For what it's worth, even though I don't agree with you, I think this is an interesting post and discussion, so I've upvoted it. Thank you.
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most people hate ai
I don't think that's true. There's a lot of concern about it -- particularly regarding companies scraping the everloving shit out of the internet and then reselling what they got for free; with it upending the apple cart on difficulty of production (and what that means for various professions); with people using it idiotically in inflexible, unauditable, bureaucratic ways (though they were already doing that "computer says 'No'" thing even without the new AI techniques; it's a broader social challenge that involves any computerized processing of people in 2023); etc. -- but people are using it as a tool to do really neat things too, and a lot of the results from that are just fun.
Here's a few examples of fun AI visual art from threads I've seen over the last few weeks:
- What have you DONE?! -- https://feddit.de/post/4778843
- (Somewhat disturbing) Elvis performing a circumcision on a sentient hotdog -- https://lemmy.ca/post/6735764
- (Mild NSFW) Sexy Anthropomorphic Plane -- https://lemmy.ml/post/7072314
- When a Ninja Turtle's Addiction Has Gone Too Far -- https://lemmy.world/post/7522233
- Banana-Whale -- https://lemmy.ml/post/7598841
- Storing Linux Commands as Bottled Spells in a Sorcerer's Library -- https://lemmy.world/post/7463201
- Doughy Desert Colossus -- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7336600
- Spiderman providing therapy to Batman -- https://lemmy.world/post/7520721
- Hot Spaghetti 3 -- https://lemmy.world/post/8035624
- Back to work -- https://lemmy.world/post/7539961
- This entire thread is fun if you want more: Your username is the prompt, what did you get?
For some of these, something similar might have been made eventually (the spiderman one, in particular, I could see actually existing), but for most of them? Nah. Without AI gen they probably just never would've been made, and that'd be a shame!
It's just one of those soggy rainy days here, so I was really feeling this one today...
Bonus images:
- Enjoy the rain! https://files.catbox.moe/6difu0.jpg
- Soggy aftermath: https://files.catbox.moe/j9rwsn.jpg
It's a small wonder that people can travel into space at all. I mean, the problem is hard enough already for us squishy humans, but just imagine how much worse it would be if we were merpeople... Air's about 1.2kg/m^3 at sea level; liquid water is about 1000kg/m^3! Or, if we were the size and weight of blue whales? We'd probably never get off the planet -- let alone to the moon.
It's not based on image matches; my "Happy Halloween!" thread ended up with crosspost links to posts that just used the same title even though they have completely different images.
https://kbin.social/m/animepics@reddthat.com/t/584682/Happy-Halloween
Ah, Escaflowne. I should probably rewatch that at some point. I've got both the movie and the series DVDs around, so it's more a matter of when than if... I remember the movie being rather different from the series but it's been such a long time since I've seen either that I don't really remember the details.
Going back to different eras of anime can be neat. I've only got a couple shows and movies from the 80s and 90s though. The oldest I have access to right now is Lupin III (the first season from 1971, I think, plus the pilot from the late 60s) since it got a DVD release a few years ago. (I saw some reruns of Speed Racer and Hakushon Daimao on TV when I was kid but I don't have a copy.) Maybe I should sort my shows by age and try looking at the progression of styles over time. Hmm...
I've seen those posts too, but can't speak German. What does "ich_iel" actually mean?
This silly Pokemon/Nisemonogatari crossover idea popped into my head last night and I felt compelled to edit it together out of five screenshots. (Yes, five.) I was on the fence about marking this as OC; there's some non-trivial image editing involved with the two Shinobu screenshots, and I made the comic, but I'm not really sure on what should or shouldn't be marked OC. Let me know what you think.
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"To hell with wearing your heart on your sleeve -- bare it all!"
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"Opinions are like assholes -- and here's mine!"
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"...and now, for a real hot take!"
This does not work on kbin.social, unfortunately.
I've been digging through my collection of old anime over the last few weeks -- particularly looking for fun lines, screenshots, etc. to post over at !animepics (and sometimes !fangmoe or anime_irl@kbin.social) -- and I'm paying a lot more attention to the actual art in anime as a result. I recently watched Ghost Stories (with it's famously unfaithful dub), for example, and there's a lot of just fun images if you're paying attention to the artwork itself. I mean, that probably sounds like it should be obvious -- it's anime! it's visual art, right?! -- but before I started this I was usually watching shows and movies for the story and characters primarily and just taking in the art as an aid to enhance the storytelling rather than really paying attention to it in its own right. This slightly more active viewing approach has been a fun alternative to just riding along with the plot.
As part of that, I've just finished watching Wolf's Rain a few hours ago. I've had the DVDs for years but never got around to watching it -- so I finally did. I knew of it from an old friend I used to talk to on AIM (yes, from waaaaay back) who really liked the ED. I didn't actually know much of anything about the show going into it besides that one song, so, that was interesting... The one sentence summary, if you haven't heard of it, is basically: a group of wolves that can alternate between wolf and human appearance go on a journey in search of Paradise in a bleak, frozen, post-apocalyptic dark fantasy-with-tech setting.
Does anyone know WTF happened during production? There were FOUR back-to-back recap episodes in the middle of it -- plus four OVA episodes to make up for that, I guess.
I've got a few screenshots from the show that I'll be posting in the coming days -- as well as a composite of a panning shot of a character that I thought would be fun to try to edit back together. I ended up writing some custom software -- and refreshed myself on a numerical technique I haven't used in a long time -- in addition to using my image editor to make it.
My understanding is that Lemmy bot accounts generally do not federate over to kbin. If you want to see an example of a bot making regular posts, you can check out shinobu@ani.social. Prior to the lemmy.ml/ani.social defederation it posted in anime@lemmy.ml -- i.e. go to https://lemmy.ml/c/anime sort by new and look like 10-ish pages back (currently) and you should see a bunch of bot posts (sometimes drowning out posts from real people). You can see it posting to https://ani.social/c/episode_discussion currently as well; there are a lot of bot threads and very few comments. When the bot had an outage a while ago (prior to the defederation) there was a discussion with various opinions on the bot and how/if it should operate. I think I've also seen another thread about it as well with more discussion, but I'm having trouble finding it again.
Edit: Just remembered another example. @ITNbot is a kbin bot (on a non kbin.social instance); you can see its behavior here -- https://kbin.social/m/ImproveTheNews@fedinews.net -- I blocked it a while back since seeing all its threads in new was bugging me at the time.