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The website is great!

> I built a basic CNN trained against penises

After seeing it in action, my second thought (first was just watching my fish) was that I was amazed at the good behavior of the users because I would have expected a lot of penises floating around. Now I understand. Nicely done!

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Actually most people aren't trying to submit bad fish! I was surprised to, it's really like 95/5 good to bad submissions. People seem to follow the rules on average :)

Yeah, there’s two rules that define the internet:

1. 95% of people will not be trying to draw penises

2. 5% penises by volume is a lot of penises

By volume, yes, but by mass, it's a pretty reasonable load

Perfectly average, I’d say

Or roughly average, as your username would say. :D

To be fair, you stop them from submitting the bad fish before they have a chance. I never submitted a fish that wasn't already 'green' for %

When I launched Twiddla, it was so common that we joked about adding them to the shape tool.

I think it’s just human nature that that’s the first thing you try to draw on any online whiteboard.

I tried to draw an eel, and when I was done I realized that all I'd done was draw a very orange, toothed penis.

is this a reference to the new South Park episode?

(sorry)

Haha, not intentionally!

>is this a reference to the new South Park episode?

I don't think so, he said "long" lol

There are some fish decorated with swastikas floating around

And a Star of David

Edit: And a lot of Palestinian flags when sorting by popular.

Just noticed "Chosen Fish" on the leaderboard - sometimes it's a bit less subtle.

As hard as I tried to add fish characteristics, it knew what I was doing.

I wonder if it's resilient against swastikas made of penises.

That was the Slack logo redesign.

Well now I can't unsee that.

Seriously, wishing I could unread his comment.

Oh god.

My hot take is that the Slack logo is an Alphabet-product logo. The colors aren't quite right, but it's red/yellow/green/blue like an Alphabet logo. It would fit right into the lineup. It's particularly similar to the (obsolete) Google Podcasts and Google Photos logos.

My pet theory (that I don't sincerely believe) is that this was deliberate to help smooth a hypothetical acquisition by Alphabet, before they were bought by Salesforce.

> My pet theory (that I don't sincerely believe)...

To be clear, this combination is a tetradic palete on a color wheel. Color theory and simplified logo trends make this coincidence much more likely than it would initially appear. Still funny.

I drew a fish and wrote PENIS on the side. Did I beat the game?

Well apparently it wasn't trained against asses, since it let me write "Ass" on my fish :P

I just saw the N-word written on a fish. so eh.. that didn't last long.

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