c/mildlyinteresting · by slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de · 198d

this guy has one spare arm

The picture is part of a mural in the family section in some swiss trains. It pictures persons and animals doing typical swiss things. I believe it was human illustrated though.

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tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 198d (1 reply)

I miss the world of three years ago where this image would silently tell a mildly amusing story of corporate error, rather than being dismissed as AI slop.

And you could imagine the chain of events. Marketing manager is like "Hey, I like it but can we get his arm around her?" and the artist goes off and does the change but forgets the other hand. Marketing manager loves it, nobody notices, poster gets printed, poster gets put up, and still nobody spots a thing until the public do.

Of course, it's still corporate error even if it's AI. Someone should have spotted it and didn't. Heck, there's a chance even in 2026 this was good-old-fashioned human error all the way down, with no AI involved at all. But it doesn't hit the same as it used to because AI has ruined our default assumptions.

slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 197d

Yes it takes away the magic of those errors if you spot them. Like it used to be like "oh look, we're all just humans after all!" and now its like "hmm, could be AI... why is this everywhere"

safesyrup@feddit.org · 17 pts · 197d (4 replies)

These images/illustrations are made by Konrad Beck, here is his website: https://www.konradbeck.ch/

Me and my friends have found similar issues, in fact the same texture, just mirrored:

Wikipedia commons has an image where you can see the "new" trains with the same artstyle in 2018 which makes it plausible it is indeed not AI.

Me and my friends argued that he maybe photoshopped them around to make new illustrations instead of drawing new ones resulting in these errors.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 6 pts · 197d

Makes sense now. He needs three arms because he's got two turntables and a microphone to deal with.

slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 197d

ha! interesting and thanks for the information.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 197d

Perfectly normal sitting underwater with no breathing apparatus, just watchin' an octopus approach. Actually maybe the artist intentionally put them underwater with an octopus. That man had too many arms. Like an octopus.

Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 197d

Once might be an error, but twice? I'm guessin it's intentional. Like, why is this couple sitting underwater? The artist prolly put weird little things like that to make people look around for them. Whimsical, bc it's the family section of the train.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 198d