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You can find great ways to annoy them without ai
But fighting AI with not AI is not going to be as successful for the target audience.
Do you actually think your convincing anyone with a meme, AI or not?
Major governments seem to think so
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
So that means they must be right?
It's not necessary to convince them. It's enough to shake them. Trump posted his vision of himself as Jesus. Sub out the main character and some people will realize the thing they are defending is extremely problematic. The character substitution is their enemy.
S again, you think it was just the picture, not just who made it.
When was the last time you saw a successful parody that did not mimic the style of the original thing being parodied? When you create a meme do you hand cut your letters like back in the '60s or do you use a computer a typeset library? How would you go about the process of making it in the same style as the thing that it is a parody of without using AI and would that be more or less resource intensive? Do you know how many gallons of water it takes to make and clean some paint brushes? What the carbon footprint of seven tubes of paint is?
Your now making the claim those are similar, so post your figures.
Because you really believe the carbon footprint of a tube of paint and its shipping is comparable to a gas turbine generator running 24/7, and the Google data centre using 2 million gallons per day.
Okay buddy.
Edit:
When was the last time tubes of paint Made someone's home electrical rates rise
But you know that it did not take 2 million gallons to make this. So the daily total is irrelevant.
And you know the amount of carbon emitted from making a tube of paint is trivial in comparison.
If you disagree show your work.
Also the electricity rates question is still there.
Seven tubes of paint shipped across the world.