AI Artist Creates Satanic Panic About Hobby Lobby

https://lemmy.ninja/post/5870

AI Artist Creates Satanic Panic About Hobby Lobby - Lemmy Ninja Clan

There's a part of me that always wonders what would happen if some folks dressed in black cult-like robes would hold a public prayer in front of a school/kindergarten in order for the children to be welcomed into Satan's warm embrace.
Technically it'd be legal, right? Freedom of speech + freed of religion, ez pz.
But I think a lot of people would flip their shit and I gotta say, from an outsider's perspective, that would be pretty fucking funny to watch.
Oh, don't for a second think we have really gone too far from burning on crosses!
Iirc, the Satanic Temple has done some things like that, usually in reaction to a specific equivalent act by an evangelical organization. They don't do it often, I don't think, because the backlash can end up being more harmful to the cause, but you're not the first to suggest it.
Yeah, if it weren't for the damage that I know such a thing would cause, I would've loved to see it - just to enjoy the resulting circus.
But I know that those kind of people would get others hurt or worse.
Probably want to be so many feet off school property and have a lawyer on retainer. Ideally you'd want to use the stunt to point out some problem with a law rather than just to make pearl clutcher clutch.

I saw a post the other day saying our boomer like trait will be not being able to recognise AI generated content.

Our kids are going to think we're idiots.

"The blinks are too regular dad, geez!"

The amusing part is that we can't even guess (accurately) what the actual tell will be. Somehow I don't think the time gap between blinks is going to be it. I'm betting it's going to be slang-based. There's a reason kids use slang readily, and it's often to separate the worlds of adult regulators and the 'more free' children/teenagers. Imagine AI trying to keep up with the slang, but just like adults, it will be unable to use it in the same way with all the pseudo-information packed into it.
Lazy journalism. Crazies gonna crazy.
That fucking thing is not even Baphomet
I certainly wouldn't expect the typical faceboomer to know that.
I was more disappointed the article author didn't think to call out that fact.
That was my immediate reaction as well, thank you. Most of the generated images aren't even significantly Luciferian in appearance such that they should be mistaken as such. These people are primed to hate anything that looks remotely evil to them. Zomg a figure with horns! 😱
Finally, a good utilization of AI art. (Really hate spammers)

When are they gonna learn that freedom of religion doesn't just apply to them?

Oh, but what am I talking about. Learn, them? Ha.

This is delightful!
I really wish I could buy some of the things they think are real in those AI generated images.
I wonder if the hoa would allow this in my front yard.
Thumbs through regulations. So long as you paint the Baphomet statue a semi-gloss Powder White, it should be fine.
Agreed, I would probably go to my local Hobby Lobby looking for a few of those if they actually carried them.

AI's interpretation of Baphomet are pretty bizarre, not particularly satanic. They don't immediately scream "baphomet", more like men with strange horns lol.

Either way this is pretty funny.

It's a little satanish
Always blows my mind that apparently what some people said on twitter is news now.

This just in from social media! People's heads are exploding due to technology!

😉

Absolutely agree. I recently learned that twitter was important becuase it's where people get news. Surprised, and scared, the hell out of me.

Religious people are gullible? Wow, you don't say.
I think we need to take full advantage of this and get them to take down companies for us. Doesn't matter if it's easy to prove wrong.

I hate to dwell on this but I have to. There is no such thing as AI art and certainly no AI artists. I swear, if you unironically call yourself anAI artist, you deserve to be mocked relentlessly.

Entering a bunch of words in a text box, then sitting on your ass while the AI's algorithm scrapes the work of actual artists to shit out an image is no artistry.

That's not very nice.

If photography is art, so is AI image generation. If one can see something in the natural world they had no part in creating, and get an idea, a spark of creativity, and then choose a camera, choose the angle, choose the framing, set the configurable aspects of the camera such as shutter speed, exposure time, what type of film, what lens to put on, and produce a photograph, perhaps several, perhaps even a dozen attempts to get it just right, and the final result can be placed in a gallery alongside paintings and sculptures and Jackson Pollocks without a single modern art snob batting an eye, how then is that any different from someone with the same spark of creativity tuning a prompt for a model they've become deeply familiar with, seeking to bring the inspiration in their mind's eye into the real world where others can see and experience it too?

I'm sure you've heard it before, but it bears repeating for those who haven't - photography was not initially considered a form of art. But photographers didn't seem to care too much, and neither did the layperson, so here we are again, having the same old argument about another new art form made possible through a technology that invokes Clarke's law.

The creator didn't even hide that they were use generated. The screenshots in the article show that the people in an uproar commenting on a shared post clearly labeled from "AI Art University." The complete lack of scrutiny with which some people approach things online is startling.

bahahahhahaahaha what a fun use of ai art

if only the potential ramifications we’re only just beginning to grasp weren’t so terrifying…

but this is funny!

Wow!! Now this is Crazy..did The Christian Owners Sale? Or are they just in Compromise ..and crossed the line and gone woke?!!

What does the word "woke" even mean anymore

According to DeSantis in court, it means "the belief that there are systemic injustices in America and the need to address them."