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Doodlesworth t1_j3owvul wrote

Looks like the guy who moved from NJ to VT for the ___________

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BperrHawaii t1_j3oy2g4 wrote

STEPHEN!!!

I mean “SHAWN”….

Oh wait… JESSICA???

Hey long time no see!

You’ve changed 😳

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[deleted] t1_j3oz0es wrote

Presenting the Ultimate Flatlander

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Cease_Cows_ t1_j3oz20r wrote

Yeah but that chicken/eagle hybrid is fucking terrifying holy shit

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arvinxi t1_j3ozq4g wrote

Looks like someone who moved to Vermont from Massachusetts

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BrendanTFirefly t1_j3ozz8t wrote

That is a flatlander. Dude came up here with his parents money and bought 30 acres

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yoyoguy2 t1_j3p0km3 wrote

i don't get why AIs can't do fingers.

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mellercopter t1_j3p2cxn wrote

This is VT Tinder during ski season. Just 400 different dudes that all look like this.

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dukeof3arl t1_j3p3pzp wrote

Some hard Harry Potter vibes, mixed with headies, coffee shops, antiques and a very bad case of homelessness

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thoughtfillednorth t1_j3p3qgo wrote

Your chicken is too fancy for Vermont. That is a Masshole chicken. It's angry from paying the taxes near Boston.

Other than that, the other Vermont-aligned items and person seems dead-on.

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TLaP802 t1_j3p5csb wrote

Why tf does he have 2 beanies on

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Whompa t1_j3p5ryk wrote

Oh no it looks exactly like my buddy lol…

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Hanginon t1_j3p6k0i wrote

Vermont immigrant that's trying way too hard, and missed a decade or so.

¯\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯

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foggy-sunrise t1_j3pb44a wrote

Layered hats.

This AI may have began a meme.

Also I have those glasses. Fuck.

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TheBeckofKevin t1_j3pe6tq wrote

What algo/software did you use to make it? Seems pretty upscaled in resolution. Whats your process?

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mainething t1_j3pfllk wrote

The plaid looks right...not much else.. Beads and bird are sooo NY which is really VT I guess.. very Ben n Jerryish !

That's what is great about Maine...people go home !

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Soci3talCollaps3 t1_j3pfvap wrote

Well, regardless of any controversies regarding accuracy, I think it is a pretty awesome image. What AI tool did you use to achieve this? Did you have to post-edit too?

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Sparskey t1_j3pkhzt wrote

Replying to yoyoguy2 (#1,321,546)

The AI has to decide what is more likely at the end of every digit. Is it bent so there is only knuckle shown or maybe it's fingernail. Because of how many things humans do with their hands context is so much more complicated at digit level. I mean you still see plenty misformed arms and legs to a lesser degree but similar reason.

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no0bslayer9 t1_j3pq3yl wrote

His eyes aren’t red enough, but other than that... spot on.

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3psf02 wrote

Replying to Doodlesworth (#1,321,381)

Kumquats are so expensive here. Really any citrus. I have a guy who sends me citrus from Florida. (My mom. The guy is my mom.) A transplant from New Jersey definitely has the money for kumquats

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3psorh wrote

Replying to walkstap (#1,321,482)

Im working on a series of these and I have the surely bearded man proudly holding a jar of microbrew. based on Avery, the co founder of Hermit Thrush. It's terrifying how accurate it is.

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3ptjlv wrote

Replying to dukeof3arl (#1,321,686)

Oh, no. He technically has a home. His parents are both doctors and strongly warned against moving here. They are terrified he's going to start getting involved in progressive politics. He's just roleplaying.

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3ptvho wrote

Replying to Soci3talCollaps3 (#1,322,188)

I seriously had this exact experience. A past partner took me on a camping trip for my birthday. We heard all this great stuff about Acadia and drove for two days to get there. We stopped to camp in the White mountains and then drive the rest of the way. We get there and it's just one giant tourist trap filled with KOAS. $60 for one night. We got angry, turned right back around, and spent the rest of the time in the White Mountains.

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Dead_Squirrel_6 t1_j3puovw wrote

Which AI did you use? This is probably the best and most accurate AI rendering that I've seen so far

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are_slash_wash t1_j3pybug wrote

Replying to yoyoguy2 (#1,321,546)

Programmer with a surface level knowledge of machine learning here, so I might not get this right.

On a super basic level, all Machine Learning models are trained to either recognize a thing or reproduce a thing using countless real-world examples of the thing you want it to do. In the case of something like DALL-E, you feed it a billion pictures of peoples' faces and it eventually connects the dots and figures out that "smiling face" = two dots with a triangle in between them, an upward facing curve, a couple of loops, some dark lines above the dots, etc. "Frowning face" is similar except the curve faces downward, etc.

Critically, the model doesn't actually "get" what it's looking at: it doesn't understand the significance of eyes or facial muscles or bone structure. It's simply taking an enormous data set and grouping traits that it sees in photographs with keywords that are associated with the training data. Then it mashes everything together into an image without any kind of greater thoughts about meaning.

So that's all well and good, but what does it have to do with hands? Well, most things in this photo are what I'd call a determinate shape.

In this case, OP might have used a query like "Hipster, man with stubble, dinosaur chicken farmer, David Foster Wallace lookalike, fall attire, Carhartts and flannel" et cetera. You give an AI a billion pictures of a chicken and they eventually all start to look the same, so you get an "average" (but completely unique) chicken picture. Same with a guy in flannel -- give an AI enough Macy's catalogs and it'll get the gist and give you guy with broad shoulders wearing a shirt that has a plaid pattern.

Hands, on the other hand, are indeterminate (sorta). If you look at a million different pictures of people they'll all be doing something different with their hands. Remember that the AI doesn't really know what it's trying to make: it doesn't know what bones or tendons are, and it doesn't understand their biological function or purpose. Nor does it care: it's taking a "monkey see, monkey do" approach to mimic a real photograph.

So when you tell it to draw someone with hands, it's drawing from billions of photographs of people and trying to distill the concepts that it remembers into a new picture. Some of those people will be waving, some will be holding a flowerpot, some will be playing the piano, some will be shaking their fists in the air, some will be miming finger guns or flipping off a former president. Some will even be shaking hands with another person or holding both hands together in prayer or something. But to the AI, it's all just noise without context. When it spits out a new image, it's doing so under the assumption that "picture is of person, person has hands, hands have seemingly random arrangement of long and short interlocking digits" and it gives you what it sees as an average hand. "average" in this case being a palm attached to two stumpy opposable toes.

Anyway that comment went a little long but I hope that it was informative. Hello from Oregon, love your state <3

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TimberOctopus t1_j3qeml9 wrote

Replying to Doodlesworth (#1,321,341)

Dude the first person this reminded me of is a dude I used tow work with who looks like a 5th generation VT farmer complete with flannel, tweed, livestock, and a sugaring/biochar/tree farm & who bleeds actual dirt.

Turns out he's actually from Connecticut. Been here less than 5 years and bought the farm w family money.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j3qffbj wrote

He looks like what other people think Vermonters look like I guess. I dont see many Vermonters who look like him personally, see lots of people who want to look like Vermonters who look like him but they always seem to be from somewhere else and just up to visit.

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whys0brave t1_j3qn4fr wrote

Love the double beanie and beautiful chicken. I think I know this guy.

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adb1146 t1_j3qo2gq wrote

Looks a little too tanned but perhaps it’s wind burn from the cold.

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Viper5639 t1_j3qujba wrote

This dude was not born and raised in Vermont lol

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Simple-Acanthaceae-4 t1_j3qxk6c wrote

I wouldn't say quintessential but, very common yes. Vermont is a pretty diverse place. We have a quantity of "take Vermont back" Trumpy woodchucks on one end and these guys on the other end (maybe) and everything in between including some pretty bizarre mixtures of the extremes.

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ZaraVT t1_j3qyrzk wrote

The plaid isn’t quite the right colors and those aren’t full blond dreads - but yes - pretty darn accurate

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MikeDPhilly t1_j3r57n1 wrote

That dude served me a Focal Banger at Doc Ponds last winter, after recommeding the goat cheese flatbread from the artisinal farm a town over.
I said that with love, folks.

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donkeyduplex t1_j3r6scg wrote

Yeah, I find it plausible that this guy makes artisanal soaps.

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Unfiltered_ID t1_j3ratrx wrote

It looks more like the west coaster who moved to Vermont!

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3rban9 wrote

Replying to ellusiveuser (#1,323,059)

Haha, I was joking around. Everyone always sings their praises.the only Carhartt thing I own is a jacket for my dog. ive saved up for a few good LL Bean pants for all my outdoor activities. Would you say Carhartt lasts longer or is it about the same?

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3rc5db wrote

Replying to likesflatsoda (#1,325,117)

Oh those guys are so cool!! I used to have a couple of bantam silkies and I loved them, but their eggs are tiny. They loved to sit on our laps though. They were so friendly. Thank you for this. I wonder if I can even find someone who breeds these around here. I guess that's always the option of ordering fertile eggs online.

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0thell0perrell0 t1_j3rkotp wrote

That is a very strange dude. Though I disagree that he is the quintessential vermonter at all (where's the camo? No beard?), I do thing he would probably end up living here. Or rural Oregon, looks like an Oregonoan to me.

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mossybishhh t1_j3rprn8 wrote

He's definitely not born here. Moved here three, four years ago for the breweries.

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petertheo89 t1_j3rt7v8 wrote

Show me on this doll where the flat landers hurt you!

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cpuenvy t1_j3s7cx2 wrote

I own a few shirts very similar to that one.

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Baldran t1_j3sc4ug wrote

Arthur “Two Hats” Jackson

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TillPsychological351 t1_j3sk426 wrote

I've only liver here for a little over 5 years, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone with beads in their hair.

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vtddy t1_j3sma4a wrote

The new vermonter maybe. Definitely not an original vermonter

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The_Barbelo OP t1_j3sqdoa wrote

Replying to likesflatsoda (#1,325,413)

Ah, one would have to build a big coop with heating lamps, or have a nice indoor area. Maybe. I know way more about duck rearing than chickens. They Malays sort of remind me of runner ducks.

You're awesome though, thank you!!!

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AllyEmmie t1_j3sv271 wrote

You didn’t do anything. The AI stole art off the internet and made this prompt that you typed in 👌

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Bloopereell t1_j3svq5b wrote

Am I the only one who thinks this looks like the YouTuber Cherdleys with some scruff?

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pointedflowers t1_j3t39nq wrote

Replying to are_slash_wash (#1,323,074)

I think the other piece of it is that we are so connected to how hands should look and move. So when they look off it’s immediately apparent. If you look closely at any part of this picture it’s definitely off. No plaid looks like that )but it should it looks great, that’s not what real knitting looks like, the buckles aren’t quite right, the strap kinda wraps behind the neck more than is natural, the hair, eyes chicken face are all a bit off. But hands being a little off appear super off and the uncanny valley of them is steep and wide, so not only is it worse at them but there’s an anthrocentric (if that’s a word) issue with them too. If some other creature looked at ai of itself it might notice something off being more disturbing that would pass unnoticed to us.

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mainething t1_j3ticfy wrote

Replying to The_Barbelo (#1,322,845)

I love the White Mountains too, But the clamming and seafood there ain't much. It's hard to compare destinations of 6000' difference in altitude. We don't go to Acadia from April to November, either.

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richardhk33 t1_j4fzkln wrote

I live in Burlington. I see that guy in the grocery and liquor store all the time. Sometimes at the cannabis dispensary, too.

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