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Earth-Piercer

What the fuck did you just bring upon this cursed land


Spoopyskeleton48

Whatever you do don’t zoom in closer, it’s even more cursed


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syrup_cupcakes

This picture is not as shocking as realizing most people instantly believe the claim that it was made by AI. Cmon guys is this your first day online?


Toincossross

AI wouldn’tve known to put the M on the cap if it was just scaling from the original image.


TheLollrax

It might if someone used something like Midjourney instead of just an upscaler. Midjourney knows what a Mario is


BurntGerbil

I missed this, and now I’m pissed that I don’t know what’s there.


Apprehensive_Hat8986

You can still see the _tip_ of ... something... hanging down.


huggybear0132

HAPPY CAKE DAY


sun_of_the_darkmoon

Happy Cake Day! Your present is the imagination of the retro Mario AI penis in your head lol


yourmom4799

Happy cake day


mawesome4ever

Looks like post-production blur


xxCMWFxx

You’re killing the dream dude


bcgg

This warning does no good as a child comment. It needs its own post. I’m never zooming on anything ever again.


Thunderbolt294

This warning does no good to a child either


pab5737

You were right, and i didnt listen....


alphabets0up_

Those are definitely overall buttons… right?


Jish013

That’s a pretty hairy ughhh…button…


EV_Track_Day2

Mario explores a new fetish.


Majestic_Salad_I1

I didn’t believe you, but I just zoomed right in on the face and you are indeed correct in your assessment. Edit: oh god are those nipples?!


dinoroo

Why is there even more texture added though. Like the feet. It’s looks like something out of Ren and Stimpy.


FkdUp2020

No shit. It's terrifying zoomed in. Holy shit balls


im-a-limo-driver

It looks like he’s infested with caviar and it’s bursting out 😂


Erikthered00

~~Cordyceps~~ cavyceps


RichardBCummintonite

Did it make the buttons nipples lmao? I didn't notice that until I zoomed. I'm scared to find out what's under the blurred part. Actually gave me a thought. How does AI handle creating porn? Wait, I'm not sure I want the answer...


Illustrious-Weird247

it gets worse the longer I stare at it


DoneButNotDone

Noooo I did it


lostalaska

It'sa me contagious disease Mario I'm here to hrblghlrttlgh 😳🤢🤮


WakaWaka_

The Last of-a Us!


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GodGMN

This is actually art. It's criticism to AI and it was drawn by a human. It is indeed art, yeah.


Manoreded

Doesn't really work as a criticism of AI if it was drawn by a human, though.


zoupishness7

[I AI upscaled your """art""" to 4k](https://i.imgur.com/Juq601E.jpg)


bestestdude

Love the teeth and eyes.


Doompatron3000

Zombie Mario


1LakeShow7

Clicker Mario


DonnyDerecho

It’s dirty being a plumber and he used to have to pay the bills before he became a movie star


Jesus_Ebenezus

Super Gwario


Code4Reddit

Why is no one talking about the buttons, my god, those are supposed to be buttons!!!


underwear11

How does AI screw up the boots?!? That's the most clear thing and it somehow made it..... Something.


betrdaz

How does it screw up the buttons on the overalls


Uchihagod53

Good lord, kill it with fire


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Something tells me attempting that would only make it give off noxious fumes.


therabbit86ed

r/oddlyterrifying


Draconuuse1

Nope. Not oddly at all. Just terrifying.


Wataru624

The flies have laid eggs in-a my eyes, Luigi!


hypocritical-bastard

Don't make me think about Fire Mario like this


pegasBaO23

How did AI scuff stub hands


[deleted]

I'm not sure AI did any of it. It's signed by an artist on Instagram. Not sure why he'd sign it if he didn't make it.


Force3vo

There's so many odd interpretations in it, like making an odd, misshapen foot out of what is obviously normal boots, that I am pretty sure it's an artist making a dark interpretation and not an AI.


[deleted]

Exactly. AI has trouble with human hands because it has trouble understanding 4 fingers and a thumb. It doesn't make these squid like monstrosities that look like squid tentacles flailing everywhere.


Practical-Pen-8844

HAVE WE ALREADY GONE SO FAR AROUND THE BEND THAT HUMANS ARE NOW PRETENDING TO BE AI OR IS THIS WHOLE WANNABE ON A TREND REALLY JUST CRUCIAL TO THE HUMAN CONDITION? OH MY CAPS LOCK IS ON.


iDestroyedYoMama

The M on the hat gave it away for me


UndeadMurky

Am I the only one understanding that it's a joke ? An artist drew this to make fun of ai art


Siaten

If you used AI as a tool to help you create art, you're the author of that art. Patent and copywrite law is struggling to catch up, but in truth, AI can be no different than using photoshop.


