Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 days agoWhich is AI-generated? It looks to me like real pixel art (except the 360) very lazily resized in a non-nearest-neighbor fractional scale and anti-aliased to mush.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Sorry…Again, what should I be taking from this? What is “ChatGPT font”? ChatGPT and its image tool are distillation models that do not have fonts. They produce images based on per-pixel relational distillation, they are guessing what pixels should be next to each other and do not use fonts. Current models do produce text that can be indistinguishable from fonts, but there is no single “ChatGPT font.” If there is a generic font appearing here, that doesn’t tell us anything new.
For the PS1, I don’t understand what you are referring to. The blurriness and uneven lines happen from compression artifacting and/or resizing to a non-divisible fractional resolution.
If you’re taking some other features as evidence of AI, let me know.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t understand you defending ai art, but here, the extremely obvious odd coloring texturing the surface of the ps1 would be enough for anyone to notice, but the generation error in the top is proof. This smudge line is where the ai failed on its final pass, likely to do with clipskip or whatever crap open ai uses as this is clearly open ai’s image model.
Why are you defending ai art so hard, what do you get from defending a massive cooperation?
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Buddy, I’m not defending AI, and you making some conspiratorial allegation about my motivation is just weirdly aggressive. You and other people don’t seem to understand what happens with typical generational lossy compression and resizing. Randomly resize and save any imagine to jpeg 12 times, and see if you don’t see similar artifact noise patterns. That’s a technical literacy thing and not your fault, but the overconfidence here is. The exact thing you’ve marked above is very typical artifacting that occurs for non-AI reasons.
I also know enough to say that I can’t be 100% positive it was or wasn’t AI at some point in the chain. But Ican confidently say nobody has identified credible evidence it is AI compared to a multi-generational lossy resize by a lazy designer (and no, posting a screenshot with a vague circle and “that’s obviously AI” is not great evidence - these are not twelve fingers or mush pseudo text, this is pixel level inconsistency).
The things you and others are pointing out here are very explainable without AI, and AI likely would not be reliable enough to create some of the details you see which survived the lossy compression.
lime@feddit.nu 5 days ago
the proportions are off and the lines are crooked. there’s also the typical latent noise on places like the controller buttons.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Sorry, none of this is a strong indicator of AI. The “latent noise” you refer to is perfectly consistent with compression and resizing artifacting and noise. Other features are strongly suggestive it was originally pixel art. For example:
-All of the controllers have consistent layouts, including the correct number and orientation of buttons, player indicators, etc (e.g., the Wii controllers). -Consistent diagonal step effects, even if blurred from poor resizing (see the PS4).
-Consistent text for all system indicators that is legible without AI artifacting, even if blurred from poor resizing. -The fact that the 360 and PS3 (didn’t notice initially) are not even pixel art suggests they just grabbed random icons from the web, not ran them through AI generators.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Visual Capitalist says they make all their own graphics (so not just grabbed from the Web) from a “veriaty of tools from Adobe Creative Cloud”.
Adobe has been making a huge push for so-called “AI tools” in their Creative Cloud service.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
Yes, Adobe does have insidiously integrated AI tools. But again, nothing you point to here is strongly indicative of AI, and again, just consistent with sloppy & lazy resizing (which you could just as likely see pre-2020, before AI).
There are some really hard to spot AI generated materials possible now, but the sloppy inconsistency here is - conversely - an indicator that they don’t care much what we do or don’t notice. Instead, these have a lot of details suggesting human-created versions based on the real systems.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And a couple of them (PS3, 360) aren’t even pixelated.
UndergroundGoblin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
And the ps2 controller is unsymmetrical.