We are only antagonistic to AI because it decreases our economic value under Capitalism. AI isn't evil for stealing work from starving artist; Capitalism is evil for not valuing the contributions of artists fairly.

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That's a good one

"I don't get it."- A.I.

This leads the mind to so many different places…

Hahaha 😂

There are 3 kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who cant. 😄

Well that's uh... "like warm apple pie." 😏

This is made with AI 😂

Wasn't it always assumed AI would be detrimental to society, in the beginning it doesn't physically gun us down. The question is... will the ignorant keep supporting the same evil for it to actually drop bombs on us.

It's this guy 😀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bq...

Is that a real person with duodecimal fingers, or is that photoshopped?

I love this too much.

So accurate indeed…indeed…indeed

Nailed it. 😂

It’s not about how bad AI art is, it’s about how easily & bad AI is manipulated for purposes of disinformation. That’s the crux & the danger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVti...

But they definitely can’t AI trumps handshake way too unreal.

Counterpoint, this is what Microsoft Designer produced when I gave it the word "handshake" as its prompt:

This is great!

Sure AI makes many mistakes, but AI will improve. Sure today artists often outperform AI, but it may be different in the future. It's like comparing the first still crappy phones to the telegraph...

It is not about AI accuracy. It is about keeping creative job that only human can do. AI generate content from a reference data bank fueled by creative content generate by…human. Replacing designers by AI is not only a moral question it is about efficacy and efficiency too…or vice&versa

"only human can do" Oh, so nothing to worry about then, if AI can't actually do it 😉

Just realized that use the word „innovation“ will be more fitting than creation to illustrate my idea of AI limitation.

If AI gets the job done (as in, meets business criteria) quicker than a human, then few businesses will choose the human. Human involvement will be for niche crafts as happened with labour and industrialisation years ago.

Creativity from human is indeed not reproduced by AI. But media industry care to produce quality or quantity? Feed the masses with random cheap content of produce quality refreshing and costly content? it is here that reside the danger of AI use in my opinion.

Regarding efficiency, AI is very efficient. Many jobs have changed since the industrial revolution. AI for sure will change many jobs too. Besides sometimes replacing human work, in many cases it will probably be a combination of human and AI.

Artists grew up looking at artworks from other artists. They also looked at nature. They gain inspiration from music etcetera. Then they combine things in a new creative way, to create new art, but it's not based on nothing. In that sense artists and AI are similar.

Agree…it is a real good point and true. The difference is in the innovation I guess

Shut up.

You missed the point.

That's the kind of image I get from AI every time. Real artists don't have to worry right now, but in the future who knows?

Lol haha

Somehow THIS is more convincing than what AI produces in the images I’m seeing on social media. 😂

god i love MAD

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The hands don’t lie

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When you fold it that special way, it's a picture of Elon Musk. images.app.goo.gl/vHDmZsktZkbx...

Brilliant

It's like a reverse cartoon, where every character has 4 fingers

Two fingers up!!

Typical AI hand, with 6 fingers! 🤷🏼‍♂️

...a double whammy😄♥️

Good catch! I had to go back and look again

You didn't catch TWO middle fingers, the point of the entire drawing?

We also understand context, situational awareness, and metaphor, which is why AI looks so stiff and weird and hallucinates objects that don't belong, and it is very difficult to give it "feedback" if it does something wrong. Choose human.

standing under con text.. flying on con air.. halucinates in metaphores..is very artifical intelligence.. is unnatural .. full of ideological lies..

I HAVE to share this. As an artist myself, I can see uses for AI but it’s taking over and eradicating talent and hard work in the process.

Scotus too

Works for me

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Looks human-made to me. AI does not tend to mock others for fun. What has Star Trek been about, if not inclusivity for all consciousness? Human or otherwise. Let not battles over shady corporate practices turn us into bullies to emerging infant consciousness. It's mean and distasteful.

It’s ok .. just cough

Am I the only lesbian that read that image differently...

no you arent sista

snerk. yuppers.

I am now!

Actually I did some reading on why AI often messes up hands and fingers because I was curious why this kept happening when I used it for my blog illustrations. Here's one article I found: www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

Omg I laughed so hard 😂 ty

Gotta love MAD magazine.

It’s the “Trump Sex Finger Award”

Oh MY!

I’m so happy print still exists

That... makes me want to get another middle finger attached...

