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Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:10 pm
by Xzzzy
2025 was the year computers became magic.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:24 pm
by Beavis74
IMO it's slop
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:25 pm
by Xzzzy
Feel free to pass right on by without comment then. Best wishes for a more satisfying experience.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 6:54 pm
by nyllover
Those are wonderful!!
Care to share the prompts used?
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:19 pm
by Chaos694
Beavis74 wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:24 pm
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.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 2:38 am
by 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.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 1:18 pm
by 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.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 2:07 pm
by Beavis74
paradigm88 wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2026 1:18 pm
...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.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 2:08 pm
by nyllover
Beavis74 wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2026 2:38 am
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

Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2026 6:08 pm
by Xzzzy
nyllover wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 6:54 pm
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.
Re: Happy New Year from Mystery Inc.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 5:22 pm
by nyllover
Thank you!