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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Someone tried Adobe's new Generative Fill "feature" (just the latest development in Adobe's infatuation with AI) with the prompt "take this elf lady out of the scene", and the results were...interesting:

There's also an option to rate whatever the fill gets you, which I can absolutely see being used to sabotage the "feature".

[–] Talia@mstdn.social 10 points 2 days ago

@BlueMonday1984 I was experimenting with generative fill and asked it to remove a person from a scene and "make the background yellow". It made the person Chinese. No fucking joke.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Putting the “manic pixie” in manic pixie dream girl

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Watch till end the third option made me choke on my drink it was way too funny

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Please turn the elf lady into elf Grimes