Anyone who complains about how AI renders fingers ought to remember how things used to be. (h/t PJ)
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
Anyone who complains about how AI renders fingers ought to remember how things used to be. (h/t PJ)
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
Uncanny anatomy … just seems weirdly off to me.
The first lie is the guy on the cover.
For the love of Pete, finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. This guy is going to shoot himself in the head!
You’re sure this isn’t AI? The way some AI image generators work these days, certain settings can make them produce humanoid models that look just as rendered as the plastic-fleshed dolls of those old pseudo-human generation programs. Also, for all their faults, those old programs typically did render their models’ fingers in a proper position for whatever they were supposed to be doing (albeit still looking like somebody’s doll or action figure being posed rather than anything like actual human beings).
This book was published in 2011, so I’m pretty confident that A.I. wasn’t the culprit.
So you’re certain it was published with this cover? This could be one of those many “new covers for old” we’ve both seen crop up from time to time that make things worse. I could definitely see this being an AI “remake” of something the author originally rendered with one of those old pseudo-human generators (especially since he’s clearly not a good judge of what constitutes a good image for a cover).
(I say this in part because I notice the sequel‘s cover has a picture of what’s probably supposed to be this same character holding a gun properly, albeit in his left hand. I figure maybe the author thought a new AI-generated cover would look cooler and boost his sales just because it was rendered by this newfangled technology that’s got a lot of people flapping their gums these days, and didn’t think to check whether the engine he used had actually done a decent job with the rendering. Seriously, those mangled and misshapen fingers look exactly like something an AI image generator would do.)
I just did a search solely for the years 2010 to 2015, and this is the same cover that shows up every time. (Making me work to back up my bald assertions? HOW DARE YOU.)