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I don't care if it's in a shitposting community, a meme community, or a news community. If the image or text is generated it should be labeled as such, and failing to label it should be grounds to remove the post. AI slop is a plague and its only going to get worse as the tech matures (if it hasn't already peaked).

I'm so tired of having to call it out every time I see it, especially when people in the comments think it's a photoshop work or (heavens help us) real. Human labor has real tangible value that plagiarism machines can't even pretend to imitate and I'm sick of seeing that shit without it being labeled (so I can filter it out).

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[–] BenThereDoneThat@lemm.ee 87 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 6 days ago (2 children)

AI slop should be banned in general

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think people should be free to choose whatever they want. But I also think it should be easy for them to make that choice. Currently there’s no easy way to identify all the AI images.

Maybe if we had some sort of intelligent algorithm that could filter things… (I kid. Crowdsourcing tags would probably be easier and more accurate.)

[–] KiwiHuman@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

As part of training AI you also create a second AI that detects whether something is AI or not. The solution is to use AI to detect AI. However running this on every single image is computationally very expensive.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

There's an upper limit on detecting generative AI before the generative AI can generate content that is indistinguishable from real content. Not that we're there yet; perhaps the current approach can't even get there and it will require models that understand lighting, materials, anatomy, etc. But considering even real images are just approximations based on sample rate/resolution, AI only has to get to the point where it "stimulates" accurately at a subpixel level to be as undetectable as text too small for a camera to pick up, no matter how many times a hacker says "enhance".

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I'm not gonna disagree with that

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you so hard, I actually have to downvote your post because of community.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Nah, we're cool. You and I can tell but AI won't. So it will enshitificate it self into uselessness.

We should all strive to cause confusion in all sorts of databases so AI can't unfuck itself.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago (17 children)

Is this controversial?

I suggest banning AI images from communities that arent specifically made for AI images

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

I spent hours Photoshopping Elon Musk's face onto Scarlett O'Hara (took so long because I made myself do it with Gimp 3). If I could have done it with AI, the results would likely have been better and that time wasted making a meme is something I won't ever get back.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not wasted completely time... you gained Gimp skills

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Now... put on the mask and ballgag, we have work to do!

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[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

You and the previous^2^ poster who complained about people complaining about AI slop should have a rap battle.

[–] KiwiHuman@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There is a paradox here, as there are 2 possibilities either

A) AI generated "slop" is obviously bad quality, theirfor a label is unnecessary as it is obvious.

Or

B) the AI generated content looks as good as human creations therfore is not slop and a label is unnecessary.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

If someone makes an ai clip of a politician saying something they didn't should we believe it cause the ai was convincing enough?

Really photoshopped images meant to seem as real as possible should be flagged. It sounds ridiculous just because it has become the norm to accept them.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is absolutely critical that the capabilities are broadly adopted because in the future, the difference will be indiscernible.This is absolutely a lose lose nuclear proliferation-like situation and cannot be avoided. If the technology is unknown to the general populous it holds great power over them. There are more nuanced uses of this new toolset than anyone has yet realized. One could respond to populous media and digital social misalignment in complex ways that none of us can see or filter. The tool use is not a simple polar dichotomy. One could use a tool to monitor social sentiment and respond in ways to steer the conversation using one's own likeness and social presence at any instance of qualia from a corporate account, to think tank, or political figure.

Those of us with the time and ability to explore such things should be welcomed and listened to carefully. Most people in this space are not the assholes you are angry or frustrated with. I don't give a @#$% about tricking anyone or replacing anything. I only care about what I am curious about and learning new things to occupy my time in social isolation from physical disability. I could share a lot more, but when people act stupid, I do not share much at all. I'm capable of independence in exploring unique paths and applications. The more grounded I am from engaging with others the more effective I am at doing useful things and sharing them. I'm not some savant genius type at all. I'm a persistent rogue that explores off the beaten path in empirically useful but often unexpected ways. It is very easy to misunderstand the context of things I talk about and might share. I am often wrong about several assumptions and details, but if one takes the time to look into my results, the empirical patterns that ground what I am saying will emerge and those nuggets are often useful. This is the real, messy edge of amateur and hobby culture. When I encounter negative prejudice, I'm not going to endure the stupidity of those that fail to contextualize and see the value of my abstractions through the haze of my explorations. I just want to share something I find interesting or useful as I understand it in my contiguously moving target of learning. Anyone that responds to that kind of post or comment negatively, as if a person's knowledge is some kind of static state is beyond useless and stupid to me. I do not care about egos and narcissism. I do not care about oversimplified idealism of right or wrong. I care about curiosity and empirical usefulness because we live in the universe of irrational numbers where booleans and integers do not exist except in fantasies of the mind and the limited registers of computational machines that are always wrong in their truncation of reality.

It is just a tool. Some are sour because evolution dictates they must be. The culture of artificial scarcity and unnecessary pressure produces and rewards assholes. It is this culture that is the problem, not the tool. We live in a dystopia that is reigned by assholes. Sam Altmann is the asshole funding the culture of blaming this new tool. Monopoly in this space can be used to exploit the status quo for more profit. This exploitation only works in a monopoly where the tool is proprietary. In the real world with an open source tool, the time it saves opens up great wealth to the average person and business. Our culture can expand by reinvesting our newly acquired wealth. This is the intelligent use of the new tool. Those that can only see the present as some kind of final state to extract value are idiotic parasites of humanity. We can become something more like has occurred for thousands of years of human innovation. These proprietary parasites of humanity are twisting reality to subject us to their vampirism of extracted wealth and subjugation. I reject this narrative and stupidity because I can clearly see the big picture. I wish y'all would disconnect, set back, and see the big picture too. Nothing about AI tools is a negative unless you fall in line with Altmann's dystopian vision.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

A) Some people are really really bad at noticing AI slop. I’ve seen some really obvious AI generated images with people debating if it’s real or not. Unless those comments were AI and I’m the one who can’t tell…

B) Honestly even good AI generated content should come with a disclaimer IMO.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

*therefore

Even if it looks good, it's slop.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I thought this was the community for unpopular opinions?

[–] JediMindTricks@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Images of me with my wife - Stalin are not AI slop!!!

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[–] ooli2@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

so what AI detection tool should we use to detect it?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Dammit, I hated down voting this because I agree wholeheartedly.

But this is a common sentiment, it just isn't getting reported about as heavily as all the advertising disguised as reporting. Even outside of lemmy, people are bitching about exactly this. Not just online either, and not just tech minded people.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this AI?
I can't ever be sure unless an anal retentive wannabe mod declares so.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Google image search

5 years ago

No, it's not AI.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

I believe gravity exists.

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