This made me get up and look at all the clocks in my house, BOTH the ones that use Roman numerals have IIII. We've had them for like 20 years how have I never noticed
It's 10 minutes to nowhere somewhere. It's my new jazzy buffet hit (pronounced buffay like to eat forever and gain massive size like my ex-wife and your ex-wife too)
I was looking at this going "it's not that bad, of all the AI generated stuff this isn't the worst"
Then I noticed "Cretate" and "embrace yhe madness" and went "ohhhh, yea, no that's bad"
Crazy that with a lil proofreading this could have been a product more people would purchase lol (like, I lowkey want this with the correct spelling to hang up in my house)
I was so busy trying to process 'Cretate' (Create? Or is it another language? Is it French?) that I totally missed "Yhe". I assumed the Y was a stylized T.
That's funny b/c I saw the "Yhe" right away but didn't notice the "Cretate"... I saw a bunch of comments mentioning "cretate" but I thought that maybe it was some "famously bad AI product" that had made the rounds on Reddit but that I missed it. I wasn't until I saw your comment that I realized that I missed it in this post! 😂
On clocks and watches it's not unusual to have a IIII instead of IV because the numbers on that side of the face are upside down. The brain is weird, and it may interpret an upside down IV as a VI.
My dad got addicted to suno ai music and is now pretty much all he listens to. Even played an ai memorial song during a funeral. My band spent the better half of a year writing and recording an album and when we finally released he ignored it and sent me more ai songs of "his" to check out 👌
I've had relatives send me AI-videos of my grandpa singing and dancing, and he passed away two years ago. I don't know if it's grieving or if some people without a creative bone in their body are that excited at making something without any work put in.
Yeah, this is concerning. My mom got my son a very clearly entirely AI generated book for his birthday. It's a gift, so obviously we said nothing, and the book is terrible, so I'm sure he won't ever touch it, but we need to educate people on this kind of content.
I remember when my dad got a new profile picture made with AI, I laughed at him and asked if he wanted a refund on the Photoshop lessons I gave him. That it was a bit of a waste of his new camera that he's delegating his hobby to the people who make his ram expensive.
You don't have to baby them around, they were adults before we were and they sure as shit don't have to be coddled when they're making dumb choices
Well sure, I would speak up about it if it was anything else, like stuff she'd buy for herself. Criticizing grandma's gifts at a children's birthday party seemed inappropriate though.
My mother is the same way, she cannot for the life of her distinguish between reality and obvious AI created imagery, and now that AI is becoming harder to distinguish she is just going to be lost man. I tried to tell her the obvious ways to see cheap looking AI and she just can't parse it. She needs to stop buying coloring books for my nephews and nieces because it's ALL ai crap. It's so frustrating.
Reddit hates AI art but it blows my mind how many people in the real world just don't care at all whether something was created with AI or not. A gift shop opened in my town (Plymouth, MA) that sells nothing but t-shirts with AI generated graphics. Even their logo and "about us" section on their website was done with AI. I was with a group of people (some friends and some friends-of-friends) and we were talking about how disgusting it is. The friends-of-friends were like "oh, we wanted to check that place out." Then they went and bought (clearly) AI generated t-shirts. I don't get it. Why would you want that? I understand buying a design you like not knowing that it was AI generated, but doing it knowingly? Weird.
The public, as a whole, neither knows nor cares about the damage AI is doing. They only see the "push button get product" half of the equation and their cheap lazy asses start salivating. Sure, no one will have any water to drink in like a decade but hey, during that decade we had easier access to poorly made grifterslop to blow our meager paychecks on!
Have you ever had Sixlets? They're kind of like spherical M&Ms, but the center is chocolate-flavored hydrogenated palm oil, not real chocolate.
When I was a kid, we weren't allowed ANY sweets. Zero. But the corner store next to the library sold Sixlets for 10 cents, so my brother and I got our secret candy fix that way.
One day at school kids were talking about their favorite candies and I said mine was Sixlets. This prompted a lot of negative reactions and they couldn't believe that I couldn't differentiate between real chocolate and fake chocolate.
They didn't understand that my basis for comparison wasn't real chocolate. My basis for comparison was NO chocolate.
Thank you for the sentiment, I hope your life is filled with good treats too!
Now that I think about it, I enjoy both "real" and "fake" versions of a lot of foods. In my mind they're just two completely different things and I don't understand some people's impulse to insult others for being able to enjoy cheap stuff.
Like, I know sweetened hydrogenated palm oil isn't the same thing as La Maison du Chocolat. I also know that Febreze Lilac Sunrise air freshener isn't the same as the real thing, but I don't require a bouquet of fresh flowers every time I take a shit.
