2 or 3 years ago, when DALL-E 2 (or 3?) was new, everyone kinda went nuts over it and even on hexbear the front page was briefly flooded with 2x2 grids of blobby Lenins high-fiving Sonic the Hedgehog or whatever. It’s funny to think back on now but at the time everyone saw AI slop as a passing, mostly harmless internet novelty on the level of something like Akinator.

Anyway, someone made a post titled Order January 66th which had melted clone troopers just kind of milling about on what could’ve been Capitol Hill if you squinted. That’s it, that’s the only funny use of AI

I’m sure that these days you could have an AI fart out an uncannily realistic and fully voiced 4k video of screen-accurate clone troopers ransacking Nancy Pelosi’s office and getting their balls tazed by cops but the only emotion it would elicit would be cringe. Aside from everyone being blissfully unaware of the full implications of what the technology would have on society and how annoying AI bros would become back then, what made those early DALL-E posts and videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti amusing was how shitty they were. When the output was so low-res, blobby and abstract it was kind of funny when you got it to look like whatever dumb joke you had in your head and it kind of felt you had gotten away with something.

Now all of the world’s most uncreative and annoying Twitter users can bring all of their reddit-brained epic bacon fantasies to life. OMG GUYS CHECK IT OUT, IT’S KEVIN MCALLISTER, DEADPOOL AND HARRY POTTER BUILDING A SNOWMAN! #WHOLESOME