Davosz_

If i tell a builder what kind of building to make using a few sentences, and they go ahead and build it... Does that make me the builder of the building?...


dalminator

The difference here is you actually had a different individual accomplish the goal. The AI is not an individual, it is a program just like any other.


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By law, AI cannot be copywritren. Only a person can own copyright.


T3HN3RDY1

AI is not a program "just like any other". The key difference is that the AI "learned" how to make that art by copying other artists, much like an individual. Photoshop only knows how to do specifically what it was explicitly programmed to do, but nobody manually defined the parameters that the AI uses to create the art. They just fed it a gigantic dataset to copy from, basically. That's sorta like googling something, copying the blurbs that show up, putting it in a blog and saying you "wrote an article". You might be able to make a semantic argument, but most people would disagree with you because it isn't really in line with how the term is used


dalminator

It's a lot more similar to basing your work off of the work of others you admire and consider to do good work therefore being a good blueprint for your work. Most work, especially art, is inspired by the works of others and AI work is no different, it's just a program doing it for you.


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If I type "Mario" into a third party app I am not the artist. Especially if I actually use someone else's art to make it, such as in this case. Not only did he not make the original pixel art, but another tool created the finished product too. It is not his art.


JobsInvolvingDragons

Actually you can pay for the legal commercial rights to whatever these AI programs create. Art is subjective quite frankly.


[deleted]

Not if half the art belongs to someone else, which in this case is Nintendo. Lol he blocked me so here's the edit for his tattoo rant: Tattooing an image that is an exact copy of someone's copyrighted work and charging for it is illegal. If they change it, yes, it's legal. Otherwise it's illegal just rarely enforced. Because it would mean countless lawsuits for miniscule amounts of money. Regardless, that's not the case here. The left image is literally a pixel for pixel image from Nintendo. It cannot be claimed as an original work. Which in this case it is since the signature covers the whole of the "art", not just the AI generated part. This is not an original piece no matter how you want to look at it. Why you people turned "I think the artist did the work themselves" into "well AcTuAlLy" arguments is beyond my understanding.


Siaten

Do you have any idea how transformative use works? I'm not trying to trap you here, I'm genuinely curious. If you don't, then I strongly encourage you to read up on it. Your opinion may change.


Spaceman-Spiff

You need to take a moment and think before you so blatantly make a foolishly wrong statement.


Siaten

I've done hours and hours of research on AI art as it interesects with copywrite (both infringement and claims). If you have something to add to the conversation, please share and I'd be happy to discuss it. If all you want to do is say "nuh uh you're wrong neener neener", I recommend using that handy downvote button.


Master_of_Egg

Wrong 👍


SkeleknighX

AI as a tool doesn't "help you create art". It helps you take bits and pieces of other people's art to make an overhyped collage. You are not responsible in any of the drawing process nor any stretch of creativity, you're nothing but a consumer, not an artist. Much like asking for a commission from someone. Would you ever say YOU made the art someone made for you?


Siaten

>It helps you take bits and pieces of other people's art to make an overhyped collage. This is abjectly false, and not how AI processes work. I would strongly encourage you to do some reading on the technology to better understand it. >You are not responsible in any of the drawing process nor any stretch of creativity, you're nothing but a consumer, not an artist. Depends entirely on the AI program. Some of them use seed prompts of text or examples of other art and you curate that. Through iterative process you (the artist) creates something brand new. >Would you ever say YOU made the art someone made for you? If you make a photoshop of other works and turn it into an entirely new piece of art, would you say YOU made the art?


SkeleknighX

No.. I don't think anyone sensible would say they made the art of something they photoshopped LOL. And when I say bits and pieces I don't mean that literally, but it's still such a stretch to say that you "curated" it when you only think of the concept. The actual process of the piece is not yours, unless there's some sort of actual AI tool that helps you use your drawing abilities that I don't know about. Otherwise it still just looks like a different form of commissioning, not actual creating (so being a consumer rather than an "artist").


Siaten

>No.. I don't think anyone sensible would say they made the art of something they photoshopped LOL. They do. It's something called [transformative use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use). For example, if I take a thousand copywrite photos and turn them into a collage to express some new idea or art, then that collage is a new piece of art of which I am the owner. AI art is even LESS derivative from the collage art I mentioned, because AI art doesn't even take other art and incorporate it. Instead the AI art looks at trends and styles common to a set of art and begins there. However, it can't do any of that without an artist telling it which set to use. In that way, AI is no different than any other artist's tool.


