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When did the US get 94 states? (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

How did they not have a stock image of a flag? Like I don't even understand how "literally the one static symbol that they spam over and over" wasn't available so they turned to AI slop that can't get any of the details right because it doesn't rationally understand what a flag is it just makes stripey bits and colors and stuff that look like pictures of flags.

Edit: holy shit the full image is even funnier but explains the why a little - it has the eagle melting into the flag and an additional second sun above the eagle as well as an extra ghost flag overlaid on it. It's like a hackneyed caricature of itself made even funnier by all the major errors.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

lol they hit it with the AI image enlargement

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Upscaling existing images works much better because as I understand it AI image generation is basically trained by blurring/adding noise to images that are tagged with descriptions and concepts and having the AI try to undo this until it gets close enough to the original image, because bafflingly that makes something that can take a description and concept tags and unblur an image that's pure noise to produce something that could conceivably have those descriptions and tags. When you've got an image that's just kind of noisy or blurry, like one that's been crudely upscaled, it's very good at sharpening it although it still tends to look off.

This just looks like they prompted a generator with "eagle and American flag flying over wheat field at sunset" and grabbed the first output that looked kind of like a flag, which is an impressive level of laziness and grifting from their support staff.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They could’ve just used Waifu2X lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

where is my chubby wife generator wtf is this

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe somewhere else, there's a GOP elephant with extra legs and the trunk going the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah an upscaler on a real image would be more competent than this lol @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The Mandela Effect, but the US keeps getting random Midwest states nobody has heard of.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

which scp is this?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Milkaukee

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Misspeepee

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Chicaho

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kansaw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Arkansaw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Always hasn't been

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The extra states are just drunks tieing their pontoons together in the great lakes and throwing a rager.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

50 US States + 31 Mexican States + 13 Canadian Provinces and Territories = 94 States of the North American Union.

Trump = NAFTA

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada USA Mexico

CUM > NAFTA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

This is why they changed the flag in the Fallout universe

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's including all the districts of Canada, Australia, Germany, Britain, South Korea, Japan, and all the other vassal states. (does it actually add up? I'm not gonna check)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

10 provinces, three territories in Canada. 31 states in Mexico, not including Mexico City, which is autonomous. So maybe the Republican platform is to continue Manifest Destiny and annex all of North America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Did yall forget that we get to have World War 3 over the arctic land because of global warming?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

only 12 stripes too lmao

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Hold on, is it not supposed to go blue stripe, red stripe that melts into the stripe below it, white stripe, half red and half white stripe, and then an alternating series of white and red stripes that turn blue?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When you have AI do your official party art.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

That's definitely the actual reason

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stop trying to make me like AI

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The pro-AI propaganda will continue until petty-bourgeois Luddite nonsense is eradicated.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Isn't he that senator from Upper West By Southwestern North Carolina?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this real

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Realistic depiction of the American Empire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Another one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that a generative AI flag lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Someone's cousin spun up a corporation to soak up super PAC money and did the absolute bare minimum because the cousin has no idea how to computer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

hahaha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They wouldn't let us stack the courts, so we did this instead