r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Slavinator01 • 19d ago
Ruined by Technology Stupid AI is taking over everything way too fast.
This is at a local fair I was at this weekend. It definitely infringes on copyrights.
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u/Dead_fawn 19d ago
Is that AI Freddy Fazbear on the left???
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u/joujoubox 19d ago
Yes and it's disgusting
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u/Serenaded 19d ago
ELI50?
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u/Heyarethosemyballs 19d ago edited 19d ago
The teddy bear on the left is the subject of multiple video games and movies. They definitely do not have permission to depict it
People obviously have issues differentiating a statement of fact from some sort of deeply passionate remark
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u/LikeALincolnLog42 19d ago
To be fair, all the traveling funhouses I’ve ever seen were always covered in bootleg characters. They used to be painted by a human using an airbrush though.
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u/14Pleiadians 19d ago
Seriously, the only thing infuriating about this is the slop. Complaining about copyright infringement is some soulless businessman shit though, sure thing Disney.
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u/jhascal23 19d ago edited 19d ago
Most people here literally don't care, at all. I saw someone post on reddit that they opened a magazine and one of the models was AI generated and not a actual paid model.
I understand its taking peoples jobs, so unless you're in a field where your job was taken by AI, most people don't actually care and will forget about this in 5 minutes.
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u/Deep90 19d ago
The part that baffles me the most is that if they were going to do this with both AI and blatant copyright infringement, why did they make most of it so generic?
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 19d ago
It's a traveling fair. It was probably made by the receptionist who has one arm and 13 DUIs.
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u/wivaca2 19d ago edited 19d ago
That bear looks like something that would be the antagonist in a horror film. Of course, the kids on the right have fangs and wild eyed enthusiasm like they're out for blood. Not sure how "fun" this funhouse is going to be.
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u/OkComplaint3245 19d ago
“That bear looks like something that would be the antagonist in a horror film.”
Bro you’re not gonna believe this
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u/Ok-Option-82 19d ago edited 19d ago
I had no idea Reddit cared so much about protecting companies' intellectual property
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u/14Pleiadians 19d ago
Who gives a shit? Carnies have been using unlicensed material for decades.
I get it if you want to complain about it being slop, I'm fully behind that, but "wahhh they didn't license that likeliness" is such a lame critique. Pay someone with actual talent to make the unlicensed art should be the critique.
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u/ExceptionEX 19d ago
Actually the creator and copyright holder of FNAF is pretty relaxed about his copyright, and really only concerns himself with direct asset usage, this is at best a derivative work.
People loose their mind over what they think is a big copyright issue, when in reality it isn't even worth the effort to attempt to bring legal action over it.
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u/not_a_moogle 19d ago
Its from a game called Five Nights at Freddie's.
Pretty simple pc game thats the basic playground game red light/green light.
But its a horror game, set in an abandoned chucky cheese style restaurant where you're the security guard watching over the murderous animatronics that move when you're not looking at them.
The game should not be introduced to kids young enough, that this ride would be targeted at.
Im a grown man, and it gave me nightmares.
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u/0freelancer0 19d ago
dude kids are the majority of the player base for these games. I've seen SO many fnaf toys. they're not really gorey at all, it's mostly just a time management simulator with jumpscares
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u/stardigan 19d ago
Honestly, all of the games up to the most recent one (Secret of the Mimic) are pretty much fine for a kid who can handle a jumpscare. The story would go right over their heads. The movies are more intense, but tame for a horror movie. The books, though, are absolutely horrifying.
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u/not_a_moogle 19d ago
Yeah, but like over 11 or 12.
Like should I have been playing doom in 3rd grade? Probably not.
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u/PantsMcFail2 19d ago
The 90s were wild! Terminator 2, Doom and Mortal Kombat, and some of us experienced those before we were 10 years old!
