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AI Don't Wanna Go Anymore, Picturesidrawn, Digital, 2026
Patrick@cmconseils #AI If someone wants to use AI to prepare a repair manual for a vacuum cleaner, I could care less. But it is disingenuous to use AI to write poetry, love letters, religious and political text, a cookie recipe, or letters to your kids and grandparents. Don’t use AI for anything for which you should be ashamed to tell the reader what you did. We are humans made in God’s image, a little less than angels, and not machines.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKI agree it shouldn't be used for art/ creative stuff - but adding to that my experience of AI for anything related to repairs/maintenance is the results are riddled through with errors so its not even usable for that purpose..
divVerent@vfrmedia @patrick @cmconseils Here is the question - will user's manuals get funnier or less funny if they start using AI instead of the worst translator they can find like now?
@divVerent @vfrmedia @cmconseils We can have AI write the first manual in Japanese, then another AI can translate that into English. There will be no shortage of laughs. It will be fine.
@vfrmedia @cmconseils I think repair manuals are self correcting. If they suck, there will be economic consequences. So the manufacturer will have motive to make the manual accurate. Self correct. But art and poetry do not have the same economic engine. They defy correction. They are the end in themselves, and do not need to “work”. The feedback loop may take decades. If it exists at all. Unlike non-working toilets, which give immediate feedback….
katzenbergerWell, yes, repair manuals, mushroom identification guides, etc. are "self-correcting", in a way… ⚡🍄
… if you have enough expendable family members, that is.
@katzenberger @vfrmedia @cmconseils I do not think there will be any difference whether the manual is written by AI or a low paid employee trying to get home before the rush hour. I never read the manual, anyway….
“Please hand me the red wire…”
“The mushroom with the blue spots looks nice. Let’s eat that one.”
“Is this the trigger?”
“Don’t need no stinkin’ manual.”
But poetry and AI should never meet.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@patrick @cmconseils Even the repair manual used to have a human designing it*. And there's art even in the mundane.
*and if you want it to be accurate, it probably still should. 😁
FreeLikeGNUI must also say that, for me, this does not apply to something like a friends house party or kids birthday where no one would expect to have professional art made to get the word out. That said, don't expect me not to mock goofy AI hallucinations.
@freelikegnu Right. Kid’s birthday invitations get a pass. But invitations made by the kid himself, however bad, are qualitatively superior to those made by AI.
Abu Hodja@patrick @freelikegnu Do you want us to go back to the DARK AGES before DALL-E when we had NO BIRTHDAY PARTIES because only RICH PEOPLE could afford invitations? Also, do remember when there just wasn't enough text in the world and everyone was jonesing for something to read? We didn't know what to do. I heard in some places it was so bad you'd get mugged if you flashed a novel in public because words were just so rare. LLMs have saved humanity.
@niklasnisbeth @freelikegnu I am pretty sure fine hand-made fly rods and violins have saved humanity. Also, cheesecake. Cheesecake has saved humanity. Not LLMs.
@freelikegnu Well, we mock that, or we mock Comic Sans...
or best of all, both at once.
Princess Serena Star ✨@cmconseils it's probably a scam anyways
@cmconseils oh btw did you see that video of that girl getting scammed by an "anti-loneliness club" lmao
@Starcross oh no
I didn't see it
I didn't see it
i was stood up at an anti-loneliness club
Firehorseart Lives!Wow and well done to the pasta vlogger for making the most of their trip out.
Definitely an introvert's dilemma - all the effort to go out and then noone to meet.
Perhaps good because you didn't have to socialise after all, or a waste of money as you could have ordered a takeaway and stayed home?
@Starcross @cmconseils "an"...
Robbie Coleman 
With sphincter horn like that I had to retoot
Niina@cmconseils A la Grinch: That's it, I'm not going.
not a martian, honest@cmconseils yeah, event flyers and posters with AI art give me bad vibes. It means you didn't even care enough to put any of your own thought into the event.
dbread@cmconseils That tube part on the lower end of the picture is an reference to Hieronymus Bosch, isn't it?
proedie@cmconseils Tough question: Which is worse, AI ‘art’ or ‘typography’ in Comic Sans? 🤪
Androcat@cmconseils You've captured the zeitgeist by its butt-trumpet
Bleep@cmconseils twenty years ago people would have said the same thing about your use of Comic Sans. They don't seem to complain about this any more.
