Out with the Dort_Owl, in with the Dog_Owl
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I just don't understand this allergy to doing the bare minimum. Like, there are free phone apps that will make you a mural out of 15 pictures or whatever in 30 seconds. Photoshop/Graphite/GNUIMP let you indulge all your poisonous "graphic design is my passion" impulses for an hour. What possible gratification can people get from offloading this embarrassingly tiny bit of creative control to the forest annihilator?
If you're the type of person who already uses AI for everything, you're the type of person who isn't going to check the output of AI very critically if at all
The baffling part is how disproportionate the initial creation to the physical realization of this is. Like they really just slapped generate on a weird resolution ratio that made the model break down even more, then upscaled it in one of several possible ways depending on the hardware used, and then went to orders of magnitude more effort to actually put it up, seemingly without ever actually looking at it after slapping generate.
Like they could have taken a few more minutes to throw together a collage with some rough sketchwork to img2img it with a high denoise pass (translation: made the robot draw over a crude reference image they made), then spent like an hour editing and doing inpainting passes to fix the worst errors, and gotten something that at least served the purpose of "visual noise to fill space with some vibes" that they were after, and they'd still have spent orders of magnitude less labor creating the design vs actually putting it up.
The Thing: Santa (2026)
Grab the flamethrower.
Flamethrower spews flame for a moment, sputters out, then squirts fuel onto the handles for some reason. I let go in alarm a second before it - not just the nozzle but the entire unit - sparks and bursts into flame
I glimpse the logo just before the flamethrower's touchscreen crinkles and goes dark
Tesla
Because the article doesn't give a shot of the whole mural:
Source: the Independent
Please stop making fun of my culture. I have very fond memories of my childhood "lighting sleighs on fire and using them to chase neighborhood demon dogs" tradition with my family.
Did no one look at them walking on water and think "this looks stupid" or was it a top-down effort where some dipshit on the top has veto power over everyone.
What the shit is this even supposed to be? It looks like people fleeing a fucking demon attack.
There are plenty of perfectly normal-looking chthonic deities. Look, Hades was just a dude with a cool hat:
I didn't read the article because I'm too drunk for the bot test, but I'm guessing the author thinks "cthonic" means "like Cthulu"
Limbic System: Rise and shine Harry boy
I think this might be the mural they talked about in trashfuture
The AI was trained entirely on Hieronymus Bosch