TOKENIZED GARBAGE: AI MEME FACTORY 😹🫵 by MLow

AI MEME FACTORY //————- INSPIRED BY THIS BATZDU TWEET: "Have been thinking a lot about the relationship between memes and AI, mainly in the context of visual creation.

Since tools like Midjourney, Grok, etc. have gotten quite good and image creation, I’m so curious on what effect this has had on memes. I’d imagine that they are being created and distributed at significant multitudes higher than even just one year ago. And on top of that, I’m even more curious at how well the memes that are generated using AI diffuse into the network. IMO they historically have had pretty short lived lives given that quickly AI generated images for the most part had very similar visual patterns thus making them a bit weaker in the network. That being said, I know that it is rapidly changing in the other direction as the tools are improving at rapid rates. Now that we have greater control over the creative direction and contents of the image, it’s far easier to make them unique and distinct from one another vs. some AI slop.

A few other random thoughts I just wanted to throw in here:

how does this effect heavily proliferated memes like Pepe? Does it slow the diffusion of the original Pepe memes created years ago? what is the creation to usage ratio for generated memes? (Example: Six generations to get one meme) which tools do it best and will there be tools that are specifically used or created for this purpose? which memes have visuals that were born out of AI image generation and what does their life in the network look like? does the definition of what memes are begin to shift and redefine themselves? memes as a language? MEMES AS A LANGUAGE?

A lot to think about. And it’s all so fascinating.

Somewhere in the future, there is a world where visual generation is so proficient, so quick, that it’ll almost be second nature to us. And in that world memes become this language of visual hyper-communication/expression. I think. Something I’ve been wanting to do for a bit is to communicate on the TL with only visuals. No text, just memes. I kind of already do that, but supplemental text is there like 98% of the time. Gonna give it a go soon.

Thank you for coming to my meme talk"

Batzdu