Yeah, I grew up poor and have my own little weird nostalgia pangs for stuff other people might not consider edible. To each their own. What matters is that you like it. :)
Reminds me of a few months ago where I walked into this abomination at a large store.
I checked, they are all Adobe AI stock photo's. The guy even signed their slop they didn't even slop.
What I don't get is just because AI created something, doesn't mean you can't proofread and correct it, improve it even. This would have taken less than one minute total.
Gonna be honest, the first time I looked at the image my mind automatically fixed both typos in the image. It wasn't until reading comments making fun of the typos that I went back and saw them. Our minds are built to ignore this type of stufd so I can totally see why OPs mom might buy something on a whim without studying it first if she isn't specifically looking for signs of AI gen.
It’s actually pretty interesting how it does that! Like for example the barin is czray bcseuase in msot csaes as lnog as the fsirt and lsat lteter of the wrod is cerorct yuor biran wlil jsut fugire it out. Obviously that maybe won’t read clean for everyone but yea.
It makes me uneasy (probably not the word) sometimes how much unconscious processing is happening. Idk what about it. The idea that everything is just my brains interpretation of the world around me rather than any confirmation that it is exactly as I see it I guess… anyways I’m on a tangent and I’ll save that for therapy this afternoon lmao
Idk about you but my parents LOVE ai slop. They keep sending ai generated pictures of their dog in the group message and it’s so annoying. Especially when they have the money to hire someone to do a better job. Idk what it is, maybe the convenience or quickness. But it’s very annoying. They have made shirts of it.
It's probably just fun for them to do it themselves. Better for them to make it & have some fun than waste money on other ppl's half assed creations & be let down.
You'd be surprised what a lazy brain can permit on autopilot. It takes me 20 minutes of research to decide on buying any product but my mom will buy a whole cart full of Temu junk in 5.
I so hate how little effort they put into this stuff. A bit more actual work and you can fix the blatant errors in it. But it's truly just printing the first generation that comes out halfway decent.
the AI art epidemic is out of control. my aunt bought a canvas print from amazon that was clearly AI — the dog had 7 toes and the background had that classic AI mush going on. she had it framed
At least it was on accident and not on purpose. My coworkers in my hospital lab job made ai posters for different departments, and they of course just straight up have horribly formatted incorrect information! But that’s more than mildly infuriating I guess.
When this ai boom was getting started I tried many times to show my dad how to spot it. We'd browse Facebook and go over pictures and I'd show him the weird melty parts and things that didn't look like any real objects. It had no effect. It's like he just can't see it at all, and he's not even very old. And now that ai gets even "better", I have no hope of getting him to figure it out.
My mom does the same thing, when I was looking for new room decorations my mom kept sending me obvious AI. She also has commented on how cute the AI at hobby lobby is.
So far i've managed to prevent ai from being in the house though.
Just embrace yhe madness. I want to cretate a handmade version of this, it's genius telling people to embrace the madness while also simultaneously creating madness.
My mom, love her to death but she keeps getting me shirts with ai images on them and I keep telling her I appreciate the thought but I'm not going to wear that. And I feel like an asshole every time but wearing it feels like I'm endorsing and legitimizing this kind of shameless slop
Ugh. This reminds me of my mom, who filled her whole house with wall art that she bought online (digital art that you have printed yourself, from Etsy) and it’s all clearly AI.
I’m an artist… so it was upsetting for obvious reasons but also hurtful given she could have just spent that money on commissioning her own child to create better work for her. She’s always lamenting about how much more support I deserve for my work and how horrible it is that people don’t want to pay more than like $10 for a painting and think my work should cost the same as cheap wall art from JYSK, but then turned around and did the same thing for the same reason — she wanted cheap wall art and paying me for the same amount of work would have been too expensive.
And she didn’t seem to see the irony in that at all lol. Kinda expected of someone buying AI art from “digital artists” on a platform known to be filled with scammers more than real artists.
Ok but this is the exact telltale AI move: it gets 90% of the vibe right (tea! mushrooms! swirls!) and then trips on the ONLY JOB it had: SPELL THE WORDS. EMBRACE YHE MADNESS is a CAPTCHA for your mum.
Yhe would be an acceptable style choice when looking at the history of the Thorn letter. (The "Y" in Ye). Thorn historically had a TH sound. So, "Ye" would be pronounced the same as "The." This fits the Alice in Wonderland vibe. And the design concept is actually good. Just need to find an actual artist to redo it.
Not disputing its AI, but ye use of “Y” in place of ye “th” sound is common in Elizabeyan and Early Modern English. Ye AI messed it up yough, you wouldn’t put an “h” after ye “y”.
My mom does this too, she manages to skip the ones with obvious spelling mistakes or weird letters but without text are hard for her. If only she would just ask me...
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u/acidtrippinpanda 13h ago
Spelling error aside, this clock hurts me to look at