Email not in all caps. Clearly fake.
Email title: “Urgent, need fix ASAP”
Call the user within the hour, no answer, send an email, get an out of office message informing you that they are on vacation for several weeks.
Comes back: “WHY ISN’T THIS FIXED?”
AI generated, look at that keyboard in the first panel
Oh no, someone used a tool to express something…this anti people making art with AI is so damn tiring.
What does “expression” have to do with it?
It’'s about someone using models trained for $50K cause 3 extra minutes of poorly drawing stickman too much work.
Inefficiency is what’s annoying us here.
Art is a form of expression for people…it doesn’t matter how long it took what matters is that they wanted to share something with others that they thought of. This is their expression of that thought. The model isn’t going anywhere and allowing them to be more efficient in their expression by using a tool to it quicker doesn’t diminish that no matter what. You want to be mad at scummy companies for how they trained the models and them trying to remove labor from the mix so they can become massive monopolies all while fucking over the planet and increasing the wealth gap. Go right ahead that is completely valid, but shutting down other people’s forms of expression for using a tool is bullshit gatekeeping that does nothing constructive.
Why does AI use this beige background color?
Maybe it’s trained on scans of old newspaper comics.
Parts of it were, but parts were hand drawn, all of the text was put in manually with the comic neue font, and the whole thing was assembled piece by piece in gimp.
If you know a post you publish on lemmy used AI in its making, i recommend disclosing that so people dont start complaining about the use of AI and downvoting the post
Like that would stop them.
What part is hand drawn? Seems a little scummy to use AI and then put your watermark in the corner of the art you stole…
It’d be half as bad if you weren’t doing this whole watermark thing in my opinion
They did make the comic. They might not’ve made the images, but they are the ones that came up with the idea and put it together. It’s an expression from their mind, and therefore them watermarking it is a nonissue.
It doesn’t just seem scummy, it is scummy to gatekeep art.
Whats scummy is discouraging people from sharing their artistic expressions because your inferiority complex from them using a tool. Art has always been copied and built from other people. How many drawing books teach you to trace existing art to learn? How about photo realistic drawings which are traces from photos? How many works are derivatives from public domain? Yet that all gets to be art…The scumy thing in AI is that corporations use them for profit and aim to remove labor so they can increase their wealth hoarding, not that people can use them to express themselves without needing years of training…
Again people loudly not understanding how AI works.
I’m guessing the text wasn’t AI 🙄
Generated images aren’t “stolen”, be mad
No, just plagarized.
That is a better way of putting it, but also requires someone trying to pass off the image as their own. So it wouldn’t really be plagarism if you just said it was a generated image off the bat imo.
In the context of the OP I don’t think it’s plagiarism though since only some of the images is generated
I missed the part of the comic with the credits/citations.
Citations - Chatgpt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I plagiarize part of my paper the whole paper is tainted
This is a meme, sir.
There was a guy at one of our clients who would submit requests and then never answer his phone or respond to emails. If someone actually reached him, everyone would talk about it because it was such a rare outcome.
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road…
Fire! Fire! Looking forward to hearing from you.
From today, dialing 999 won’t get you the emergency services. And that’s not the only thing that’s changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better-looking drivers mean they’re not just the emergency services — they’re your emergency services. So, remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3.
I know the number is exaggerated for comedic effect, but it blows my silly little 'murican mind that phone numbers in the UK have variable length. All of our numbers are the same length. Country code (1), area code (757) prefix (368) and then the line number (0441). I’m sure something else might exist for super niche things or something, and we’ve got the 3 digit important numbers, like 911 (emergency/cops) or 988 (suicide prevention hotline), but personal numbers are always 7 digits plus the area code. It’s just weird to my brain that the length can be variable within a country.
Also, try giving that example number a call…
It also blows my American mind how memorizable that long number is. It’s probably largely the jingle, but I can remember that cold without thinking about it for years. But I can only hold like 4 American phone numbers in my head. Without my contacts I can call: myself (helpful), my wife (I’d better), and both of my parents (good to have backups).
That’s the end of the list.
I still remember every phone number from the day I learned to memorize phone numbers until I got my first cell phone. I remember my pager number. I remember my high school best friend’s parents’ number. I still know the number to the Mongolian BBQ joint that I ordered from when I was stationed in South Carolina. None of these are useful to me.
Also of no use is my icq number from the 90s that I remember.
However, the only useful numbers I remember are my main phone number, my parents land line (but that’s a holdover from before my first cell), and one friend who lives out of state. I don’t know anyone’s number who lives within 4 hours of me.
I don’t know what’s wrong with my brain.
I guess I do also have my childhood landline still, but that’s been out of service for over 15 years. But it is one more phone number I have memorized.
Same thing that’s wrong with mine: the brain is really good at working collaboratively with other shit, and that means if the phone can remember the numbers your brain will happily give that task to the phone. I can remember so many number from before I had a cell, and almost none since then.
It’s also got to do with repetition. We used to dial the number each time, now we almost never type the digits in, just pull up a contact (or more likely, a text from them) and hit call
No that’s too formal
I used to support a client who, when their internet went down would email us to let us know. From their on-site mail server.
This sounds like something out of Rusty Lake to me, but needs more owls.
I love when problems fix themselves.
