• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
    378·
    9 个月前

    As an avid republican myself, I don’t know what this is about. We don’t even have 7 million children in this country. But Australia should not be ruled by the monarchy.

  • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works
    284·
    9 个月前

    Kinda crazy being someone who lives outside of America seeing TV ads asking for donations to feed America’s starving children…

    • Dislodge3233@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      9 个月前

      Are you from one of those socialisms that I was told about growing up? I’m so glad you managed to find enough food to survive to adulthood.

    • outstanding_bond@mander.xyz
      4·
      9 个月前

      Source? I want to believe this but the first page of my search results is all articles saying that WIC will shut down within days and SNAP is unlikely to last much more than a month.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
    4026·
    9 个月前

    OP: Next time you make a meme about a political issue, don’t use a blatant AI-generated photo. There are plenty of real photos you could have used.

    Everyone, look at that kid’s hands: there are three fingers on the left hand and five on the right, not counting thumbs respectively. And look at the weird creamy way the kid’s skin looks: no evidence of pores or extremely fine hairs everywhere. That’s AI where it does not belong, friends.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
        1638·
        9 个月前

        You should care if you care about the future of this country. That’s blatant propaganda. There’s nothing stopping someone from generating AI images of police murdering an innocent Black person, or of a politician groping somebody, or all kinds of nefarious shit.

        But you know, who cares about the truth as long as the meme tells you something you want to hear, right? Who cares if they can be used to spread dangerous misinformation that could swing an election in a fascist’s favor or convince Americans to use violence at an inappropriate time? Who cares, right?

        • Stuka@lemmy.ml
          183·
          9 个月前

          You’re blabbering about nothing

          Not the content of the meme or the message, your upset that it’d an AI generated kid instead of a real one and clearly that’s gonna lead to the downfall of America.

          Your post is blatant anti AI propaganda! You just want to exploit children for memes! See how stupid that is? That’s you.

        • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
          209·
          9 个月前

          I think what bucketofpuppies is trying to say is memes aren’t based on real shit. It’s just some AI image of a random-ass kid…shrugging. It doesn’t matter if it’s real or not, because it’s a “person”, shrugging, with text put on top.

          No one here has generated a picture of cops shooting people, or people shooting cops, or mothers eating babies…it’s just a shrugging kid. It’s a meme. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
            1214·
            9 个月前

            It doesn’t matter. It’s a politically charged meme telling people to express a certain opinion passing off a fake AI-generated photo of a kid as a real one to convince people to accept its message, and it’s working.

            Even when you’re being told the truth about the meme, you’re rejecting it.

            The reason memes work is because they use either real photos that people collectively decide are suitable representations of certain emotions, situations or opinions, or obvious artwork. Not hyper-realistic fakes passed off as real photos.

            And people listen to and are influenced by memes. That means people shouldn’t be using AI-generated fake bullshit in them. It’s too easy to lie to everyone and convince most people to believe it.

            It’s too dangerous and people need to reject it now, before it’s too late and people are passing off even more politically charged shit.

            • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
              119·
              9 个月前

              I can tell you care, but counterpoint: what if a genuine image of a sad, shrugging minority child was used instead? And this exact text was put over that? Genuine child, used to make a meme…does that really change anything, anything at all? This is, as you say, artwork but kicked up a few levels. A lot of levels, as you say, hyper-realistic.

              Memes are not messages from the meme format to the viewer; it is merely a picture. Artwork. I can make angry & happy faces, and you can put text all over them. “I love Biden!”. “Birds aren’t real 😡” True subject material (my face), false message. My face being used doesn’t make the message any more or less real.

              Now if I were to AI render Trump having buttsex with Biden, hyper realistic, and I were to lie to you & tell you this totally happened & it’s real. Okay, now I am actively engaging in a lie. I am using AI to destroy the truth, like cops shooting black kids or something. That’s an entirely different matter, man.

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
                79·
                9 个月前

                Then it wouldn’t have any of the propaganda baggage along with it because it wouldn’t be a really transparent attempt to normalize the use of AI-generated images in propaganda, closing an avenue for unscrupulous evildoers to use to lie to the American people.

                It’s not just about this one meme. It’s part of a bigger picture.

                Memes are not messages from the meme format to the viewer;

                Yes they are, stop lying. Stop downplaying the extremely powerful effects memes have on popular culture and stop handwaving away the very real dangers of people being allowed to use AI-generated images in them with no pushback.

                Now if I were to AI render Trump having buttsex with Biden, hyper realistic, and I were to lie to you & tell you this totally happened & it’s real.

                Guess what you’re helping to incrementally normalize.

                Just because you personally don’t see a problem doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just because you personally think it’s okay to use false AI-generated images in connection with anything political doesn’t make it okay. And just because you feel like the use of memes is under attack doesn’t make it okay either.

                Think, man, think

                • bastion@feddit.nl
                  81·
                  9 个月前

                  You can’t unexist it. You have to adapt.

                  What’s your endgame? Make AI images illegal and uncommon?

                  That would make them more powerful, because people wouldn’t expect them, but the creation of AI images is still totally possible. It’s better to just call out its usage as lame, and aside from that, to adjust your thinking to acknowledge the lack of certainty you (and we all) now have about digital visual data.

        • Ender of Games@sh.itjust.works
          109·
          9 个月前

          Wtf are you talking about? The use of AI image generation in this meme has absolutely nothing to do with the “truth” you are blubbering on about.

        • LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world
          510·
          9 个月前

          the fuck are you on? And why do Americans always assume everybody on the internet is American?

          You talk about gruesome AI generated images when the photo here is just a kid, get a grip on yourself.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
    2715·
    9 个月前

    Nothing says “we care about kids” quite like using AI images of kids for your articles so you don’t have to pay them.

    • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee
      292·
      9 个月前

      This is totes an actually super real picture, but I do feel bad for this kid. He’s lost a finger on one hand and regrown it on the other.

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 个月前

    If anyone out there has the means, please donate directly to your local food bank in the form of cash money or whole cases of shelf-stable foods. Individual cans are fine to give, but individual cans require many times more work to distribute than whole cases because each can needs to be checked for damage, expiration date and label completeness (type of food and nutrition info have to be legible).

    But really, money. A lot of the food that goes to food banks is near expiration. Money lets the food bank buy things like fresh produce, butter (food banks always need butter and never have it) and eggs that would otherwise be very hard to get.

    If you’re hungry, look up your local food bank. They will give you food and if for some reason they can’t they will be able to point you to someone who can.

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    9 个月前

    I’m no way am I excusing the Republican behavior here but most state agencies have organization been preparing for this such that they can weather a short shutdown. Anyone on WIC or other support should continue requesting and using it. These programs won’t necessarily shut down just because the gov’t does.

  • Decompose@programming.dev
    338·
    9 个月前

    Get a job and stop depending on the government, loser.

    It’s funny you think this deserves sympathy. Instead of this, make a post making fun of these shitty parents.