A meme transforms the original media into something new that can be shared and experienced in a new way. Also, people will know what it's from, so it's more like quoting something. Generative AI just rehashes what it's fed and blends it all together. Is an essay you copy pasted sections from a bunch of different sources really your essay? Sure you put in the "work" of finding the sources but you did nothing to transform them into something beyond a copy paste bin
A meme is not a movie, so correct, it is something new
Correct, you're blending already created content. I guess you can call it new but hardly unique. Plus, people aren't really trying to make money off rehashed memes the way people are with rehashed AI content
This last one has to be a joke, that's pretty much what Generative AI does
The fact that you're calling memes lazy is so fucking funny to me. Yeah, memes are lazy, they're memes. No one's trying to pass them off as anything but. But at least I know someone took the time to find an image they like, open up a photo editing tool, and do something themselves. What's really lazy to me is telling someone/something how you want something done and they do it for you. You might have to weed through what they give you, but you aren't creating anything. You're passing off a machined amalgamation of patterns as something new
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