I keep seeing NSFW posts about “araffe women” and I have no idea what that means. Google has no idea either.
It seems to me to be a word that image description generators (and potentially image generators, too) “believe” to exist. If that’s correct that was likely caused by parsing chunks of actual words, such as “arabesque”, “Arabic”, “coffee”, “giraffe”, as if ara+ffe were two actual morphemes (units of meaning).
For reference, this site claims that [I think?]diffusion models think that a similar word, “arafed”, exists; and that’s basically going slow, taking one’s time, leisurely.
It isn’t necessarily NSFW by the way.
howrar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I searched through Lemmy posts with that word. Half of them have people asking the exact same question, and based on the answers, I’m going to conclude that no one knows.
One guess that seems plausible is that it’s an AI hallucinated word that’s showing up a lot because they’re using AI to generate the captions.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Next step is for people to also start using it and we’ll experience the beginning of AI generated slang
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
That’s plausible. Araffe comment, thanks.
MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ive asked the same question, the conclusion that I came to is it is a foreign word that doesnt mean anything in the context and is a give away to AI generated images.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Everything checks out.
otter@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Googling the word with quotes brings up a Lemmy thread first, I thought that was interesting.
Is this question specific to Lemmy somehow? I haven’t heard of the term before this thread either
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
We, ve made it Lemmy ! We created a Word and brought it to Google front page
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think it’s this. I looked into it recently and there was a paper on AI and they noted “araffe” coming up as a caption when it was AI generated. They didn’t have an explanation, said it was something to look into.
charles@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is the very definition of Model Collapse.