Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel
Aug 6, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates
Best thing is, they introduced some settings to turn that auto-conversion off and they don’t work 🤣 can’t make that stuff up.
I mean, I know of a Microsoft product that allows for a batch import of data provided in an Excel file. You need to use their template file. Which, when used, automatically formats all dates the American way, ignoring your locale settings. Depending on which date is first encountered on import (e.g. which date you entered in the first line) then designates whether the whole file is imported with dates read as MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY.
You start your list on January 1st? It will import everything as MM/DD/YYYY then. You start you list on e.g. January 22nd? DD/MM/YYYY it is then. Good luck getting that import running without errors…
MM/DD/YYYY
DD/MM/YYYY
Both of these are the wrong way to format dates.
Nothing works in Excel. Excel will do what it wants.
But that doesn’t stop the MS support and a thousand stupid people from claiming “oh, you just have to format it as text, are you dumb or what”…
Not OP, but let’s make this better:
PS: i doubt anyone here would honestly say “damn, that’s beyond my skill”, which goes to show that “not everyone can draw” is a bullshit argument for using AI to make comics
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Last panel has strong Carl vibes
The glass is floating in the air. The excel character says something without a speaking bubble. Looks kinda souless.
Probably just AI slop.
I’ve been exposed! 🤖
“Please put your pants back on robot sir.” 🙊
I promise this is relevant and I am not a bot or rickroll
Clippie: it appears that your trying to something or another blah blah blah jackidy shmackidy.
I’ll learn blender just to make this a scene. BRB 1 weened
This is so much better. Thank you for spending the roughly 5 minutes to make this that OP should have spent instead of barfing out some soulless junk.
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How could you tell that was AI? I honestly just thought that was a drawing
There’s quite a discussion about that further elsewhere in this thread. To me, the combination of vector-like thick lines with that background color, the characters having such mute expressions and there not being one actual optimist.
Others also pointed to the “weirdness” that is the lines of the characters’ arms becoming part of the table, which I didn’t notice at first.
Perhaps more importantly, it does not look like the “author” has “zero drawing skill”, but actually knows how to make vector art, even if relatively simple. That makes the problems more glaring
January second for the Yanks.
What, Medium/Small/Large order seems off to you??
You’re assuming that I’m not a Yank? Let me tell you, I can Yank with the best of them, and I do!
I usually do mine solitarily.
Usually.
Sounds like you’re walking a metaphorical minefield
Occasionally, he does mine with others.
Look bud, you can’t call it “February second” in conversation, write it down as “Second February” in writing, and then get mad at us Yanks about it. Pick a lane.
No, you misunderstand. I’m in America. But ISO 8601 standard 4 Life!
12/31/9999
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Oh, so THAT’S why they brought Excel into this! I didn’t make the connection and just thought Excel would even consider a glass of water a date.
Honestly, for a community (lemmy) that wanted to get away from corporate stuff (reddit) it pains me to see how even the most basic thing to draw is being delegated to Ai (corporations).
I’ve come to the conclusion in the last couple weeks I simply can’t identify AI images anymore. I have no clue what about this makes everyone call it out as AI, and there’s have been many such instances of this happening with me lately. I’m going to get modern day Nigerian princed when I’m older I can feel it in my bones
The reason this one is blatant AI is that the imagery doesn’t make any sense. Why is the glass of water itself the optimist?
I fed it into ChatGPT, highlighted the errors, and told it what I wanted to be different.
Still looks kinda soulless.
I asked AI to add soul, but it said it was a thing weak, insecure people believe in when they can’t accept the inevitiblity of their death and the meaninglessness of their lives.
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Excuse me. Who are you to talk down to a glass of water like that. Can’t you just mind your own business and let the glass be optimistic.
Same here. I did not think twice about this picture or a few other posts in the past and yet there are pitchforks in the comments and I think to myself “What are you all on about?”. I rue how unrecognizable AI “slop” has gotten.
A year ago ai couldn’t even make any sort of recognisable text, now it can do it flawlessly
How do you know this is AI ?
Because the glass is the one saying “the glass is half full”
Left person also missing an arm. The shapes seem too perfect, like too circular, distance between them too. Their arms also ho into the line, which is a table?
It’s all just so odd.
Not all AI is from corporates
thing to draw is being delegated to Ai (corporations).
But, not all AI is corporate run, there’s plenty of AI models to choose from that are open source including image generation models
And actually, image generation models are much easier to run on “affordable” consumer hardware than LLMs
If they don’t have the training data available, then I wouldn’t consider them open source.
Well, technicaly you have training data available - the whole internet
Which model did you use to generate this, and what tool did you use?
Sorry for the misunderstanding, this was a crosspost, I didn’t generate it. But image searching shows a few matches elsewhere, so I doubt who I crossposted it from generated it either
I hate this take. Not everyone can afford to pay for art or have the ability to draw.People need to get off AI’s back and instead of complaining, figure out how to deal with it. Because it’s not going anywhere.
You are aware that even if you make stickmans, people will appreciate it if the meme is good, right?