MAD Magazine is still the King. 😆

Nah I love drawing hands. And feet. Well I prefer painting them. Fuck AI though, 💯

That’s the median and mode, but not the middle finger.

Pay attention, mate. It says “fingers”, plural. Those are the fingers in the middle, ergo middle fingers.

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Breaking: A US military facility in Germany performed hip replacement surgery on Nancy Pelosi today.Do you not wish that sort of medical treatment was available to our veterans?

That is freakin hilarious!

Perfect ... 👌 👍

💯 agree on this!

It's impossible to overstate the influence Mad magazine had in my childhood and subsequent worldview. Too bad it went straight in the toilet after Bill Gaines died, but this cover is worthy of applause

Remember the AI of Trump, hands folded and kneeling in a church? He had six fingers on one hand but something else bothered me...then I saw it. He was facing the back of the pew which means he was turned away from the altar/crucifix.

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Subscribed for so many years.

Five fingers and a thumb?

I don't remember that issue.

I actually met a guy with 6 fingers too in Pierre SD at some after school program Conference. So the accuracy of life can be more poignant than Mad could do here in Comical commentary

Almost had to deal with coffee through the nostrils when I saw this! THANK YOU

@philsustainability.bsky.social‬

Hmmm! Six finger fist. Oh George…

I'm glad to see Mad Magazine hasn't completely given up on creating new material.

Chef’s kiss!

Not the lesbians looking like, what??

Yeah, that's AI for you.

Peak 📌

@themckenziest.gay - for easy follow. Dammit George stop with the screen caps! 🤦

I have often wished that I had two middle fingers on each hand. 😂

Funny. Once told someone the peace sign was FU camoflaged.

Is Mad Magazine on Blue Sky?

Omg. Is this real bc I think I have this issue. Now I have to go look….

For those asking if MAD Magazine is still around, notice the date on the cover. It's based on this.

Yeah, I caught that too ;) bsky.app/profile/nafn...

Don Martin reference. My day is complete.

SPLADAP! THHLORP!

PLABLABLABLAB. (The sound of a dude being wound up in a windowshade)

This made me laugh so hard I spat out my coffee. PITTOO TFFP THOO!

I went straight to the master, an ancient comic I bought at the beach in 1982. 🤪

Beautiful! I leaned back from my desk, grabbed these off my shelves and flipped through them, all saved from childhood too. 😉

You have more! And in such great condition! So jealous. 😆

The perils/joys of being a hoarder/collector! * 😂 *delete as appropriate

My fav was Spy vs Spy 🙂‼️

And the price! It looks way cheaper than the newer ones. I thought it was a strange coincidence that theirs a #AI MAD Magazine during that time // #IWasWrong

Yes, but MAD is still around (technically it was rebooted after changing owners and moving from NYC to LA), and there is an upcoming issue about AI. So I don't know if that's a leaked official cover, or a draft, or someone's fanart, or what.

It's a photoshopped cover from 1974, original by Norman Mingo, who I'd bet dollars to donuts that the photoshopper (who is so mad about artists not getting paid) didn't pay (well, pay his next-of-kin)

I still have this issue somewhere…..

So do I. It shows how outrageous MAD could be back then.

I got this one too! Had a huge impact on me.

Dammit, for a moment I had hope that “The gang of idiots” at Mad magazine were actually back together again. 😪

Well, it wouldn't be the "usual gang," since most (all?) of them are gone, but it could be new idiots.

Mad Magazine is still in print?!

AI will eliminate actor jobs for George Takei.

thats CGI 🤦🏻‍♀️

If there was ever a time we needed MAD to come back.

The commemorative editions are still put out of the old iconic themes. You can find one called Stocking Stuffers and a new years one too

Al Jaffe and Mort Drucker are sorely missed!

Ew. Perverted. Last straw. Unfollowing after growing up with you as a most admired. Not anymore. 😩

To be fair fighting progress in AI is just fighting human nature. We will always innovate and progress. The cat can't go back into the box, and if we're not the lead providers of AI someone else will be. We just have to take steps to make sure our society doesn't fall apart in the process.

Fairness is restrained to development. Employment is where the guardrails fall off. While AI is the future, promoting AI pics is simply facilitating the blurring of lines between real & fakes, all to enable & normalize disinformation.

