Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.

[Xzzzy]

2025 was the year computers became magic.

[Beavis74]

IMO it's slop

[Xzzzy]

Feel free to pass right on by without comment then. Best wishes for a more satisfying experience.

[nyllover]

Those are wonderful!!
Care to share the prompts used?

[Chaos694]

IMO it's slop

I agree. It's concerning when society gets turned on by Ai instead of the real thing. I don't like where we're headed.

[Beavis74]

I've requested before that a separate forum topic for AI be instituted. It allows people into that to have their space.
I just don't want it intermingling in real-life topics.

[paradigm88]

I wouldn't say it's "society getting turned on by AI instead of the real thing." I think it's a new take on, say, Photoshopping the sandals off an actress so it looks like she's at an awards show in her nylon feet.

As a writer and photographer, I'm concerned with generative AI cheapening what I do. I even hesitate to retouch photos; if I take a dim photo and enhance the color to make it more impressive, that's sort of cheating. I didn't do it in the lens. But there's also a gulf between brightening the colors and using AI to remove people from a sidewalk. That's where I draw my personal creative line.

But I don't hold folks on a forum to that same standard. I'm sure we'd all love to have a cosplayer at our disposal to portray a shoeless Daphne. But we don't. And we're in that tough middle ground where there are only so many people willing to cater to our interest. If generative AI can bridge that gap (and maybe even limit some measure of exploitation, though the original source material comes from somewhere so that opens up a whole new ethical issue), I can live with that.

Maybe as a courtesy we could tag our posts to indicate that they're generated images. I do that with my stories, labeling them fiction so there shouldn't be any doubt.

[Beavis74]

...Maybe as a courtesy we could tag our posts to indicate that they're generated images. I do that with my stories, labeling them fiction so there shouldn't be any doubt.

I think, in lieu of adding another subtopic, this would be perfectly acceptable.

[nyllover]

I've requested before that a separate forum topic for AI be instituted. It allows people into that to have their space.
I just don't want it intermingling in real-life topics.

Yes, that's why There are a couple of specific AI threads

[Xzzzy]

Those are wonderful!!
Care to share the prompts used?

Ultra high resolution, 8k, photorealistic image of Daphne Blake from the Scooby Doo universe. She wears the classic Daphne outfit with very sheer lilac pantyhose. She sits alone in the bench backseat of the Mystery Machine van (Velma is in the passenger seat, Fred is driving, Shaggy and the Dog are in the back). She has her legs extended on the seat. She is shoeless.

I did something similar for Velma, but that prompt has disappeared.

[nyllover]

Thank you!