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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: willowstreetguzziguy on January 24, 2026, 09:02:07 AM
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I was playing around with ChatGPT AI and asked it to create a “really funny cartoon” of me and my Guzzi 1200 Sport. I’m a graphic designer/artist and it is amazing how AI can create these hilarious cartoons from 2 photos in a matter of three minutes each. I love how it created the face on my 1200 Sport and the deer in the background!
How about posting your AI generated cartoons with your Moto Guzzi? (remember to say “really funny “if you wanna have a good hard laugh!)
(https://i.ibb.co/N2MzwP0P/IMG-6675.png) (https://ibb.co/N2MzwP0P)
(https://i.ibb.co/20CDrhXg/IMG-6678.png) (https://ibb.co/20CDrhXg)
This could keep us laughing for a long long time!
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There used to be a Guzzi cartoonist in EU that made plenty.
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I always liked the "Joe Bar Team Moto Guzzi" figurines sold on eBay.... :thumb: :boozing:
(https://i.ibb.co/1YQ3Y8Qs/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-8-57-13-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/1YQ3Y8Qs)
(https://i.ibb.co/7xSbHsG0/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-8-56-25-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/7xSbHsG0)
(https://i.ibb.co/QFWQDYFg/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-8-56-00-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/QFWQDYFg)
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Biting my tongue.
…Aw, screw it.
I’m an illustrator, and AI-generated art sucks.
For multiple reasons.
Ripping directly off artists, taking away lots of jobs, and ethics concerning the humanities, culture, and the arts being steered by AI are just a few.
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It will be funny to see other Guzzi models translated as AI generated cartoons! Let’s hope we get some hilarious ones here…
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Grabbed this from somewhere can't remember where
(https://i.ibb.co/4n4rQnm6/Guzzi-BMWcartoon.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4n4rQnm6)
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The AI cartoons are definitely not hilarious.
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I was playing around with ChatGPT AI and asked it to create a “really funny cartoon” of me and my Guzzi 1200 Sport. I’m a graphic designer/artist and it is amazing how AI can create these hilarious cartoons from 2 photos in a matter of three minutes each. I love how it created the face on my 1200 Sport and the deer in the background!
How about posting your AI generated cartoons with your Moto Guzzi? (remember to say “really funny “if you wanna have a good hard laugh!)
(https://i.ibb.co/N2MzwP0P/IMG-6675.png) (https://ibb.co/N2MzwP0P)
(https://i.ibb.co/20CDrhXg/IMG-6678.png) (https://ibb.co/20CDrhXg)
This could keep us laughing for a long long time!
Cute!
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Biting my tongue.
…Aw, screw it.
I’m an illustrator, and AI-generated art sucks.
For multiple reasons.
Ripping directly off artists, taking away lots of jobs, and ethics concerning the humanities, culture, and the arts being steered by AI are just a few.
I’m 150% with Dirk- AI & computer-generated/produced artwork SUCKS..
Each is entitled to his/her own opinion. But when AI (whatever-you-do-for-living) becomes the cheap easy alternative solution to your expertise, I bet you’ll start seeing things like we do.
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I have a friend with an entire career dedicated to retouching, color correction, prepress, etc. Fortune 50 level work over 40 years…he finalized the work I photographed in studio
His contemporary work into AI blows me away with the level of detail necessary. I’ve hung up my cameras, so to speak
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GUVbAF2bf/?mibextid=wwXIfr
See his reels (entirely created AI) especially the Marilyn Monroe smoking a cigar…or Mmmmm Chanel #5…he’s currently doing an entire line of pin ups that I can’t post here but I’m sure will appeal to the older curmudgeons here….not safe for work
(https://i.ibb.co/vCnFL3LD/IMG-3394.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vCnFL3LD)
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GUVbAF2bf/?mibextid=wwXIfr
And your favorite elixir for a snow day
(https://i.ibb.co/hSz0Vnw/IMG-3396.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hSz0Vnw)
I remember how photographers poo pooed digital cameras. Now you wouldn’t dare use film for commercial purposes
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Biting my tongue.
…Aw, screw it.
I’m an illustrator, and AI-generated art sucks.
For multiple reasons.
Ripping directly off artists, taking away lots of jobs, and ethics concerning the humanities, culture, and the arts being steered by AI are just a few.
Images will still be made by artists, regardless of the materials used. I remember the same critique of Photoshop when it came out…”not real anymore..”
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15 mins tops, including downloaded Chatgpt, registered, created
(https://i.ibb.co/FbCk63bR/456-B972-E-07-EB-417-F-A584-4-EC240132442.png) (https://ibb.co/FbCk63bR)
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I have a friend with an entire career dedicated to retouching, color correction, prepress, etc. Fortune 50 level work over 40 years…he finalized the work I photographed in studio
His contemporary work into AI blows me away with the level of detail necessary. I’ve hung up my cameras, so to speak
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GUVbAF2bf/?mibextid=wwXIfr
See his reels (entirely created AI) especially the Marilyn Monroe smoking a cigar…or Mmmmm Chanel #5…he’s currently doing an entire line of pin ups that I can’t post here but I’m sure will appeal to the older curmudgeons here….not safe for work
Peter,
Thanks for that Facebook link to Rey Michaud. Interesting and easy on the eyes (but no MC content). The link to his AI stuff is at: https://displate.com/artist/Tgraphix?art=6931a0dd3c4a9
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Images will still be made by artists, regardless of the materials used. I remember the same critique of Photoshop when it came out…”not real anymore..”
That’s a very common argument for pro-AI. But it’s in error because it’s not linear with regard to skill and activity.
Digital art sped things up, allowing for undoing processes, layering, etc. But it also carried with it difference in style. One can often (not always) tell if something is digital or traditional, and that largely carried the market trend. To this day, traditional artists still exist amongst digital artists. Shoot, I do both digital and traditional work.
But, the artist still needed to know how to draw, lay out, understand color theory, what makes good design, etc., through years of practice and concentrated study. The talent was earned by curiosity, study, and practice, no matter which direction in style or concept they chose to go. All deliberate, individual choices.
Now, you just type a few words, input a few pieces that already exist—all very abstract stuff—and the tech chips do all the hours of effort in the blink of an eye. There’s a lot of pride in those hours and days, even. It’s a development in genius. Now, we artists—commercial, especially—are stood side-by-side next to the tech chips that take all that pride and work, toss it in the ashcan, and within minutes gives a bunch of choices. It literally takes hundreds of thousands of pieces of art, and without any sense of soul or appreciation for the craft, looks to the viewer and says “I bet you’ll like this.” Probably all the great artists you’ve ever heard of are rolling in their graves. And it’s going to stymie creativity—how much, who knows—because it feeds off the past, but doesn’t look ahead.
My freelance work has taken a toll, and my anxieties and doubts of being able to work as an illustrator to retirement is hitting the roof. Not because of any lack of skill or even style. It’s taken a toll because the general population and many companies don’t care who or what made the art, they just want the art. And art directors are now—sometimes with their hands tied by higher-ups—taking existing art and churning it through AI generation software to come up with stuff on the dirt cheap. In a sped up world of gimme gimme gimmes. And capitalism always thrives off competition, so what happens when your competitor makes quality stuff at breakneck speed at dirt cheap prices? You’re either so immensely good that you can continue on, or you dissolve, or you become boutique and rely on the hopes of customers aligning with you.
So, if you’re the type who has found themselves saying “people need to slow down and appreciate the world” but are using AI, the hypocrisy is huge.
And let’s not look over the insane amount of energy resources (clean water, anyone?) that’s going to be diverted or need to be created to actually turn a profit for these companies and appease the masses—which the AI companies are already planning.
I’m a fan of creative humans. We made art cool, from the cave walls to everything you see before auto-generated muck. The evolution of art—commercial, personal, commissioned—through the millennia is beautiful. Heck, I even appreciate magazine design, packaging. Through the course of ages, we directed our aesthetics through creative effort. AI is simply taking all those years of physical and brain power, churning it up to appease the lust. What happens when you keep feeding something copious amounts of slop? Well, there have been studies—and editorial cartoons made by humans—about that.
Let AI take care of the grunt work of life and help cure cancer and figure out better transportation infrastructure. But the aesthetic stuff?
Why would anyone want to read a novel that wasn’t actually written by a human?
When humans no longer need to think…we’re moving toward it.
For the sake of the forum, I’ll avoid commenting more. Back to motorcycles for me.
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