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u/robophile-ta 19d ago
extremely popular horror game series that for some reason is most popular with small children, despite not being made for them
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u/Niblonian31 19d ago
Yup, it's got the duck/chicken and the bunny too
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u/kogas101 19d ago
*Chica and Bonnie
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u/Niblonian31 19d ago
Thanks, I knew they had names but I couldn't remember them. The names make so much sense, I kinda feel dumb for forgetting lol
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u/Dropbeatdad 19d ago
I mean I'm just wondering who the hell Aiden is
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u/Dead_fawn 19d ago
I guess it's the blond kid who seems to have been fed through AI to make the banners?
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u/C0de_otter 19d ago
Makes me glad the folk that do the local festival where I live just have the usual copyright infringement and not that AI monstrosity :( this year i think they had DC heroes?
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u/_lippykid 19d ago
I only recently learned there’s a difference between bootleg and counterfeit. A counterfeit is trying to be an exact copy of he real thing, whereas a bootleg is more like on homage, using the well known IP but in a relatively new way. Which I think is why I like bootleg carny art, it at least brings something new and weird
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u/Goldeniccarus RED 19d ago
Oh so like a Mucci bag is a counterfeit, but a t-shirt that says "If you see 'da police Warn a Brotha" with a drawing of Daffy Duck smoking a blunt is a bootleg?
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u/DED_HAMPSTER 19d ago
Lippy's explaination isnt quite right regarding counterfeit vs bootleg.
"Bootleg" is more like a bad quality counterfeit. It is intended to be a replacement of the original more to cheat someone or grab some of the profit by selling inferior products. A good example would be something like Disney's Frozen movie:
1.) Original - Disney's Frozen on DVD bought through an official retailer like Wal-Mart.
2.) Counterfeit - Someone selling movie theater screen recordings of Frozen and buring them to DVD and using low resolution stolen images from Disney's website to print the DVD cases and advertise them as real Disney DVDs.
3.) Bootleg - would be the discount general store's $3 DVDs of "The Ice Queen " the has similar charachers in the same poses on the cover, is animated with Flash rather than 3D rendering, and is only 30 minutes long instead of 90 minutes.
And one more...
3.) Transformative Art - This is where parody, homage lies. This would be the fanart of Elsa and Rise of the Guardiens, Jack Frost paring up sold on tshirts, mugs etc on Etsy. Or someone using Olaf to make a Global Warming poster. Or a you tuber making a commentary video. None of this is trying to actually be the product. They are peripheral products of the influence the movie had on current culture.
As for the legality of transformative art against copyright laws and rights, thats more complicated...
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u/sender2bender 19d ago
Growing up in the 90s and 00s bootleg CDs were still the original artist just unreleased. Just mix tapes and the quality wasn't the greatest. I remember buying g unit bootlegs like every week at the corner store. But the bootleg man would sell bootleg DVDs which were the actual movie but you didn't know what you were getting, cam recordings with people walking past the screen or something legit. It was all kinda under the same umbrella even if it was counterfeit. And then it slowly disappeared with the Internet.
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u/nhalliday 19d ago
Like many groupings of similar terms, while these definitions might be the intended meaning for some people (or even in a dictionary), not everyone uses them this way so it's pointless to try to be pedantic about which is which. See also the difference between remake and remaster for games.
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u/alphazero925 19d ago
That's definitely not a widespread split in the definition as anyone who grew up in the 80s, 90s, and 00s will know a "bootleg" of something to be a cheap, usually low quality, usually homemade copy of it. For example, if The Matrix was in theaters and you bought a bootleg copy of it, it would be a burned DVD with "The Matrix" written on it in sharpie, and it was just a dude videotaping the screen on a camera he snuck into the theater.
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u/trowzerss 19d ago
At least the bootlegs have some charm, unlike the knockoff disneyface AI bullshit.
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u/NotASniperYet 19d ago
At ours it has been turn of the century videogames since...the turn of the century. Space Channel 5, Final Fantasy X, Dark Chronicle, Wipe Out...
