most people hate ai

I don’t think that’s true. There’s a lot of concern about it – particularly regarding companies scraping the everloving shit out of the internet and then reselling what they got for free; with it upending the apple cart on difficulty of production (and what that means for various professions); with people using it idiotically in inflexible, unauditable, bureaucratic ways (though they were already doing that “computer says ‘No’” thing even without the new AI techniques; it’s a broader social challenge that involves any computerized processing of people in 2023); etc. – but people are using it as a tool to do really neat things too, and a lot of the results from that are just fun.

Here’s a few examples of fun AI visual art from threads I’ve seen over the last few weeks:

• What have you DONE?! – https://feddit.de/post/4778843
• (Somewhat disturbing) Elvis performing a circumcision on a sentient hotdog – https://lemmy.ca/post/6735764
• (Mild NSFW) Sexy Anthropomorphic Plane – https://lemmy.ml/post/7072314
• When a Ninja Turtle’s Addiction Has Gone Too Far – https://lemmy.world/post/7522233
• Banana-Whale – https://lemmy.ml/post/7598841
• Storing Linux Commands as Bottled Spells in a Sorcerer’s Library – https://lemmy.world/post/7463201
• Doughy Desert Colossus – https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7336600
• Spiderman providing therapy to Batman – https://lemmy.world/post/7520721
• Hot Spaghetti 3 – https://lemmy.world/post/8035624
• Back to work – https://lemmy.world/post/7539961
• This entire thread is fun if you want more: Your username is the prompt, what did you get?

For some of these, something similar might have been made eventually (the spiderman one, in particular, I could see actually existing), but for most of them? Nah. Without AI gen they probably just never would’ve been made, and that’d be a shame!