PhilipTheBucket

"They threw two whole hives into the basement, and the results were immediate."

Lol

None of what you said is really contradictory to anything I said. Everything you just said makes perfect sense. I said it looks like a human did a bunch of them, and did a pretty excellent / creative job, and then that gen AI did some of the vast selection of others.

I think I laid out pretty clearly why I think that. Jennifer Daniel didn't make the fairy picture with a square sunset for a head and also a square sunset on the tip of its wand. For another thing, there are about 186,000 combinations of 2 of the 610 emojis on offer for this tool. It seems unlikely to me that any single human being would do every single one. It would start to multiply into years of full-time work time spent on them pretty quickly, even with some automation, and there are clearly AI tools that can fill in a bunch of the non-critical-to-get-perfect ones, so why not. Some seem clearly likely to be from a human, some sort of look like automated templates that aren't gen AI (like the alternatives next to a "downward chart trend line"), and some are gen AI.

Anyway, I'm not trying to argue with you. I agree with most of what you said including that the human-generated ones are awesome, which is why I posted this.

Except, it is not a template. Even leaving aside that "put the sunset image in a square and make it a fairy's head" would never be the template that any human decided to use to combine a butterfly with anything, look at this:

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That's moon + butterfly overlaid with 50% opacity over sunset + butterfly. It's a different fairy image, not just a different scale, but a different shape with trivial differences. Which there would be no reason at all for other than the generator getting rerun with new parameters for the different input images. It's gen AI.

It seems like you and maybe at least one other person are just not grasping what I am saying here.

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A human did not make that decision. Sounds like it's possible that maybe you are reading a lie that Google is telling you, and believing it is truth, I don't really know, but yes they're using generative AI for at least some of them.

It sort of looks to me like some of them are human-created (or at least human-curated), and some of the crappier or more nonsensical ones are created by generative AI.

I couldn't find any ones that it would refuse to do -- maybe it's recently started using an AI image generator for those ones?

Edit: Okay, now I am sure that it's using generative AI. I'm not trying to talk smack about the majority of them that are pretty reasonable and even sometimes creative, but also, sunset + butterfly yields:

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They talked about that, buying from the US is apparently the cheapest way to get the helicopter they wanted. They did look at other options.

I’m not trying to be overly self-promotional, but rss.ponder.cat + piefed.social’s “feeds” could probably do this very well. I actually really like the combination of having aggregated RSS feeds I can control, along with other people voting on them so particularly interesting stuff from them get surfaced more than other stuff.

Lol

If you know what you're doing, then sure. I do not. I know too many stories of people who attacked delicate machinery with their good ideas and then got all surprised when it afterwards functioned worse, and not better.

Why do you hate fun

https://loops.video/

"Current Threat Level: Low"

I think you're running against the limits of what an LLM can really effectively judge. And, how it's been fine-tuned to be "safe" and nonoffensive in the way that it speaks.

This kind of thing needs to happen way more often.

Moderators don't "own" the communities they host. They're just taking responsibility for the space. I actually really wish that their effort was rewarded with more of recognition and less of headache, but the answer to that is certainly not to say that they are the "boss" of the users in that community, and the users need to do what they say.

It's especially hilarious for 196 because they weren't actually taking on the moderation responsibility. Ada was. So they just wanted to show up and be the boss without doing anything in particular to help anybody. I hope the new community finds blahaj-native moderators and they find some fulfillment in keeping the space healthy and organized.