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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

Photo: David Roth. Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000.

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New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life

The Verge

An AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia that animates still photos has become the main character on Twitter this fine Sunday, as people try to create the creepiest fake “video” possible, apparently. It’s kinda like the iOS Live Photos feature , which adds a few seconds of video to help smartphone photographers find the best shot.

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ChatGPT gained one million new users in an hour today

Engadget

One of the more visible examples have been the many memes image inspired by the animation style of Studio Ghibli. Many of these people have their work taken, either as training material for the large-language model scraped from the internet or improperly taken and modified by ChatGPT users, without any credit or compensation.

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AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors

The Verge

Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images. AMC, though, they’ve elected to really embrace the whole meme thing. I’m hoping there are more announcements where they get meme-ier. Meme enthusiasm essentially saved the company. A lot of the meme stocks are shooting up again. CNBC even has a “meme stock” graphic now.

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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. Many have uploaded personal photos to be redrawn into a still from a Ghibli movie.

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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. Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage. This request is inspired by the meme-ified photo of Wes Anderson, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, and Bill Murray from the Cannes Film Festival. Please make it stop. I don’t know, I am Gen X.).

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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.&#. Do we need slacktivism to justify fun behavior online?

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