Ok cool, but this is an analogy. Why are you defending the use of AI by megacorps by objecting to irrelevant parts of an analogy on technicality?
Even if the diamond mine owners stop mining, it's unethical to buy their stockpile of blood diamonds.
Also, there is a cost besides electricity - the theft of artist's work is inherent to the use of the model, not just in the training. The artist is not being compensated whenever an AI generates art in their style, and they may in fact lose their job or have their compensation reduced due to artificial supply.
Finally, this is an analogy, it's not perfect. Picking apart incidental parts of the analogy doesn't really prove anything. Use an analogy to explain a problem, but don't pick apart an analogy as though you're picking apart the problem.
It's not a perfect analogy, models ape the work of artists and take their jobs; it's like if the diamond was bloody, and as long as it existed, the miner's family not only didn't get compensated for the loss but we're also prevented from getting jobs themselves.
We're not righting the wrong, were making the wrongs even worse. At some point you have to just burn the whole thing down.
Use a diamond doesn't "use up" that diamond.
And yet, it's still unethical to buy already mined blood diamonds from people who continue to mine more blood diamonds. Funny thing about that, huh
But we're not "killing" every person who benefits, literally or figuratively. We're continuing to buy their diamonds (pay them in money and data) while they continue to mine (train new models, use copyrighted material).
It's the mining of diamonds that kills all the children. After the diamond is mined, I can use it with almost no child deaths. Diamonds are fine.
In -40f, if you don't have artificial heating in your house, your pipes will freeze.
I live in a relatively warm part of Canada and let me tell you a sweater alone is not enough 😭
There are plenty of places in the USA Midwest and Europe that get colder.
I get your point, Western propaganda can't make up its mind about if they're strong or weak.
But it's not really a funny joke because economic instability isn't mutually exclusive with outcompeting, so the Schrodinger doesn't really apply.
Cave racoons
prompt
Generate a photo of a group of sightless raccoons deep underground in a subterranean cavern. The racoons are sightless. The racoons glow slightly with bioluminescence. The cavern has a pond fed by a small stream. Moss, small plants, and worms grow. Very dark. NIGHTTIME. Ambient lighting only. Photorealistic.
Copilot really hates to make things dark 😡
This was supposed to be deep underground
Alien
Square alien
Cube alien
I believe so. I wonder what is the ordinal of the set of ordinals.
MC Escher pinball.
I'm not entirely sure how to launch the ball, but hey 🤷
prompt
Generate a photo of a mind bending impossible pinball machine created by mc Escher
I tried to generate a pinball machine so large that it used planets as pinballs, but it just wouldn't. It'd just make very large pinball machines in orbit around a planet with colorful pinballs. I'm crushed.
Leaving this idea here for others to steal just because I wanna see it.
God, it's me, but for programming projects
As the saying goes
An infinite number of multicellular organisms with an infinite number of writing utensils will eventually reproduce a recognizable literary work
There was a whole court case that came from it. They added new restrictions (which in typical Hallmark fashion, they called the Golden Rules) to the lab but the employee argued that he was never informed.
Just Google "Hallmark rule 34 Golden Lab"
This is old news
A few years back someone entered the research lab with a pumpkin spiced latte, and wiped out the research. They had to start over from scratch.
Yeah, like I said, that doesn't sound healthy
If there is one thing I know about the Stafford Gambit, it's that it's SO EVIL
I can't stop listening to this.\ I feel like I need to go play chess now. Idk if it's AI generated or not, but it's so catchy
What is your favorite extinction event, and why?
I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.
Mac & Beans
Using copilot: > generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey
Unholy union of ai memes
The OG super graphic ultra modern girl
I remember everyone calling her androgynous at the time. Looking back, that was an absolutely wild thing for people to think.
WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks!
What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!
They really said\ 🙅 "Disney+, with ads on us" \ 👉 "Disney+ with ads, on us"
20X6 Olympics
Theme
Create a new sport that you think should be added to the next (or some future) Olympic games.
I've heard that the Olympics are currently happening, so I figured why not celebrate this by telling the Olympic committee how dumb they are for passing over your new idea for an Olympic sport!
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most original | +1 point | | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!\ Previous entries
Does anyone remember a Tiktok/short song about AI taking creative work, with a dancing yellow alien?
I've been trying to find this video for a while with no luck, and idk what other community to ask.
The video features this yellow dancing CG blob alien thing, and the lyrics go something like:
> We made AI to do the dumb stuff, so we could do the fun stuff\ > But now it does the fun stuff, and we became the dumb stuff
Does anyone remember it, or know where to find it? \ The little singing alien thing popped up a few times on my FYP but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I can't find any evidence that it ever existed.
Did John Cena successfully parlay a meme into a successful movie career?
I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.
Is This A Meme?
Theme
Try to recreate a classic exploitable meme using AI!
I'm gonna switch up the scoring a little for this challenge, so be sure to read the score section:
- Most ambitious: the most complex meme or the meme that I (a layman) feels would be very difficult to describe via prompt.
- Most recognizable: the meme is the easiest to identify, and is the most accurate to the original
- Do not include the name of the meme in the prompt: the challenge is to find a novel way to recreate the meme, not just get the model to spit out an image it was trained on. You can use words that are in the name of the meme, but avoid telling the model to just make the meme.
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored: | Prize | Points | |---|---| | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Second most upvoted | +2 point | | Third most upvoted | +1 point | | OP’s favorite | +1 point | | Most ambitious | +1 point | | Most recognizable meme | +1 point| | Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point | | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point | | Prompt includes the name of the meme | -1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone! Previous entries
Step aside NAFTA, here comes CUMFART
Canada\ United states\ Mexico\ Free-trade of\ Arts\ Research\ Technology
Acrimony and cheese
I really tried to get it to generate Mac from the film Mac and Me, but it just wouldn't
It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response
What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?
Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.
Edit\ Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports
LOLWUT
Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but I think I've decided my next contest theme, if I win one in the near future
> a large green pear with a large mouth. the mouth is open, showing large blunt teeth, and a tongue. the pear is on a meadow with small hills, on a sunny day. oil painting
Who was in charge of deciding where to put this?
I know FNAF is a "kids game" but putting it next to the Care Bears seems a bit excessive lol
Unexpected Astronaut
Theme
Unexpected Astronaut!
What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?
Rules
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
- Most upvoted: +3 points
- Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
- Third most upvoted: +1 point
- OP’s favorite: +1 point
- Most original: +1 point
- Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
- Prompt and workflow included: +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!