AI slop booooo
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This seems like a pretty harmless use of AI, this doesn’t hurt artists or graphic designers, it just saves some time to create an image that helps OP communicate more effectively. You can argue about the environmental impact of AI in general, but for one image?
I don’t understand blanket hatred of ALL AI, there are some cases in which it is more useful than harmful.
I don't hate all AI, I hate genAI and LLMs.
That """"human"""" skeleton in the fourth item gave it away immediately. Now that I look at it further, "Isolation & Surveillance" and a picture of a megaphone??? "Fear as a tool of control" with a lightning bolt in someone's head??? Did OP even read their slop before vomiting it here?
Also the color of the background. For some reason genAI uses that a lot.
Yeah I've seen so much AI slop with the yellow tinge. It's kinda hilarious that we're watching AI model collapse in real time but the bubble keeps growing
I reckon that it probably began with a lot of the training material being scans of aged paper.
I've also heard theories that its related to lots of "golden hour" photos but ultimately (and this is one of the significant problems with machine learning) the specific cause is unknowable due to the nature of the software
What's wrong with the skeleton? It's stylised of course as these sorts of icons tend to be, but generally correct. Pelvis, spine, ribs, head, etc.
The megaphone seems like a very good way to evoke images of an abusive overseer controlling the camp's prisoners using technology of the modern day, an effective image for a section on monitoring and control, no?
There is no standardised symbol for fear within a person's mind, so again, a stylised symbol showing a lightning bolt is fine. Especially given that it is likely there on purpose - think shocks. Shocks of a different kind you may receive under an evil oppressive prisoner camp system (imagine the sudden shock in ones mind as a guard shouts or lashes out at you, I would certainly consider symbolising that in this manner).
It's as if you've never looked at anything anyone's made with simple clipart and the like before, and assume everything must be extremely deep and custom designed by experts?
Even if this were made with the help of AI, I don't see the message being any less valid, just because the person didn't go download an image editor to a PC, learn how to use it, learn how to import SVG icons and research for the most appropriate ones, build the image and export it appropriately, etc.
Not everybody is as skilled or capable as you or I may be in producing something that we might consider simple. Heck, some people only have a smartphone, not everybody has the luxury of owning a PC and proper software, nor the time or inclination to learn such tools.
The message in this image is conveyed very well, and is relevant to the current fascist regime's actions in the USA (and indeed is a universally important message).
If you want to suggest it's bad (or "slop", as you so evocatively put it) just because you don't like the image creator used to put it to print, well, that's a weird hill to die on, to be honest.
You better hope your country never duplicates the USA's slide into fascism, or you yourself may one day end up in a camp... or worse. How quick to attack the people trying to raise awareness of these abuses of human rights then, I wonder?
What's wrong with the skeleton is, that it has a second head where an ass should be.
So the opposite of trump where there is a second asshole in his face
Looks more like a pelvis than a head to me. 🤷
That's a pelvis.
A pelvis with 4 holes.
EDIT: and the small holes are above the bigger hole.
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Those are speed holes.
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The Star of David is fucked up, too. You'd think that would be an easy shape to get right.
Wow. It certainly passes the test for first viewing. I fell for it until I read this comment and cannot unsee it now. Good reminder how fast propaganda of any subject can propagate, I guess
i had trouble believing this was AI because why would someone use genAI to make, like, 6 clip art images and a wall of text
You should see the commenter that I blocked under mine. Apparently, some people don't have the technological means to go to PowerPoint Online and Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V some stock images, but they do have the means to prompt slop by mail. Silly me for assuming privilege.
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This might get me a lot of downvotes, but when ai 'draws' text it generates each individual letter which makes them a bit wiggly and often not on a straight line. The fact these are all grammatically correct sentences all on perfectly straight lines give me the impression this isn't raw output. Could be that the image was made with text later added on top though, but even the most advanced ai generators aren't this consistent with text.
Could be that just the icons are AI generated, or the whole image was fed through an AI upscaler/enhancer to sharpen the image.
Could be that just the icons are AI generated
This is entirely possible. Could also be the whole image is ai generated, but the maker manually inserted the text (not so hard to erase the text ai would have generated) because AI messed up. You can for example first ask chatgpt to generate a text, but if you than ask it to generate an image with that text it will be all wobly and full of errors because of how the generation process works.
an AI upscaler/enhancer to sharpen the image.
There is no automatic fix of the first problem, because the ai spits out shapes that look like letters but aren't.
Nah, nah, I’m not saying that the text was AI image generated in any way. I just suspect that the image (after the text was put in place by a human) was fed through some enhancer/upscaler. I remember seeing a comic a while ago that reeked of AI, but it turns out that it was a fully human-made comic fed through some AI cartoon enhancer (for… some reason? The original looked fine. Maybe to steal credit?).
I do doubt that any of what I described is the case, though. I feel like the text would look less crisp if so.
I do wholeheartedly believe the icons were generated separately still.
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Oh, you mean Alligator Auschwitz that was just built in florida?
Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not just a concentration camp though.
For now, it's much more like Alligator Dachau. That was the nazi's first and flagship concentration camp used for propaganda.
Oh that is so much better. /s
I mean, yeah? An extermination camps is arguably several magnitudes worse than a concentration camp, isn't it?
That doesn't detract from both being horrific.
Hyperbole and analogies are just two conflicting figures of speech. The overall message is weakened than if either is used by itself.
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"Well they aren't concentration camps, but even if they are, they aren't that bad, but even if they are that bad, those people deserve it, and even if they were innocent, there are a lot who aren't, and even if they are all innocent, we need to exterminate brown people"
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This is fucking stupid. It's when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it's, it's always horrible
Concerts stress me out too with all that people concentrated in a small place, but I think I would be more stressed in Auschwitz.
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Informationen about concentration camps on TikTok because of recent events. Did not have this on my bingo card at all.
6/6. Nobody does fascism like Donnie does! Everybody says so. Beautiful fascism!
Gaza.
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