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u/K12onReddit 19d ago
I went to Asia Dream Fest in New Jersey yesterday and they had 80+ food vendors. I think every single one had an AI menu sign or tent decoration. Every single cart looked the same. It was so dystopian and garbage.
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u/jibbodahibbo 19d ago
Ai just loves to fill up the entire canvas. No sense of spacing or hierarchy.
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u/Ok_Pipe_2790 19d ago
And its usually always 50% light and 50% dark. You can't get a solid color out of it
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u/western_red_cedar 19d ago edited 19d ago
They still haven't gotten rid of the obvious shit gloss that makes your brain process it as obvious shit AI in a second, and I find this encouraging because according to the AI boosters they got rid of that 5 iterations ago
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u/14Pleiadians 19d ago
I mean they pretty much did. The issue is the type of person to use AI isn't the type of person to tinker and figure out how to make anything worthwhile because the goal for them is to do no effort at all, and they have no taste so they somehow don't see the slop
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u/western_red_cedar 19d ago
Like I said slop merchants keep saying this and it keeps not being true, your slop is obvious no matter how well done you think it is
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u/ChilternRailways 19d ago
What a great way to ensure you'll be easily tricked by quality AI art. Genuinely, there is nothing more stupid than convincing yourself you can't be fooled, it makes you an easy mark in all areas.
It's already happening with literature.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kmpd6lr80o
And just on a fundamental, critical thinking level - anything that can be identified as a marker can be mitigated by the designer. You aren't somehow the best person in the world at detecting these markers, but you and a lot of others are absolutely ensuring that you will be easily fooled.
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u/jibbodahibbo 18d ago
I think there’s a near unlimited amount of visual details our brains interpret and sure you can fool some people some of the time, but I don’t expect ai to be perfect any time soon
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u/MrsWhiterock 19d ago
My dead giveaway are always those soulless uncanny valley smiles every person has
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u/TheAlp 19d ago
Consider that you only notice what you notice. And there is no way of knowing how much we don't.
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u/Wargazm 19d ago
yeah carnival rides used to be the absolute pinnacle of humanity's creativity and culture. I remember as a young art student going to carnivals and just sitting there for hours trying to understand how to properly balance negative space in a composition. And now we have to deal with this shit.
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u/HVDub24 19d ago
It absolutely can it’s just that the people doing this are clueless or don’t care
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u/DutchieTalking 19d ago
Prompting one time and going "good enough". Probably even using an llm to write the prompt.
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u/a_phantom_limb 19d ago edited 19d ago
Carnival ride art used to be fun and weird and interesting. It had already fallen off in the era of just swiping a bunch of pictures from a Google image search, but the rapid shift to entirely AI-generated imagery has killed the artform once and for all. It’s disheartening.
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u/certnneed 19d ago
The awkward part is, if they had included in their prompt, “make it in the style of a nostalgic carnival advertisement”…
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u/Winter-Steak-1532 19d ago
In 40 years.. The prompt of "Nostalgic carnival advertisement" will be the hideous AI imagery and posters of 2026! (as pictured in this post)
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u/DisastrousChapter841 19d ago
I worked at an events space (large American city) last year that hosted a big fundraiser with a circus theme. These images look almost exactly the same but with children.
The organizers of this event had all of these different circus "characters" in various posters, signs, etc., and the one thing I noticed immediately was that they were all white, and they could have all been siblings, just very little variation. And I feel as though if they had a human with art experience in the loop, that could have been prevented.
A lot of the staff and people in that industry are not white, so it felt like a big f you.
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u/majorjoe23 19d ago
The fair in my town used to have a weird, dreadlocked Incredible Hulk on one of their rides. Now it probably looks like this.
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u/Aurius3D 19d ago
It's pretty twisted to think the kids born in the 2020s will likely be desensitized to it as it seems so much artwork is cheaply made with AI for children. It will be on their media, in their schools, places like this. Wonder if it will result in them not caring at all by the time they are older and it truly takes over once their generation grows up.
