The 2025 Global Risks Report identifies state-based armed conflict and societal polarisation among the most pressing global threats, with social media playing a central role in amplifying toxic discourse. Memes, as a widely used mode of online communication, often serve as vehicles for spreading harmful content. However, limitations in data accessibility and the high cost of dataset curation hinder the development of robust meme moderation systems. To address this challenge, in this work, we introduce a first-of-its-kind dataset of 6,300 real-world meme-based posts annotated in two stages: (i) binary classification into toxic and normal, and (ii) fine-grained labelling of toxic memes as hateful, dangerous, or offensive. A key feature of this dataset is that it is enriched with auxiliary metadata of socially relevant tags, enhancing the context of each meme. In addition, we propose a tag generation module that produces socially grounded tags, because most in-the-wild memes often do not come with tags. Experimental results show that incorporating these tags substantially enhances the performance of state-of-the-art VLMs detection tasks. Our contributions offer a novel and scalable foundation for improved content moderation in multimodal online environments.

Artificial Intelligence has spawned a swarm of potential skills to assist people in the digital era, including improved data processing, picture recognition, identifying which potato you are on silly internet quizzes, and even assisting in medication research. But what if we told you that Artificial Intelligence can now make AI Memes for you? Yes, you read that correctly. For the past several days, the internet has been captivated by an AI-Based Meme Generator. Without a doubt, owing to its fun and distinctive features, this AI-Based Meme Generator is taking the globe by storm.

It's official: The coronavirus quarantine may have well and truly made the concept of a "meme" obsolete. For proof, look no further than "This Meme Does Not Exist," a meme-creation tool created by meme-template website Imgflip. At a glance, it looks like your average random assortment of meme templates. They're being created on the spot by a neural network, an artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts what it thinks a meme might look like. You can let the network generate a random meme for you, or you can preselect your meme from one of many popular templates, from Mocking SpongeBob to the Gatsby toast.

Save it and submit it to the AI Memes stream! These captions are generated by a deep artificial neural network. Nothing about the text generation is hardcoded, except that the maximum text length is limited for sanity. The model uses character-level prediction, so you can specify prefix text of one or more characters to influence the text generated. Using someone's name or other short text as a prefix works best.

I've spent a good chunk of my workday so far creating memes thanks to this amazing website from Imgflip that automatically generates captions for memes using a neural network. I'm addicted because the site A) takes the pressure off trying to be clever by auto-filling the captions; B) actually, somehow, regularly generates clever captions; and C) sometimes creates captions that make no sense, which are hilarious anyway. You can pick from 48 classic meme templates, including distracted boyfriend, Drake in "Hotline Bling," mocking Spongebob, surprised Pikachu, and Oprah giving things away. To generate meme captions, you just have to click on the meme template on the top of the page. If you don't like what the site serves up, or you just want to see what other ridiculous caption you might get, you can click a refresh button to get a new caption for the same meme.

Internet humorists who spend hours honing their craft to create viral memes may want to start worrying about artificial-intelligence technology outdoing them in a matter of seconds. A website called Imgflip, which is used to create customized memes and GIFs, built a meme generator that harnesses machine learning to create new captions at the click of your mouse for 48 of the most popular meme templates. Called This Meme Does Not Exist, this meme generator has gotten renewed attention thanks to a viral tweet from writer and artist K. Thor Jensen posted Tuesday. The meme generator was created in 2019, but just as a slew of similar sites popped up generating fake faces, fake cats, fake anime characters, fake startups, and even fake Airbnb listings. This Meme Does Not Exist, as well as the other sites, make these AI-based creations using artificial neural networks that train a computer to learn from a slew of data.

Distracted Boyfriend casting his gaze toward carbs. Leonardo DiCaprio suggesting it's time to have a dick. Truly none of these things make sense. Yet as people worldwide are fully in their second month of coronavirus quarantine (or should be), they're all oddly hilarious notions. Perhaps it's stir-craziness, but the images burped out by the AI meme generator--a recently added feature of the site Imgflip--make a random kind of sense.