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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

Futurism

Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities , tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. The wave of ersatz Ghibli art was inescapable in AI spheres.

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Voicy wants to pwn gamers with audio memes

TechCrunch

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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Old memes are Bill Murray, dodging them is Tilda Swinton

The Verge

One of the photos from this Cannes photo shoot has been widely memed. I have a suggestion that I think most of the internet will be able to get behind — and we know the internet never collectively agrees on anything, so hear me out here: a way to block memes that are past their expiration date. Please make it stop.

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How Memes Can Help Your Nonprofit Blog

Wild Apricot

When the venerable Fieldstone Alliance surprised its readers this week with 25 Random Things that Make the Nonprofit Sector Great , picking up on a popular fad that’s been making the rounds of Facebook, it was a strong hint to take a closer look at that odd phenomenon of online culture, the meme. What’s a meme? read more ).

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why meme at all?

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Twitter is ruining the open for surprise meme with better image crops

The Verge

Now, image previews should show way more of the image, giving you a better idea of what you’re actually looking at, and avoiding embarrassing situations where Twitter’s cropping algorithm picks the absolute wrong thing to focus on (sometimes with apparent racial bias ). (Or Hide on, tiny cat. Tweet: @ademYz_.

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Lip-syncing app Wombo shows the messy, meme-laden potential of deepfakes

The Verge

In the short term, at least, deepfakes are going to be obviously fabricated and instant meme-bait. Back in August 2020 I had the idea for Wombo while smoking a joint with my roommate on the roof,” app creator and Wombo CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin tells The Verge. I had the idea for Wombo while smoking a joint with my roommate”.

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