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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051

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[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

God that ai image the article uses is such shit

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The dingy color scheme gives it away immediately. AI thinks comics should look dingy. Are all LLMs trained on comics printed on old newspaper or something?

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

It's similar to something we'd do on purpose in the mid 2010's, deep frying, when people made satirical MLG compilations they would throw memes in as many filters as possible, making a piss yellow slowly cover the meme the more filters you used.