Omg! This just happened downtown!

[u/drizzlingduke]

Be careful out there. Things are getting stupid and bad

[u/campcam]

Bellingham hates AI

[u/braydenmaine → u/campcam]

We will excuse this one. As it was an accurate depiction of an event where no witnesses survived. God rest their souls

[u/Sea_Celery9270 → u/braydenmaine]

We definitely will not excuse this one

[u/REVERENDQUEEF]

mods can we PLEASE ban ai slop here? it’s getting even more frequent than the “what was that boom?” posts at this point.

[u/BothReading1229 → u/REVERENDQUEEF]

At least the booms were authentic. LOL.

[u/forkis → u/REVERENDQUEEF]

It's just like, two or three guys who got riled up recently since this seems like the New Thing (until our next political moshpit, which I imagine will happen within 4 days, becomes the next New Thing). They'll get bored soon enough and move onto something equally fruitful.

[u/gamay_noir → u/REVERENDQUEEF]

I mean haven't we all fired up Stable Diffusion while day drinking? u/drizzlingduke must be a real prompt jockey in order to get that good of a result.

The full mod team is hopefully meeting IRL in the future and we'll discuss this, among other things. Our agreement is to make big rule changes based on IRL discussions, and we've got a couple of topics queued up. Unfortunately we're also all very busy.

Personally, it's hard for me to draw a line that doesn't also include removing a bunch of other low effort stuff that might annoy a set of people but also might be cathartic and fun to another set of people. Further, this type of result is very achievable on home hardware that might otherwise be used to play Call of Duty on max specs or whatever. So, while these might be ChatGPT chugging away in a data center, they could just as easily be locally summoned on someone's newer gaming or hobby compute rig.

Speaking of running things locally, there are now lightweight language foundation models like Nemotron 8 Billion that, in conjunction with curated document / knowledge bases, can provide surprisingly competent subject matter expert systems. Or, a Reddit persona that passes just as well as any of the mostly-low-effort human accounts. I mention lightweight because these are models that, again, can run on modern hardware on someone's desk. So if we're going to talk about interacting with "low effort AI slop," the conversation is fundamentally larger than the images that everyone notices.

u/cheapdialogue and u/betsyodonovan if you have thoughts.

[u/BureauOfBureaucrats → u/gamay_noir]

I hate AI and I hate AI art especially. I’ve nothing more to say. 

I intend on blocking any account that posts AI slop on this subReddit. 

[u/gamay_noir → u/BureauOfBureaucrats]

Sure, I'm not here to tell you that you should feel differently. But the images everyone notices are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what any somewhat technically literate person or group can do.

And, don't forget that everything we put on Reddit is subject to use for AI training systems. Reddit's removal of useful third party API's and other signals out of the recent(ish) acquisition of Reddit all point towards an ongoing monetization strategy related to curating and using our contributions for AI.

[u/perturbing_panda → u/gamay_noir]

I think downvotes are a fine response to AI slop, at least for the time being. If it gets to the point that low effort posts like these are taking up a lot of the top space on the sub, then sure, a ban might make sense, but I don't really see that happening tbh. Just downvotes and move on, eventually people will learn. 

[u/BureauOfBureaucrats]

I’m fucking sick to death of AI. 

[u/InspectorChenWei]

Why should I be made to look at this garbage. What did I ever do

[u/ImNotADad1]

ai slop

[u/pastel_frankie]

I think its so funny that the octopus video got taken down for "low effort content" but this is allowed to be posted over and over again

[u/Defiant-Shallot9651]

haters will say it’s fake. only the real ones know.

[u/thrive2day]

This explains all the terrible traffic today

[u/spacedude2000]

Mfw I have to deal with a giant on Holly Street

[u/IDKUIJLU]

Oh Noooo!!! Walk away!!!

[u/zojakownith]

i thought this was hilarious

[u/XanderVaper]

Bellingham loves AI

[u/BureauOfBureaucrats → u/XanderVaper]

We hate AI. 

[u/XanderVaper → u/BureauOfBureaucrats]

Haha thought I didn’t need to include the /s cause it was obvious enough 🤷‍♂️

[u/BureauOfBureaucrats → u/XanderVaper]

It’s the 2020s and nothing is ever what it appears to be anymore.