I'm sorry but I don't believe you.
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you.
What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references.
This ant is terrible.
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you.
What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references.
This ant is terrible.
@futurebird What people seem to forget in the haze of the anti-AI frenzy is that people did terrible art without AI pretty much all the time. There were entire web forums dedicated to making fun of bad art. So much that referencing it can be used in a negative prompt which is pretty much going full circle.
But, yeah, “traditional” art doesn’t automatically mean good art. -
@futurebird What people seem to forget in the haze of the anti-AI frenzy is that people did terrible art without AI pretty much all the time. There were entire web forums dedicated to making fun of bad art. So much that referencing it can be used in a negative prompt which is pretty much going full circle.
But, yeah, “traditional” art doesn’t automatically mean good art.Also painted by a human:
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you.
What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references.
This ant is terrible.
I'm still thinking about this damn ant.
Most charitable take: The artist used a bad reference possibly AI.
Least charitable take: The artist is trying to overcome the backlash to AI art on etsy by lying.
Looking at their other work the other insects are well-rendered. The ant is the only with the problem.
It's not just the body. The head is also strangely proportioned in a way that is common in AI generated ants.
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I'm still thinking about this damn ant.
Most charitable take: The artist used a bad reference possibly AI.
Least charitable take: The artist is trying to overcome the backlash to AI art on etsy by lying.
Looking at their other work the other insects are well-rendered. The ant is the only with the problem.
It's not just the body. The head is also strangely proportioned in a way that is common in AI generated ants.
@futurebird
I have horribly mixed feelings about this, because I have long loved SF and fantasy art, and I've seen some great SF insect-inspired aliens, and fantasy insect-inspired fantasy creatures which this "ant" shares much with, especially the human-torso-like aspects of the prothorax (for want of a better term), but from now on, it will always represent the nuance in AI discourse. -
I'm sorry but I don't believe you.
What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references.
This ant is terrible.
@futurebird why...why is its leg like that?!?
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@futurebird why...why is its leg like that?!?
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I'm still thinking about this damn ant.
Most charitable take: The artist used a bad reference possibly AI.
Least charitable take: The artist is trying to overcome the backlash to AI art on etsy by lying.
Looking at their other work the other insects are well-rendered. The ant is the only with the problem.
It's not just the body. The head is also strangely proportioned in a way that is common in AI generated ants.
I've definitely seen far worse AI ants than that.
CONTENT WARNING: This entire website is full of AI slopicles with disturbing slop insect images. Pictures from this site (or from whatever site they may have taken them from) seem to come up when searching for anything to do with ants so you may have seen it before
https://bugbusterhq.com/do-ants-have-lungs/ -
I've definitely seen far worse AI ants than that.
CONTENT WARNING: This entire website is full of AI slopicles with disturbing slop insect images. Pictures from this site (or from whatever site they may have taken them from) seem to come up when searching for anything to do with ants so you may have seen it before
https://bugbusterhq.com/do-ants-have-lungs/ -
@futurebird
I'm sorry, I wasn't sure if I should post it, but the idea was to brace yourself before looking. I may delete it.With it coming up in general image searches on ants, lots of people are seeing things like these without warning. I hate how this stuff is flooding the whole internet.

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@futurebird
I'm sorry, I wasn't sure if I should post it, but the idea was to brace yourself before looking. I may delete it.With it coming up in general image searches on ants, lots of people are seeing things like these without warning. I hate how this stuff is flooding the whole internet.

nah. Don't it's just a lot.
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nah. Don't it's just a lot.
@futurebird
I don't understand why whoever owns that website would even post them. -
@futurebird
I don't understand why whoever owns that website would even post them.It's an SEO trap. Just tons of pages designed to attract search so they can boost the links of other pages.
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Also painted by a human:
Someone drew a good elephant and some other person said “but where is its face?”