I’ve noticed every chud grifter and politician (same thing, am I right? HAW HAW dad joke owl) seems to use AI art. For memes, for video thumbnails, for their dumb articles that only your 60 year old estranged relative reads, for their shitty Twitter “gotchas”. They love that shit. The uglier the AI generated slop is the better. Why do you think that is? Lack of talent? Hatred of artists? What drives this love of poor quality?

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    For once, THEY’RE the ones embracing the future

    This is definitely it. Capitalist technology has always been reactionary, non-liberating and inching ever closer to a fascist relationship to the world. But the shift with Trump has been that big tech doesn’t even need to hide it anymore (every single big tech corporation has done billion dollar contracts with the first trump admin and they’ve been sucking up to him as hard as they can)