Oh hell yeah

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Popular and profitable things do way more damage no matter how "uncool" they are. Boomers making minion images will only worsen the problem.

I dont know why it upsets people. Maybe accept that it exists in the world and it only mimics real human creativity.
If there was a fish that could mimic and recreate human art would you be mad at the fish?
- It's a plagarism machine that is being used to put actual artists out of work
  
  Not to mention teachers (it steals our lessons and tutoring work), writers (it steals their work and rehashes it), musicians (music generation is a thing), programmers (so many code snippets, so few coding jobs), and many more.
  
  Yeah, that's true. Humans are born knowing nothing, learn from other humans, and are then capable of making something new. Like standing on the shoulders of giants. I wonder if ML/AI is capable of that yet, or does it purely regurgitate others' work.
  
  And if the fish did just the same, putting artists out of work, would you be just as mad that the fish exsisted?
  
  work isn't something anyone is entitled to
  
  Plagiarism isn't real except for capitalism and the machine of capitalist innovation has been eating jobs for as long as science has existed. If this is the reason someone is upset by AI, then I would ask why they were not mad at all the jobs that came before that had been consumed.

Copyright lawsuit incoming

Aren't they doing this already? Seriously have any of you been on facebook. It's full of that crap.
- Exactly! The 'death' of facebook has in no way seemed to impact its influence on everything. I still find places that use a facebook page as their company website. The marketplace is inescapable if you want to buy or sell something used.
  All this idea would do is establish a very well known area for AI to be used in... and it would serve the same function as a reservoir of infection for pathogens.
  
  Or even local municipalities publishing important adivice.
  /hey did you know that they have to cut the water supply to work on these leaking pipes? /no /why not we put it on facebook /...
  No i don't have facebook, O just wish people who used it understood this little fact of life. But no. They rely on facebook for local communication, essentially cutting out anyone else.
- But that’s all bots generating clickbait right?

I like it.
It's the "Use your kid's slang to make them realize it's garbage" reverse card.
- Totally works. When I started referring to things as "skibidi" it was suddenly dropped from my kids' lexicon.

Also you know those boomers won't stop at the hundredth image, thus all the AI services will go broke.
- I think you mean "justify bigger bonuses"

Bizarre AI-generated images are currently flooding Facebook, as engagement hacks and bots run rampant on the social media platform, spawning a meme-worthy image that has been dubbed “Shrimp Jesus.”
- It’s actually working, many people around me that were enthusiastic about AI are now pissed off by it thanks to all that shit.
  
  So if bots flood db0 with terrible AI generated spam, then the db0 admins will stop being weird about AI?
  ... I'm not asking for any particular reason

I feel like it usually minionizes anything it touches anyways, so that's a surprisingly good fit for it.
- "Potato!"
  Or something. IDK, I haven't watched the movies...
  
  I remember finding it funny and endearing when I first watched it. And then it just... never... stopped...

Too bad the supreme court put the dagger in artists backs for AI already. It would have been great if a company would license an artists source material to make a set of variations for a limited venue. Like a company licensing a voice actor's samples, then they get to use AI to make those characters say whatever they want, in that one movie, or that one game, based on the license.
As it is now, we're going to end up with Spruce Lee fighting Hackie Chan movies, and none of the actors or their estates will get to say shit about it.
- You don't really know how AI works, do you? A single voice actor couldn't produce enough lines to fully train an AI model even if they spent every second of their life in the recording booth.
  So tell me then, which of the billions of input recordings do you pay licensing fees for and how much? I mean sure, we could make a law that forces AI companies to pay for every single piece of training data. Which would probably kill AI training for the entire region where this law applies, severely crippling our already weakened economy. But I guess, at least we're keeping the moral high ground while doing so.
  But seriously, the EU is cooking up a pretty amazing Ai law right now. Thought out by people far brighter than you and me and it seems to be pretty amazing at balancing economic interests with ethical obligation. My hopes are high for that one!
  
  AI deepfakes are all over the place right now. Or did you think the video of Trump being a rock star was real?
  
  what confuses me a lot about america is how a lot of people will defend the AI's "right" to steal training data to learn (education)
  when there's millions of students out there going into life long debt to go to collage, and none of the same americans are fighting for their right to learn for free
  
  A single voice actor couldn't produce enough lines to fully train an AI model...
  The model is trained on a massive corpus of existing data and then fine tuned to match the target voice actor. Using less than ~30s of reference audio you can get a pretty decent fine tuning the main issue is that it currently isn't on par with the quality and consistency of an in studio voice actor, especially over long time domains.
  
  In Spain we trained an AI using recorded congress sessions. Within the national, regional and city halls they had a lot of material.

Okay, so how do you make minion memes with it? I have no clue myself
- https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img
  put words in. submit.

We could start with posting memes in the meme community...

The boomers are dead or pensioned by now
- The youngest boomers are 64 still. We may be done working with them in 10 years or so but they're stubborn. The ones still working then are the ones who never could win financially or are the ones who took advantage of everyone and never learned to stop.
  
  By then Gen X will have replaced them, and going on about reminiscing about how mix CDs burned from MP3s downloaded from AOL sounded better than the vinyl and TikToks the kids are listening to will be the “we drank from the hose was our curfew” of the time

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