Post B0uAJu5DmePHKCPkbQ by bornach@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #B0u9lwpr2qMQ0y2Fu4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-04T12:26:19Z
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I'm sorry but I don't believe you. What is also possible is that an artist is using AI generated references. This ant is terrible.
(DIR) Post #B0uAJu5DmePHKCPkbQ by bornach@fosstodon.org
2025-12-04T12:32:23Z
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@futurebird A human coloured in the shapes which were drawn by an AI?
(DIR) Post #B0uB211ZL1Zfasjx7g by funkula@goblin.camp
2025-12-04T12:40:20Z
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@futurebird horrifying
(DIR) Post #B0uBnYxF0JlKR9O7f6 by DoubleArobase@toot.aquilenet.fr
2025-12-04T12:48:54Z
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@futurebird Maybe the human is good at laying watercolors and bad at insect anatomy
(DIR) Post #B0uDDyZiTCFlNgXk5Q by vikxin@beach.city
2025-12-04T13:04:56Z
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@futurebird that ant has two petioles for some reason
(DIR) Post #B0uFf98rUT2psf491k by Smingleigh@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T13:32:16Z
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@futurebirdClearly the result of an ant stepping into a teleporter with a human, and also a snake.
(DIR) Post #B0uGOaKzDzYVG1P6WW by tkinias@hcommons.social
2025-12-04T13:40:28Z
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@futurebird hard to imagine a human artist staring at such a reference image long enough to produce that without noticing something was awry?
(DIR) Post #B0uIh0bcUxUZqd64MS by angiebaby@mas.to
2025-12-04T14:06:14Z
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@futurebird ANT: kill me please
(DIR) Post #B0uIonz3JKE51Am6RU by smilingheretic@mas.to
2025-12-04T14:07:39Z
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@futurebird @afewbugs Hmmm. Just looks like a not-very-good drawing of an ant by a hooman.
(DIR) Post #B0uIpfUmM660yv1gki by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-12-04T14:07:41Z
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@futurebird The LLM's name is 'human'.Who's takin' bets?
(DIR) Post #B0uJfUgZn5doVwFyiW by FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot
2025-12-04T14:17:08Z
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@futurebird I see what you mean... 😬 ☹️
(DIR) Post #B0uLtMV7DbXt5kdWc4 by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2025-12-04T14:42:05Z
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@futurebird starting to feel like i am in the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Not the film version…
(DIR) Post #B0uRGIlTm5kZw533wm by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-04T15:42:12Z
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@futurebird That is more of a antaur. Four legs from the regular ant abdomen, and two arms from the humanlike torso, then an ant-ish head on top.
(DIR) Post #B0uWtxEPknaGVPJGi0 by ephesossh@mastodon.online
2025-12-04T16:45:26Z
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@futurebird it's like one of those bad comic book covers with the "elaborately over-engineered sexy pose", like c'mon nobody actually carries their abdomen like that
(DIR) Post #B0v7irptAe9QtFPlnU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-04T23:38:04Z
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I'm still thinking about this damn ant.Most charitable take: The artist used a bad reference possibly AI. Least charitable take: The artist is trying to overcome the backlash to AI art on etsy by lying. Looking at their other work the other insects are well-rendered. The ant is the only with the problem. It's not just the body. The head is also strangely proportioned in a way that is common in AI generated ants.
(DIR) Post #B0v7x7NmAKv9A33nhw by floatybirb@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T23:40:36Z
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@futurebird maybe the artist looked at a science-fiction ant person as a reference instead of an actual ant.
(DIR) Post #B0v9C3bWayAXk0B8Nc by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-12-04T23:54:32Z
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@futurebird I have horribly mixed feelings about this, because I have long loved SF and fantasy art, and I've seen some great SF insect-inspired aliens, and fantasy insect-inspired fantasy creatures which this "ant" shares much with, especially the human-torso-like aspects of the prothorax (for want of a better term), but from now on, it will always represent the nuance in AI discourse.
(DIR) Post #B0vA5KzndSqlbgtPVI by ThriftstoreBarbie@pagan.plus
2025-12-05T00:04:29Z
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@futurebird why...why is its leg like that?!?
(DIR) Post #B0vA9S25PlCCacvKyG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T00:05:16Z
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@ThriftstoreBarbie *weeping like Brando*"look what they did to my girl!"
(DIR) Post #B0vIQlvnU6cKrOkhiy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T01:38:01Z
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@leadore I should have listened to the damn warning. That was very upsetting.
(DIR) Post #B0vItGyje1t7GCiV7o by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T01:43:08Z
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@leadore nah. Don't it's just a lot.
(DIR) Post #B0vJOWvuNP9VieIbmS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T01:48:50Z
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@leadore It's an SEO trap. Just tons of pages designed to attract search so they can boost the links of other pages.
(DIR) Post #B0w8DWpjVAtVt3vECO by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T15:45:24Z
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@orangelantern @futurebird Also painted by a human:
(DIR) Post #B0wRa6sc3plbBPkZzk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-05T14:55:16Z
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@Phosphenes @orangelantern Someone drew a good elephant and some other person said “but where is its face?”