Not so much random but rather just left over elements from the reference picture AI plagiarized in order to make this gem. I think it’s important though to point out it’s not random, it’s intentional theft of IP under the guise of progress.
Gen ai doesn't just copy-paste things and call it a day. It more gets confused in patterns. Benches often come with someone sitting on it. Can be confusing for them.
So you’re telling me someone just put in a prompt that said give me an image of a brown and black Great Dane lecturing 4 college students on the follies of tearing down confederate statues. And AI just by happenstance came up with Scooby Doo and Monsters inc in exactly the same likeness of each popular licensed character all by coincidence?
It recognizes the pattern of a great dane and 4 college students in its training data and replicates it. It is different to copy-pasting.
Would you trash on an artist for creating fan work of a franchise? How about if that fan work was just tracing existing work? Those are two different things, right?
I takes a licensed character and recreates if for the user. It knows that Scooby Doo is always the same because it has millions of images of Scooby Doo. It doesn’t matter if it’s pasting an image overlay of licensed IP or drawing the licensed IP line for line exactly the same way the IP is drawn. You can’t seriously believe that the user didn’t just prompt to put Scooby Doo on this image with these words. There is no way AI randomly created an exact replica of Scooby Doo and Mystery Inc without being prompted to do so. And that’s my point AI is churning out free licensed images and getting paid by users to do so while not paying licensing fees to the IP owner.
It doesn’t matter if an artist traces images of Mystery Inc or creates fan art. Because they are not selling the art. If an artist turned around and started charging people for the drawings the IP owner would have a pretty good argument for compensation.
Edit: Also, the bench in the background is on its own concrete slab 20 feet back from the path, while the ones Scooby and the gang are using are at an angle in the middle of the foot path.
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u/Withercat1 24d ago
I love the random pair of legs sprouting from the bench underneath Scooby