I can't decide if this is AI imagery or not and I hate this world.
The absolute amateur hour choices going on in the lettering is tipping me towards AI, this is lettering by someone who thinks they know what "a comic" looks like and used "comic book" fonts but has zero idea of how word balloons actually work. Piss-poor internal margins, balloon tails that point nowhere near their supposed speaker, balloons that are weird-ass hybrids of captions and dialogue that have a tiny little vestigial tail that points nowhere in particular, captions and balloons crammed into odd corners of the panels with no concept of overall compositional flow.
Oh and now that I look closer at some panels, yeah, it's AI.
As always when someone shits in my eyes with a bunch of AI imagery, I'm just gonna assume the script is also the result of pointing one slop machine or another at the Wikipedia article and telling it to generate text rather than any sort of human understanding and summarizing going on here. I hate this fucking future.
It very obviously is AI imagery
I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must.
(Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)
some of the details made me think it's AI generated:
- strawberry sundaes instead of glasses of water on the dinner table
- exaggerated expressions of surprise
- the fighter cockpit doesn't have a canopy
- the las vegas cocktail party watching the nuke just down the road
Maybe they're not AI, but they've got some weird details that made me decide in my own mind that they ARE AI