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[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 107 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This is so true. I've spent the last 15 years collecting pictures like these and ai has made every one of them obsolete.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You just reminded me of "Internet K-Hole" that was a great blog... I don't know if it still exists or not

Edit: It exists: https://internetkhole.com/ (NSFW at times)

Edit2: Just scrolled past this one LOL:

Edit3: Might be the same content, but this is the original blog as I remember it: https://internetkholeblog.tumblr.com/

Nevermind, looks like it links to the same content. Id hoped there'd be more :(

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

(NSFW at times)

I don't know what I expected, but it certainly wasn't that many people with their bare ass cheeks out.

Don't get me wrong, it's not gratuitous, but enough to feel like some kind of pattern. Just people with their butts hanging out.

Anyways, this little story was my favourite:

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah that was great... I guess fucking around at work is literally timeless lol

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This was actually standard. Dominoes used to pre fold all the boxes for the night.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

there is more than one photo

I meant to imply this using the word "story". I'm shit at communication, sorry :(

This is part of what I specifically found amusing:

spoiler

I wasn't even thinking about the pre-folding aspect. I like logistics stuff, so that's cool to learn. Thanks!

[–] erer@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazing website, thank you for sharing. My favorite one:

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[–] chelatna@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

AI makes a picture of something that just completely never happened, so the viewer's imagination doesn't even bother filling in a story. I think your collection is a thousand times better.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago

So you saying with AI I can date this person? :|

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are bagels on boobs in this Little Big music video too

https://youtu.be/K4qeZm9N7tU?t=92s

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[–] ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

Shit. Hadn't considered this

[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I like to gaslight myself into thinking that all the absurd AI content I see online are just weird photoshop images in disguise

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now I can't even tell what is real anymore.

[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Me neither. I kid, but I genuinely have trouble telling the difference between AI and heavily edited images. Someone on Reddit posted a video of a model on Insta who I assumed was heavily filters and everyone caught on that's it AI but it took me reading the comments and constantly rewatching to see it.

We are so fucked

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

eh, same thing happened when photoshop came around.

[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fair. But the fact that there was little human involvement in the process is what makes it daunting imo.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also b3ta! The source of so many great shops.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought the one on the right was AI since it "went viral" recently. But maybe it's older than I thought.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I had it as a wallpaper 10+ years ago.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What does the text on that beautiful Strawberry Elephant creature say? Looks like it's in Farsi

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's Arabic. The pic is a pun on "Good morning" which is written sabah el-fol. The picture says sabah el-farawla which roughly translates to "Good Strawberring".

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.

brief Arabic cultural lesson for those who care

You have your Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace, صباح الخير) in English. In Arabic we have more variations. The standard reply to this first one is Morning of Light (صباح النور). Basically wishing each other a good day by describing what makes it good. There’s a couple but these first two in this order is the standard (and secular *) greeting.

* you’ll see why that is even worth pointing out in a second

Then you have more abstract ones that imply a good day by referring to something (commonly a pleasant smelling flower), like Morning of Roses (صباح الورد) or Morning of (a specific type of) Jasmine (صباح الفل). All of these have a musical quality to them in a way I can’t write out.

You’ll get older relatives sending you standardized photos with these greetings in groups or just to text you to invite you for lunch (or to fix their phone). Here’s the google images result for Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace):

I’ve highlighted the religious stuff in red and the roses with blue, to see how common they are. The religious stuff is mostly variations with Islamic Duas (prayers asking for something - in the case of all of these it’s basically “asking” God to give the recipient good health / a good day / a pleasant path in life - it’s really just a “good luck” phrased in the only way a religious society can express it.

FWIW I’m (mostly) not from a Muslim family so I get secular or Christian versions of these. Often the photos I get are flowers, traditional breakfast food, coffee, a nice breakfast table set in a shaded garden. And often there’s very few pixels. Sometimes an aunt will just take a photo of her coffee and that’s basically a greeting. But it’s usually garbled old jpegs from 2007.

Critical subtext: these are literally forwards from grandma. Well-meaning, but eventually obnoxious, especially back when phones had 8GB of storage.

This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.

But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.

~~Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex~~

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

Great write up! Thnx

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's just the Arabic for "strawberry elephant"? Hard to tell at that resolution

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It says "strawberry morning", lit. "morning of strawberry" (might be misspelled??)
It's a variation on common Arabic morning greetings, "good morning", "morning of roses", "morning of light", etc.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

not with THAT attitude you aren't

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s little depressing, cause you post that now and it will get all the same “ai slop” hate.

I think the best that we can hope for is that people will put the same about of work into their AI artwork as they put into this. And the results will be 100x better than what we have without AI.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 weeks ago (27 children)

You seem to equate the work an actual artist does to typing in a chat box. This implies that you know nothing of the work an artist does and therefore negates your opinion.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I find the "AI slop" commenters as annoying as the "that didn't happen/everyone clapped/albert einstein handed you a $100 bill" ones. Their contribution is shittier than what they are commenting on even when they are correct, but it's not rare to see a comment like that followed by the dumbest logic as to why they think that's the case (especially on reddit).

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Great point. I have found myself seeing a meme and laughing and enjoying it, then reading the top comments about “AI slop” and question whether I should have enjoyed it or not. I’m going to try to ignore that part of my brain from now on.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

At the risk of getting downvoted I gotta say there is some excellent weird stuff on that same level that was created with the help of AI tools. There are some artists out there with actual talent and creativity using genAI.

It's a damn shame that it's drowned out by the very real and very overwhelming amount of slop. I keep hoping the creeps that flood the internet with that crap get bored of it so it's easier for actually creative stuff to rise to the top.

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We live, we love, we lie

That was 2 years ago and it felt like yesterday

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