The Onion @midwest.social Tattletale Times @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Teenage Boy Announces He Will Step Down from Chore Duties, Younger Sister Takes the Reins

In an unprecedented move, 13-year-old Brandon “Tired Bones” Hayden announced yesterday that he will be stepping down from his longstanding position as Commander and Chief of Chores. Citing reasons of fatigue, mental decline, and bad golf scores. Brandon does not have the power to appoint his successor but since he only has one sibling, his 10 year old sister Carmella is the only logical choice given such short notice.

The decision came after months of speculation and whispers around the dinner table about Brandon’s ability to maintain the rigorous standards of chore duty established during his tenure. Neighbors and family members alike have noted his frequent confusion, increase in naps and tendency to stare blankly at the wall.

Carmella, who has been serving as the backup chores officer, expressed her readiness to take on the new role. “I’ve been in training for years,” she said “I know I have some orthopedic shoes to fill, but I’m confident I can make our household clean again.”

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Is that an AI image?
- Yep. Look at the hands
  
  They all just have this weird quality to them beyond the hand thing that I can't describe. It looks okay to some extent, but something is always off-putting about them right at first glance.
- The skin on them looks a little glossy. There are thousands of little imperfections on the skin that capture light and don't give people such a glow. Rendering something like that is probably outside the capabilities of AI for the time being and can be a giveaway depending on the kind of picture.
Can't respect any site that uses AI to generate thumbnail images
- Eh, does not bother me one bit.
It’s odd that the Biden-Harris sign on the fridge (besides being outdated) is so sharply in focus compared to other things at that distance.
- I think it’s edited on to the AI image after generation.
  
  Whoever did it is absolutely terrible or simply careless. I’m lousy at Photoshop, but even I know how to blur something so it matches the sharpness of objects around it.
- Maybe they manually edited that in. I doubt that image generators would already have those in their training material and also would randomly add those to images.
Thought this was the Babylon Bee at first.
- it is in that style for sure. It's the first political article I wrote for the site so I'm interested to see how it goes!
That's pretty funny, though. Made me chuckle.

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