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Post of the Week: Will AI replace shitposters?

💡 Is chatGPT a threat to online humor?

WTF is chatGPT?

If you live under a rock, ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like responses to a wide range of prompts and queries. All you have to do is ask:

Can AI make better memes than you?

AI is the scary elephant in the room. Midjourney scares artists. ChatGPT scares anyone that has ever had to think. People are worried we may be on the cusp of AI surpassing human intelligence. This is not just because people want to be smarter than machines, but likely because they want to be useful (and keep their jobs). Just look at the startup world, where six in five crypto companies are pivoting to AI.

AI is already disrupting many industries (and often in good ways) - Education, Finance, Customer service, Healthcare.. but what about shitposting and memes?

AI can write Twitter threads on any given topic. Linkedin is probably already filled with unoriginal people using chatGPT to write posts about their morning routines and business tips — But I don’t think that’s the case for memes and shitposting (yet?).

AI doesn't have a sense of humor

AI, for now, is good at identifying patterns and trying to replicate them, but it doesn’t understand why something is funny. A quick google search rendered a few examples of people experimenting with AI to create memes. Imgflip has an AI meme generator, and there’s a reddit community surrounding the topic. Here’s an example of what Imgur came up with: https://imgflip.com/i/7cprth

AI avoids "crossing the line"

The line between what is a funny joke and an insensitive idea is also often thin. For instance, I’ve recently had a great time tweeting about european work culture:

The joke here is obviously a harmless generalization, even objectively wrong (many times European work culture is far more intense than U.S standards), but it’s still hilarious. I tried asking chatgpt to write a joke about “European work culture,” and it told me it can’t.

Humor is subjective – and shitposting requires taste

Shitposting is often based on context. Good memes also require critical thinking, or expressive a point of view. AI is inherently designed not to have a point of view (or at least blocked from trying to for now).

With all that said, the memes made by humans on the topic of AI are pretty great:

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🐦 Tweets of the Week

Epic troll by Roshan Patel

Linkedin Shitposting is an amazing genre. This has to be an

Not Financial Advice

Should you be including your hondas as part of your net worth?

Github activity off the charts

In case you're unfamiliar, Github activity is visually shown with green squares. This costume is basically a human version of that.

"Awe Babe I got a bad headache"

Never underestimate Florida man.

The most important physical buttons.

This isn't even really a shitpost, because I actually want this product.

The shitposters are rarely funny in person.

I know something about this, I'm speaking from personal experience.

Bring back the $5 ubers please.

I miss the days of jumping into an uber and not being charged $150 to an airport. Now the Helicp

We're all tired of bots

But at least sometimes they are entertaining.

This is high quality posting

Alexis Gay is one of my favorite online comedians. Her content is so good.

📈 Creator on the Rise

Alexis Gay

Alexis is clearly already a huge creator with 130k followers. But if you're not watching her content yet, you really should. Her videos are amazing:

Do you think AI is going to replace shitposting?

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Keep on Shitposting,

– Gaut