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The way the right-wing uses bad AI art for everything is really interesting (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I've noticed every chud grifter and politician (same thing, am I right? HAW HAW dad joke owl) seems to use AI art. For memes, for video thumbnails, for their dumb articles that only your 60 year old estranged relative reads, for their shitty Twitter "gotchas". They love that shit. The uglier the AI generated slop is the better. Why do you think that is? Lack of talent? Hatred of artists? What drives this love of poor quality?

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Beyond the practical reasons, I think the default AI art look shares an aesthetic value with stuff like Ben Garrison drawings and Facebook Minion memes, a sort of maximalist ugliness that feels like a subversive rejection of some common aesthetic value I am too close to to be able to name. That kind of thing works well with the current right-wing populist ideology.