• thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    I don’t normally get mad at genAI art. This one makes me mad. A huge part of Bosch is the tiny detail. There’s scholarly debate about how we interpret the detail; it’s incredibly wrong to say something is in the style of Hieronymus Bosch without clever little details. This AI garbage just has a bunch of repeated lens flares, age marks, and blobs. Also in the style of Bosch implies something we can interpret, be it a dark take on office work or capitalists teaching us lessons. I don’t know what the fuck we can take away from this.

    This is more “someone with the title ‘prompt engineer’ spent three minutes hunt-and-pecking the name ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ into midjourney and grabbed the first image that was sort of muted earth tones” than “remotely in the vicinity of the style of Hieronymus Bosch.”

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      35 minutes ago

      Agreed. There should be little rodent people chewing off others legs, and at least some tiny sex scenes where there is no joy.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 hours ago

          The joke is very obviously that modern software development is hellish. The fact that you couldn’t figure out a simple joke, but fancy yourself as some sort of an intellectual and an art critic is really chef’s kiss.

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            Why is this hell? This doesn’t look at all like any of the representations of hell that Bosch has done so we’ve got a different hell maybe? Maybe the issue was that the midjourney prompt had nothing to do with your joke?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              38 minutes ago

              Maybe the real issue is that you’re desperately trying to show how clever and cultured you are while just outing yourself as a boring pedant?

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      15 hours ago

      If even a fraction of the rage AI generated content produces could be harnessed as useful energy, it could power all of humanity’s needs till the end of time.