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highplainsdem

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40. AI slop, even if it makes you laugh, is not worth all the tremendous harm generative AI does.
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 02:14 PM
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Someone with real artistic talent - which that AI user probably doesn't have - could have done a picture like that if it was worth the bother. If a real artist had decided to do it, at least they'd have shown some real talent and effort.

That particular no-talent AI user on X - who has a link on his profile there asking people to give him money; he's using unethical tools trained on real artists' stolen work to try to make money with fake art - can't even spell faux pas. If you're going to point out a faux pas and use that French term, you should at least spell it right.

Trump has committed plenty of REAL faux pas around the royals, and there are real photos and video of those, and they're way more damning and effective as criticism of Trump than some wasteful AI slop image of something that didn't happen.

Anyone can get an AI model trained on all the images the AI company could steal to churn out AI slop in seconds. It just takes zero concern for harm done to real artists, the environment, etc. All this took was giving a photo to the AI and telling it to put Trump in a too-tight woman's suit, hat and heels. Wow. We could have thousands of AI slop images a day of Trump in women's clothing, if that's supposed to be clever or effective satire. Zero talent or thought or effort required. Imagine what DU would look like, if AI slop is considered worth applauding and the board fills up with it.

AI slop has really lowered the bar for what's supposed to be satire, and everyone with access to an AI image generator - which is pretty much everyone - can pretend to be some kind of artist or satirist. And if they don't have any ideas, they can just ask AI to give them ideas. I've seen so much online advice to AI-using fake creatives to ask AI to give them ideas as well as producing results based on those ideas. It keeps the flood of AI slop coming, and the companies and platforms peddling it are happy about that.

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Did he steal that number out of Elizabeth's closet? newdeal2 Apr 28 #1
You can bet the ranch that he stole it! lastlib Apr 28 #17
When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Blue Owl Wednesday #30
LMAO !! With cankles, too. DinahMoeHum Apr 28 #2
tiny hands on Trumpy would have made it an A+ riversedge Apr 28 #3
And a handsome set of Disaffected Apr 28 #14
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!! and First Escort. Norrrm Apr 28 #4
Hey, could happen to anyone... Permanut Apr 28 #5
Can't stand looking at that orange pig, La Coliniere Apr 28 #6
Your post reminded of what Queen Elizabeth was said to call Cheeto in private: peppertree Apr 28 #13
According to whom? I can't find any source saying she ever called him that, and if it had ever been reported, highplainsdem Wednesday #36
But then - she was known for her sassy sense of humor peppertree Thursday #38
I wouldn't blame her IF she said it, but it's best not to put words in people's mouths and claim they highplainsdem Thursday #39
No kings. Sea Turtle Apr 28 #7
That image wasn't about protocol. niyad Apr 28 #10
I can assure you he never gets anything right. BannonsLiver Apr 28 #18
I can't stop laughing at this picture MustLoveBeagles Apr 28 #8
Same here -- too funny! Blue Owl Wednesday #31
Thank you. I didn't really need to eat dinner anyway. niyad Apr 28 #9
King Charles meets Queen Idi Aminette peppertree Apr 28 #11
Bwah! Blue Owl Wednesday #32
Why, thank you. peppertree Thursday #37
Oh no, that needs some kind of warning!!! PatSeg Apr 28 #12
Hope to see this pic on cable t.v. oasis Apr 28 #15
I'm sitting chicken soup malaise Apr 28 #16
Hahaha Joinfortmill Apr 28 #19
on bsky with a couple more orleans Apr 28 #20
I just burst out laughing BeneteauBum Apr 28 #21
Pretty accurate dalton99a Apr 28 #22
Still too thin and hands too big FoxNewsSucks Apr 28 #23
The Cankles! DET Apr 28 #24
😄 I guess AI -has- an occasional use. TY! electric_blue68 Apr 28 #25
AI slop, even if it makes you laugh, is not worth all the tremendous harm generative AI does. highplainsdem Thursday #40
I don't disagree, actually. I know they trained on artists' works Wirhout permission electric_blue68 Friday #41
That picture was shown three times in this thread and I laughed MIButterfly Apr 28 #26
Reminds me of Mrs. Bucket on 'Keeping Up Appearances" Blue Owl Wednesday #33
LOL!! Bayard Wednesday #27
ROFL!! GenThePerservering Wednesday #28
The Belle of the Ballroom Blue Owl Wednesday #29
OK, I'm still attempting to figure out the faux pa. Abolishinist Wednesday #34
Melania needs to size up. Nixie Wednesday #35
This just came in jmowreader Friday #42
Kick for Kkkankles Kid Berwyn Friday #43
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