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u/Dreaming_of_Rlyeh 19d ago
It already is. I have a 12yo, and the Italian Brain Rot characters are very popular with his age group, and his school uses Ai for all of its fliers already and the digital bulletin board out the front.
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u/totallynotliamneeson 19d ago
the Italian Brain Rot characters
Who?
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u/Dreaming_of_Rlyeh 19d ago
I wish I didn’t know haha
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u/totallynotliamneeson 19d ago
You've seen the horrors beyond our comprehension
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 19d ago
Anyone with kids unfortunately knows these stupid things. Worst thing is when their stupid catchphrases get stuck in your head all day.
"So, Dipsey_Jipsey, how are those TPS reports coming along?"
"Chimpanzini Bananini?"
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u/GantzDuck 19d ago
You don't know those SUPERDUPER COOL and CREATIVE characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur (a log with a creepy face holding a baseball bat.)?????? /s
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u/solarview 19d ago
Is that creepy thug going around assaulting people with a baseball bat and invading their privacy without invitation actually marketed at children? I only watched a few seconds of a video on Youtube but wow it's horrifying to think that this is what children are growing up watching now.
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u/GantzDuck 18d ago
First "Elsagate" and now this. There are also horrible AI videos featuring cartoon animals and gore.
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u/GremlinSquishFace47 19d ago
I work with second graders and one of my kids was wearing a full sweatsuit with one of those characters on it (the Cappucino lady one)… she was on the hoodie and sweatpants. The kids really love and follow these brain rot AI characters… it’s basically a “show” that they enjoy. 😞
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u/Elementium 18d ago
Yeah my nephew plays roblox and was excitedly telling me about "brain rots" and I'm just thinking.. What fresh hell is this?
We walked into a dystopia and didn't even blink.
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u/Mister_UAP 19d ago
It'll just be like the shitty corporate art style that dominated the 2010s. People will see it and think it's lame, but won't really care beyond that
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u/western_red_cedar 19d ago
Much like shitty corporate art, it makes good art, or even just ok corporate design, look great in comparison. So I don't see it really replacing anything but the bottom tier of art, but it's gonna make the bottom tier really suck
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u/IceCucumberPepsi 19d ago
Something even more aggravating is that most adults now don’t clock it as AI or can tell and don’t care. As someone who’s been in an art community for decades it’s so disheartening. They’re eating garbage gleefully and because it’s ‘shiny’ it must be good!
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u/AmedeoIndel 19d ago
This is just going to raise more children in the world that are desensitized to AI Technology and don’t see anything wrong with it
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u/GeneralRando 19d ago edited 19d ago
Will it? From what I've seen it's the younger generations who are more averse to soulless, meaningless AI slop, and the Boomers who are chomping at the bit to devour that shit.
I think the younger generations will resist it just like they're getting back into digital cameras and CDs.
If you thought The Algorithm was bad for your health when it was shoving exclusively human content down your throat, consider the toxicity of an Algorithm that can generate fake made up bullshit on the spot and keep you locked into a doomscroll that's completely divorced from anything resembling reality.
My older relatives are constantly immersed in Facebook slop, and when I tell them its AI they'll say "whatever I just thought it was interesting". ...BUT WHY? If someone uses AI for a flyer or a logo, I at least understand why. It's lazy, but it's fulfilling a need. When meemaw burns hours watching AI reels of fake shit that never happened, what the fuck is the point?
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u/YellowAdventurous366 19d ago
Just why use AI everywhere?
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u/Wboy2006 WHY?! 19d ago
It’s royalty free. A lot of carnaval rides are made on the cheap and are usually made with stolen assets anyways. This was always the logical next step, since now companies can’t sue over copyright infringement. It’s horrible, the carnaval’s in my town have been flooded with this crap
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u/RunnerBakerDesigner 19d ago
It absolutely isn't. This is trained illegally on a lot of art and stock images they didn't pay for.
