this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because of how the sign bends I read the thing vertically first and got EGOBEWB.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Still correct. He is an ego bewb. Man bewbs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

AI slop?

Edit: actually after a closer look, I retract that question mark. This is slop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely AI. But does that automatically make it slop?

I find its dishonest not to label it as ai but as content value its not much different then a lisa presentation meme.

[–] anomnom 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The implication is that someone with the money to buy a huge billboard in a city did it to protest musk. But since it’s generative AI bullshit it means nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Memes that would normally require Photoshop are, in my opinion, the only real use case for generative art AI. We all know the billboard isn't real already, and that's the main content of the meme. How would this be better if they grabbed a picture of a real building somewhere and slapped a photoshopped billboard on it?

I hate AI art probably more than most, but here it genuinely seems harmless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It’s just that we have to look for it instead of just being straight up told it’s a meme, fake.

It would be more meaningful if this photo was real with a real billboard that said this, and without labeling it very obviously people will think it is real.

That will cause people to think things are getting done at a larger scale than they are.

[–] index 6 points 1 day ago

We can indeed do better, stop giving him free ads and share news that actually undermine his popularity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago