The fediverse used to feel pretty anti-ai, but over the past month or two I’ve noticed a LOT of generated memes and images, and they tend to have positive votes.
Has there been a sudden culture shift here? Or is there a substantial percentage of people just unable to tell the difference anymore?
Yeah I agree. The issue is that image generation tends to result in maximally bland outputs, and the people who post it tend to put minimal effort in.
I’m not categorically anti-ai, but I feel like I am in practice.
what i’ve thought about for a while now is that when it becomes efficient enough that you can generate multiple images per second you can tweak settings and prompts live, which makes it a hell of a lot more of an actual tool rather than just a gamble that it makes something good enough.
when people can actually iterate on it and easily influence the result it’s no longer just algorithmic slop, it’s basically an image editor and drawing software in one, and you just start with a computer-generated base
of course there’s still the issue of unethical training of the models, but that will hopefully be solved in the near future as people collate ethical datasets.