What the fuck kind of AI slop is that fucking train
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Being pulled by an electric faux steam engine.
A steam outline engine if you will
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Sorry to ask but... why's it "AI slop"? What exactly are the signs and tells? To me, it looks like a normal vectorized drawing, the kind of drawing one could expect from Krita and Inkscape. I mean, even the drawing strokes seem sharp and clear (differently from the blurry kind of outline often seen in "AI slop").
- the color of their shirts is somewhat pointless. not only do they change for the "worker" between boss and leader but leader also uses the color blue twice instead of red. I can understand that the introvert is green but it's odd that the boss and leader don't use the same color.
- the yellow "worker" in the leader panel has two hands on the same arm.
- the leader's mouth is odd and their upper body is "twisted"
All of this doesn't necessarily mean it's AI but since each character is unique (and not simply copy-pasted) it would take more time to create them, so these choices have to be deliberately.
I agree, it doesn't resemble typical AI generated content in appearance. It does in form though. It's like the most "I've seen pieces of a train, but I don't understand what a train looks like or how it works" drawing I've ever seen. If the flame is at the back, how would that work with the entire rest of the engine (the cylinder at the front)? Why do the linkages not make sense.
If this is made by an autistic train fan, this is incredibly wrong. If it's made by a person joking about them, it's slightly more forgivable (but still, I don't think anyone wouldn't understand the Steam comes from the front).
You're right, the perfect edges and perfect circles and all of that make me think it's not AI slop at first, but even the least careful person I don't think would make this many stupid mistakes. They're mistakes you'd expect for something that knows that the shape is statistically expected from trains, but it doesn't have any understanding of why.
I'm reminded of this classic: Velocipedia/
People were asked to draw a bicycle, and a lot of them were not functional.
Often in a fun way.
Yeah, I know of that, and I'm aware it happens. Even still, those designs have the concept right. I don't see how anyone draws the smoke stack on the front of the engine but then, for some reason, draws the Steam coming out the rear. If they didn't draw it at all then I think it's reasonable. I just don't see how you get to the point of the OP.
It's like drawing a bike and drawing the pedals, but the chain connect the handlebars to the wheel or something. It's just not something someone's going to do. (On that page, literally everyone who included a chain connected it to the pedals. It maybe do weird things, but that basic thing is consistently correct, because you don't draw pedals and not understand that that's where the chain connects.) They'll draw something that doesn't function, because the don't understand how a bike works maybe, but there are some basic things everyone knows.
The first few things that jump out to me are, the smoke isn't coming out of the front stack, instead it's coming out of a second stack thats more in the style of an older steam tractor. The second stack and subsequent second smaller steam engine are where a tender box should be. Worst of all is the illustration of the connecting rods/tie rods, i don't think even a lazy human who'd gone so far as to make the whole image would get that sloppy drawing them so non uniform.
Even if you didn't know much about steam locomotives spending more than 5 second absorbing and processing the contents of the image would tell you the smoke is in the wrong spot and the rods that make it go look bad. That is assuming you've seen a steam locomotive, which i imagine is the bulk of anyone with access to the internet.
The large wheel next to the cabin is also messed up. It means the cabin must be smaller than the track width, since the cabin is squized inbetween the wheels. But in reality the cabin is always wider then the wheel base.
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The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.
Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?
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Your train is wrong.
As an autistic person, I absolutely love the fact that there is only an engine in the last panel but no cargo.
I feel strange being one of the few autistic people with little to no interest in trains other than as a means of transportation. That being said, I somehow ended up working in the railroad construction industry.
i doubt VERY much that there is any real connection between autism and appreciating trains. much more likely that its just a "funny" stereotype that influential people made popular.
in the last few years any remotely orderly and unique interests are equated to "autism". i think its obnoxious and really wish it becomes less common.
The most autistic guy I know is a literal train conductor for a freight line lmao. He always gives us a huge blast of the train horn when he goes by our house.
