r/whenthe • u/UnAvAiLaBlE-fIlE cock • 14h ago

the daily whenthe I hate that this is real

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u/Ok-Dragonfruit5741 13h ago

The Charlie Kirk face meme was so prevalent that it infested the data source of nearly every AI so that they will randomly generate a picture of him

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u/Ok-Manufacturer27 13h ago

Thanks, gotcha. OP did a shit job of providing context and gets a D+

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u/Omadany 12h ago

This sub is all about vague posting now lol. I wonder how these vague posts gets thousands of upvotes

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u/Quixotic_Tendency 11h ago

they need content for /r/peterexplainsthejoke or whatever.

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u/notGeronimo 8h ago edited 5h ago

No, those are all posts that don't actually require an explanation it you aren't legally braindead

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u/Alvsolutely 9h ago

and then AI just feeds and trains off of posts from there, lmao

this is all deliberate, i swear.

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u/Rebellion2297 10h ago

Vagueposting generates interactions by getting people to click on posts, open comments, or write comments.

Probably not changing anytime soon unless reddit fixes their algorithm (unlikely because maximized interactions is what investors want.)

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u/Omadany 10h ago

Makes sense.

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u/lilsnatchsniffz 8h ago

Yeah I think it's just huge crossover with the other sub where we all just copy his style of answers from that one YouTube video.

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u/Extension-Land-390 10h ago

OP did zero job, period. Not responding would have been more helpful.

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u/Ote-Kringralnick darth vader wouldn't tolerate that shit 12h ago

That's not really true anymore

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u/Kiribaku- 12h ago

Yeah I don't get why people think this, is it because of that meme image of Harry and Hermione's wedding? Are people that gullible to think that a random Charlie Kirk will appear in AI pictures? lol

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u/Ote-Kringralnick darth vader wouldn't tolerate that shit 12h ago

It was true for a very short time during the kirkification trend, because there legitimately was a massive slew of Kirk images in the training data, but that was for like, a week, and right after the AI got normal images again and stopped slipping Kirk in the background of things.

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u/username_tooken 12h ago

If you believed that for a second then you should look up, cuz “Charlie Kirk” is written on the ceiling.

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u/Ote-Kringralnick darth vader wouldn't tolerate that shit 11h ago

I don't "believe" anything, I saw it happen in unrelated AI images for a week.

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u/username_tooken 11h ago

And when I was 12 I saw Santa Claus. There were so many AI images with Charlie Kirk in them... because there was literally a trend of putting Charlie Kirk into random images.

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u/teelo64 9h ago

spoiler alert: people were doing that intentionally.

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u/rotj 9h ago

Easy to prove, then. Share a public link of the chat session you saw it happen in. All the major AI providers provide a share function.

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u/YobaiYamete 10h ago

It absolutely did not lol, I'm deep in the ai scene and have run literally hundreds of models locally and never even heard about that until now

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u/rips_n_chel 7h ago

K but, you didn't. We all know you didn't. Why are you making up stories again? We talked about this...

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u/rotj 9h ago

It was never true. Every time AI put Charlie Kirk's face in an image, it was on purpose at the request of the user. His face showing up spontaneously was always a joke.

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u/revolutier 12h ago

not the case.

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u/Mr_Sim_ 8h ago

Gosh I had to scroll so deep to find this thanks !

OP deserved his downvote that was legitimately my worse context seeking experience