r/hatethissmug • • 15h ago

Art & Fanworks I hate AI generated thumbnails

I love levy's videos but I don't like how his thumbnails are mostly AI nowadays

Worst part about it is that people will deny it, every single time anyone says his thumbnails are AI they get hundreds of downvotes despite

  1. Nonsense text, like in the second and third photo of this post

  2. Horrifying creatures, like in the 4th picture where you can see some sort of deformed man with glasses that have no legs

  3. Inconsistencies like in the aot thumbnail

And finally, 4. The fact that some of these thumbnails have a SynthID watermark, an invisible watermark both OpenAI and Gemini recently apply to their images

I'm sure a lot of effort still goes into making these since there are barely any mistakes, what I believe happens is that levy or his team make a simple thumbnail that is then edited with AI, this minimizes the amount of mistakes AI can make

But I would rather having a simple human-made thumbnail than an "epic" AI one

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u/Warm_Web3768 14h ago

Usually I'd agree, but levy's ones are iconic. I mean you gotta give him credit for making amazing thumbnails for a "boring" game

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u/SkilledChestnut 14h ago

No. Fuck ai

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u/Warm_Web3768 14h ago

I agree for media that was made to decieve or lie or even just normal pictures, but Levy uses really obvious over-the-top thumbnails that aren't hiding the fact they're ai