The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great • Hacker News Board

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by indrora » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #10

mrob wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an inconsistent mix of human hands and raccoon paws in the same image. I thought diffusion models could do inpainting of pre-existing images. If somebody actually cared they could have picked one and erased and regenerated the other.

Perhaps the model was trained on too much furry art?

It wouldn't make that sort of mistake then.

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by BambooBandit » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:11 PM UTC

"The point of the characters, it said, was to add 'a human touch to high tech.'"

Something we need today, too

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by mamcx » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

fullshark wrote: post #2

Feeling cognitive dissonance given this is making me feel nostalgic for advertising.

True, before was cool to see the ads.

Now, skip all!

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by danielvf » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

It's buried deep in the article, but what made PC Connection amazing was the shipping.

You could phone call a human in the wee hours of the morning, and have it show up later that same day. Or pay only a little and have it into two days. Compared to every other mail-order retailer in the universe at the time, it was insane, to have such selection and speed.

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by mystified5016 » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

indrora wrote: post #11

pfdietz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps the model was trained on too much furry art?

It wouldn't make that sort of mistake then.

Furry art is not in any way consistent with the use of human and animal anatomy. You'll absolutely see a mix of paws and hands

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by 4ggr0 » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

I'd love to have a poster of the picture in the "PC Preppy" advert from October 1984[0]. I wonder how I could aquire the highest resolution possible...

Love raccoons [0] https://d1pkj6r18lfvhs.archive.is/BxyNA/d05003d20de92f868e5b...

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by sgt » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

I asked ChatGPT to imagine pretty much the same scene as that top drawing. It's such a great example of LLM's - having zero understanding of the real world - has the racoons looking at the computer but from behind it.

https://sdmntprwestus.oaiusercontent.com/files/00000000-c810...

Re: The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

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Post by csours » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

4ggr0 wrote: post #16

I'd love to have a poster of the picture in the "PC Preppy" advert from October 1984[0]. I wonder how I could aquire the highest resolution possible... Love raccoons [0] https://d1pkj6r18lfvhs.archive.is/BxyNA/d05003d20de92f868e5b...

Artist website: https://www.erickingraham.com/