Fuck AI

I don't think there's any money long term in producing this crap though. Like is imgflip.com doing big $$$ numbers? Doubt it.

It'll continue to be used where otherwise they'd use a meme gen, low quality photoshop, ms paint, or nothing at all and only while the hype cycle allows them enough free capital to keep losing millions to billions of dollars to run it.

All of the people that are like "but I can run a local AI!" sure...you can, but how many people are actually going to care enough about the type of slop they're generating to learn how to do that either? Not many.

It's roughly equivalent to the amount of people who are going to run their own plex, music server, or other network-connected services. If Netflix went offline tomorrow, most people wouldn't have any kind of backup plan for any of that media. The same applies (even more so IMO) for AI.