Further:

Hitler couldn't come up with his own themes and content artistically, so he made watercolor productions of postcards and there were some people willing to buy them. He took this artistic sense with him as he climbed the political ladder, and employed this ethos in the design of all of the Nazis Party's decorations and embellishments and logos.

This reminds me a lot of generative AI, in the most dangerous ways it is being employed

Generative ai is being used by genocidal propagandaists because it is both cheap (free) and produces quickly. Ai art has a certain aesthetic that fits in with the fascist aesthetic. I have seen countless ai generated posters promoting the genocide of 🇵🇸 people.

The Third Reich had a certain aesthetic yet they were unimaginative in that aesthetic, they did not produce quality art, but rather, mass produced and cheap propaganda.

Generative AI lends itself to propaganda, and I'm not surprised it's coming to a head just as fascism in the US is on the rise.

What the- 🤨

I love this topic (among many others) because it is a rich starting point to discuss the connection between lack of creative output and its association with fascism. It may seem that AI generative art is a new frontier, but in reality, in practice , it is already walking along a well-worn path. The technology is different, but we have been here, we have seen this before (and not too, too long ago--- just ask your great grandparents from Eastern Europe). Here is an excerpt, and a link to the full article:

"
Adolf Hitler was, like Bühler, a self-taught artist. He was also, according to a psychologist who examined him in 1923, “a morbid psychopath … prone to hysteria”. After failing the entrance exam for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he had scraped a living by copying tourist postcards in watercolours. When war broke out in 1914, he took his brushes and paints to the front, and when he moved into politics after the war, he took his art with him.

Art helped him create a Nazi aesthetic, in the party emblems, badges and uniforms he designed, the stage sets he oversaw and the propaganda he sponsored. Art also gave Hitler a higher political purpose. Wars came and went, he liked to say, but in millennia to come the Germans would be judged on their cultural achievements, just as the great civilizations of the past were judged on theirs. To restore German culture was to restore the “ethnically pure” German Volk; to see it decline was to witness the Volk’s decline. And the insane direction contemporary art was taking marked, for him, a decline of epic proportions."

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/08/how-the-art-of-the-insane-inspired-the-surrealists-and-was-twisted-by-the-nazis

okie we will wait. thats not a problem to us

Anyways, congratulations on whatever good irl things have happened ^-^

Yay :D

awesome! wishing you the best in your real life. <3

:D

i needed a more stylish one

this cannot be your first gun

meatgun

*for those of you who cant see the image, no i did not buy or receive a gun in meat world*

BAHAHAHAh

yes

Ooo I love the colors!

YIPEEE

TZY DID I TELL U I HAVE A COMPUTER NOW . we can play hypixel sometimes if u wnat! (NOT rn i JUST woke up)

SHHHHH

wait
thats just your persona

its not

real i cringe so much looking at my old ones.. x/