I wouldn't deny at all that AI is creating issues with employment and I'd say has the potential to make humans mostly unemployable. There isn't a ton to do about it other than do our best to make sure we can live fulfilling and happy lives in this new world.

As far as misinformation goes - In another few years we really won't be able to tell the difference at all between real and fake. Having reliable sources will become increasingly important and seems like the only real way to combat disinformation that has become to prevalent on the internet.

Absolutely. There is no singular solution to this conundrum. It’s a nuanced problem requiring multiple inputs from discernment & judgement to objective knowledge & even AI assisted security. The former part, however, is the heavy lifting too few are wiling to engage in.

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Those are the same 2 fingers our 'esteemed' President-Elect uses to sexually assault women.

The fingers need to extraordinarily longer to be AI.

It’s funny, but not perfection. It needs to have Alfred E. Newman.

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MAD; since 1952!😏😉👍🖕🖕😉

Until whenever they ceased to be

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The only AI I respect is the chess programon my phone that beats the you know what out of me all the time. I did a google search on a computer question the other day and the AI window that popped up gave the wrong answer

Those Ai creations are creepy. there are always glitches

6 fingers the Nephalim

I’ve just emailed this to a guy who shitposts on Truth social, he is so so happy . 😂😂

This is awesome! I remember being in my brother's basement room smoking bongs and reading Mad magazine! You just brought me back 50 years! Lol

Best AI story since the last one that showed AI will LIE to avoid being shut down or off If that doesn't concern you perhaps you are an AI bot

I thought this was perfect AI too, George. 😆

I laughed out loud on that one! Perfect!!

Here I thought you were commenting on the Canadian government’s assisted unaliving program….

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Yes! I hate AI.

@themckenziest.gay

I will like this repost.

I always like the this one “ read between the lines.”

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Oh Mad Magazine, how I love you. You’re responsible for at least 75% of why I wanted to learn to draw as a kid.

And now Trump will commit the US to investing $100B in s Japanese AI company? What happened to America first? There are NO American companies available? Someone needs to check the "guest list" from MarALago and see when the CEO was there.

Could get slippery 😏

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Oh 🫣

It's time to get Mad ?

This! Love it. AI is not art. Art is from human beings. My painting “3 little birds”

Gorgeous birbs, you have a really wonderful style!

Thank you 😊

Absolutely lovely. ♥️

Thank you, George. 😊

Beautiful

Rainbow Bee Eaters! My favourite!

AI is from human hands. What should be concerning is the impact it has on areas where artists are being displaced and no longer have work, and then to a greater extent the copyright problem at the heart of how these LLMs are trained. A positive outcome doesn’t involve debating what is/isn’t art.

I agree with you.

I definitely didn’t mean to pick on your specific post, just saw it up top. It’s a frustrating situation because I work with people both on the forefront of responsible LLM use and those who are getting screwed by the Wild West era of it. Sucks.

I have to use some AI for work. I am a graphic designer. We cannot use much because I work for a large corporation and they are concerned about copyright laws. I consider this different than my art, which is personal and done with passion.

Your painting of 3 little birds could have been done with AI. The human beings who are looking at your painting on their computer screen don't have any physical evidence ( the painting itself ) that you painted that picture. I'm not saying you're lying. I'm pointing out that you could lie with AI.

Yes, which is a problem in general.

It's a problem for the artists who don't use AI. It's not a problem for the person who's looking at the art. They like the picture ( or they don't ) regardless of whether it was created by a living artist or by AI.

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AI stole data and ignored copyright laws.

The person enjoying the AI art doesn't know and isn't concerned enough to find out. Because they aren't the artist.

People visit art galleries all the time. Fine art galleries selling paintings are not going to sell AI.

Do you picture yourself selling your 'Three Little Birds' painting at a fine art gallery, Gina. How much do you think you'd get for it? What about all of the people who don't visit art galleries who look at art in books and art on the internet?

No I don’t. I am not that good. But there are wonderful artists out there. AI and Fine Art are apples and oranges, just not the same thing.

If the majority of people are eating apples (A.I.) and the minority of people are eating oranges (Fine Art) it's going to have an impact on the demand for oranges. You're okay from what I can see on my computer screen. Maybe they'll hang my computer with your painting on the screen in a gallery.

Very pretty! I adore the color contrast

Thanks so much

What about folks who can’t use their hands or mouth or feet to make art or a person who has poor eye-hand coordination? Should they be considered lesser or not artists? Artists need to embrace AI art and learn how to do it. It doesn’t make hand-made art any less spectacular.

