REI tells people to Opt Outside, posts AI bike from nowhere on Earth
REI, the company that tells people to “Opt Outside,” apparently opted out of looking at the AI bicycle before posting it.
PetaPixel reports that REI shared an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel bike using an AI-generated image that immediately failed the “has anyone here ever seen a bicycle?” test. The bike had drop handlebars protruding from behind the seat, both disc brakes and rim brakes, and a human figure with the usual AI-body horror bonus features.
The image of the bike shows drop handlebars coming out of the back of the seat, an extremely strange place to put them. The AI bicycle also has disc brakes and rim brakes — extra stopping power.
“Where can I get a seat like that? Too many bike seats don’t have brake levers on them,” jokes @ameenbel on Threads.
“The good news is that bicycles continue to completely defeat AI,” adds thefoxtooth on Threads. “I have never seen AI make a believable bicycle.”
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AI can fake a mountain sunset, invent a backpack, and generate a smiling hiker with 17 fingers. But ask it for a working bicycle and it starts bolting brake levers to the butt zone.
"you want reality? that'll cost ya! people, props, photographers ...all want a slice. and b'sides already paid fees for bigass 'a.i.' image generator license for this quarter, so [shrug]"
("cheating, it's not just quicker, it's cheaper!" --bigassA.I.) =sigh=
AI apparently likes reallly slack headtube angles. Also I’m a little bummed that those large thighs are apparently artificial as well.