Hilarious AI Moto Guzzi Cartoons

[willowstreetguzziguy]

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!)



This could keep us laughing for a long long time!

[guzzisteve]

There used to be a Guzzi cartoonist in EU that made plenty.

[JJ]

I always liked the "Joe Bar Team Moto Guzzi" figurines sold on eBay....

[Dirk_S]

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.

[willowstreetguzziguy]

It will be funny to see other Guzzi models translated as AI generated cartoons! Let’s hope we get some hilarious ones here…

[snobear]

Grabbed this from somewhere can't remember where

[bad Chad]

The AI cartoons are definitely not hilarious.

[SIR REAL ED]

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!)



This could keep us laughing for a long long time!

Cute!

[cliffrod]

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.

[chuck peterson]

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://www.facebook.com/share/1GUVbAF2bf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

And your favorite elixir for a snow day





I remember how photographers poo pooed digital cameras. Now you wouldn’t dare use film for commercial purposes

[chuck peterson]

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..”

[chuck peterson]

15 mins tops, including downloaded Chatgpt, registered, created

[sign216]

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

[Dirk_S]

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. It’s a development of genius. That this genius can make us money? What a high. 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 overlook 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.

\end rant

[bad Chad]

I completely agree with Dirk.

[johnwesley]

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!)



This could keep us laughing for a long long time!

We put the same prompt in so we get a very similar output

 

I took this phot and changed up the prompts to seek a certain look still has the cartoon face as was the style that was promoted.

[Moparnut72]

I think this subject also relates to Guzzi community. We like our brand because it has a more personal link to its riders and its bikes are largely hand built. I hope with the new factory coming on line I hope this isn't lost with maybe a Piaggio push to produce more in a given time frame. I know we all enjoy being a part of a somewhat exclusive community I know I do.
kk

[willowstreetguzziguy]

The V85 TT!

[TN Mark]

For most jobs today, if you don’t learn to master AI, Ai will quickly master you.
Especially if you’re in a ‘creative’ type of job. A laborer job? A humanoid robot will replace you within a few years.

As has been shown above, the more creative the person is that directs AI, the better AI result.

I use Grok AI for a couple of things on more or less a weekly basis. Mainly for research that would take me longer than I have time for. I’ve been quite pleased with the results.

[Skysailor64]

"We put the same prompt in so we get a very similar output"

 That kid on the bicycle has three arms and his hands are really messed up!!  Ha ha

[johnwesley]

"We put the same prompt in so we get a very similar output"

 That kid on the bicycle has three arms and his hands are really messed up!!  Ha ha

Look closer and you will see I have a third hand. Look at the handlebar. I took it into photo shop and cleaned it up after posting. If you take the same idea to Gemini you get a more accurate rendition but not so funny.

[TN Mark]

"We put the same prompt in so we get a very similar output"

 That kid on the bicycle has three arms and his hands are really messed up!!  Ha ha

The old adage: garbage in, garbage out.

[bad Chad]

I don't get it?  It's apparently so easy to do, it seems pointless to me.   

It's like Star Treks food replicator, I'd still rather make it myself, or have someone make it.  Life has become disconnected enough, without asking for it.

[johnwesley]

It’s all a matter of perspective.

We all take shortcuts every day. We eat out, grab cereal instead of cooking, and come to forums like this one instead of learning everything the hard way through trial and failure. That’s a shortcut too—and most of us are grateful for it.

AI is no different. It’s just another tool.

Building an old Guzzi instead of buying a new bike is harder, slower, and less efficient—but many of us do it anyway because the process has value. The knowledge, the mistakes, the satisfaction of doing it ourselves. That’s time well spent for us.

For other things, efficiency makes sense. There’s enough genuinely hard stuff in life without intentionally making everything harder just to prove a point. The key isn’t avoiding shortcuts—it’s deciding what’s worth your time and effort and what isn’t.

Use the hard road when it matters. Use the tools when they make sense. That balance is different for everyone.

[bad Chad]

I understand what you're saying, and you're right, it's perspective.   But I disagree about it being "just another tool".  No other tool in history has the kind of potential of AI.       

If you cat's dig it, knock your selfs out.   I'm not a fan.  Shrug.

[TN Mark]

It’s all a matter of perspective.

We all take shortcuts every day. We eat out, grab cereal instead of cooking, and come to forums like this one instead of learning everything the hard way through trial and failure. That’s a shortcut too—and most of us are grateful for it.

AI is no different. It’s just another tool.

Building an old Guzzi instead of buying a new bike is harder, slower, and less efficient—but many of us do it anyway because the process has value. The knowledge, the mistakes, the satisfaction of doing it ourselves. That’s time well spent for us.

For other things, efficiency makes sense. There’s enough genuinely hard stuff in life without intentionally making everything harder just to prove a point. The key isn’t avoiding shortcuts—it’s deciding what’s worth your time and effort and what isn’t.

Use the hard road when it matters. Use the tools when they make sense. That balance is different for everyone.

Very well said, thank you sir.

It's been a long day with knee replacement PT and then taking the dog to the vet. So, yea, maybe I'll grab a bowl of cereal for dinner.
I'll be in the office a bit later tonight.

[Huzo]

It will be funny to see other Guzzi models translated as AI generated cartoons! Let’s hope we get some hilarious ones here…

Keep waiting, we will eventually.

[Matteo]

[Toecutter]

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..”

"having an idea" and having something else create it for you by scraping data and regurgitating slop isn't "art".