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 And use the image generator. 🦾🦾🦾 
 idk even how to use those things, i swear they just make the same stupid image for any given keyword 
 Nah they pretty cool. I mean ya sometimes its cheesy but they alright  
 i don't like them because they clearly are taught by a generic, highly constrained image set and not the general internet

so if you ask for a gopher, you don't get a gopher, you get a fucking teddy bear!

https://i.nostr.build/Vw06j.jpg

vs

https://i.nostr.build/gZA5l.jpg

or let's ask for an actual golang gopher:

https://i.nostr.build/KG8DW.jpg

looks more like a teddy bear to me, yet when i ask for gopher it actually didn't do too bad a job 
 Get a paid Stable Diffusion account and you wont be disappointed. The nostr .build on that you get for the 69k sats is cheap very cheap but you can upgrade to stable difusion thats is a lot better 

The free paid on made me a very funny looking squirrel hahahaha  
 yeah, i'm not surprised that everyones generated images all look much the same, do i have to write War and Peace to get a sufficiently detailed image or wut? 
 but honestly, here is a totally copyright free image of an actual pocket gopher, the most well known kind, and what the #golang gopher is based on:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Pocket-Gopher_Ano-Nuevo-SP.jpg/1280px-Pocket-Gopher_Ano-Nuevo-SP.jpg

they look so much more goofy and less like a squirrel, the eyes are wider apart and the curve of the forehead and nose are much flatter and shorter

if you ask me, the image generator wasn't ever trained on even a single actual gopher image 
 also, i follow a lot of "soundscape" artists on youtube, and they all have these AI generated images, and it's remarkable how almost every building structure in them resembles a mushroom 
 Also if you use a really good one the image comes out better.  
 See #cornstr, some good juans in there