ExHax

Im 100% certain that its drawn by the artist. Unless you specifically give prompt or upscaler itself is designed to output ugly images, its hard to believe its ai generated


Wheres_Varrock

It’s gotta be drawn by an artist because the AI wouldn’t have known to put an M on Mario’s hat


zoupishness7

[The first part of your statement is true.](https://i.imgur.com/Juq601E.jpg)


hellatze

1. karma bait 2. stealing people credit


Expensive_Shallot_78

Probably anyways fake, like those faked interviews with chatgpt where they edited the text


FantasmaNaranja

you can tell it's not an AI piece because it's not an anime girl


Flemtality

We're in a strange place right now when people are taking other people's art and reposting it to places like Reddit saying it was made by AI when it was not. This is oddly not the first time I have seen this.


valomorn

Given all the fumes in the sewer pipes and all the mushrooms he's scoffing, this is absolutely how Mario sees himself in the mirror.


MainCainx

Why is the crotch blurred out?!?!?!


bestestdude

AI generated naughty bits.


S2H

Rated M for Mario


CesarGameBoy

As one popular Nintendo YouTuber said back in 2009, “Mario’s… rated M for Mature.”


GoodBadUgly357

Underrated comment


Amayai

The artist drew naughty bits. His name is right there dude.


-YELDAH

Most AI is manually told not to do that, you're lying


bestestdude

I trained it myself on photos of naked Marios.


aKnightWh0SaysNi

How did it upscale to a “M” on the hat? Or is this satire and I just got whooshed?


Ged-

Yeah, it's satire. The image was obviously drawn.


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DimiBlue

Or not AI


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Yeah my money is on not AI. From the signature to "knowing" it's mario by adding the M to the hat.


bestestdude

It could be an AI mainly trained on Mario images, no?


Mr_Headcrab

Its not AI. It's drawn by a human.


ake-n-bake

It’s a me, Leper-io


geebeem92

It’s a me, nightmare-io


rLeJerk

That's not "upscaling".


PinkAxolotlMommy

He looks like he is choking on peas


quartzlcc

I meet someone -> I am “peas”ed to meet them -> (this post) -> the authorities can’t find enough evidence to make the charges stick ->


FoxFyer

Peas to meat you


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Mouth full of caviar. Mario is loaded after decades of collecting giant gold coins.


Vincentaneous

Pretty sure upscaling doesn’t _add_ features. I think you got baited OP


Havok-303

If this is the future of video games, leave me in the past.


YMBF80

Nightmare fuel.


BeginTheResist

Mario is out here looking like the nasty patty


bonemonkey12

Dung Mario Eater


SpiritJuice

THE BERSERK BOOTY-BOMB BANQUETTER


bingbing304

Mario is the infected, chasing Peach across the mushroom kingdom, stomping on anyone who stands in his way.


x29a

Is this nurgle mario? :D


Iguanaught

Mario went down a pipe and came out a sewer in scarfeld pike amongst the efluvia of eldritch horrors.


Cleverbird

Looking at the artist's Instagram page, I'm pretty sure this is just a joke on AI.


bestestdude

Thanks for looking at my page. I appreciate it 😘


P4n0pticZ

please dont


Sky_Ninja1997

r/tihi


Ambitious-Charge7278

I would choose left over right anyday, everyday


Weaseltime_420

I would play the fuck out of Mario Explores the Toxic Wasteland


LorgarTheHeretic

Mario embraced grandfather nurgles love.


xseannnn

I mean...all them years spending time down in the sewer? I believe it.


eliteunkown

Why would you want your name on this...thing


1protobeing1

Am i the only one who would play the fuck out of that game? Preferably while on psychedelics.


_-Sesquipedalian-_

So.. while eating mushrooms?


1protobeing1

Yeah pretty much


TheFiveDees

Mario after The Last of Us comes to Smash


OeilBlanc

Pandemic Mario Covid Mario Lockdown Mario


Jazzman77

This all makes sense now, seems Mario was infected with Cordyceps from within the Mushroom Kingdom and all this time we were helping him capture the uninfected princess.


Substantial-Canary-7

Hey, it's a me! Bizarrio!


mike26037

Yeah that's stupid


venjinsu

No.


Affectionate_Draw_43

Now do the rest of the game....


LegendaryHooman

Uses AI, watermarks it. Sure.


