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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?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see it, which is horrific considering that others do. can you show a few examples that you think is AI slop?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Its usually deleted by mods fairly quickly because its often being posted into comms that specifically ban it. I saw it in politics comms, shitposts, 196 and more

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

and how unambiguous is it that those are AI generated content? is it like blurry colors on images, 6 fingers and 3 hands, or what do you recognize on them?

I think I can identify generated images, but text... well I can't even decide. Probably I just can't so far, because I don't remember any posts or comments that were suspicious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Straight up vibes a lot of the time these days. It gets better and better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

i wish there were a client available that would simply hide all image posts because i really hate memes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In Jerboa I know you can change posts from Card to List, which will get rid of the large pictures and make them a small image off to the right, maybe your client has something similar? Not sure if there is another option that might mold it more to your liking.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Be the change you want to see

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I just haven’t noticed really. The reality is that memes, even ones that were made by hand with a lot of effort, are disposable content. Most of them will get looked at for like 10 seconds tops before you either move on or maybe check out the comments. Nobody who isn’t obsessed with finding the AI slop is going to notice the difference between an AI meme and just a shitty photoshop job.

That’s not to say I’m not concerned by the effects of that. Lower effort needed means more low effort stuff, but it’s not really something I’ve clocked as being particularly out of the ordinary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm thinking it's like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.

Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If people would stop talking about AI all day then it probably wouldn't be used as much as it is every day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

No lie. If anything, this site reminds me that ChatGPT might handle a task for me.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)
  1. There's a whole instance of pro-AI users; many are toxic AF about it.

  2. The average person is a moron

[–] [email protected] 27 points 12 hours ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's the one I use (dbzer0). I'm pretty sure it's explicitly pro-AI generated content.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, I wouldn't have guessed db0, interesting. I'd kinda considered exploring db0 as a future instance but maybe its not such a good fit for me. Thanks for the answer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

What I'll say is that I really don't mind it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of AI art at all, and I don't really use generative AI much in any capacity. I also don't see generative AI on my feed... Basically ever? I guess because I don't really browse Local.

db0 is anarchist, and that does come with some lenience that some people might find to be a little off-putting, but the AI part of it is pretty much irrelevant, unless you're seeking it out - from my experience, at least, and based on how I use Lemmy.

Not that I mean to shill for db0 tho lol use whatever instance you feel like fits you best!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They claim they are not cool with generative AI and yet, that's 90℅ of anything to do with AI posted to/by the instance.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago

They claim they are not cool with generative AI

Are you sure about that? The instance description explicitly endorses generative AI. I think you might've misread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I would say that the general mood here that generative AI for creative use or technical tasks is fine, enabling people is a good thing. We are primarily an anarchist community, and generally not happy with the massive corporate control over something that should belong to everyone (bc the models are the cultural output of everyone) and the amount of VC money that is used to push AI where it doesn't belong in search of the next big thing.

Quite a few people run models on their own hardware (like me, to support me when learning stuff, or when my wife wants new seasonal pics representing our cats in cute styles) or are using AI Horde

There are users on our instance that are not cool with GenAI in general, but they are the minority.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Everyone is on the moron bell curve. Most people are morons all the time. Some people are only morons occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

The internet is steadily becoming Facebook. Full of idiots being force fed AI slop. Alarmingly confident in their wrongness about almost everything.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 12 hours ago

Haven't seen a difference but I also block / downvote everybody / community that posts ai slob so ...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

"slop" is being thrown around just like "socialist" and "gay". Save it for actual AI slop. Just because something is made by AI doesn't make it automatically "slop" 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

They are flooding the zone, there are countless pro-AI generated content instances. It's like playing whack-a-mole, I often downvote obvious and human-altered slop (it's all slop to me). Unfortunately, there are going to be images that have positive votes despite the general dislike of said AI-slop, especially because I tend to block those slop instances these days. Naturally, most of it is objectifying women (something I don't want to see anyway) so those will naturally get a lot of votes because people weren't thinking with the right head.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

As long as it's intentionally made by a human and the end result is high quality, I personally don't really care what AI or other tools they did or didn't use to create that result

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy is a mix between technology geeks and leftists, and many of us are both. The geek tend to be at least somehow interested in gen "AI" and often know the technical words behind it (if not what they mean). The leftists are more worried by the socio economic impact of AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

The issue with the leftists as youve described them is that AI IS happening. There will be no stopping it, no containing it. Its already reshaping our world. And by downplaying its future potential(ai will never be able to identify objects, oops it can now. AI will never be able to make art, whoops it can now. AI will never be able to replace a human in every industry....) you are actively stiffling discussion on how to manage those effects. Anyone who has been seriously following AIs progression over the last ten years can see the patterns on the wall. The time of human workers is over. The only question is whether were going to use AI for the benefit of everyone, or for the benefit of the elite. And by convincing consumers they shouldnt use, even though you cant convince the elite not to, you are only pushing the dial further in the wrong direction.

RIGHT NOW we need to embrace AI. Humans have already shown that we are either incapable or unwilling to run a functional society. Putting something else in charge to make the decisions humans cant or wont is the only possible future we have. Ofc Im not asking to out an llm in charge of the world. But I am asking that people actually do something about their world leaders and start getting ubi implemented today. Because soon enough we will have an AI capable of making those decisions. And make them it will. And thats either a good thing under the post scarcity society weve built, or people rolled over and ignored the problem until they decided they dont need us anymore and get rid of us.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

O don't give a shit and 100% skip useless posts clearly created using AI.

But interesting posts, I do read them even if made with AI.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Common sense. A loud minority has tired of throwing tantrums about AI generated stuff. Other people upvote according to the quality of material, not to the methods of its creation.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I think I have most AI stuff I encountered blocked, and I assume so do other anti AI people, so there's probably just not enough people downvoting/commenting on AI since they don't get it on their feed

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