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Bill Hensley's avatar

I scrolled through a bunch of these images on X and thought most of them were hilariously funny. Only the gory ones struck me as offensive and unfunny. One post on X was telling. Responding to someone's condemnation of the lack of filtering, they said, "These people would put a filter on pencils and paintbrushes if they could."

Most of the images were of Harris and Trump. If we can't make fun of our politicians, I don't recognize this country anymore. Grok sort of democratizes political cartoons. Now you don't need to be able to draw!

Kat makes a good point about how we've survived for generations in a world where we had to sift through text and images and determine what is real and what is not. This has always involved examining context, sources, and corroborating evidence. Really nothing new here.

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Steffen H's avatar

I understand that it is hard for humans to understand the quality of the tremendous change and dangers that come from AI and underestimate what bad, deep-pocket actors can do with it. Unfortunately it's not as obvious as the invention of nuclear bombs that changed the way war could destroy everything.

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Hot Dang's avatar

First we had nuclear bombs...now we have AI. Neither scenario has 'good' government regulations or are governed well.

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