Boy eyeing girl meme, reproduced by GPT in Studio Gibli style.

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   Steve Williams (blabberlicious@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 18:43:33 JST Steve Williams

   Seeing fedi nerds saying this somehow ‘evades’ copyright, when, in reality, it allows idiots to piss all over the legacy of artists.

   Off they go, into the #AI woodchipper to be subsumed & forgotten - just grist to the content mill.

   But you’ve been ‘empowered’ with a creative tool. Thanks Sam.

   Imagine if Miyazaki learnt his skills by cranking out copies of shitty memes, rattling off prompts and plundering his rivals.

   This Idiocracy is sucking power from us. Literally and figuratively.