Selkie Aa Aye
Apr01
on April 1, 2026
at 2:51 pm
In an effort to trim my process, I’ve fed my archive of Selkie comics into ChatGPT. This is the first AI generated page. I think it came out good!
In an effort to trim my process, I’ve fed my archive of Selkie comics into ChatGPT. This is the first AI generated page. I think it came out good!
Don’t lie. Chatgpt could never do anything as good as this. This is like a trip selkie had after eating too much.
i was wondering if Selkie meditated her self into an altered state. OR… ya know accidentally ate a frog.
I have a personal grudge with ai because so many ppl moved off of scratch bc of it.
selkie of the lake, what is your wisdom
This is far too good to be AI generated.
Was that AI or A1?
Was that AI or A1?
Damn sticky keyboard
Nah. I’ve seen how AI art works. It’s bad, but not in the same way that a human’s art is bad. AI art tends to look highly professional at first glace, only to reveal on closer inspection a bunch of stupid mistakes that even a young child wouldn’t make. This, by contrast, is the generic sort of “artist trying to pretend to be bad at art” thing that people were making long before AI.
Also, the text in the image is actually legible and grammatically correct. That’s a dead giveaway, there.
Poisson d’avril !
But the interesting fact about tuna bones does seem to check out, according to a San Diego museum site
Well, it *almost* looks like her…give it another try.
Been working with openArt (however it’s spelled or capitalized), trying to get something that looks like what I wrote in my stories. So far, I’ve gotten a few striking images, but nothing I’d want to put up anywhere. Also trying for photorealism for the most part.
Are you aware of concept of mockery
Oh, I can’t tell if the AI art is mocking me…or you are.
It’s a silly scribble done as a joke, let’s not turn snippish over it.
Yeah. Had a long exhausting morning that boils down to convincing someone I was who I said I was. (Maybe you youngsters have mastered the art of photographing a drivers license, but I haven’t.) Soured my mood.
But don’t give up on AI art just yet.
^^^^ most fun at parties 🎉
Check the date dude 😛
Some webcomic authors might include an actual AI-generated image as an April Fool’s Day gimmick, but based on the other comments, I was leaning toward this being “April Fool’s joke about whether it’s really AI-generated”. However, since you mentioned ChatGPT, I decided to let it evaluated whether the image could be AI generated, and it said “not believable as AI-generated” (full convo here: https://chatgpt.com/share/69ceb563-7f28-83e8-a548-0ed81b6b780a )
I think so-called AI generation may struggle with this specific “low effort MS Paint scribbles” art style as it’s not one they really get trained on.
Eh, they get trained on basically everything. The real issue is that regardless of its training data, the AI isn’t ACTUALLY using MS Paint.
An AI would be unlikely to perfectly replicate the constant-thickness one-pixel lines of real MS Paint art. Because even if it understands that the lines are supposed to be there, it doesn’t understand why or what creates them.
It’s similar to this article about AI trying to replicate pixel art:
https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-advent-calendar-2022/. It looks approximately right but it obviously can’t have been made using real pixel art tools.
how about in the future we don’t feed an artist’s work into the ai slop machine without their permission, even if said art is part of a joke?
The future is now!!!1!
Too good for AI. You can’t fool me.
I didn’t see this until over 24hrs. after it being posted. It took me a moment to think of April Fool’s Day.
Me too! My first draft of this post was “I will forgive the machines for the Terminator before I forgive this.”
This is a mistake! Please don’t!
You fool, you real ape fool!