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In an unprecedented move, 13-year-old Brandon “Tired Bones” Hayden announced yesterday that he will be stepping down from his longstanding position as Commander and Chief of Chores. Citing reasons of fatigue, mental decline, and bad golf scores. Brandon does not have the power to appoint his successor but since he only has one sibling, his 10 year old sister Carmella is the only logical choice given such short notice.

The decision came after months of speculation and whispers around the dinner table about Brandon’s ability to maintain the rigorous standards of chore duty established during his tenure. Neighbors and family members alike have noted his frequent confusion, increase in naps and tendency to stare blankly at the wall.

Carmella, who has been serving as the backup chores officer, expressed her readiness to take on the new role. “I’ve been in training for years,” she said “I know I have some orthopedic shoes to fill, but I’m confident I can make our household clean again.”

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] atocci@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They all just have this weird quality to them beyond the hand thing that I can't describe. It looks okay to some extent, but something is always off-putting about them right at first glance.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am near certain the kids are unrealistically out of proportion like the ai made one kid larger then the other but did not actually understand 2 people in the same logical universe of which one is in a later growth stage then the other.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 9 points 4 months ago

Also, what height is the counter supposed to be? It only reaches to the hips / lower stomach of the girl. That would be like... just above the knees for a tall man? How low is the ceiling? The longer you look at it, the less sense it makes.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

The skin on them looks a little glossy. There are thousands of little imperfections on the skin that capture light and don't give people such a glow. Rendering something like that is probably outside the capabilities of AI for the time being and can be a giveaway depending on the kind of picture.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't respect any site that uses AI to generate thumbnail images

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Eh, does not bother me one bit.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It’s odd that the Biden-Harris sign on the fridge (besides being outdated) is so sharply in focus compared to other things at that distance.

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s edited on to the AI image after generation.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whoever did it is absolutely terrible or simply careless. I’m lousy at Photoshop, but even I know how to blur something so it matches the sharpness of objects around it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They're clearly too cheap to pay any sort of artist.

[–] tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

dude i run this website by myself as a side hobby and google adsense doesn't come close to covering the monthly web hosting so i am definitely too cheap to pay an artist at this point. I'd love to pay an artist someday if it were to make money

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe they manually edited that in. I doubt that image generators would already have those in their training material and also would randomly add those to images.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thought this was the Babylon Bee at first.

[–] tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

it is in that style for sure. It's the first political article I wrote for the site so I'm interested to see how it goes!

[–] Notthemama@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That's pretty funny, though. Made me chuckle.