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I was scratching my head but didn't want to click on X if I could possibly help it. I know there's still stuff there that's worth reading/seeing, but the place reminds me too much of Eloon and what he did to our government earlier this year.

K and big R

Thanks!

the world understands.

Luckovich cartoons, because there's no talent and no effort behind AI slop.

MAGAts can churn out similar slop from their side. Trump loves AI slop, as 404 Media reminded people today, reposting an article from May.

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency/

Sometimes people can imagine things they don't have the skill to execute themselves (like a solid gold battleship, for instance). Looks to me like that's what most of these are: a visualization of an idea that started in a human brain.

I agree we should all have serious concerns about AI and how it's used, especially in the areas of environmental issues and taking over tasks that humans could do better. But it's here, and it's not going away, whether we like it or not. Calling everything it's used to create "slop" isn't going to change that, and neither is criticizing people for enjoying images like these.

Just my opinion, and I know you don't agree. I'm just expressing an alternate view, not trying to start a fight.

theft to train it, the harm done to all those artists whose work was stolen to make tools to enable no-talent wannabes to pretend they're artists.

It's no more moral than slavery. Or the grotesque plans to build a high-tech city on the ruins of Gaza.

Just a thought. I think that might be more likely to change some minds than just criticizing.

I would be the first to admit that my knowledge of AI is limited, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I know there's a lot of info out there, but I don't have time to sift through everything, decide which sources are relevant and accurate, etc. You seem to know a lot about it. Perhaps you could point people like me in the right direction faster than we could get there ourselves?

ChatGPT was released and it was immediately clear that it was harmful.

If you use Advanced Search, which you can use since you're a Star member, to search for thread titles by highplainsdem about AI or ChatGPT, that will turn up a lot of them. So will searches for OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Meta. But with the first two keywords, you're likely to get more than 250 search results, and the limit is 250 for each search, so you'll need to change search dates to go back farther. Most of the threads are in GD and LBN. Some of the threads might have titles referring to artificial intelligence instead of AI, and since DU advanced search allows only one keyword, you'll have to choose one of those two words. Searches for chat or chatbots should turn up some other threads I posted.

skill to execute something they imagine themselves, they should acquire those skills, rather than being frauds using tools trained illegally on other people's work.

I don't know if you've ever used image generators, but the odds are none of the AI slop images posted here were really all that close to what the fraudster AI user had imagined. They typed in a few words and the image generator gave them a selection of options, which could have looked quite different from one another, and the AI user either selected one of then, like somebody shopping online, or they had the mindless AI tool churn out more images.

And all it took was a waste of electricity and enough callousness not to mind that the AI companies behind the theft were happy to destroy the careers of lots of artists, distracting people with worthless AI slop while those companies damage the environment, destabilize the economy, and support Trump because they don't care about democracy and liberal values.

EDITING to add that not all people using generative AI are callous about the IP theft and harm done to real human creatives. Some are still ignorant of the theft and its impact, despite all the news stories about it.

But I've seen a disgusting number of AI users online who are absolutely gleeful about real artists having their work stolen and being harmed by generative AI. I've seen AI users post that they can't wait till successful creatives go broke and AI users are making all the money instead.

And I've talked to entirely too many creatives who are in despair, and sometime thinking about suicide, for me to feel that use of genAI trained on stolen IP is harmless.

... under Hitler renamed the heavy cruiser Deutschland to Lutzow to avoid lowering morale and causing national shame if she were sunk.

Of course naming any ship USS drumpf would be a national shame. Personally, I find the Reagan, the Ford, and the Bush to all be extremely shameful names for carriers.

Reagan? An bad actor, non-warrior, non-hero.

Ford? A nothing naval officer, a partial president.

Bush? An adolescent seeking glory who caused the deaths of his crew while bailing out?

A creepy-looking clown was holding it in a sewer drain.

... and it's not going to start now. It's not going to start with THIS TOTAL LOSER of a president.

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This battleship makes no sense and will never be built

New battleships named after Trump are 'bomb magnets' — and will never sail: expert

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— (@bobshaw-28.bsky.social) 2025-12-26T21:50:29.523Z

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But, only long enough to determine the humane way to put it out of its misery.

reminds me of Dwight Shrute steering the boat on the Booze Cruise episode of The Office.

I guess people have nothing better to do than make AI prompts.

There's an ugliness here that goes beyond satire.

satire /săt′īr″/
noun

1. A literary work in which human foolishness or vice is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

2.The branch of literature constituting such works.

3. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose human foolishness or vice.

Take it elsewhere.

The concept of satire extends far beyond the written word, for example:

Satire (noun)
wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly (as of a person, government, or society)
broadly : humor that criticizes weakness or wrongdoing
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire

Wit, irony, and sarcasm can be expressed in a myriad of forms, from the written word to music to films to virtually all forms of the performing and visual arts.

Makes sense to me