Other than that though, yeah autistic people rabbithole into anything and everything. The train stuff and related stereotypes, like "all autistic people are socially delayed and have photographic memory like rainman" are actually super harmful and contribute significantly to under diagnosis of autism. Especially for those who don't present as "nerdy white guy who builds model trains all day and can only see the world through the lense of advanced maths".
i appreciate your comment, but i just have one question. Is the guy actually autistic or just "most autistic" as in just stereotypes?
not at all shitting on your comment, just legitimately have to ask these days bc its so commonly thrown around.
Nope, this man is Actually Autistic ™️. The "most autistic" thing was also meant to be satirical, as you can't rank autism on a linear scale like that - each autistic person is just as autistic as the next one. Autism is not like a disease that can vary in intensity or be cured - it's a roundabout way of describing someone with a particular type of brain. DSM still refers to it as a "disorder", but a whole lot of people disagree with that because it's only "disordered" when compared to a typical brain under a zero sum system.
In that same vein, my train friend would often joke that he was "so autistic", all he had to do was walk up to the train yard off the street to get the job. It was automatically determined that, obviously, he will be driving the train.
It's not about trains, it's about hyperfixation on whatever. It just doesn't let you go, possibly a life long.
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I'm not into trains either. But there are other fields I can talk a lot about...
I think the link with world wars is much stronger
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When the smoke is coming out of the tender you probably have a different problem.
Autistic should be building the train and not noticing the whole team waiting on them.
Cut to 5 days later. The team has already pulled the wagon the 200ft or so, gone home, and back to their lives and here you sit - building a train for a job we don't need anymore - but you can't help yourself.
Autistic has no shirt?
Sensory issues
It’s nice to be sidetracked by the train building and all but where did the cargo go ?
Pun unintended
TBH, we should probably all be using the train.
Building a train is a lot of work. But if the last guy is willing to loan it, it would be great.
The train not being anatomically? Correct is the real cherry on this meme. The autistic engagement it generates could power a city and I love that for them.
This AI?
Ah, so if you're autistic and poor then you're an "introvert", got it.
Working with someone who is a bit... What the picture is not showing is that the train goes backwards.
The boss picture is missing a whip - all heirarchy is coercive.
The leader picture should be identical to the boss one except the leader should be saying "We're all pulling together!" while whiping.
all heirarchy is coercive.
I've been in several bands that had non-coercive hierarchies. We just each knew what we were good at and did our things, and it worked great.
That doesn't sound like a heirarchy, if you can all just do your thing.
If the manager or frontman tells everyone else what to do and you can't decide for yourself or tell them what to do, that would be hierarchic.
frontman directs the song. that's how it works. we took turns being the frontman for different songs.
Fun! Yeah i think that's what graeber & wengrove would call "play heirarchy" - temporary, rotating or situational relations rather than the perminant domination of heirarchy.
yup. there's a few hand signs everyone knows so we all know whether to play the intro, bridge, solo, verse, chorus, ending, etc. if it's your song, you lead it and you need to be responsive to the crowd. monty python caused us to call ourselves an anarcho-syndicalist commune but we just enjoyed the time we had together.
I agree that the lines look sharp, but the composition makes no sense. The giant wheel next to the cabin is just weird. Why is the wheel bigger? And why is the cabin not wider than the track width? This looks like a tractor, not a locomotive. The steam is comming from the coal storage, but not from the engine. And why does the coal storage have a chimney anyway? Then there are the weirdly shaped coupling rods. These mistakes make no sense in the context of a steam locomotive, but they look plausable. I'm no AI expert, but it certainly is a weird looking steam locomotive.
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I'm starting to think this was designed wrong intentionally. What better way to farm engagement then to wrongly draw a train in a meme about autism, on Lemmy?
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Choo choo motherfucker.
Optimised to perfection
Aside from the train being a mess I think audhd people would approve if there also would be a train in pieces 😁.
That's what I think would fit but I'm not audhd so maybe someone could comment more qualified.
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