While the original certainly has an actual style, i have to say that I have no fucking clue what I'm looking at with the trump face
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looks like he's trying to make plane noises
They exaggerated Trump's characteristic pucker
An ugly as hell style (IMO), but a style nonetheless. The AI feels like a fastfood drawing.
WTF is happening to his face in the original?
Pucker. Exaggerated.
I think he's making airplane noises — maybe the artist wanted to show him as utterly oblivious, and enjoying being a plane
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Im so confused about people saying they prefer the ai one. Just to double triple check that were all on the same page here, the ai one is the bottom one, right??
I think the bottom one is extremely boring and the top one looks sick af.
The AI one is generic and easier to read. Some people like that 🤷♂️
I'm with you. The top one is a unique style, while the bottom one is about as generic as it gets, not to mention it has that damn yellowed background AI always uses for comics.
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If the person holding Trump was a caricature of an Israeli many would have lost their minds and called it antisemitic. But when it is an Arab no one cares about antisemitism anymore.
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Might be an unpopular opinion but honestly the ai one isnt even that bad
- It's a knock-off copy of an original idea
- The copy missed an important detail, clearly intended by the original artist: Trump's face. In the original artwork Trump is pictured as oblivious to the situation, making the plane noises, acting childish. In the statistical engine generated image, no such emotion is depicted.
- A few important details, actually. In the original the Qatari is looking straight at the "camera", in a kind of "see this?" way.
- Sloppy gen artifacts everywhere
The Qatari looks dead and lifeless, staring into the distance in the AI one.
The real one he looks quite sinister, like he’s pulling the strings and he knows it. Part of that is, as you mentioned, his look into the camera, and another part is the lighting the artist chose, which is entirely absent in the AI image.
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I think I prefer the AI one just because I don't understand what they are going for with Trump's face in the original. I assume he's supposed to look like something specific that I'm not understanding.
I think he's supposed to be making vroom noises
Looks like his face was run over by a truck. I can't make out a face at all in the original.
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As an artist myself, I agree.
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Interesting. AI cannot make proper caricatures of people's faces apparently.
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I'm seeing this shitty AI style with the thick lines everywhere. It triggers a deep rage in my lizard brain like Corporate Memphis does but it's much worse
Is it that hard to criticize Arab leaders for their politics without being racist about it?
How is the depiction racist? Th entire purpose is to represent a country/culture... If you think that basal appearances are being racist when it's literally a charicature, you're still too stuck in the land of Political Correctness. Stop being a PC thinker.
In fact, I think it's depicting specifically Saudi royalty, who often show up in public wearing traditional garb, exactly as depicted. So... the comic being accurate makes you call it ... racist? Learn some damn media literacy before it's too late...
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Pretty sure his face is supposed to look like a bottle opener. It looked weird small on my phone but zooming in I think it's clear. The intent is to parallel the phrase "opening up the Middle East to America" while turning the roles on their heads, he is opening America to the Middle East.
This is an extremely simple use of visual metaphor and the AI predictably flunks hard by excreting something which pleases aesthetically but is spiritually and artistically barren.
Hm neither one looks particularly like Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and the headdress style is Saudi Arabian in both.
Cheap lazy co-opting fucks.
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