Lol…it hit me square in the teeth the other day, so I just HAD to try my hand. 😂

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Birds…owls…

    Powlament?

    Does it involve a play on the words cloaca or nictitating membrane? More like…nictitating NO brains, am I right?

    In short, the owl glossary didn’t help.

    EDIT:

    I FIGURED IT OUT. I’m such a fucking idiot.

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      For sure! But the only reason I prodded the AI forward in such a way was to produce a silly joke. For a silly reason. For a well-known reason!

      Or not…?

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        Joke is fine, it’s just sad to see something that looks so grotesque in a community otherwise devoted to nature photography and an appreciation of these beautiful animals.

        Not that my opinion should necessarily be relevant to you in any way but I think taking the 10 mins to paste actual owl heads over an actual photo of a…room full of important looking people…would have been funnier while also actually possessing some aesthetic value

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          it’s just sad to see something that looks so grotesque in a community otherwise devoted to nature photography and an appreciation of these beautiful animals.

          Right mate, but WHAT EXACTLY sheltered world do you live in, in which a terrible disaster happens 'pon a wayward, funny owl post, eh?

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            Yeah yeah with the sheltering and the big disaster. Listen dog, everything’s okay right now. We’re cool. Your joke is nice like I said. The image looks like trash, and I told you so directly because I’d rather not see trash here. You “prodded” it into existence in one second, right? Why get so defensive about it?

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                Is this your final comment? You spammed a bunch of angry nonsense then deleted it over a period of three hours. I can still see the full text of all that in my inbox btw.

                Genuinely just sad. And now what do you even want with this last message? Good job listening, here’s a gold star lol? This is really the zinger you finally settled on after all that?

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                  This is really the zinger you finally settled on after all that?

                  Hah, I think it was moreso my catching myself and changing course. If an apology is in order, then I hereby offer it.

                  The problem on my end is that I like contributing where I can (on top of running my community) but am almost always working through a level of pain & fatigue, having a pretty much fatal disease in CFS/ME.

                  Admittedly, I have a short fuse when it comes to what I perceive as low-effort critique, even if it’s just me mistaking the situation and replying inappropriately. I’m generally at the end of my rope at that point, and should undoubtedly be doing something else, even if it’s just to ignore replies(!)

                  I’ve also been stung like this before when contributing occasional AI-aided content. A common thing seems to be people assuming I put zero creativity or effort in to coaxing out something which I thought was fairly amusing after my work and final edits. [for example]

                  OTOH, this has been about my sixth post across about two months in this particular sublemmy, and all have gone well so far until this one, which perhaps did slightly-less-well. “Anon6789” has been going above and beyond, and seeing that, I’ve wanted to help out when I can.

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        On one hand I do appreciate you posting on the Fediverse and supplying a nice joke for us, on another, AI… it’s not exactly popular here and I can understand why. I think you might have posted something about that in Fedigrow before?

        You might want to at least label this image as AI-generated. Obviously I know this is not a real picture, people don’t walk around with owl heads instead of person heads, but I’m one of those folk still really easily fooled by AI images and without people in the comments talking about it I definitely would have thought some artist made this.

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            I’ll take your word for it. Checking history always makes me feel somehow creepy, and if I do not suspect you of purposeful bad-faith engagement (then I’d want to see what the rest of your engagement looks like so I could judge if it is a bad-faith post) I have no reason to bother. Sorry for the mixup!

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              Okay, thanks for explaining.

              As has happened before, I’m frankly a bit grouchy upon criticism of my AI-aided content. I do feel the post as it stands is relevant to this sub, as it’s based on a real phenomenon (the definition of a group of owls) applied to a famous place which bears that definition, and then populated by the actual subjects of this sublemmy. In short, it’s a simple joke / riddle combining those different elements.

              I came up with this idea myself and I wrangled ChatGPT until it came up with the final image I was (more or less) pleased with. Otherwise, if my health wasn’t so shitty, I might have taken the time and effort to do a watercolor on the concept, but realistically that’s not possible anymore. Cheers.

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    Ahahaha I only know this because I had to google it for a joke at work yesterday