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[–] 5 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Can you please explain how using AI to generate this image gives corporations power? I'd argue it does the opposite due to the memes anti capitalist nature.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    It proves that people are using it and they use that engagement to drive investments and growth

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    But then we are using the internet, social media and devices controlled by corporations.

    Lemmy is technically better, without corp control and by having pro-socialist instances. But is the hosting free of corpos too?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago* (1 child)

    It normalizes using corporate-owned, corporate-trained, tools that inherently favor corporate perspectives and propaganda. Even an attempt to subvert capitalist messaging can get screwed up by letting the corpo clanker choose what to draw. The images are just inherently biased and weird.

    Here, somehow both panels have a white-supremacist and colonialist undertone: we get a white-savior businessman explaining things to a crowd of grateful Asian people; then he's standing alone in his formal suit, framed as the only rational thinker in an exotic desert.

    I understand that both of these interpretations are perhaps a bit of a stretch, but I truly believe that if OP had taken the effort to design and draw their own imagery for these panels, the imagery would not have had these weird colonialist implications that undermine their intended message.

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