{"id":3697,"date":"2025-03-22T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2025-03-22T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T18:23:07","slug":"how-i-use-genai-for-my-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3697","title":{"rendered":"How I use GenAI for my memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to do a themed funny meme a day for the past few weeks, every day when I work. I share them on my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mooreds\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mooreds.com\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mooreds\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find a meme I understand. I know a lot of memes, but also check <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/\">Know Your Meme<\/a> to make sure I understand the context.<\/li>\n<li>Use ChatGPT to brainstorm meme ideas. This usually takes 1-2 tries, but the prompt looks something like this: &#8220;can you provide 15 funny meme ideas around saml, jwts, passwords, oidc, rbac, or other authentication or authorization related topics. The meme I am trying to use is the epic handshake meme, where the hands in the middle show agreement between two parties on something.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Review the 15 suggestions, modifying as needed based on my knowledge and the memes I&#8217;ve posted recently. If I just posted about SAML, I don&#8217;t want to do so again.<\/li>\n<li>Create a meme using <a href=\"https:\/\/imgflip.com\/\">imgflip<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Post to the areas above, making sure to use alt text descriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This process takes about 5-10 minutes, with a big chunk of the time being the actual posting. I created memes before all on my own, but it took longer, probably 20-30 minutes. The brainstorming took much longer. I&#8217;ve also done meme brainstorming in a committee, and that took person-hours, cycling through ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes wonder: is this cheating? I&#8217;m still part of the creative process, but am more of an editor\/refiner than the creator, though I do set the bounds by selecting the meme and creating the prompt. The quality of the memes are at least as good as what I did without any genAI help, so I don&#8217;t think this is AI slop, though of course the people looking at the memes are the ultimate arbiters of that.<\/p>\n<p>Would it be cheating if I had an agent do all of this? Would it still be valuable? I also don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>As the cost (in time) of content creation goes down, more and more will be created.<\/p>\n<p>The human attention that I&#8217;m competing for hasn&#8217;t increased, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to do a themed funny meme a day for the past few weeks, every day when I work. I share them on my Twitter, Bluesky and LinkedIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content","category-useful-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}