Fuck AI

This one too, I love the "look how easy it is to make real art" sign lol

This is really tame! Dragon Con has a tendency to make shrines and altars all over the place, it's a huge part of the culture. Like putting googly eyes on things and leaving trinkets around.

it’s just… Tell people that’s what you’re doing.

and sell at the appropriate TEMU pricing.

They don't want to disclose that's AI art because people won't buy it or at least not for the same price as art made by people. AI "artists" mislead for a reason.

Perhaps don't call it "art" either since it's just the result of one's and zeros spewing out data.... those people are not "artists" just talentless hacks....

Holy shit, this brought a big smile to my face today, thank you! 😄

It's dragoncon, the con needs to be ran by a dragon

From what I've read, it was because they refused to leave.

Apparently, it was a regular artist who got the booth (you have to send images to the organizers of what you're going to sell), but her boyfriend did some AI art and swapped it in on the second day.

This reminds me so much of the HDR photo craze. I remember seeing booths just like this!

Going to local restaurants/attractions and seeing shitty "art" with price tags starting over $200. They were all bad digital photos, taken with no comprehension or awareness of lighting, perspective, composition, etc. Cloddishly fiddle with various sliders, maybe delete the entire green color channel for some reason, hey I discovered this filter called Posterize, hit print.

A third of them were angle shots of the photo-takers modded Subaru. I'm trying to paint a picture here, don't take it literally.

I am sincerely hoping, despite my positions against AI for most applications, that there will be some positive effects in the end from this AIArt baloney.

I think the same-y-ness of what the visual generators are outputting will wear so thin on people, so quickly. Because in a broad sense they're all drawing from the same "averaging out". And maybe there will be a bit of a cultural backlash, if you will, where people unconsciously become attracted back to hand made things. I don't think we as a huge collective blob of humanity will be able to stand hearing the same note over and over.

Maybe I'm deluding myself, hell I probably am to a degree.

There are many tells for AI art.

My favourites are:

1. Look for a long thing that is briefly interrupted by something covering it. A good one is, say, the button line of a shirt that has a crossing shoulder belt or the like. Another is a long branch that goes behind another object like a person. Yet another is a walking stick that goes behind a cloak or sword or something. Almost invariably the line does not match on each side of the interrupting object. Often it doesn't even continue at all. So with the buttons, you'll see the line of buttons, the belt ... and then just fabric. Or the buttons have jumped to the left by half a torso. Or some other such artifact.

2. Talking of buttons, look for buttons that don't do anything. Like a line of buttons on what looks like a sweatshirt or the like: i.e. no gap that needs buttoning. Or buttons that look like they're buttoning the shirt into the jacket. Or buttons that parallel the main, legit button line temporarily for no reason. (And no, I don't mean double-breasted jackets!) Or buttons that change styles for no reason. Slopmongers have a very hard time making buttons consistent.

3. Text. 'Nuff said. Even the newer models still fuck this up, usually either by having gibberish that only resembles writing if you flash over it quickly with your eyes, or by having text with terrible spelling, weird artifacts that has the text growing into or out of other things, or text that sounds like it was robotically generated.

4. Appendages. It's amazing to me that after all this time and money was spent, you still can't get consistent numbers of fingers, thumbs, toes, or even primary limbs. We all know the finger thing, but how may times have you noticed the phantom extra hand or two?

5. Eyes. Eyes are usually well drawn, actually, but they tend to look everywhere and anywhere but where it might make sense.

All of these flaws (and many, many more) are a result of the slopmaker not having any kind of model of what it's making. Lines stop or shift for no reason because it doesn't know that the line on one side of an obstacle is the same as the line on the other. Eyes don't look at sensible things because it has no idea what the picture is of and thus no idea where eyes would naturally be directed. In general look for things that require a coherent mental model to do right and you'll spot the AI in no time flat.

White oil marker might be 5$, cardboard is free with any pizza