I hate all the AI ‘enhancement’ of old cartoon memes. I don’t need Bugs Bunny to be unnaturally smooth, you’re killing the fucking art that went into painting those old animation cels!
Sometimes it can get hard to decide the line. Long before AI, image programs had various resize-upwards algorithms of varying effectiveness, and even many of the early “AI” ones were just using machine-learning processing.
For me the line is the cost of the AI tool: if it requires running on a datacenter and training with massive amounts of data obtained without consent of the creators, it is too costly for memes.
Other applications might have extra criteria, for example, I’ve seen nature enthusiasts point out that “enhancing” photos of animals might modify the photo enough that the animal loses its defining features
Ah, a true meme sommelier! As a shitpost epicurean we often don’t see eye to eye and this is one of those cases.
I find the smoothness to be an important feature for when I retire some day and work as a professional curator of low-effort-arts, as it will allow me to date the meme. It’s much easier than compression dating, which gives a rough estimate of reposts-over-time.
I hate all the AI ‘enhancement’ of old cartoon memes. I don’t need Bugs Bunny to be unnaturally smooth, you’re killing the fucking art that went into painting those old animation cels!
Sometimes it can get hard to decide the line. Long before AI, image programs had various resize-upwards algorithms of varying effectiveness, and even many of the early “AI” ones were just using machine-learning processing.
For me the line is the cost of the AI tool: if it requires running on a datacenter and training with massive amounts of data obtained without consent of the creators, it is too costly for memes.
Other applications might have extra criteria, for example, I’ve seen nature enthusiasts point out that “enhancing” photos of animals might modify the photo enough that the animal loses its defining features
Ah, a true meme sommelier! As a shitpost epicurean we often don’t see eye to eye and this is one of those cases.
I find the smoothness to be an important feature for when I retire some day and work as a professional curator of low-effort-arts, as it will allow me to date the meme. It’s much easier than compression dating, which gives a rough estimate of reposts-over-time.