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Re:Dungeons and Developers by pcthrowaway on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:08AM (#35288527)
Why does it think they look like Ogres?
Re:Dungeons and Developers by danaris on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:43AM (#35288965)
Why do you think those images look like ogres?

They look like fairly common portrayals of orcs to me.

Re:Dungeons and Developers by pcthrowaway on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:17AM (#35289364)
Because Orcs look like this https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Orcs?file=AzogPines2.jpg

and ogres look like this https://www.gameogre.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ogre-Emp...

In actuality, I was just joking about the idea that a ML art tool can get "Orc"s wrong since there's such variation in how they're conceptualized, same with ogres

Re:Dungeons and Developers by account42 on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:40AM (#35290550)
> Because Orcs look like this https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Orcs?file=AzogPines2.jpg

Middle Earth Orcs look like that. There are other popular fantasy settings. The only common thread is "strongly built usually ugly humanoid with often green or otherwise non-human skin color and perhaps pointy ears".

Re:Dungeons and Developers by danaris on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:42PM (#35292777)
Those aren't even orcs and ogres from the same franchise/setting. Orcs "look like" dozens of different things, and ogres have at least as many "canonical" appearances—possibly more, given that orcs were invented by Tolkien about a century ago, and ogres exist in the folklore of many different cultures going back at least a millennium.

I think the comment about DALL-E being unsure what they look like is because the picture in the article has three creatures that don't look much like each other, and also look oddly ambiguous in just what's supposed to be portrayed.

Re:Dungeons and Developers by mock-possum on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:01AM (#35289934)
Ogres are big Orcs, Goblins are small Orcs.