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We Won't Let The AI Menace Take Over - Bernie Sanders Reaction Meme

This is a 4-panel escalating reaction meme that uses the popular Bernie Sanders reaction template to show increasing outrage over a series of 2024 setbacks for AI content and expansion. Each panel pairs an AI-related news headline with Bernie Sanders' growing intensity: the first panel shows neutral Bernie reacting to Rule 34 adding a separate section for AI content; the second shows a surprised Bernie reacting to a court case debating AI copyright eligibility; the third shows an openly shocked Bernie after OpenAI shut down its Sora AI video generator; the final panel shows an edited, red-tinted Bernie with glowing laser eyes reacting to Disney ending its partnership with OpenAI, representing extreme anger from pro-AI audiences over these developments that restrict AI growth, aligning with the meme's theme of opposing AI setbacks.
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Four headlines describing recent AI-related events: 1. R34 makes a separate section for A.I content; 2. Court denounces case of whether A.I can be copyrighted or not; 3. OpenAI shuts down their AI video generator Sora; 4. Disney announces that their partnership with OpenAI has ended

Overview

This is a 4-panel escalating reaction meme that uses the popular Bernie Sanders reaction template to show increasing outrage over a series of 2024 setbacks for AI content and expansion. Each panel pairs an AI-related news headline with Bernie Sanders' growing intensity: the first panel shows neutral Bernie reacting to Rule 34 adding a separate section for AI content; the second shows a surprised Bernie reacting to a court case debating AI copyright eligibility; the third shows an openly shocked Bernie after OpenAI shut down its Sora AI video generator; the final panel shows an edited, red-tinted Bernie with glowing laser eyes reacting to Disney ending its partnership with OpenAI, representing extreme anger from pro-AI audiences over these developments that restrict AI growth, aligning with the meme's theme of opposing AI setbacks.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit as a user-created meme as noted in the source information. It adapts the pre-existing popular 4-panel escalating Bernie Sanders reaction template, which is commonly used to show increasing emotion over a sequence of related events, to comment on 2024 AI industry news.

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