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Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

56 points · 33 comments · peter_d_sherman

krapp · 1790736562 · focus · HN ↗
Oh shit, actual human talent!
1. raldi · 1790738709 · focus · HN ↗
  These are the original illustrations with just the text changed.
  1. krapp · 1790738910 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes and nowadays no one would even bother put in that much effort. They would have an AI generate the box art and the jokes. The jokes wouldn't even be funny, but no one would care because "human jokes aren't usually funny."
    Lerc · 1790745365 · focus · HN ↗
    It depends on what the joke is. I can see people making an image for a joke that they already have in their head. Or they can AI generate an image and think up with a caption to make whatever it generated is funny (partially clips does exactly this with clipart). Sometimes it can be completely AI generated because the humour comes from seeing how the model misconstrued what it was supposed to do. A lot of these require humans to do the work of curation.
    I'd be kind of tempted to give these box art images to an AI and ask it to make the game. I suspect there would be much amusement to be had in seeing how they do at a cursed task like that.

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