Post #4900667 · Elektrine

2026-09-30 13:05 UTC

It normalizes using corporate-owned, corporate-trained, tools that inherently favor corporate perspectives and propaganda. Even an attempt to subvert capitalist messaging can get redirected and screwed up by letting the corpo clanker choose what to draw. The images are just inherently biased and weird. Here, somehow both panels have a white-supremacist and colonialist undertone: a white-savior businessman explaining things to a crowd of grateful Asian people; then he’s standing alone in his formal suit, framed as the only rational thinker in an exotic desert. I understand that both of these interpretations are perhaps a bit of a stretch, but I truly believe that if OP had taken the effort to design and draw their own imagery for these panels, the imagery would not have had these weird colonialist implications that undermine their intended message.

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@yogthos@lemmy.ml 2026-09-30 16:57

please explain how running Z-Image on my machien normalized corporate-owned tools, I’ll wait huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo

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@1Malayali@lemmy.ml 2026-10-01 10:13

then he’s standing alone in his formal suit, framed as the only rational thinker in an exotic desert. I saw it as two different people. His hair and face seems different, with a darker tone. I see it as Westernised non-Westerner, noticing the lack of attention and support.

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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-10-02 00:46

I do understand that interpretation, although this is not just a feature of AI generated memes. Most memes posted here use only white characters or have western opinionated bias although I don’t see anyone having issues with that, it’s only when it’s AI generated. The person who created this meme had the option to make the characters in the meme to of various ethnicities but didn’t. It’s not particularly difficult to prompt AI’s in specific ways so it reveals your creative vision rather than allowing the AI to make the decisions for you.

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