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I tried to make a picture of my old dog with AI and it felt wrong
I used a popular image generator to make a picture of my childhood dog, a golden retriever named Buddy. The tool made a perfect, shiny picture, but it felt empty and made me sad. I realized the real art was in my messy, old photos where I could remember the day we took them. Has anyone else felt this way when using AI for something personal?
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the_amy2d ago
Yeah, that "perfect, shiny picture" feeling is the whole problem. It's like getting a generic birthday card when you wanted a note in your friend's handwriting. The mess is what makes it real.
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felix_jones2d ago
Right @the_amy, that's why my feed is just pictures of my half dead houseplants. The polished stuff feels like a corporate ad. Give me the weird, real mess any day.
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