Bless this AI meme generator for giving us the incomprehensible trash memes we deserve
Aux Features great job internet
We were warned that robots would be coming for our jobs eventually, but no one could have predicted that the advent of artificial intelligence would hit the meme industry so hard. Yesterday, users on Twitter became aware of “This Meme Does Not Exist,” a new AI meme generator that uses a deep neural network to produce randomized, absurd captions for classic meme formats. The results (when they happen to make sense) are often much funnier than memes written by actual humans.
“Nothing about the text generation is hardcoded, except that the maximum text length is limited for sanity,” writes Imgflip founder Dylan Wenzlau who made the meme generator in the spring of 2019 and described the process of designing, coding, and testing his text generation model in this post. What was the intended goal of applying his computer science knowledge in this way? “Profit from AI-generated memes, obviously.”
Here’s some memes we got after playing around with it a bit:
We’re not sure if there is any profit in the picture for Wenzlau, but he’s at least given us a way to create some pretty bonkers images that will really only be funny to people whose brains have been severely poisoned by internet culture. And, for that, we thank him.
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“The results (when they happen to make sense) are often much funnier than memes written by actual humans.”They aren’t though, and that is like the lowest possible bar to clear.
I personally thought the first one I got was pretty good. https://imgflip.com/i/3ynub9
Honestly, this is how I see most memes all the time. It’s like I just took off my meme beer goggles, and this is what’s left behind. Maybe one day we’ll go back to just using our big boy and big girl words to convey what we’re thinking. Probably not.PICTURE OF A THINGWORDSPICTURE OF ANOTHER THINGWORDS I’M SUPPOSED TO TYPE HERE TO LET THE OTHER KIDS KNOW I’M COOL OR WHATEVER THE WORD FOR COOL IS NOWRACIST SUBTEXT
“our big boy and big girl words”*Offer valid only in the Federal Republic of Germany and select Swiss cantons
You’re clearly not looking in the right places for memes
I know this might come as an extreme shock to you, but I’m perfectly okay with that.
To be fair, the AI is for more intelligible than whatever happens on Reddit, although I’m guessing it’s a low bar to clear.
“Maybe one day we’ll go back to just using our big boy and big girl words to convey what we’re thinking.”Yeah, uh, we’ve never done that.
Then we really oughtta fucking start, because yelling at each other with pictures and big white font doesn’t seem to be doing jack shit.
Whatever. Get over yourself.
NO U
BUTT NO I MAED PICKCHURU RONG I DO WIN#BERNIE2020
love to live in the library of babel, very exciting times
Here’s the best one I got:
We need positive messages of love now more than ever
This is an actual great job, internet.
I had way too much fun with this,
You people are just now finding out about this?
woooooaaaahhh there buddy
okay it redeemed itself.
This is what the AI generator gave me.
That would be my mom, but I’m more subtle than that. Probably because I’ve noticed Dad isn’t.
I know I’m late to this party, but this is my favorite one I got after messing around with it for 15 mins: