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One of the interesting things about the "monkey touching iguana" photos is just how abstract that sense is. Several of the pictures look like it's taken geomet
by notahacker 4y ago
One of the interesting things about the "monkey touching iguana" photos is just how abstract that sense is.
Several of the pictures look like it's taken geometry from a 'touching' source and painted both 'monkey' and 'iguana' textures on to both figures, because on the one hand its model of relationships is too sophisticated to just copy/paste monkey and iguana photos from its library, and on the other hand it's not sophisticated enough to always treat "monkey touching iguana" as implying that the monkey and the iguana are discrete animals. (An interesting contrast with it being generally praised for being remarkably good at things like putting hats on animals' heads...)
- XorNot 4y agoOn the other hand if you posted "monkey touching iguana" as a prompt on an internet forum - say a photoshop contest - you would get essentially all of these variants from actual humans as well when the task delved into being "meta".
- notahacker 4y agoPeople are certainly capable of wilfully misinterpreting the prompt because they consider monkey/iguana chimeras to be amusing to draw, or think that semi-abstract hybrid animals with a caption musing on the meaning of "touching" is a higher form art than mere representation. And in a photoshop competition they might all copy one silly interpretation because they think it's meme-worthy. But I don't think if you asked 18 humans to independently draw "monkey touching iguana" you'd get 17 pairs of monkey/iguana hybrids mostly not touching each other against photographic backgrounds often featuring human limbs and one apparently normal monkey being pursued by a giant iguana!