Excel logic

Last panel has strong Carl vibes

I've been exposed! 🤖

Clippie: it appears that your trying to something or another blah blah blah jackidy shmackidy.

Probably just AI slop.

You just gotta ask another AI to fix it.

If you're going to pout, we can put you in the corner. That might be funny.

There's quite a discussion about that further elsewhere in this thread. To me, the combination of vector-like thick lines with that background color, the characters having such mute expressions and there not being one actual optimist.

Others also pointed to the "weirdness" that is the lines of the characters' arms becoming part of the table, which I didn't notice at first.

Perhaps more importantly, it does not look like the "author" has "zero drawing skill", but actually knows how to make vector art, even if relatively simple. That makes the problems more glaring

The glass is also weirdly large considering it looks like it should be at roughly the same distance as the people.

It's become such a reliable tell that I'm genuinely curious why AI seems to think that cartoon images MUST look like they're drawn on old paper.

EDIT: The AI answer I got when asking Google was about what I'd expect, but this last bit I hadn't considered:

Sepia tones can help unify the color palette of an image, making it more visually cohesive and pleasing. This could be a factor in the AI's decision to use sepia, as it can contribute to a sense of order and harmony in the generated image.

So it uses it to try and make it more visually appealing to a wide audience, leading to it looking even more bland and uninspired.

The uncanny valley. It looks overall right, but some details don't feel quite right even if you dln't know which ones.

Me if I don't think properly.

No, I misspoke. My water cups talk.

I mean, I know of a Microsoft product that allows for a batch import of data provided in an Excel file. You need to use their template file. Which, when used, automatically formats all dates the American way, ignoring your locale settings. Depending on which date is first encountered on import (e.g. which date you entered in the first line) then designates whether the whole file is imported with dates read as MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.

You start your list on January 1st? It will import everything as MM/DD/YYYY then. You start you list on e.g. January 22nd? DD/MM/YYYY it is then. Good luck getting that import running without errors...

Nothing works in Excel. Excel will do what it wants.

But that doesn't stop the MS support and a thousand stupid people from claiming "oh, you just have to format it as text, are you dumb or what"...

A human artist might have said "1/2 full" instead of "half full" but LLMs don't understand jokes so there's no hope they'll be able to make the joke easier

Look bud, you can't call it "February second" in conversation, write it down as "Second February" in writing, and then get mad at us Yanks about it. Pick a lane.

You're assuming that I'm not a Yank? Let me tell you, I can Yank with the best of them, and I do!

12/31/9999

You are aware that even if you make stickmans, people will appreciate it if the meme is good, right?

Not everyone ... have the ability to draw

I'm pretty sure anyone can draw stick figures.

Because it's not going anywhere.

A lot of bad things are "not going anywhere". We can still try to have less of them.

Don’t talk about ability to draw as though it’s some sort of elitist trait denied to the working class. People who can draw can do so because they put the hours in.

If you can’t be bothered putting the effort in when expressing yourself, why the hell should anyone else be interested in what you have to say?

AI is like a housefire. Nobody wants it. Nobody needs it. It's just a bad thing, and if someone sees it, they're more than justified in being upset and trying to get rid of it. Don't defend the fire, or you'll be the first to burn.

The reason this one is blatant AI is that the imagery doesn’t make any sense. Why is the glass of water itself the optimist?

A year ago ai couldn't even make any sort of recognisable text, now it can do it flawlessly

Most of it for me is the font. It seems like chatgpt likes to use the same font for everything

It also kind of feels off somehow. I can't explain. it, but there's just something wrong with this image

Same here. I did not think twice about this picture or a few other posts in the past and yet there are pitchforks in the comments and I think to myself "What are you all on about?". I rue how unrecognizable AI "slop" has gotten.

Because the glass is the one saying "the glass is half full"

If they don't have the training data available, then I wouldn't consider them open source.

Which model did you use to generate this, and what tool did you use?

oh cmon this is just a line drawing, surely no one asked an AI to create a line drawing right?

technically I guess it's between Cosmic latte and Desert sand

or "light grayish yellow"

..I had to look those up but it's definitely not a plain white

The old way of saying that is close to obsolete. One now must take it from context whether the "you" means you or one.

well it's supposed to be the "passive" you (or "indeterminate" you)

but I think anyone can learn to notice the pattern of comics with this particular odd color style ^{(assuming you would want to learn it for some reason, and if we ignore color blindness or other similar problems etc)}

The new one by openai, "gpt-4o image generation"

Is that like an error code for excel?