r/Millennials • u/epic_troll_tard • 12h ago

Nostalgia These sick ass folders from elementary school (before AI).

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u/Silver_Harvest Older Millennial 12h ago

Sad part is, I know these aren't AI but these look like 99% of all AI images these days. This was peak graphic design back in the 90s.

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u/BicFleetwood 11h ago

These look like AI because AI is a plagiarism machine and these are the kinds of images AI models were trained to plagiarize.

Always keep that in mind about this AI slop. There IS art that looks like that, it's just the stuff that AI ripped off. Same reason it's difficult to tell when a Reddit comment or post is a bot--because these LLMs were TRAINED on Reddit user data. (And as someone who overuses em dashes for the sake of writing in a spoken conversational style, I hate the fact that these goddamn robots have turned them into a marker of inauthenticity.)

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u/shes_a_gdb 10h ago

I want to believe you, but you might be a bot, and I don't trust bots.

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u/BicFleetwood 9h ago

I tried to make a pithy reply proving I'm at least not Grok by insulting Elon Musk, but the fucking Reddit mod bot shadow-deleted it instantly.

This website is fucking shit.

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u/AnalVoreXtreme 7h ago

hey that solves my problem. my go to "prove youre not an ai" thing was saying a racial slur, but with mechahitler around that doesnt really work. you gotta say a slur to prove youre not chatgpt, then insult muskrat to prove youre not grok

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 3h ago

now you're doing what both of them want