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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 147 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Competing early humans (neanderthals, etc.) would be my guess. I've also heard it makes us not want to go near corpses.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Competition from other hominids and genetic disease.

Or, more likely, just the Uncanny Valley not being that big of deal in general.

It's fun to meme about it but it's not like people are running screaming from the theater because the CGI was off, it just doesn't look right sometimes and our brain doesn't like it because it doesn't fit the patterns it's had reinforced over a lifetime.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't run from the theater because you know it's not real. If one of those CGI characters showed up at your front door, you might run.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd think "wow that's an unfortunate medical condition and/or bad surgery."

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sister got bad plastic surgery. When I told her that, she seemed surprised.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

hmmm, uncanny

[–] LightningSteve@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Or like... Sick people.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

story checks out:

The buttons seem off.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You joke but if you look, the fork is floating, not resting on his finger. And I would certainly call his expression vacant or emotionless.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

The "fork" tine is made of spaghetti as well

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

well, yeah. I was agreeing with the premise after all.

AI is oddly fey like in most cases:

[–] thundermoose@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Part of the reason these rules are similar is because AI-generated images look very dreamlike. The objects in the image are synthesized from a large corpus of real images. The synthesis is usually imperfect, but close enough that human brains can recognize it as the type of object that was intended from the prompt.

Mythical creatures are imaginary, and the descriptions obviously come from human brains rather than real life. If anyone "saw" a mythical creature, it would have been the brain's best approximation of a shape the person was expecting to see. But, just like a dream, it wouldn't be quite right. The brain would be filling in the gaps rather than correctly interpreting something in real life.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is actually terrifying. Even if it was fiction, what gave the person the impulse and creativity to write something like this.

Edit: I'm looking for a source on that quote and can't find anything. If there is something I'd be interested to read more

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean how to tell the Fey from humans? That’s just old lore. Like one of the ways to see if someone was fey was to scatter flour on the ground; they’d often have reversed feet, or bird tracks, or hoofprints instead of regular footprints.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yes it's lore. And it's sad because in the olden days, some people believed in such lore, so children born with birth defects (extra fingers or appendages etc) or mental defects, were feared to be Fey, and they were marginalized from society if not altogether murdered.

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Citation needed.

[–] misophist@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I'd have to say Fay is my least favorite spelling of that word. Fae > Faerie > Fairy > Fey> Fairie > Fay.

[–] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one must always be on the lookout for changelings

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

sad Odo noises

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest tells for me is the sharpness of the picture. AI pictures have an uncanny valley level of sharpness that doesn't match what actual humans would put in their art.

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago
[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

God, I wish I could have read Terry Pratchett's Discworld-themed take on LLMs and how they're an elf plot to use L-Space to zombify techbros and their money-making schemes.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Something something, Mom's spaghetti...

[–] macisr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And it almost always looks like made in unreal engine and I don' know how, but it looks cheap or generic.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

The easynegative lora helps a bunch with that.

[–] Pavuk_XD@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with unreal engine? It is just 3d game engine, if graphics looks bad, it is artist's fault. It could be cartoonish or realistic. Look up on wiki list of ue games

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's a damn good point actually, most AI generated images have those subtle artifacts that will go unnoticed unless you're intently looking. But who's got time to scrutinize every image on the net

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

God I love opportunities to WoT post

"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again"

The Aelfinn and Eelfinn are big data memory hoarders and this works way too well

[–] ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Politics detected, opinion rejected