Gin Kangaroo@cmconseils Unless there really *is* a flatulist performing.
Because I would need to see that.
Simon Brooke@GinevraCat @cmconseils hear, hear.
Kokos 💠@cmconseils They teach this at schools 😢.
Stuck HereYes to this.
Bring back the creative use of Clipart, guys! Some old victorian drawings or hippie flowers played around with gives the novice an hour of creative fun. It looks unique. And it has more soul than a twelve fingered karaoke singer wearing a tight tube top and is staring blankly at a wall whose corners don't converge in the distance.
@MyWoolyMastadon @cmconseils Good idea, but I can't quite get it done. Quite terrible already though :)
Dec [{(
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You can tell it has no idea of what a karaoke bar looks like, no concept in reality.
I figured if generative AI were to pull together such an image it would at least begin with stolen social media images of darkly lit bars.
I guess we're lucky it didn't generate something that looked like a 12 yr old in skimpy clothing.
@MyWoolyMastadon @dec23k @cmconseils To give it credit, initially it was so dark I could not even see any lines that would be supposed to converge. I had to ask it to up the lighting. See my prompt that I put verbatim in the alt text.
So that error is on me.
I still got no lines converging issue, but the wall corner in the back is oddly slanted. So it halfway succeeded.
I really was hoping for it to cover a room's corner with something so it can then let the three lines not converge. But no dice.
@divVerent @dec23k @cmconseils
Excellent attempt, my friend.
Maybe it failed with the non convergence of lines to the horizon because you asked it to. Someone might be working hard on the backend to remove that telltale sign of it being generative AI.
And yes. I would believe the first attempt was too dark, another AI tell. It probably even had the wrong shadows due to the lighting as well.
@MyWoolyMastadon @dec23k @cmconseils No, that telltale sign also didn't appear without me asking for the lines not converging.
I presume the way they fix it is by describing what they want to look for and avoid in the system prompt (so whatever I write to get it to fail would have to be "stronger" written than the system prompt). I am actually surprised I got extra fingers to work.
At the same time, all these system prompt additions make it impossible to create many _interesting_ things. As an example, I asked it for a version of M.C.Escher's Waterfall picture, but underwater (with air bubbles moving in a cycle) and the necessary adjustments so it can work (primarily the air bubbles have to flow _below_ the structure, the paths have to be closed at the top and open at the bottom, and of course the camera position be adjusted so one can still see how it works). It did not even get close. It indeed can't make any impossible geometry except by accident, or by 1:1 replicating existing drawings.
What's the point then? That would have been a _really cool_ thing... but no. It can just create generic crap. Good for a meme or two, but had the box of the Pandora never been opened, we'd still be happy with MS Paint style memes.
@MyWoolyMastadon @cmconseils I am actually appalled that the _usual_ method of detecting AI slop isn't working.
The red lines, all parallel in 3D space, actually do converge sufficiently well in a single point.
Do note the mistake with the baseboard in the white ellipse.
Also, the rear wall is slanted on the left but doesn't seem to have any slant on the right. That's rather specific to this image though.
Even though it failed here, showing the method anyway to help people spot the slop easier.
killickSadly I'm seeing lots of AI images in use for podcast thumbnails. If you thumbnail is AI, then I'm not going to listen.
Alexander 😷
Martouf@cmconseils faudrait en faire une version française ^^"
Ada (Redemption Arc) 🏳️⚧️@cmconseils this is an image ai couldn't possibly recreate
maarten brouwers@cmconseils me and my wife took over creating posters for our school's events. We're both no graphic designers, but we couldn't stand AI crap being set as the standard for the kids at our school.
marabilles, smala libre@cmconseils
Comic Sans is back ??? 😳
Comic Sans is back ??? 😳
a petty bo͝orˈZHwä@cmconseils seems legit tho