In the case of This Meme Does Not Exist, AI isn’t taking the job of creating humor, it’s just removing the grunt work of making things to which humans, with all their wit, attribute humor.
In the case of memes, however, perhaps relying on computers isn’t such a bad idea. It could also mean algorithms are moderating Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube with less-than-stellar results. It could mean AI does the office work you don’t want. This is often a double-edged sword: The rise of the machines means bots, who can’t catch disease, can protect workers by ensuring they can stay inside, away from Covid-19 it also means they could take jobs humans never get back.
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Joking about a pandemic can be a much needed release, but who wants to crack wise? Maybe it’s time to let the computers take this one.Īnd why not? As the stay-at-home orders persist, there has been talk of robots doing automated tasks to fill the void. Some laughs would help, but the web’s collective sense of humor feels tapped out. People are turning to social media in droves to find connection and maybe relief. There is senseless death, and even more senseless politicking around it. Amid coronavirus’s virulent march, lockdowns, protests against lockdowns, and daily White House briefings that feel disconnected from the experiences of everyday Americans, everything feels absurdist. That said, this time feels most ripe for this kind of humor. The treachery of images remains the same. The project’s name invokes other AI image experiments like This Person Does Not Exist or This Cat Does Not Exist, but it also seems to echo "This is not a pipe." The early 20th century had Magritte the early 21st century has memes. There’s something inherently surrealist about it. Same with Distracted Boyfriend and bread. The computer didn’t just look at DiCaprio and think, “Hm, something about dicks … ?” It came up with that based on things others had already said.
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There’s an almost collage-like aspect to the images the meme generator is producing, like it’s feeding the internet’s twisted humor back to it as a form of commentary. It also looks like something akin to art. Memes used creative syntax to begin with having it fed into an AI and regenerated makes it look like something put through Google Translate too many times. Hence really complex-and at times bizarre-word combinations. “Character-level generation rather than word-level was chosen here because memes tend to use spelling and grammar … uh … creatively.” Put another way, the machine doesn’t generate each meme word by word but character by character. “However, since we are building a generational model there will be one training example for each character in the caption, totaling ~45,000,000 training examples,” Imgflip founder Dylan Wenzlau wrote in a very thorough blog post describing the tool’s creation. To keep things simple, the site trained its AI using just the 48 most popular memes and 20,000 captions per meme, for 960,000 captions total. The actual words themselves come from a corpus of some 100 million captions submitted to Imgflip’s meme generator. Choose Yoda and he’ll come back with a joke about your mom. Pick Dave Chappelle’s Tyrone Biggums’ Y’all Got Any More of That meme and it’ll spit out something about emails. In 2020, the clip saw further spread online, with a number of notable edits based on the clip being posted on Instagram.Titled, wryly, This Meme Does Not Exist, the tool is very simple: Select from one of dozens of popular memes and let the generator do the rest. In the following year, the GIF gained notable spread in GIF Captions on iFunny (examples shown below, left and right), with a still image of Kanye also seeing use on Twitter and Instagram. On May 4th, 2019, Redditor IronicBassist03 reposted the meme to /r/kanye subreddit, gaining over 3,800 upvotes On March 25th, 2019, iFunny user ThreeEyedBluePatrick posted the earliest known viral GIF Caption based on it, gaining over 1,100 smiles in one year (shown below, right). On February 25th, 2019, Tenor user icyndr uploaded a GIF based on the clip (shown below, left). The posts received over 8,300 and 5,400 smiles in one year, respectively. The clip did not see spread in memes until on January 18th, 2019, iFunny users Avuelix and Jepsi posted memes imagining a Facetime call between Kanye and the Staring Hamster (shown below, left and right). On May 19th, 2016, BuzzFeed and FADER reported on the clip.