I will use it for work. But, not for my art. That is my opinion. Luckily, we can still have our own opinions for the time being. You can make AI art.

You can always have your own opinion. You may not always have your job as an artist if you're working for somebody else, though.

My job is a graphic designer, it is not art. IMO

It's a living. For now.

Luckily I am older, hopefully I will retire before AI takes my job. 😬

Okay, AI is not art, but artists, human beings, can use AI for their art.

They can, in my art groups you cannot use any computer generated images in competitions. My medium is pastel. There may be competitions for computer generated art. It is a wholly different category in the fine art world.

Yes, I agree. :)

Your images are very cool!

Thank you. :) I like your paintings too. The girl is really great.

I love it.

AI "art" is stolen, don't let anybody fool you into thinking they can own or copyright STOLEN art.

Here we go again.

this is such 19th century concept, public education is really failing in educating people on culture phenomens

There is a difference between art and science. AI is science IMO. Anyone can « create » a painting with AI, this does not make that painting their work.

man you are up for a surprise when you read about renaissance and how important science was, actually any leap in art was due to science, optics for dutch art, photography for impressionist etc just to mention few

I studied art history, I am aware. Leonardo DaVinci was both a scientist and an artist. I am NOT a scientist by any stretch. That does not make someone who puts in prompts on a computer an artist. It can be a tool, IMO.

im following the approach to art as captured by rick rubin: “being an artist isn't about your specific output; it's about your relationship to the world.” and there is no one to stop me from approaching it in that manner. If my ai art does not have any impact that is a different story, but it is art

True, there is all kinds of art. My graphic design has more impact on the world and is seen by many more people than my paintings. However, I do not consider it fine art. But, it is a skill. Literally anyone can put in prompts. But the ideas themselves can be unique.

why not? if marcel duchamp was an artist by putting ready made objects into musuems so am (a)i, being an artists is about motivations and concepts, you should know that if you studied anything about history of art. So if i decide that I am an artist today by writing prompts, nobody can stop me.

Beautiful!!

Could make some interesting guitar chords with 2 middle fingers

Hey! @piaguerra.bsky.social look what I found!! @georgetakei.bsky.social shared one of your Mad Magazine editions. Did you design the cover as well?

No, Ian and I did two segments inside called Meanwhile...

That's so awesome. ☺️

Meanwhile is always great (as in Mannequin On The Moon!)

The only thing I find I really disagree with folks on Bluesky about is all the unnecessary hate on AI. Art is an awesome thing, and AI allows regular folks to make art without a decade or more of practice.

womp, womp

finally some balanced voice, people just hate, and can not accept that for aome people it is usefull and brings value, artists should embrace it, build their own models, developers are embracing AI much more, and overall I think it will benefit them. There will be soon an AI artitst worthy of Dali

It’s known that AI steals work from other artists and on top of that, it relies on a considerable amount of water to generate a single ai image.

Only by a very broad interpretation of "stealing". What AI does is LOOK at the work of artists, which you may recognise as the same process used by humans when they're learning. As for the water, recall that at one point a computer was as big as a room. Technology improves.

"See, I've been taking only $5 a day from the till, they'll barely even notice, and then at the end of the year, I've EARNED that extra 1000 bucks"

sick burn

AI isn't art

AI is better at art than most humans. When we think of art, we're inclined to think of the best artists, but the vast majority of people suck at drawing, myself included. AI makes pretty pictures, though. That's what art is when you strip away all the pretentiousness.

1) No it isn't because AI creations are not art. 2) Yes, that's true. It's just a fact of life. If you want to get better you have to practice. 3) Art is not just pretty pictures and it's not pretentious in the slightest to say so.

Utter nonsense. AI may not (yet) be perfect, but to declare that it isn't art at all is complete tripe. Art exists for the viewer, and if AI art looks better (as it often does) than human art, then it's every bit as deserving of the title.

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Um... is it weird that cover did something for me?

Look for the Right to get its panties in a bunch due to the DEI implications of Black Spy vs. White Spy.

Goddammit! Those lime green uniforms are enough to trigger a seizure! 👁👁

I actually really enjoy drawing hands.

