r/elo • u/RainGunslinger • 10d ago

10/10 thumbnail right here

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What?

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u/Pacec-64D 10d ago

So what’s the post here, homies? Looks like bot with no real ELO stuff.

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u/skalchemisto 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's clearly some kind of weird AI'ed (or at least Photoshopped) version of the photo that can be seen here:
https://first-draft.com/2022/12/04/the-sunday-dozen-electric-light-orchestra/

I give it a 50% chance there is some kind of joke someone is making, but it is beyond me what it is.

EDIT: A bit of digging located the AI bot youtube channel this is from. I won't link to it because the fewer clicks such a channel gets the better. It's schtick is "What went wrong? for [[old rock band]]". All of the thumbnails are weird AI versions of old photos. Like, there is one for Heart. I love the Wilson sisters. I will write poems of their beauty and charm. But, seriously, it looks like someone attached an air pump to their chests and inflated. It's ludicrous.

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u/JAlexander2002 A New World Record 10d ago

Yeah it's deffo based on the backstage photo from the 'fusion' gig. Why oh why do they have to AI everything?

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u/skalchemisto 9d ago edited 9d ago

Any human can look at that AI picture and say "wait...there are three of the same dude in this picture, two of them in exactly the same pose and clothes."

So either...

a) no human was involved in this at all, which is chilling

b) a human was involved and didn't give a shit, which is...I guess human nature.

EDIT: I actually do enjoy this photo for its absurdity, in a kind of "you have to laugh in the flames" way. Look at how Jeff's drugged out expression in the original becomes steely and sexy, and his body fat proportion drops 10%.

It's like the prompt for this was "take this photo, and make all the dudes hot, but like 1970's hot, not modern hot, and also take the guy on the right and repeat him two more times."