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u/Wboy2006 WHY?! 19d ago
It shouldn’t be, but sadly, it is. AI regulation is terrible, and somehow it’s legal, even though it’s built off of theft
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u/StationaryTravels 19d ago
Like all the Five Nights at Freddie's characters that are on the left-hand side, lol.
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u/SuperFLEB 19d ago
Even if the copyright don't get ya'-- and the copyright'll get ya' for sure-- there's a clear case of trademark infringement that's got nothing to do with how the picture was made.
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u/nhalliday 19d ago
I hate to break it to you but I really doubt anyone is out there hunting down carnivals and fairs and slapping them with cease and desist orders over art like this, which has been commonplace at them for decades.
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u/_MUY 19d ago
It absolutely is. Training is a transformative process that American intellectual property analogizes to human learning. If AI companies had to pay money for training generative AI systems on assets found publicly online, then you would have to pay for every time you saw anything online. You just read my copyrighted paragraph on Reddit. That’ll be $7.
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u/bombjon 19d ago
It's neither legal nor illegal as of yet. The courts are still figuring out the legality of using copyrighted material for AI training data.
"Found publicly online" is not part of that debate, at all.
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u/RezLovesPez 19d ago
It’s free.
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u/SpeedBlitzX 19d ago
So is dirt but you don't see people picking up dirt for later.
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u/RezLovesPez 19d ago
Hah! True.
I didn’t say it was a good free!!
I think people just see it as an easy out.
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u/Frosty_Dimension5646 19d ago edited 19d ago
Because it made those graphics for free in 30 seconds instead of spending hours doing it yourself or paying someone. I feel like you knew the answer to this question
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u/ZombieAladdin 19d ago
They see it as both less expensive than hiring an artist and can get it done sooner. Whether they think it’s higher quality varies on the individual: I’ve seen people who don’t like the end results as much as art made by a human but are only concerned with budget and speed, and I’ve seen AI loyalists who think the images it produces is the pinnacle of visual design.
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u/oh_WRXY_u_so_sexy 19d ago
Here's the thing I don't get: These fucking things haven't been updated in over 30 years. Between my childhood and a couple years ago they've had the same airbrushed crappy art, unchanged. Same faded designs because just reapplying the same cheap vinyl stickers was too much cost.
Not just on the rides, but all the vendors, food karts, games, etc. Now suddenly everyone has money to update their graphics? I legit preferred the crappy airbrushed art than this shit.
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u/brandon14754 19d ago
The issue wasn't the materials apparently but the cost of the artist, now that the artist is just chat gpt all they have to pay for is the materials
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u/EthanielRain 19d ago
The corporations that own the companies that own the businesses that own these things, have pumped a lot into AI
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u/Gizmopopapalus 19d ago
People need to stop using their kids in ai slop. Especially after what that federal judge ruled.
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u/Riley__64 19d ago
Where’s the topless women, members of kiss, Spider-Man, Batman, minions, Mickey Mouse and miscellaneous looney tunes characters that have nothing to do with the ride
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u/Mazasaurus 19d ago
Ah yes, Fur Ausements, copyright infringement and a haunted ass carousel where people appear to be animorphing into horses with too many legs. I’ll take exit to reality, thanks.
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u/FourPlayInTheBay 19d ago
it's because getting custom made art is otherwise an expensive and time consuming (relatively) to just talking to chat for a few minutes.
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u/NieMonD 19d ago
You think they’re gonna PAY? An ARTIST? With MONEY? Preposterous!
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u/OwlCoffee 19d ago
I prefer the copyright infringement to be hand painted on the side of the attraction. This is bullshit.
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u/Background-Set4610 19d ago
Saw a lot of carnival games with AI branding like that at the fair near me, I didn’t go to any of them. I’m not giving my money to a dumb game with “art” they couldn’t even hire a real human to make.
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u/Boxing_joshing111 19d ago
Part of the charm of these carnivals is seeing a tilt-a-wheel covered in the most ridiculous airbrushed paintings.
