• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    What is it about AI characters and their facial expression that bother me? Is it because they try to use them in very complex context but can’t convey anything more than an emoji? There’s this creepy feeling like their eyes stare into the void.

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      6 hours ago

      I’m going to unironically say this is a skill issue with the prompt engineering.

      Like you can imagine this is just some stupid prompt like “Characters A to F look very very sad at the bulldog crying on teh floor” or something like it. Like nothing that describes or shows how fucked up this situation is or some variety. It’s like “licked clean” of any kind of nuance. It makes you feel as empty as the heart of the one who generated it.

      Compare that to some better AI slop (music video) that just goes in the other direction and throws the weirdness that AI can generate and then tries to form that into some kind of cohesive thing. Like you can hate it but the editor who assembled this layered it into something more complex, even though the individual scenes are pretty random and slop. At least the lyrics are (I think) human written.

      Now imagine OP images with this kind of gusto about mascots reacting to a school shootings. Obviously it’s much less fun if it’s about anything serious.