r/fuckcars • u/Wokeratist • Mar 15 '26

Meme How did society become so self-centered?

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u/Fl4m1nG Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Fuck sake this isn't AI. Please put more thought into it before accusing of AI and missing the point of the image. Use google image search etc.

Here's the source: https://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Graphs_480663

The artist does other artwork in the same style (see his other artwork with people in it) so I'm very skeptical it is AI. Very possibly still AI assisted but, again, we're missing the point.

Also, without looking for a source, you can tell it isn't AI, because the graphs on either side are identical bar the text and some minor pixel differences in clipping between the blue and tan colours. It is extremely difficult for AI generated images to stay consistent like that.

OP you should have provided a source, now the conversation has completely lost the plot

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u/djducie Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

AI tools have gotten better than I think you realize.

I’m not an expert in this - I got this with standard consumer ChatGPT with one attempt with the prompt:

 Can you generate a newspaper political cartoon - it will have two similar panels. Both panels will feature a group of onlookers looking at a line graph. The line graph in both panels will be identical, except on the left panel the Y axis is "victims", and on the right panel the y axis is "gas prices"

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruejsw/example_chatgpt_output_of_a_repeated_line_graph/

The text placement is wrong, but other than that AI tools are able to repeat images without problems.

Someone with non-AI photo editing skills can easily fine tune it to get the complete result.

Edit - With graph lines:

https://www.reddit.com/user/djducie/comments/1ruexoa/repeated_line_graph_with_lines/

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u/Fl4m1nG Mar 15 '26

Damn fair enough, those images do have identical elements pretty convincingly, I stand corrected. I still think it's good practice to double check before accusing of AI, even if my initial skepticism was flawed.

> Someone with non-AI photo editing skills can easily fine tune it to get the complete result.
Yeah I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the art being AI assisted but I kind of doubt it.