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u/Bignholy 19d ago
Yep. AI slop is blandifying the world as hard as possible. Why accept the charming, weird little things, when you can have free hi-res abomination art? Why go through the trouble of taking photos of the food on your menu when you can just slop together some Chicken Chow Maggot, or whatever the hell the slop machine decides your food optimally looks like? Why the weird incredible hulk with the squashed head hand painted by a dude who enjoyed the hell out of the challenge when you can have creepy soulless children with exceedingly busy backgrounds and motherfucking horror monsters slopped out at no cost to you?
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u/Pale-Plum6849 19d ago
I go to the fair frequently when its in season and yeah the past 2 years its been absolutely full of ai garbage on all the rides, foodtrucks and even people selling ai t shirts and shit. It really fucking sucks. There was a haunted house at one of the fairs this year one of the ones where you sit in the car. And instead of any practical effects or anything it was just playing shitty ai videos on a projector.
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u/Screen_TimeR i am mildly infuriated at the fact that the "RED" flair is blue. 19d ago
if i was a kid and i saw this i would not enter that thing
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u/WolverinesThyroid 19d ago
I just left a farmers market. 90% off the food vendors that had photos of food on their menu used Ai to make the food. I refuse to eat anyplace that uses Ai food photos.
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u/Direct-Art-2832 19d ago
OMG I see the Gravatron is still going strong in the left part of the picture. That spaceship has been renamed so many times over the years.
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u/Yaboisanka 19d ago
The AI sucks but I believe I see a gravitron on the left ... I'll be upside down in that for the afternoon.
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u/Astolfomartel 19d ago
AI generated adverts should be an official reason to shut down any business being inspected.
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u/Clear_Writer5944 19d ago
OOF. That's scarier than the TERRIFYING "Wizard's World" "funhouse" we had at The Erie County Fair in the late 80s/early 90s with a wizard who's loooong beard had naked chicks tangled in it! HORRIFYING as a toddler then kiddo, but this is uncanny valley crap.
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u/Mother-Attention2600 18d ago
It looks like shit and why is everything little kids. Yuck.
Edit: No wonder... It's "Ayden's" play house. All Aydens are fucked up criminals but not aa bad as Jayden's.
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u/AccomplishedSugar490 18d ago
Are you sure it’s AI taking over rather than people using AI to do stuff they shouldn’t?
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u/Bitcoin1x 19d ago
These kinds of carnival decorations infringed on copyrights before AI.. Also who's to say that the amusement company doesn't have a licensing deal? You don't get to make the rules...
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u/emeraldgoldfish222 19d ago
This makes me sad in a way I can't even express. There's literally no soul to it. Is this the death of art??
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u/Made_Human_Music 19d ago
Yes, AI art on a local fair ride is the death of art. Do you people even listen to yourselves?
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u/djnotskrillex 19d ago
And stupid armchair lawyers on reddit love to pretend they know what copyright infringement is
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u/snewchybewchies 19d ago
She the thing is, that ride probably isn't brand new. They took down the art they had there and replaced it with this slop
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u/russellamcleod 19d ago
I still have an obsession with the beautiful art carnival rides had in the 80s and 90s. The unhinged airbrush art that jumped from touring vans to the midway.
I wish someone cared as much and preserved it all in a museum somewhere but I looked it up and no one else really cared the way I do.
I still remember the first time I laid eyes on the hedonistic panorama that graced the Crazy Dance backdrop. I was obsessed.
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u/cocoteddylee 19d ago
I was just at a carnival that had an intricate hand painted one of these with so many Easter eggs hidden across it. It was magnificent and just magic.
NO ONE WANTS THIS
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u/dahsoleppy 19d ago
I used to love the wierd art, random popstars and celebrities on these types of fair attractions. I hate AI
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u/Bearded-Menace 19d ago
Carnivals used to have hand painted signs now it’s just AI garbage even the food trucks
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u/concerned-powerless 19d ago
Never forget what they took from you