I see the word “araffe” pop up a lot when it comes to AI image generation or AI generated image descriptions. What is the context, where does it come from?

  • @sramder
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    37 months ago

    I do appreciate the flaming pope… but having lived in English speaking country my whole life I’m skeptical because I’ve never heard anyone talking about araffe.

    Also, none of my spell-checkers have ever heard of it…

    Not wanting to contribute nothing with this comment I punched “araffe” into my magic noise genie and it spat out 20 sad giraffes in a row.

    So my theory is generation loss: once long ago someone misspelled giraffe and Ai artists have copied each others prompts enough times that it’s now a thing…

    • @VubDapple
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      37 months ago

      I also had never heard the word prior to the gen-ai craze. Perhaps it is a hallucination of the machine?

      • @sramder
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        37 months ago

        It’s eating my brain! It feels like a proper mystery but is probably fairly mundane.

        The page you found indicates some wider level of awareness… at the very least it’s an attempt at SEO, maybe just a harmless joke, a honeypot created by someone with the same unanswered question. I should probably go take someones medication ;-)