L’antenna televisiva in Daniel O’Connell Stamp è un “segnale visivo” per l’era moderna, non AI, dice un post
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/2025/08/01/tv-aerial-in-commemorative-daniel-oconnell-stamp-is-visual-signal-to-modern-age-not-product-of-ai/
di blacksheeping
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Now that’s how you bullshit under pressure, well done.
Hahaha what a incredible damage control bullshit excuse for an AI generated image.
Why does O’Connell look like a corpse?
At this stage I think it’s fair to say this was a fuck up by An Post. O’Connell is arguably the most important person in Irish history. Stamps for his 250th anniversary should have been chosen with great care. Whatever their artistic merit, these ones are just not right for the job.
Its blatantly obvious that this is AI
https://preview.redd.it/f076noq60egf1.png?width=670&format=png&auto=webp&s=603e0c22b59092c4a366ce59c8f94e4aa1849b0e
Just at a first glance, i bet you could find more AI indicators if you started really looking.
It’s AI
Maybe this is a new art style where illustrators intentionally make their art look like AI, so that it goes viral and gives them some publicity.
I bet they asked AI to do the press release.
Liar.
I wonder how much he got paid for this?
I’m finding it hard to tell if it’s AI or not, I’ve spent a while looking at the fingers and stuff and while they do look incredibly dodgy it could be an artistic choice.
The fact that they employed an AI “artist” last year isn’t helping their case at all.
Artists are going to have to live record themselves creating art going forward if they want to dispute A.I accusations.
Ed Sheeran video records all his practice and songwriting process after he was accused of plagiarism.
These images are definitely A.I., the artist is just lying to save face and potentially legal damages
How does the TV aerial prove it’s AI? Could it not be an artist using the modern building as a reference and just not thinking? I really struggle to tell the difference any more
If its not AI, then surely they’d just tell everyone to take it up with the artist?
Incredible lying – really funny.
https://preview.redd.it/gp6zvop65egf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=370d90f0196f0a0ab3571f2c01b5ae692dd4d9ac
The second stamp is just as bad. The sun in the sky doesn’t make sense with the shadows on O’Connell. There is an extra digit on his hand and the person in front of him. And maybe it’s just lazy but reusing the image of the boy but he’s climbing in a tree instead of a lamppost is piss poor. The artist is a spoofer. Shudder to think how much this was commissioned for
FFFG would want to hire the person made that statement quick fuckn sharp. That is S-tier bullshit.
Trump really could have done with this mastery of spin.
If it’s a visual signal would it not have been more suitable to have a dodgy box then?
TV Aerials have been on the way out for about 10 years now.
This guy has a long history as an artist so I want to give benefit of the doubt. As per the artists website “I scratch away black ink from a chalk board surface using a surgical scalpel to reveal the white underneath. The result is then scanned and coloured digitally.” So there’s likely an original scratching or in progress proof available somewhere? I feel like it would have made more sense to say “the reference image had an aerial and I didn’t think to remove it” so maybe it was the original intention to have it there… it’s a funny one.
Whatever it is, it’s shite.
Bol.lox
Artist prompt king
It’s Anachronistic at best. I think if the art was “good” no one would care, but it’s really such a poor standard overall that it stands out and completely pulls the attention from the subject.
Obviously it was at a protest about the license fee hikes. Fair play to him.
Speaking of the modern age. What the fuck has ever happened to just taking accountability? Like our society has been built up by trial and error. Our economy is driven by improving process/products or whatever and developing them.
A stupid story of innovation is, the name escapes me, a man who wanted to invent an adhesive that would stick but be easily removed. It fell flat on its face because who needs a glue that’s easily removed. He took the loss, then at choir signing got annoyed his paper fell out of his book. So be put his easy removed adhesive on paper and now every office on the planet has postit notes.
Every fucker now just denies and refuses to take accountability and comes up with an excuse. Business who get bad reviews online generally fucking argue with customers now. I’ve seen business owners fight with the public online just because no one would use their shite business.
I digress because I’ve wrapped up a pet peeve with this. But fuck me An Post just say it was a stupid mistake and you will reprint the stamps.
AI Derangement Syndrome. Redditors spotting it everywhere these days, thinking they are some kind of oracles.
Could you imagine trying to explain this to O’Connell himself.
What’s that smell? The smell of bullsh1t
That’s what I’d say if I used AI too
gobshites and AI experts of r/ireland assemble
Professional illustrator here.. I look at work all day long and can safely say this isn’t AI.
What’s clear though is that this is a composite of several pieces layered together which is quite a normal process.
The hands and pointy fingers are an artistic choice, it’s across a lot of this artists work and can be seen through out his portfolio. Generally with AI generated hands you get several fingers because software doesn’t understand the underlying structure and adds digits in an attempt to make something that resembles a hand. That’s not what’s happening here.
The choice to include a tv aerial is a little odd.. I think perhaps the buildings were drawn from reference and the aerial was mindlessly left included. Or the artist chose to include it, then the client simply missed it in review.
I can imagine this was done for a small fee under significant time pressure, which is a shame but not unusual for the industry in Ireland.
https://i.redd.it/7sjxhchfbegf1.gif
Not at all… It’s a lazy AI design and was clearly overlooked pre-release.
“Its not a bug its a feature”
Y ok An Post
It might not AI just a low paid artist that was told to use that background and don’t remove and modernity and no one else looking it cared to notice.
What’s the wizard playing the harpcarriage a visual signal of?
Maybe it’s an early prototype of those spinning clothes lines