memes

The US Department of Education's Harry Potter-style X post appeared to promote the 'Malfoid,' a right-wing fan-fiction meme featuring a gender-flipped, blood-purity-obsessed female Draco Malfoy that has become a vehicle for far-right aesthetics and AI-generated propaganda.

IRON-Meme is a human-annotated benchmark of 1,110 political memes with a social-science-grounded framework for classifying social identities, viewpoints, and narrative roles; evaluation of nine vision-language models shows frontier and reasoning models perform best, while template background knowledge does not improve role classification.

Google's Sundar Pichai announced an early look at Gemini 4 Argon, claiming frontier performance across complex workflows, cyber defense, and software engineering, with heavy internal use at Google; the post is shared as a humorous 'don't be benchmaxxed' reaction.

发帖者调侃AI目前仅开发出《甄嬛传》和《我的前半生》等作品不到10%的潜力，并感叹半导体价格飙升推高了自家产品的生产成本，同时AI生成内容还在进一步消耗算力。

A game similar to Wordle designed to enhance media literacy by focusing on fake news and memes.

ArGuard is a shared task focused on detecting harmful content in Arabic memes and LLM prompts, highlighting challenges in fine-grained classification and releasing datasets for further research.

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of vision-language models for detecting hate speech in memes, evaluating their performance and reasoning under zero-shot and few-shot prompting.

Elon Musk tweeted about people being sent to prison for memes, likely referencing issues with online content or censorship.

This paper introduces AHA-Memes, the first large-scale Arabic hateful meme benchmark with fine-grained multi-label annotations, covering 5K manually annotated and ~66K silver-labeled memes, and benchmarks various multimodal models for culturally grounded hate detection.

This paper introduces BanglaMemeEvidence, a multimodal dataset of 2,917 Bengali memes annotated for explanatory evidence detection, and proposes BengaliMemeEvidenceNet, a hybrid framework achieving an F1 score of 0.74.

Google employees are internally sharing memes criticizing the quality of AI-generated code, contrasting with CEO Sundar Pichai's public statements that 75% of new code is AI-generated.