Paint meme over your finest AI design.
I want the human element! I’m not relating to a machine. I want something made by another ghost in a meat suit.
ghost in a meat suit
How about this?
could be NSFL, if you're like 8
C'est pour mourir
If she put her hand out the window, would he fall out the car?
The crayon scribbles of my 3 year old nephew on the back of a soggy napkin holds more value than a mountain of AI slop.
GIMP is not low effort. If you can 'quickly assemble' memes, it's because of previous effort. (I'm studying to be someone who can quickly assemble memes in GIMP)
That program has a unique UI philosophy. Does it resemble Photoshop? I've never used that.
Gimp 3.0 is finally actually something you could use to make something quickly
It still makes some baffling decisions (seriously I fucking hate that deselect is CTRL+SHIFT+D and not CTRL+D. I get why, shift is the "opposite" modifier, but GIMP is the only software I use that does this) and isn't perfect, but for meme making and general Internet use it's probably at long-last ready
Never used Photoshop either but from the way everyone and their mother compares it to GIMP when complaining about the UI, I think it's safe to say GIMP sucks in that regard.
I'm not gonna lie, the few times I've used GIMP to crop a picture, I felt lost as hell.
GIMP feels like it's still in the stage of being extremely powerful but awkward as heck to wield, like Blender used to be. Blender used to have a pretty unintuitive interface before getting a massive overhaul a few years back. GIMP could use a similar facelift IMO.
Drag never got truly proficient with Photoshop. Drag took a class on Photoshop in high school and did well, but then forgot everything. The workflows never became natural.
Drag has made dozens of memes in GIMP and really understands the design philosophy. It feels simple and intuitive. Drag wouldn't want them to change everything and make it like Photoshop. Then drag would have to learn it all over again. No thanks.
Different apps should just be different apps. The goal isn't to get every system to have the same UI. There should be room for creativity and thinking differently in the design space.