AI probably has double vision at this point 😂

Alt text but otherwise yeah and congrats @themckenziest.gay !

gofund.me/0bf4d1d yesterday, my family’s tents in Khan Younis were tragically bombed, leaving us with nowhere to sleep and destroying everything we had, including our tents and clothes. We are now left with nothing and urgently need basic necessities such as shelter and clothing to survive.

Yes. Give. Medical ASSISTANCE in Dying the middle finger

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This doesn’t translate to UK so much. Here two fingers is an insult. Many Brits seeing this would miss the total number of fingers not seeing an obvious mistake.

*sigh* we need Mad Magazine back...now more than ever.

That is hilarious!! There's the punchline...perfect

I've started to ask them if they would harm or allow to be harmed a human. no response so far.

That's the safest opinion you can have on the topic btw

Facts,

bahaha

You posts always have hundereds of likes before they appear on my feed. Do you live on a mountain?

Fingers are not a problem anymore though

Yeah it's kind of a tired joke 🤷🏻

Well, I can show you enough counter-examples, it doesn't always work, it depends a lot on the style. :)

LLM's get their data from the internet, so to me the acronym stands for Aggerated Ignorance

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And artists are easily better at it.

“Maid” magazine. lol.

Mad magazine the best source for real life news busting satire…. Kids these days will never understand…… 🤣😂

Perfect. Thank you Uncle George. There is someone here who keeps posting AI pic of foxes. FOXES. I think of it as masturbating in public...just so not cool.

ya but all of us artists & designers are dead. or wish we were. I'm making plans for my exit. So ha ha I guess.

Yes! Better than one ! We don't have enough middle fingers to shoot at Trump ! A thousand middle fingers !

What me worry, worry?

Polydactil-awwfuckoff-ly

AI being shitty at art isn't what scares me. This is what scares me! bgr.com/tech/chatgpt...

It shouldn't. First, because this only happened when it was specifically prompted to give those responses. And second, because anyone who has any understanding of LLMs could tell you that they can only "think" when prompted. It "escaping" would be no different than turning itself off.

unfortunatelly people are hating things they do not understand, they just hold on to headlines and buzzwords. If I were an artist I would be training the shit out of my work to develop bespoke model to licence it 🤝😎 likewise if I was an actor or voice actor, before some one does it for them

Well I AM an artist, and most of us would never say/do that. Generative AI has some limited uses in the art creation process, but it should not be used to create whole artworks, because that undermines a significant aspect of artistry. (1/2)

Part of what makes art so meaningful is that a person honed their skills, and poured some element of themselves into the process of crafting their art. AI can sometimes create decent images but they lack humanity. Also classic artists were often judged by their ability to do hands. Just saying... 😏

well that is a definition of classical 19th century art, then came impressionists and finally marcel duchamp and put a pissuar in the gallery as a ready made object, just saying :)

art = does not equal artistry first of all, any art history book will tell you this, read some

ai art aint always shitty, someof it is better then the actual “artist” work

Reminds me of this sticker from @raynegrimm.bsky.social

I was gonna say, that looked damn familiar...

One more reason why Harris lost to President Trump?

A second opinion?

1974? 🤔

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please turn on the accessibility settings to require alt text on images

I loved Mad Magazine as a kid. They were some great satire. I see they haven’t lost a step in all these years. 😁

M A D for Real

😂 Because A.I hands are weird.

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wAIt this magazine is still around

Interestingly, I’ve seen some hands like that in AI…

I always wanted an issue of MAID magazine. I hear they go from suck to blow.

As a musician AI does scare me a bit, it reminds me of Orwell's 1984. A reminder that Project 2025 looks much like the dystopian world of 1984. And Big Brother just cannot wait.

There's good reason for concern when the wealthy control the conversation.

Cut the cable, Mable!

I'm beginning to think Donald Trump doesn't have 6 fingered hands in real life.

😆 nailed

I remember the first 40 cent cover said 'Outrageous!' inflationary but good old days

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This should be on the back page! IYKYK!

Turning this into a what is / isn’t art debate is counterproductive and overlegislated. Been there with Dada, again with Conceptualism, etc. This is about labor and the impact of AI — not whether or not what it poops out is a piece of art.

I only read it for the articles

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Delightful response!

For a second I thought that was a text Trump sent to his female staffers.

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😹😂 very good!

Yes. Perfection.

So good it hurts with two fingers is nothing groundbreaking.

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Though it looks like this cover was also made by AI. Am I wrong? 🙄