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An AI generated contest.. thats the most low effort contest ever. Glad this person did what they did and used real skill.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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Like a book recommendation contest
even a book recommendation contest could only be this dumb if the only way to participate was to shout out random words and hope it would coincide with a good book title
What a stupid fucking idea for a contest. "Press a button until something interesting pops out. Best button pusher wins." Glad it got subverted like that.
Yeah man, I hate photography contests too.
It’s the opposite of the OP’s headline.
Aimbot works because being good at games is essentially bending your skills to match a simulation, aimbot can have the simulation parameters written into it.
LLMs are blenders for human-made content with zero understanding of why some art resonates and other art doesn’t. A human with decent skill will always outperform a LLM because the human knows what the ineffable qualities are that make a piece of art resonate.
100% yes but just because I really hate how everyone conflates AI with LLMs these days I have to say this: The LLM isn't generating the image, it's at most generating a prompt for an image generating AI (which you could also write yourself)
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Haha, humans taking over AI jobs!
Somehow they invented a contest that’s more boring than watching paint dry.
The analogy sucks because it implies AI is in any way beneficial.
Generative AI or AI in general?
Because AI has tons of uses that are actually very beneficial.
Why do people act like generative AI has no uses? AlphaFold2 was a generational leap in protein folding. Alphatensor was used to find previously unknown sparse matrix multiplication algorithms. These are all examples of generative ai being useful on a societal scale.
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Yeah it's a bad analogy because aimbots actually get good results.
But they also suck out the joy and soul of games, so it's pretty apt.
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Prompt engineering is not easy. Getting something as good as a real artist's work is very hard, especially if you're not an artist. Of course actual art is going to win every time.
Prompt “engineering” goes to show that you can stick the word engineer on the end of anything to make it sound official and important. Talking to a chatbot is not engineering of any sort
The trick is the artist invested time
Yeah, a real picture engineer worked hard on it
"Prompt engineering" now that's a new one, what next? Prompt researching?
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i don't want to shit on someone's honbies but i will take dick from a Kamen Rider fanboy over a AI Prompt Engineer any day
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I like the artwork, I approve of the message, and this gave me a chuckle.
But c'mon, like, it's against the rules. If you are annoyed by AI art being submitted to human art contests, you should be annoyed by this too.
The first time I read about AI art being submitted to a human contest and winning, I thought, "how drôle." Of course, now I see it violates the spirit of competition. AI art should have its own category -- and that doesn't just go one way. Like it or not, AI is a tool and if some people want to explore how to use it to make good content, let's let them do that in peace. Maybe it will become fractionally less shitty.
Actually I don't have to be ok with anyone contributing to the burning down of the planet. I feel like adults should have a better understanding of morality than simply "its against the rules and is therefore wrong".
I think most people don't really develop moral reasoning past "I don't want to get punished" or, if you're lucky, "it's against the rules."
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I'm shocked i haven't seen captchas of the form "choose which image is AI generated"
People who use Lemmy would be able to tell the difference most of the time, but the average person would have zero idea.
Just look at any of the YouTube videos with obviously AI generated clickbait thumbnails that get 10s of millions of views. Or all of the shitty obvious Photoshop thumbnails that existed before AI.
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You cheated. Of course if you're an artist, you're going to make better art than AI.
it's like... yeah you can tweak every single parameter and build your own checkpoints and stack hundreds of extra networks on top of one another and that is certainly a skill, but creating art with intent is an entirely different skill. and the first one won't give you shit if the contest is about creating art with intent.
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What front end is this? Looks gorgeous
Is it not mono? It looks like mono.
Edit: oh I'm sleep deprived, I thought you said font.
I appreciate the enthusiasm
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He's a modern day John Henry.
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