that’s fair. I just thought this one was particularly obvious. like it isn’t even trying to not be ai.

I’m on the fence on this being a specific problem though. the individual tokens don’t actualy take that much energy or water or whatever. the resource use is all in training. all of the infrastructure being built for ai right now is for training the next model. this looks like it was done with a model from a couple generations ago. like if you don’t want to use a product that’s bad for the environment then using an older model should be fine. especially if you run it locally, which is totally doable. this image looks like it used an older model.

as for plagiarism, this is a meme with no profit potential. if the internet cared about copyright in memes we would never share any image macros. the chad face that this is based on is also stolen art that the internet has been sharing for years. that’s what memes are. stolen art shared without permission with no profit motive.

I’m a professional photographer/videographer who has directly felt ai hurt my career. it has also been trained off of my own images against my will. I generally hate ai, but i like to be an informed hater. all that said, there’s really no moral grounds to hate this but not a version with the non ai Chad face.