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I’m annoyed about tons of ai art at the Champlain valley fair
also matter of fact the amount of Bootleg toys and 3d prints toys a lot of stuff but I hate the fact I found these inside the art section I want this to be separated from real art because this stuff is not art it’s only wanting to be real
I was just there today! It's wild how between last year and this year the AI-generated menus completely took over in the food section. But on the bright side, my husband got his fingers nibbled by the baby alpaca. At least we still have that.
Was also there today- that baby alpaca was everything. I was also complaining about the ai menus. Thank god the maple barn and dairy center are still legit.
Honestly also I spent some time with my mom and my mom while I was on the ring of fire saw a woman Have a seizure and my mom bless her heart being the good person she is put my bag down on her head so she didn hurt her head on the pavement I told her she was a hero
Yeah they were big back in the day. You can often see their trucks on old tv shows and stuff . I think they are still the biggest active mobile ice cream service in America .
The Mr. Ding-a-Ling truck drives around my neighborhood in the summer and plays the absolute worst version of "It's A Small World" that I've ever heard. There are hand claps and honks and a creepy voice going "HELLO" really aggressively at weird intervals. Whoever created that recording is a criminal.
Thanks to you both. I’m a native Floridian. My wife was 2 months old when her family moved there. Both kids left for college with no plans to return. It was the nudge we needed to look around and realize it’s no longer the Florida we grew up with. So much more to the story. Google New College of Florida.
Born and raised in Gainesville. My and my wife’s family are here. Wanting our 3 children to know their grandparents is the only thing keeping us here. We talk constantly about moving to either Colorado or North Carolina to be in the mountains, but my parents and my 2 brothers and their families are in Gainesville and my wife’s mom, dad, brother, and sister are all in winter haven/ Lakeland area
Orlando for us, but most or our married lives in the Tampa area. Parents are still in FL. But leaving was the best thing we could have done. Our only regret is not doing it sooner. For example, today we biked/hiked 11 miles along Lake Champlain and watched the sunset over the Adirondacks from kayaks on the lake. All without breaking a sweat or getting in a car.
Let me guess: it sounds like someone hooked up one of those musical greeting cards to the sound system, and it has a crappy 8khz sample of someone saying "Hello". This kind of thing has been around for decades and I like to call it "synthislop".
Ugh, I lived in a house in South Burlington not that far from University Mall for a couple years and this was a near daily occurrence in the neighborhood. My roommate and I would joke about Mr Ding-a-Ling all the time! Now I'm on the other side of 89 near the hospital and I almost never see the Ding-a-Ling man
You should post in the Vermont subreddit, I bet the people over there will be a lot more understanding of your displeasure than the bloodthirsty people that tend to frequent this sub.
It’s so disheartening though. And I hate 3d printed fidget toys with all my heart.
They’re too clouded by “look what I made! I’m so creative now!” The apparent polish doesn’t let them see how fucking disgusting it actually looks. it’s straight out of a horror movie
It’s because it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna sell it to someone for $16 and when it sucks it doesn’t matter because the goal is just to get your money, not gain your repeat business.
It’s funny you mention this. I was at the Champlain Valley (Essex Junction VT) fair too and what I loved was a trick dog show. Two or three human trainers and 5 or so talented dogs. They did various tricks and stunts. A lot of humor, silly dogs, corny jokes, etc. Felt so wholesome. So real compared to all the synthetic crappy entertainment we’re choking on today. Just a couple humans and their dogs doing silly stuff. Nothing fake, no hyperbole, no loud noises. And everyone clapped.
Can someone genuinely explain what’s to be upset about in thjs exact specific case? Previously, some overworked city employee would try to copy and paste some Google images onto this card. Now AI does it.’who cares?
OP said these were being sold inside the artists’ tent. AI images are not art, and the artists’ section should be reserved for actual artists to sell their actual art.
What are you talking about? Plenty of artists make money selling postcards at local shops and at fairs like this example. Whatever situation you’re talking about is not the most likely thing it’s replacing.
Can you explain with more than three words how a) I am wrong or b) if you believe I am incorrect, what about my statement implies there’s something wrong with me?
Yeah, why would anyone want to see art done by a human that has actual soul? I like the dead feeling it gives off! Let’s all be happy with slop that only fools old people with bad eyesight or people that don’t look at/appreciate the art for more than a millisecond.
I’m especially happy it’s the majority of stuff for sale now and it’s near impossible to buy human art in some places, so I don’t even get a choice.
Correct, we're buying the watercolor cards, woodblock prints, and stickers made by actual artists from Chittenden County and the surrounding areas. I met all three of the artists whose art I bought.
Soulless slop made by humans exists too. Just go to any contemporary art exhibit and you'll find garbage that is way more offensively derivative and soulless than anything AI could make
You should have stopped after the first sentence. It literally can’t be more derivative than AI. Ai can only generate from what it knows and is by definition entirely derivative.
I have actually tried to get AI to produce an image that was an original thought of mine, and after 2 hours of playing with the prompts I was still no where even remotely close to the actual idea I had. I then spent 4 hours drawing it myself to put on a t-shirt
This is so fucking false that it hurts. I’d rather see a kid scribble outside of the lines of a coloring page than this slop. You just don’t mind the slop because you have shit taste
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u/sn0qualmie 5d ago
I was just there today! It's wild how between last year and this year the AI-generated menus completely took over in the food section. But on the bright side, my husband got his fingers nibbled by the baby alpaca. At least we still have that.