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?
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.
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.
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".
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6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 262d
Slop.
Klear@quokk.au · 12 pts · 262d
Yeah, whether AI is involved or not. Humans are more than capable of producing slop.
Not that they were in this case.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 46 pts · 262d
In the bottom center one, Santa has more fingers on his left hand than his right.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 262d
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 262d
His sleeve is also really weird on his right. Where does the reindeer end and the sleeve begin?
FatVegan@leminal.space · 7 pts · 262d
Maybe that's just a santa thing?
kautau@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 262d
Yeah Santa famously has a coke pinky, why do you think he thrives in the snow?
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 262d
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
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 262d
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.
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 262d
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?
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 262d
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.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
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.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 262d
Some of them do kinda get that look, others look like they're just blurry.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 262d
All of them are 100% slop, coming straight to you from Sloposlavakia.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 262d
Yes, but tbf this kind of crap has always been slop, even before AI was invented.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
Yep, makes me wonder if it's such a big deal in this case. Not like anyone really looked at such images.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 261d
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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 262d
They are so generic and devoid of "feeling" that even the cute puppies are disdainful.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 261d
Obvious slop.
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 261d
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
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 261d
That hand also only has 3 fingers while the other has 4.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 261d
The reindeer is on its hind legs so that detail is fine. The hands on Santa though do suggest this is all slop
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 262d
Some of them look legit. But the four in the middle reek of AI slop.
Swaus01@piefed.social · 8 pts · 262d
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 261d
Snout bird
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 261d
I would rather just a solid coloured bag with stripes or something.
KingGordon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
Dont know but bottom right santa is high AF.
athairmor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
That doesn’t explain why he’s so happy about his plate of shit donuts. He’s slop.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 261d
Bro that belongs in the cents store
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 262d
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.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 261d
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".