floats away in disgust

I'm a simple man. I see AI, I downvote.

He don't react to childish voices.

you're lucky my instance host won't let me downvote this AI slop
- How did you notice? I have to admit, that I don´t see any indicator for it, which worries me...
  
  The text doesn't align, and there was a meme about it that was uploaded very close to this
  Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/28646402
  
  Inconsistency of the backgrounds is another big hint. A human would have just copy/pasted it.
- Don't worry fam, I got you.
- Move to a different instance to hate effectively

Is that what we're doing now? AI comics for old jokes?
- Yes.

AI comic 😞
- I've resigned myself that this will be the state of memes in the future, but god would I take a paint doodle over this.
  .. only for ai to start drawing paint doodles because making an effort is not a human nature
- How can you tell?
  
  Another thing not mentioned is how when you zoom in on solid colors you see compression artefacts. Generative AI hates solid colors and sharp lines, so they often have slight imperfections
  
  On top of everything others have said, there's no watermark, signature, url, etc from an original artist. Webcomics like this will always have one unless it's removed by a reposter, which yeah, that happens, but I feel not as often these days. And when it does, it's a pretty shitty thing to do, and not a good situation either.
  
  the font, all ChatGPT produced "memes" use the same "font"
  
  The inconsistent backround,
  the cutoff text in the second panel,
  that every panel is slightly different but featuring the same content(for example the "He" on helium is very slightly different in every panel, a regular artist would copy paste the text, not draw it every frame),
  the font not being consistent(Look at the "E" in "HELIUM WALKS" and then the "E" in "WE DON'T"),
  the absence of period symbols(Image Generation LLMs love to do this)
  and the artstyle is very specific to other AI comics that are currently floating around the net.
  
  Inconsistent bsckground shelving
  
  Assuming you’re asking in earnest:
  On a surface level, the banal averageness of features. There is no artist’s style — it’s just drawn in form of the “generic web comic” genre.
  On a closer level, there are inconsistencies with background details that wouldn’t occur with an actual artist’s work. If somebody was manually drawing the background digitally, they would likely copy and paste the assets to both be consistent and to work efficiently (without a compromise to the work itself). The door and shelf of bottles behind the Helium change between frames, for example. If an artist were drawing this with physical pen and paper, they would care enough to meticulously recreate the bottles between frames if they were even going to include them with that much detail at all.
  The text itself is also revealing. Not only is it inconsistent in size, boldness, and centering (ex. from one He to another), but the words spoken by the bartender are running out of space in the speechbubble. Artists can make mistakes like this in their publications, but consistently making errors that a quick lookover would catch shows that the “creator” of the content just wants it made, rather than it made well.

AI slop
- op here, I reposted this from a group chat and didn't notice, sorry for forever cursing your eyes with the forbidden art
  
  Hey, that's pretty funny and made my day a little bit better. so don't worry about the hate :-)
  
  why are people downvoting this? it seems it was an honest mistake.
  
  The bottles on the shelf behind the He change rapidly between panels.
- I’m assuming that the OP has about the same drawing skills as me, which is to say, none. So in lieu of a tool to produce the cartoon for him, and (I bet) not willing to pay someone at least €20 to draw it, the only other option is that this comic would never have seen the light of day. Is that a better world for you?
  
  If he didn't come up with the joke and he didn't come up with the art then what's the point
  
  You don't need any artistic skills to make a comic. Draw that shit on a napkin for all I care - if it's a good joke, we'll laugh. In fact, drawing it on a napkin would instantly increase the amount of charm ten-fold.
  
  this comic would never have seen the light of day
  Go to Google image search and type in “noble gas walks into a bar”. This farce of a comic and its joke are not special or unique in any way.
  You could take one minute to draw this comic in pencil and it would look less gross. Or even MS Paint or PowerPoint. It’s slop because the creators, promulgators, and defenders of it don’t care about the audience who sees it because they each think that the veil of professional quality and soullessly averaged characteristics are enough to placate the lowest common denominator of consumers. Don’t misrepresent my position to make yourself feel better about your media diet.
  
  For me, it's a matter of this joke being old. If someone had sat down and drawn it as a comic anyways, that would make it cool and the thought of it can be humorous in its own way. But since they didn't, it's ultimately just an old joke. It not having been made through manual labor does change my enjoyment of it.
  (And much like the others, I don't care that it looks well-drawn. I just care that someone decided, fuck it, I'm a silly goose, I'll spend some time crafting something for no good reason.)
  
  Krita and drawing with a mouse are both there, you know.
  Yes, the existence of this comic does make the world a worse place.
  
  But the AI wrote the joke, too. OP(or rather OOP) didn't contribute anything more than typing "make me a comic about science", clicking generate, and then uploading. And the entire process used a shit ton of extra power to generate the image compared to conventionally doing the art.
  I use AI. I'm not better than anyone, I'm just not going to pretend there isn't a lot wrong with the whole situation.
  
  Combining some other comments:
  Not only is this an old joke and not even particularly interesting, it also took a shit load of resources for the machine to produce it. A human being eats a hamburger and makes a few nice things + remains alive but one of these algorithms will consume ludicrous amounts of energy just to copy a mediocre joke and only so many people will even see it.
  Not every joke needs to be pushed to the world and not every amateur musician deserves a main stage(certainly not if they’re just playing covers). Art is wonderful in that there are certainly barriers but at the same time it is relatively cheap to get the materials to practice. I literally know of a homeless woman who people give paper and pencils to and she spends her time drawing to pass the time.
  So, yes, the world is a worse place for having this “art”.
- Oh my god! Op is worse than the devil! Someone call the moderators! Oh the humanity!
  
  Oh my god! The person who wants to push back on usage of the plagiarism machine that boils lakes is worse than the devil! Someone call the white house invade the commentor's nation! /s

HeHeHe
- Shit makes me high

Sodium walks into a bar pushing a shy electron, and orders two drinks.
"Three drink minimum" says the barman.
"Oh dont worry", says Sodium, "I'm waiting for him to come out of his shell so that I can hook up with someone else."
- No one likes my well-thought out joke.... 😢
  
  I and 12 others at this moment do. If that doesn't help, then imagine a group of thirteen of us, in person, where your joke made the whole group laugh.
- Sodium walks into a bar, orders a drink and tips the bartender an electron. The bartender asks what it is for. Sodium says: "nothing. Just feeling positive today".

Things haven't been the same to poor Helium since the new constitution was sign and nobility was stripped out of their privileges.

bu dum (no pish)