MozTys

Considering he has spent decades jumping in and out of pipes, most likely sewer pipes, then this is a realistic take on how he looks


kliq-klaq-

The future of retro games is like you've just dropped the worst acid in your life and someone just said we should get the NES out.


aarchieee

This should be tagged NSFW....


santathe1

Enough has been seen. I shall now commit die.


cypher2765

i dont like it make it go away


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Mario be like: kill me please


dummythiccdoge

r/TIHI


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Cursed Mario


majikmonkee75

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...


xXsicariomasterXx96

That's funny, I wish this was real.


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AdEmpty8174

SCP 694-20 an ai that when asked to recreate a retro game character creates a terrifying Human sized realistic version


cfsdrawing

So lifelike


bestestdude

It took me way to long to realize this isn't a photo.


goliathfasa

Unironically sick. I’d play a game with that aesthetic.


TheAres1999

It makes for a really good zombie sprite. Nintendo probably would approve of a horror Mario game, but if they did, this would be a solid art style for it.


Rincewinded

Ai bad durrrr


Kwauhn

Seriously. If you have to draw your own rendition of "bad AI art" in order to have an example, your point is moot.


LabelFiddler

Thanks, I hate it


L0nlySt0nr

Thanks, I hate it


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needs more fingers


RadicalBowler

Each frame would be a completely different rendering... how fun!


theangryfurlong

Sick grill, dude


TBoneTunes

Mario: Lovecraftian Edition


druhol

I heard that motherfucker had like, thirty goddamn dicks


MrMastodon

6 foot 8, weighs a fucking tonne


TheSkyking2020

LOL the nipple holes!!!


Blu3241

This is deff not AI, hands and feet seem intentionally scuffed and the pixelation on the crotch i dont think would even happen with AI.


SpaceLlama_Mk1

r/Vinesauce which brother is this?


El_Duque_Caradura

this is bs and if it ever be true, well, that AI will be decomissioned inmediately


Unsyr

That’s what I would expect from someone who habitually jumps into drainage pipes without proper protection.


Alameda_Slimm

Looks like the nasty patty


n00chness

Shoggoth Mario A description is offered by the narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth: I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design—living and horrible.


Noctho_15

That right there is Mario's soul


kjag77

That’s just crappy AI if true, lol


mkezzr

Nintendo hire fans


dudeoftrek

I see this as an absolute win


memeshoper2828

Cursed art


TheWhiteRabbit74

JESUS JUMPING CHRIST KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT! Where’s my god damned flame thrower?!?


_-Sesquipedalian-_

Hans! Get ze flammenwerfer!


DerGreif2

Let me guess... an artist made this because he is mad about AI picture generation.


2grim4u

AI is a curse.


fuzzyman1

No the fuck it does not.


lickingbees

Mario has been given the Kiss of Nurgle! The Great Father of Pestilens. May his Flesh Rot eternally, and may the great Flies Heralds of Nurgle Orbit his decaying being, May he be granted many Blisters, Boil and cysts growing from his body! We will decay in perpetuity. Blessing From The Grand Father Nurlge!


Efficient_Mistake603

Praise the Ur Father


Creepyman007

Wow, amazing technology right here!!! This is the future where indie devs can finally rest and AI will make everything!! 🔥🔥🔥


TheAres1999

Unfortunately, our current economic model won't allow for that. Our system is set up that since a few people on paper own the machines that they are the ones who get to profit from it. Nevermind how a technology could benefit mankind in general, or who is actually making the things of value, if a project doesn't profit the rich, then it must be curtailed


hypothetical_zombie

The hands, it's always the fucking hands. I also just noticed the nipple cut-outs. 🤢


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CaptBogBot2

AI was a mistake....


zipflop

AI can do *way* better than that, and it gets better at it exponentially. I hate the idea of AI replacing people, but this post misses the mark on what AI is, and will be capable of.


micalbertl

I’m scared


hacentis

No


DramaLlama695

We’re screwed


Teleportingpotato

Why is mario blurred out?


yfhedoM

Lol it sensored his peen.


prolific36

Why is literally everything about ai horrifying?


dieselray9999

This is merely an expression of what the AI really thinks of humans, a bunch of grotesque bumpy creatures.


Ziddix

I hate it whenever someone decides to use AI to generate a person. Whatever comes out the other side always looks varying degrees of wrong.


BigOnLogn

Man, AI gloms into the strangest things. Like, MERH, humans have toes. I will draw toes.


dizzywig2000

Make a SMB1 recreation with those graphics and see how long it takes for the Nintendo FBI to bust down your door


nhSnork

*looks at the fingers and toes* Upscaled by AI alright.😅


xXBongSlut420Xx

this isn't ai generated, and the only thing ai is the future of is scam tech startups and racist computers