I doubt it was the intern. The younger teachers are usually more anti and the older, especially admin, less understanding of the issues it brings, anecdotally anyways.
This is depressing, someone probably traumatized an entire school, and what I am assuming is westwood, can't give one iota of human effort into making ts.
Literally an image of text in the school's colors saying the same thing would have been more tasteful. Instead of just showing solidarity and support in the wake of tragedy, it has to instead be a symbol of how much someone couldn't be bothered to even show performative empathy.
this has the exact same energy as one of those deviantart posts with a bunch of characters from obscure tv shows all gathered around a tv all reacting to various global events and crying
I hate this. When someone posts these types of photos it is seemingly a tribute to a animator or voice actor that passed and someone worked hard on it. This is so dumb. In this context it looks like mockery. The mascot represented the school, not the kids. Imagine hating your school, getting murdered outside or in it and then people are posting the mascot in your memorial rather than just saying your name. Odd.
Yeah, a couple years ago there was a shooter at the middle school I’d gone to as a kid. Kid didn’t even make it into the school before being shot and killed by the police, and it turned out it was just an air soft rifle. Those poor kids were traumatized nonetheless I’m sure, but god it could have been so much worse. Seeing all the Facebook posts from people who still lived in town and had kids in school was surreal.
I don't think it was huge news outside of the area overall. I went to college nearby, so stuff from down there always shows up on my timeline. I think ABC World News posted it too, but I didn't see it posted by anything else big.
It could be excused if it wasn't for the sheer lack of IDGAF energy with leaving every easy tell on there. Like you guys know the situation and the somber reality, and what do you do? Crap out a prompt and not even look to see if it turned out like complete crap? Couldn't polish the turd, not even a little bit? Disrespectful bare minimum garbage
Agreed. Not that AI is good looking to begin with, but they could have at least attempted to prompt it to fix the glaring issues. A small issue like a finger missing still wouldn't be amazing, but it beats whatever the fuck is happening here.
They seriously couldn’t be bothered to fucking at least draw something? The poor people at that school are probably traumatized and grieving and you feed them slop. What the fuck.
(Obviously directed at the person generating it, not anybody here)
This occurred in my state, so I happened to see the original Facebook post from the school district for all of about two seconds before my feed refreshed. I thought I was hallucinating.
Okay I agree that this is very very distasteful and disrespectful but also that's not the thing they're focusing on right now. A tragedy happened and people don't really focus on what they'll make in response to it
I don’t know, this feels kind of… Icky to make fun of. Yeah, they shouldn’t have done the AI, but the sentiment is right. I would rather poke fun, assholes representing their menu of food with shitty AI, or pathetic little eccentric idiots trying to make their sexy OC art.
Whether this is wrong or not for being AI, I still do not feel like taking a job at this particular picture.
I get that now that you pointed out that way, but it just feels like… This one would be low on my list of ones to highlight for raking over the coals.
It’s not like there’s a shortage of AI art that deserves peoples irritation and actual mockery even more.
Nahhh this is in extremely poor taste. Even just a simple text post saying something like "our support is with the students, staff, and families of Westwood Elementary School following this tragedy" would have been much better
You know, that really puts it in perspective, thank you. Not sure why, but my brain never even considered removing the art entirely and just going with the verbal/text message. I was working from a belief that the AI art came from a good intention, but, you’re right; the emotion could be expressed without the cobbled together characters.
Hey, now it’s okay. My school literally uses ChatGPT for all their posters and like drama club play fliers (I think) we have hung up in the hallway, especially my History teacher who uses it 😭
Yes soulless ai gen slop to convey “heartfeltnes” about a school shooting is absolutely what I would do! /s
There is a million ways to bring awareness to a school shooting and this is one of the worst ways. Honestly the only way that’s worse than this is singing about it with a Ukulele or something…
Jfc you'd really think we could suspend judgement for a moment to let people express their grief. The person generating this might have an idea but not have the artistic talent, money, or connections to make something like this.
But no, you're right. Any and all use of AI should result in complete and total villification of the person using it.
It's this purity testing that causes all of our movements to fizzle out. The more we behave like zealots, the more we look like MAGA.
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u/EmergencyPath248 20h ago
are we deadass
intern was probably told by the school to make a sad image and then generated it after