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Yeah, also wondering what country these came from.
Slop.
Yeah, whether AI is involved or not. Humans are more than capable of producing slop.
Not that they were in this case.
In the bottom center one, Santa has more fingers on his left hand than his right.
His sleeve is also really weird on his right. Where does the reindeer end and the sleeve begin?
Maybe that's just a santa thing?
Yeah Santa famously has a coke pinky, why do you think he thrives in the snow?
The only one that looks real is the bottom right Santa. The carousel looks passable, until you notice they're all facing the same direction and that's not what carousels do. The weird faux-tree one, the base is so awful it hurts
Bottom right looks the least AI for sure, but the composition is a bit sus to me. Santa on an armchair with quilts, donuts (?), and a teddy bear is really disjointed, but not outside the realm of someone making choices incomprehensible to me.
I'd say that one is very good slop, but still just slop. Hat's pompom and right hand's thumb look like a blend of the tree. The image in the cup is a blend of the tree and a mistletoe branch. His jacket's right cuff looks odd, and isn't as thick as the left one. The symbols/shapes in the guilt has no sensible patterns. Santa's choice of snacks is weird: Shouldn't he be eating something like cookies, instead of that blurry mess of donuts?
That's slop. It's the most convincing to be sure.
The pieces that are supposed to look like they have brush strokes all have bizarre looking strokes. Bottom right Santa has weird fuzzy strokes that would not be possible with a brush, and that digital art programs really try to prevent you from doing.
The teddy bear and the white puff of his jacket would be done with a randomized splatter brush, and that's clearly the look the AI was trying to copy but didn't get it quite right.
A lot of it is hiding in the fact that this is just bad artwork. The kind of thing a graphic design student might pump out in an afternoon for a quick paycheck. So instead of that kid being able to afford pizza this week, the dollar store saved 100 bucks on this crap.
Those weird fuzzy strokes look a lot like something my grandmother would do when she painted with oils- she'd often revisit a painting a week or 2 later, and blend brushstrokes that stood out to much with a bit of diluted solvent painted on with a brush.
Some of them do kinda get that look, others look like they're just blurry.
All of them are 100% slop, coming straight to you from Sloposlavakia.
Yes, but tbf this kind of crap has always been slop, even before AI was invented.
Yep, makes me wonder if it's such a big deal in this case. Not like anyone really looked at such images.
It really is a big deal. You might not have liked them, but a human used to be employed to make these designs. The more we normalize or accept this the more bold they will become in feeding us nothing but slop. If you think they won't do the same for movies or TV or music you are wrong. We have to stop them here unless we want slop everywhere.
They are so generic and devoid of "feeling" that even the cute puppies are disdainful.
Obvious slop.
Bottom center Santa is holding the reindeer’s hoof, but the reindeer’s leg in the same side is also down below Santa’s arm
That hand also only has 3 fingers while the other has 4.
The reindeer is on its hind legs so that detail is fine. The hands on Santa though do suggest this is all slop
Some of them look legit. But the four in the middle reek of AI slop.
I call thia style "emotionally manipulative animal core." The dogs all facing sttaight to the camera are definitely AI which means all of them are, though the bottommost dog one passes as normal to me (and tne bottom left thing)
Snout bird
I would rather just a solid coloured bag with stripes or something.
Dont know but bottom right santa is high AF.
That doesn’t explain why he’s so happy about his plate of shit donuts. He’s slop.
Bro that belongs in the cents store
Does it really matter when it's all capitalist slop either way?
When you're critiquing literal garbage, it's quite possible that you're missing much more important issues: surveillance, genocide, etc.
People can care about multiple things at once. You might not consider it high art, but at one point artists or graphic designers were coming up with these. It was helping that person feed their family. I'm not even personally against AI because it's stealing jobs or anything, but it's relatively well known that people that aren't hand to mouth are able to more actively engage in and support these "more important issues".