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highplainsdem

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2. As if we needed AI slop to know what Xi did to Trump - needed images so much it was worth the waste
Sat May 16, 2026, 02:23 PM
23 hrs ago

of electricity and water by a lot of wannabe cartoonists and artists egotistical enough to think the world needs their AI-generated fake work.

I've seen threads on X where the same overdone theme might be used for multiple different AI fake art "replies" from different people apparently motivated as much by ego as any real interest in a political topic. Internet divas wanting to be viewed as real artists because they had AI spit something out for them in seconds, requiring zero effort and little thought from them, beyond probably having to discard the options they were given by the image generator that had too many obvious AI errors - every discarded option a separate waste of electricity and water. Every bit of AI slop you see on the internet has a trail of discarded images behind it - at least 3 images if the image generator offered 4 options from the first prompt, but sometimes hundreds of discarded images as the non-artist looks for something they like better.

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