Mastodawn

I need your motherfucking votes: https://effinbirds.com/post/812624726103130112

What’s up, bird friends? Your pal Effin’ Birds has been nominated for another Webby Award, this time in the Animal category, so I’m facing off against a century old publishing giant and a fuckin’ television network.You can help some jackass who makes bird comics for a living defeat those impossibly large competitors by clicking here and voting for me. Let’s make this more like the time I beat Jimmy Fallon and les...

I need your motherfucking votes

What's up, bird friends? Your pal Effin’ Birds has been nominated for another Webby Award, this time in the Animal category, so I'm facing off against a century old publishing giant and a fuckin'...

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Anarchic Teapot ⚧️3d ago

@effinbirds Yours also appears to be one of the few real websites in the competetion. I mean, who the fuck looked at this and thought "Yup, that's 100% legit"?

#AIBollocks

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King of Tors 3d ago

@anarchic_teapot @effinbirds must've been AI that looked at that and, well, didn't think because sand doesn't actually think

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Effin' Birds 1d ago

@kingtor @anarchic_teapot no, it looks like an automated translation of their website gone wrong. https://anxoma.com/monstruos-reales

Anxo Ma - Los Fabulosos y Terribles Monstruos Reales

I led the complete visual identity redesign for the Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP), a research institute within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

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Anarchic Teapot ⚧️1d ago

@effinbirds As a former professional translator, don't get me started on cheapskate halfwit managers* and really fucking bad translations. @kingtor

* Yes, I know, tautology

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Effin' Birds 1d ago

@anarchic_teapot @kingtor the site doesn't have an English version. It looks like the screenshot was made by someone using a browser translation plugin. Anyways, I assure you that it is not AI.

https://www.prodigiosovolcan.com/pv/monstruos/

Los fabulosos y terribles monstruos reales | Atolónica y Prodigioso Volcán

La relación verdadera e ilustrada del bestiario de Mario Tascón y Raúl Arias. Una colección de monstruos reales que acechan a la humanidad desde el origen de los tiempos.

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Anarchic Teapot ⚧️1d ago

@effinbirds "a browser translation plugin" *is* AI. What I have to say about all this wouldn't fit on a T-shirt and would probably get me arrested for blasphemy in several countries. @kingtor

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Effin' Birds 1d ago

@anarchic_teapot @kingtor you originally said you thought the entry was AI. The entry is not AI. Whoever at the Webbys made the screenshot for the Webby Awards voting site appears to have a browser plugin translating the site.

That does not make the entry AI. Please don't slander a legitimate and beautiful entry just because someone at the Webby Awards messed up the screenshot.

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King of Tors

@effinbirds @anarchic_teapot Yeah, my bad. That's not what I meant, And i did say "must've been AI that looked at that," not AI that created it. But I also didn't mean to impugn the selection committee or process. i merely made a dumb joke about what I failed to see as a translation but rather as a bit of word salad. Mea culpa, and much respect to you and everyone involved.