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LPBBEAR

(645 posts) Thu Feb 20, 2025, 05:45 AM Feb 2025

Playing with AI [View all]

Lately I've been exploring using AI to create AI versions of political cartoons. This time around I though I would try using it to recreate a fond memory of a friend from High School. The result isn't a perfect match for my memory but it got the basic elements of the scene right and the hair color is spot on.

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Playing with AI [View all] LPBBEAR Feb 2025 OP

Wow! some_of_us_are_sane Feb 2025 #1

This one LPBBEAR Feb 2025 #2

Generative AI models aren't playthings. They're illegally trained on stolen intellectual property, and highplainsdem Feb 2025 #3

Nope LPBBEAR Feb 2025 #4

Your using AI on someone else's cartoons in no way helps their messaging or hurts Trump more. Just highplainsdem Feb 2025 #5

You keep on LPBBEAR Feb 2025 #9

Stealing cartoonists' work to generate something with AI does nothing to help us against Trump. highplainsdem Feb 2025 #10

Is it really stealing intellectual property? Yavin4 Feb 2025 #12

Not the same thing. Maybe this will help: highplainsdem Feb 2025 #16

i second some of us are sanes motion. eyes carried . AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #6

My humble attempts... "Cancun Cruz" and "Tequila Ted" JoseBalow Feb 2025 #7

Those are hilarious! LPBBEAR Feb 2025 #8

They're not "your" attempts. You gave a short prompt to an AI trained on countless stolen images, highplainsdem Feb 2025 #11

That sounds about right JoseBalow Feb 2025 #13

You know, the artists whose work was stolen to train AI are fighting for their existence, and for art to highplainsdem Feb 2025 #14

That sounds awful JoseBalow Feb 2025 #15