wildebest, 4 months ago

@lritter it's weird that they don't hire artist to draw it instead. Why choose AI? Do they feel that their tablets aren't good enough for drawing?

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@wildebest @lritter Hi Stark Potano, not really strange because as Megan point out in the thread https://nitter.net/wacom/status/1744814055137919388#m, it comes from an Adobe stock. They didn't choose AI on purpose, they just typed on their Adobe tool to insert a cute dragon and done (I guess). PR and marketing department (sometimes merged) usually grab their artwork from this stock to deliver things for yesterday. Commissioning an art or making it would take a full day minimum (a couple of weeks with an external).

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@lritter I had no idea about this drama. I made a bit of research; and only the 'apology' remains public, not the illustrations used: https://nitter.net/wacom/status/1744814055137919388#m . Interesting case, thanks for sharing.

lritter, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy oh look, all complete with "apology not good enough" assclown replies

lritter, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy i saw the image they did, let's see if i can find it, sec

lritter, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy here it is. amazingly crap, also.

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@lritter Haha, okay. Pretty obvious. I see why they got in a shitstorm now 😆 . The way that the scales are painted on this dragon is an obvious flag of the AI. (Or someone copied/pasted the scales from a photo or vector, and applied a bunch of smoothing, averaging, and sharpening filters). Same with the confusing origin of the tail branching out from the creature's stomach...
I thought the people at Wacom had some training in digital painting, or a better eye for computer graphics, but no. 🤣

sylvia_ritter, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy @lritter The same week as Magic: The Gathering. *sigh They don't seem to learn anything from these mistakes.

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@sylvia_ritter @lritter Oh, interesting as well. Thanks for sharing, I found a way to check it https://nitter.net/wizards_magic/status/1744056808254173447#m , 😱

cnx, 4 months ago

I thought the people at Wacom had some training in digital painting, or a better eye for computer graphics, but no. 🤣

:ym_rofl: @davidrevoy et @lritter, they didn’t even bother to properly remove the background :neocat_facepalm:

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@cnx @lritter True, I thought Photoshop had a AI-powered magic wand that was doing a better job at removing this thin 1px bright pixels all around the model. 🤣

cnx, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy, even in GIMP it’s trivial to smooth the border and take care of the trapped background areas. I suspect this was done by a marketing intern who’d never done it before SMH.

Cc: @lritter

robinsyl, 4 months ago

@davidrevoy @lritter I feel like I need to take a course on spotting AI images because it's getting kinda hard, even when pointed out to me

davidrevoy, 4 months ago

@robinsyl @lritter Maybe I should write a blog post about this. But I'm afraid if I do, the AIBro will use it as a TODO list of what to improve and/or disguise to make their AI-generated image look more authentic. In that case, I might prefer to keep it to myself.