
Study: generative AI automates meme creation and prompts new agency debate
A qualitative study published by Virtualis examines how generative AI adds competencies to meme production—automated style recombination, hyperrealistic image generation and real‑time personalization—based on an interview with Eduardo Salvatori of the Instituto Nacional de Bellos Memes, who combines AI with human editing and curatorial decisions and varies system autonomy by task.