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That's because it is, and looks terrible in general
Educate me: what's terrible about it?
In the painter one Lenin has 4 fingers on his left hand and 5 fingers on his right. It's been years of this same problem showing up in AI "art" again and again. I'm not as confident as you are of everytjing being magically better in 6 months.
Also label your AI. Crediting artists is basic shit
Let me get this straight: you want copyright to also cover fair use and some other cases so AI training and use are illegal for everyone inside the empire EXCEPT disney and adobe?
Was this reaponse intended for somebody else?
Drop your mask already, we can see right through it, copyright crusader.
No seriously, I'm confused. Was this intended for somebody else?
Again, don’t bother, they’re purity policing you by saying that because you want to credit artists you must love copyright. They’ve lost the plot.
If you go back through some of their comments you’ll see that they genuinely despise artists for some bizarre reason. Like to a vitriolic degree. An artist must of stepped on their toes at some point because it’s genuinely bizarre.
Oh no the quickly made shitpost isn't first try 100% perfect, therefore there will never be any progress ever anymore, its the end of history
I hope for their sake they never get exposed to the Simpsons.
Simpsons have 4 fingers on both hands
You asked what was wrong with it. Were you being facetious?
Those are two different people
Okay, they asked what hat wrong with it and I answered.
And then you claimed a bunch of reactionary other stuff.
Calling someone out for being facetious is not reactionary lmao
No, in the first comment
Literally what did I say that was reactionary?
Don't bother, you just didn't mindlessly agree that GenAI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that hurt their feelings.
I'm honestly kinda stunned.
The current piece, or the original post?
The original post was in the generic GPT style with weird plasticy people, general incoherent composition, elements that were just straight goofy, Lenin speaking in nordic runes and tongues, and a weird mass-produced slop feel, among other issues. As was mentioned in another comment, the original post felt like the Marvelification of Lenin.
I don't entirely remember the original (OP updated the picture in the header for anyone confused) but what I remember from it is basically it illustrated Langston Hugh's poem about Lenin with comic panels.
People look at memes for all of 3 seconds before moving on, this new one in two panels might actually be more effective for that lol. Though of course we can ask if a poem straight up about Lenin will make anyone stop and think, but that's another topic - what matters is the possibilities this offers. I don't think most people when they're scrolling on socials will stop and pass a magnifying glass over every detail of a picture, especially if they can't readily tell it's AI (I'm better at it on a computer, phone screens are so small that the inaccuracies mostly disappear personally, but most people now browse the web on smartphones still).