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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 00:38:35 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   I love cute characters and mascots for FOSS projects but why did this project choose some AI slop of a sad emaciated cat

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 00:39:15 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     "what AI program do you use to make your project artwork Christine"

     myself and my artist friends

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 00:39:54 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • The Cobra

     @cobra Limbo, it's an sqlite rewrite in rust https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite-of-sqlite-in-rust

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     The Cobra (cobra@ak.vern.cc)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 00:39:56 JST The Cobra

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     @cwebber what

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 01:48:45 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Kaia 🦚

     @kaipeacock not sure! It might be a reference in the zeitgeist the generative AI program pulled from tho at least

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     Kaia 🦚 (kaipeacock@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 01:48:46 JST Kaia 🦚

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     @cwebber I guess it's a reference to the video game Limbo? Since the character is a silhouette

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     ch0ccyra1n (ch0ccyra1n@emeraldsocial.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 03:06:59 JST ch0ccyra1n

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     @cwebber how do you know with such certainty that it was generated? I could totally see it being drawn by a person

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 03:06:59 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • ch0ccyra1n

     @ch0ccyra1n The commit to the repository adding it was just "add mascot" with no attribution of an artist https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/commit/2ee21443c06f303b5c4f9d325483794e5be64e65

     There are some weird issues with the drawing, the intersecting "crosses" on the hair where a hair is intersecting out of nowhere another hair, looks like a mistake a human wouldn't make but an AI would

     It's not that it's something that was generated badly, but it feels generated carelessly, and thus hollow

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 03:12:37 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

     What I will say is that this topic lead to a very interesting lunch conversation with @mlemweb about why this topic feels so emotional, and maybe that it would be a good @fossandcrafts topic to dive into analyzing