Don’t talk about ability to draw as though it’s some sort of elitist trait denied to the working class. People who can draw can do so because they put the hours in.
If you can’t be bothered putting the effort in when expressing yourself, why the hell should anyone else be interested in what you have to say?
I don’t have enough time to learn I have to work to try and live the bleak few hours of life I get to myself a week. honestly with AI our bosses expect more it’s slowing down
You have my sympathies, but that still doesn’t mean you get to post complete nonsensical garbage where a glass of water is talking for no reason, that took you less effort to create than it did to read, and expect people to not tell you to jog on, when there’s a whole wealth of creative artists out there who are putting in the energy but getting their space flooded with slop.
The web has objectively become much, much worse in the past 12 months because quality is getting drowned out by quantity.
but that still doesn’t mean you get to post complete nonsensical garbage where a glass of water is talking for no reason
How dare Dali paint pictures with melting clocks! If the clocks really were hot enough to melt, they would set the tree they’re melting on ablaze!!!11
I get it. Artists are afraid of their income. But with those kinds of takes, “AI bad because surrealism” I can’t take you seriously as an artist so I guess nothing would be lost.
Surrealism is not nonsense. It has a purpose, even if that purpose is hard to tell. If you think Dali and AI slop is the same, you don’t understand either.
Fine. If it’s offending your senses too much to be tame surrealism, call it dada. If you think that replacing a person with an object cannot be an artistic choice, you… well, haven’t seen much art.
Note that I’m not arguing for or against AI here. I’m saying that your critique of AI is slop.
Because the idea behind it is good? You’re confusing art and craft. Why should anyone be interested in a urinal on a pedestal? The work is defined not by whether or not you can buy its physical representation in any random hardware store, I thought we had that one figured out.
Also there’s literally zero people who would pay someone a commission to draw this piece. You’re not looking at lost work you’re looking at additional art. Without AI (if it is AI) it might have still existed but in stick figure form and that would be better because…? The idea has better expression as a chicken scratch? I don’t think so.
AI is like a housefire. Nobody wants it. Nobody needs it. It’s just a bad thing, and if someone sees it, they’re more than justified in being upset and trying to get rid of it. Don’t defend the fire, or you’ll be the first to burn.
Who asked the glass?
the AI that generated the image!
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maibe
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It used to be good. Maybe it’s been enshitified. I couldn’t see the business model.
I also noticed how it suddenly went from great to crap.
But the real reason I think is ironically AI. It used to be that you could easily crawl the web, but after the AI craze, images suddenly became valuable to crawl and every website gets bombarded by scrapers, and are adding more and more countermeasures to make it more difficult, so tineye’s own image scraper probably can’t compete with them and so can’t find any new images
I actually have no idea, it just looks like an AI drawing to me. The fact that the glass is answering makes it a bit sus
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it’s funny how you can tell at a glance exactly what model generated this image, just based off the background color
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technically I guess it’s between Cosmic latte and Desert sand
…I had to look those up but it’s definitely not a plain white
Also why is the glass talking wtf?
Well which one is this one? (This was a crosspost so I don’t know lmao)
The new one by openai, “gpt-4o image generation”
There’s also some nasty artifacting around the lines, nat look like but not exactly JPEG.
Why the fuck is the glass talking
Freedom of speech I assume.
Was this made by ai? It looks soulless, and the coffee cup is talking.
Who drinks coffee out of a transparent pint glass?
Me if I don’t think properly.
Someone explain to me why i have a sense for ai? This is like the fourth time this week i see an ai image and i spotted it even tho at first i hadnt seen the mistakes the ai made. Something just feels off in ai pictures and i cant really pin down what it is. But when i see one i can just spot it for some reason.
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The glass is also weirdly large considering it looks like it should be at roughly the same distance as the people.
The glass is also speaking, as opposed to a third person.
I noticed that the new image model doesn’t like pure white backgrounds.
It’s become such a reliable tell that I’m genuinely curious why AI seems to think that cartoon images MUST look like they’re drawn on old paper.
EDIT: The AI answer I got when asking Google was about what I’d expect, but this last bit I hadn’t considered:
Sepia tones can help unify the color palette of an image, making it more visually cohesive and pleasing. This could be a factor in the AI’s decision to use sepia, as it can contribute to a sense of order and harmony in the generated image.
So it uses it to try and make it more visually appealing to a wide audience, leading to it looking even more bland and uninspired.
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How do you determine that something is AI?
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So, vibes basically.
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There’s also some artifacting around the lines that are reminiscent of JPEG, but not kind of that, and it seems like the text is superimposed onto it in a second or third pass by an external tool to make it look more consistent.
Ban slop!
Are you talking about AI or excel?
More like 44567
Best I can do is 7.45678e17
I can sense AI now.
Yesterday I laughed at this, today Excel stripped leading zeros from a sheet of UPCs and converted them to floating point.
Also format as Text apparently means nothing
The glass is half foal.
Hard to belle-ieve
Microsoft apps should be locked in a cell.
Ex-cell?
