# AI Art Inspired by SDMB Posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [August 17, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162 "2025-08-17T15:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/1 "2025-08-17T15:57:40Z")
New idea for a thread game. Most recent winner will pick a somewhat recent post here on the SDMB. Any forum, any thread. Take inspiration from that post and write your prompt into an AI art generator. Post the resulting picture here without revealing your prompt. First person to correctly identify the post that inspired the pic with a link to that post wins and can make the next picture. If you’re absolutely sure you’re right, go ahead and post both your answer and your pic in the same post, but maybe you were wrong… I’ll start: [![](https://i.gyazo.com/90905a36f1db000b71d3c035f5dd9739.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/90905a36f1db000b71d3c035f5dd9739.png) ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/2 "2025-08-17T16:06:37Z")
> [@Can Alyson Hannigan play the flute?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-alyson-hannigan-play-the-flute/998901/5): > > Excellent. I’ve played with bands in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Ontario. We’re talking the Barra McNeils, Great Big Sea, and the Irish Descendants. All on spoons, of course. I played with the Tuesday night jam at the Auld Triangle in Halifax. I played on the Smallwood, going from North Sydney to Argentia. I played with Stompin’ Tom, way back when, Yes, I can play spoons, hence my username. Also, my nickname in real life: “Hey Spoons, can you pick me up after the show?” Yeah, sure. … This one? Or something in that thread? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/3 "2025-08-17T16:07:24Z")
Good guess, but no. Hint: that’s not a flute in the pic. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/4 "2025-08-17T16:08:48Z")
> [@Can Alyson Hannigan play the flute?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-alyson-hannigan-play-the-flute/998901/3): > > If she can play the clarinet, then she can play flute. All woodwinds are based upon the same principle, which is a little too complicated to explain here. But if she knows her clarinet fingerings, and can blow across an opening (like we all like to blow across a beer bottle), she’d be fine on flute. I can play a number of instruments, but I love flute. Bottle and clarinet at least. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/5 "2025-08-17T16:48:57Z")
Found it by accident: [More Jokes - #6560 by Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-jokes/848629/6560#p-25367535-what-do-you-call-a-purple-boat-with-a-trebuchet-and-a-telescope-4) I’ll pass on working up the next one. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/6 "2025-08-17T16:52:27Z")
I feel honored. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/7 "2025-08-17T16:56:30Z")
Did the AI screw up and make the bassoon look too much like a clarinet? That mouthpiece says “bassoon” and _so_ not a clarinet to me. But I never played either instrument. Hmm, what to do now that the actual winner declined to post their own… Go ahead @Bear_Nenno, you at least tried. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/8 "2025-08-17T17:13:46Z")
Looks more like a bassoon than a clarinet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/9 "2025-08-17T17:56:05Z")
Why the cat ears? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/10 "2025-08-17T17:59:57Z")
I wondered that same thing too and asked. ChatGPT 5 said: > They’re cosplay-style headband ears, the kind you’d pick up at a convention or a novelty store. They’re soft and fabric-covered, a pastel lilac inside with darker trim to match her hair. They don’t look biological—no fur blending into her scalp, no movement—just a playful, slightly nerdy accessory perched on a plastic band. In the context of the scene, they amplify the unboxing-video vibe, like she’s leaning into a cutesy, streamer persona while holding up that very un-cute, rather serious bassoon. > > Accessories like those often show up in online creator culture, halfway between fashion statement and wink at internet meme-dom. It’s a deliberate collision: a very formal woodwind paired with anime cat ears. That clash is the joke as much as the root beer and trebuchet boat in the background. I wouldn’t read too much into it. It was just a silly image I started the thread with. I somehow missed the last joke in the post and left it out of my prompt. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/11 "2025-08-20T10:30:48Z")
I can’t help but notice that “tangent line” in the photo with the bassoon and the bottle label. To my eye, it makes it almost seem like there’s a part of the bassoon behind the label. It’s the type of thing I think a real cartoonist would specifically change to make sure that there’s a clear overlap, I think. (This is based on watching a lot of Drawfee episodes – a YouTube show where people draw cartoons in real time while making jokes and such. They’ve made and then fixed those tangent lines, and even discussed them on their drawing help live streams.) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/12 "2025-08-24T18:53:56Z")
I love this thread. Since I don’t know how to do AI, I guess I’ll make it my personal mission to work ridiculous prompts into my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/13 "2025-08-24T21:07:05Z")
Another try to get this going since **Bear\_Nenno** didn’t come back. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/bde5579bfb0c8877eef7360d16399e9e.png) ](https://i.gyazo.com/bde5579bfb0c8877eef7360d16399e9e.png) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/14 "2025-08-24T21:15:45Z")
> [@Is style important to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-style-important-to-you/1022328/3): > > Went out for swanky dinner last week w GF. Pink bermuda shorts, maroon open weave knit polo, white linen suitcoat. White fancy sneakers with no visible sox. GF was not the only woman who noticed. For her part, a gold metallic top, white denim mid thigh skirt, and gold wedge sandals. Plus bling. I was not the only man who noticed either. From the [Is style important to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-style-important-to-you/1022328/21) thread ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/15 "2025-08-24T21:17:40Z")
Very good! 🙂 Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/16 "2025-08-24T21:51:02Z")
Pass - no skills ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/17 "2025-08-24T22:48:41Z")
Other than the fact I have Hemingway beard, that’s friggin remarkably good likenesses of both of us. I’d do that chick immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/18 "2025-08-25T04:48:18Z")
Well, here’s what I told ChatGPT-5. > **Prompt** > > Set this scene in August, 2025 in Florida. > A retired former airline pilot went out to eat at a swanky place with his girlfriend who is also his age. He wears: Pink bermuda shorts, maroon open weave knit polo, white linen suitcoat. White fancy sneakers with no visible sox. > His girlfriend: a gold metallic top, white denim mid thigh skirt, and gold wedge sandals. Plus bling. > > Photo-realistic sharp professional-photographer quality, no captions. I have to tell it “no captions” or it would have put the date and/or location in there. So, how do other thread games handle it when the current round winner passes on continuing with the game? That’s happened twice now… ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/19 "2025-08-25T13:30:36Z")
Somebody will volunteer a new one eventually. At least I hope so – I’m enjoying this thread. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-inspired-by-sdmb-posts/1022162/20 "2025-08-25T15:24:27Z")
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