It’s nice to be sidetracked by the train building and all but where did the cargo go ?

Pun unintended

in the last few years any remotely orderly and unique interests are equated to "autism". i think its obnoxious and really wish it becomes less common.

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I'm not into trains either. But there are other fields I can talk a lot about...

It's not about trains, it's about hyperfixation on whatever. It just doesn't let you go, possibly a life long.

Aside from the train being a mess I think audhd people would approve if there also would be a train in pieces 😁.

That's what I think would fit but I'm not audhd so maybe someone could comment more qualified.

I agree, it doesn't resemble typical AI generated content in appearance. It does in form though. It's like the most "I've seen pieces of a train, but I don't understand what a train looks like or how it works" drawing I've ever seen. If the flame is at the back, how would that work with the entire rest of the engine (the cylinder at the front)? Why do the linkages not make sense.

If this is made by an autistic train fan, this is incredibly wrong. If it's made by a person joking about them, it's slightly more forgivable (but still, I don't think anyone wouldn't understand the Steam comes from the front).

You're right, the perfect edges and perfect circles and all of that make me think it's not AI slop at first, but even the least careful person I don't think would make this many stupid mistakes. They're mistakes you'd expect for something that knows that the shape is statistically expected from trains, but it doesn't have any understanding of why.

I'm reminded of this classic: Velocipedia/

People were asked to draw a bicycle, and a lot of them were not functional.
Often in a fun way.

Yeah, I know of that, and I'm aware it happens. Even still, those designs have the concept right. I don't see how anyone draws the smoke stack on the front of the engine but then, for some reason, draws the Steam coming out the rear. If they didn't draw it at all then I think it's reasonable. I just don't see how you get to the point of the OP.

It's like drawing a bike and drawing the pedals, but the chain connect the handlebars to the wheel or something. It's just not something someone's going to do. (On that page, literally everyone who included a chain connected it to the pedals. It maybe do weird things, but that basic thing is consistently correct, because you don't draw pedals and not understand that that's where the chain connects.) They'll draw something that doesn't function, because the don't understand how a bike works maybe, but there are some basic things everyone knows.

• the color of their shirts is somewhat pointless. not only do they change for the "worker" between boss and leader but leader also uses the color blue twice instead of red. I can understand that the introvert is green but it's odd that the boss and leader don't use the same color.
• the yellow "worker" in the leader panel has two hands on the same arm.
• the leader's mouth is odd and their upper body is "twisted"

All of this doesn't necessarily mean it's AI but since each character is unique (and not simply copy-pasted) it would take more time to create them, so these choices have to be deliberately.

Of course one could make a train engine in many forms. But the classical shape of the sort depicted in the drawing here is an old steam engine. It's not a carriage with and engine in it. The big cylinder is the steam tank. And there was a fire under it that exhausted though the big chimney structure at the top front. The pressure from the steam pushed big pistons that connected to a set of large wheels mechanically connected with a big drive bar. You can create a new design with a modern combustion engine, or an electric motor - and these of course already exist - in fact it's hard to find working old steam engine designs these days. But an electric or diesel engine car wouldn't have the same classic shape of an old steam engine. They just look like a big box. So having this design but then putting the smoke coming out the back simple makes no sense.

Of course a human can make such errors too, but in order to get the shape right, one would need to understand the function, or they'd copy another picture and get the details right, including the smoke stack.

AI LLMs have a word base interface and they're more susceptible to getting some things perfect and others nonsensical - like all those pictures that look right but when when you look at the details, like the number of finger, there are classic AI errors. That's why this train is being tagged as AI. It's not 100% for sure, but it looks that way if you understand the structure of that kind of train.

Cut to 5 days later. The team has already pulled the wagon the 200ft or so, gone home, and back to their lives and here you sit - building a train for a job we don't need anymore - but you can't help yourself.

Autistic has no shirt?

Sensory issues

The train not being anatomically? Correct is the real cherry on this meme. The autistic engagement it generates could power a city and I love that for them.

i appreciate your comment, but i just have one question. Is the guy actually autistic or just "most autistic" as in just stereotypes?

not at all shitting on your comment, just legitimately have to ask these days bc its so commonly thrown around.

Fun! Yeah i think that's what graeber & wengrove would call "play heirarchy" - temporary, rotating or situational relations rather than the perminant domination of heirarchy.

yup. there's a few hand signs everyone knows so we all know whether to play the intro, bridge, solo, verse, chorus, ending, etc. if it's your song, you lead it and you need to be responsive to the crowd. monty python caused us to call ourselves an anarcho-syndicalist commune but we just enjoyed the time we had together.

Nope, this man is Actually Autistic ™️. The "most autistic" thing was also meant to be satirical, as you can't rank autism on a linear scale like that - each autistic person is just as autistic as the next one. Autism is not like a disease that can vary in intensity or be cured - it's a roundabout way of describing someone with a particular type of brain. DSM still refers to it as a "disorder", but a whole lot of people disagree with that because it's only "disordered" when compared to a typical brain under a zero sum system.

In that same vein, my train friend would often joke that he was "so autistic", all he had to do was walk up to the train yard off the street to get the job. It was automatically determined that, obviously, he will be driving the train.

Into the gaping void of missing creativity contained in the genAI that generated this image