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The AI-generated raccoon in 2024 sure is a gut punch after seeing the lovingly rendered art from yesteryear. Completely devoid of the personality of the originals, even in the Christmas card, he can only dream of living up to the standard they set.

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There's an inconsistent mix of human hands and raccoon paws in the same image. I thought diffusion models could do inpainting of pre-existing images. If somebody actually cared they could have picked one and erased and regenerated the other.

Perhaps the model was trained on too much furry art?

It wouldn't make that sort of mistake then.

Furry art is not in any way consistent with the use of human and animal anatomy. You'll absolutely see a mix of paws and hands

If you mean https://i0.wp.com/technologizer.com/home/wp-content/uploads/... It's definitely a weird image. The hands are oddly accurate, and the geometry in the background is also unusually straight and correct for a low-end corporate 2024 Bing DALL-E or Stable Diffusion slop image. And in the bottom image, the food is way too sharp, and the sci-fi text UI is also way too accurate.

So I am suspicious something else is going on to produce the overall uncanny effect of wrongness: possibly they used Photoshop to paste on a bunch of unrelated images to some low-quality stock-art backgrounds?

I think it's AI + human editing.

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