Supporters celebrate authentic absurdism
4 Sep 22 1:56 PM · 1d ago · 28 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Later comments praised the pin as proof of real human creativity, with some expressing relief that the absurdism was intentional rather than algorithmic accident.
“Omg. Here I was thinking "too bad it's AI, cause it would be really funny if only it were like that on purpose," and it actually IS like that on purpose 😂”
emilyrose.bsky.socialsamgavin.com Pin owner and posterStrikeGently Pin company
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Omg. Here I was thinking “too bad it’s AI, cause it would be really funny if only it were like that on purpose,” and it actually IS like that on purpose 😂
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Yes. We had authentic absurdity before AI, and it was lovely. 😢 Slop could never.
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The whole site is amazing. Imma get so much Christmas shopping done today.
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I KNEW IT! Only a person could be that wonderful.
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Old school machine translation can get this crazy, look up "backstroke of the west"
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I was just about to say that this is too perfect and absurd to actually be AI, and I'll bet someone made it. Very nice work sam3000
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this is why you can never go wrong with this config:
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So are you going to issue an apology, or a redaction, or...? It seems like the ouroboro of "AI witch hunting" is quite twisted in this age of online discourse.
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you should buy it from the actual artist shop it comes from, not some place that scraped the design and copied it
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They’ll block you if you ask why they lie and sell AI products btw. Been doing it for years. Don’t let them scam you.
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I figured there was no way that was slop. The words are too artfully nonsensical for a slop machine to make.
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Welp, looks like I’m in the market for some pins.
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I’m so fucking glad this is real. On a completely unrelated matter, I need one. 🤩
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Boy you are not very familiar with ironic internet shitposting, are you
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Yea this is way funnier than ai would’ve done
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I've seen StrikeGently being advertised on FB before and checked out their merch and I'm pretty sure a lot of their stuff is AI-generated. I mean I can't prove it but many of their blanket designs give off genAI vibes to me
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You own the company? Or a pin? Because Temu sells all kinds of AI slop merchandise...doesn't mean it was "designed" to be funny, it's just god-awful AI generated nonsense text. This reads like that Temu stuff.
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I struggle to think how could you make AI to produce these, this absurdist stuff goes against its training set. Maybe you could prompt it with a much effort as coming up with such sentences would be.
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Strike gently did get caught using ai recently I think though. I wanted a bunch of their stuff before but i thought they got caught doing ai designs for the blankies?
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Sam, is this really your website? If so, I'm going to stump up the shipping to the UK and get a few.
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Fuck strike gently, they’re all about AI and they WILL block you and delete your comments if you ask about it on their posts.
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nice. guess it takes human ingenuity to create something a human can think they've uniquely found funny and have it go viral
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Yeah, I've seen this and the fish one from Strike Gently. It's a meme and definitely not AI slop. Very Horse Ebooks
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I fuggin' knew it! I was about to reply "Poe's law applies, but that's almost too perfectly bad to be actual AI"
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