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I see the word "araffe" pop up a lot when it comes to AI image generation or AI generated image descriptions. What is the context, where does it come from?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting because Araf means slow in welsh and it seems to be using that as a root.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I took great delight in saying that when we would go through Wales.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Haha, I lived in Wales for quite a few years and I think it's the law that if you drive over it then you have to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Found arafed in the Welsh-English dictionary online but thought it was unrelated because of one f. Turns out, it was very related

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do appreciate the flaming pope… but having lived in English speaking country my whole life I’m skeptical because I’ve never heard anyone talking about araffe.

Also, none of my spell-checkers have ever heard of it…

Not wanting to contribute nothing with this comment I punched “araffe” into my magic noise genie and it spat out 20 sad giraffes in a row.

So my theory is generation loss: once long ago someone misspelled giraffe and Ai artists have copied each others prompts enough times that it’s now a thing…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I also had never heard the word prior to the gen-ai craze. Perhaps it is a hallucination of the machine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It’s eating my brain! It feels like a proper mystery but is probably fairly mundane.

The page you found indicates some wider level of awareness… at the very least it’s an attempt at SEO, maybe just a harmless joke, a honeypot created by someone with the same unanswered question. I should probably go take someones medication ;-)