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Source: https://tantabus.ai/images/64762 "Creation of mare".

Pastiche machine generator: Nanobanana. Prompter: Meta_Void.

The shock and dismay on the faces of the ponies peeking out of the clouds makes the image.

Since "AI", like amateur photography, is here to stay, and I welcome any eye-catching image, here we are, machine pastiche on Ponyville_Trot, even though the images are made by mindless machines spitting out statistically chosen connect-the-dots autocomplete hallucinations. A human with an idea, patience and a vocabulary is dropping the bombs into these virtual junkyards, and that's where skill comes in at the user level.

So now there's a Machine Pastiche Image tag, distinct from machine generated video, music, audio and text as it may occur. I'm not calling it AI, there's no more intelligence in these programs than there is in a bicycle. This is the 2nd auto-pastiche image here, to my surprise, this hookah smoking Twilight Sparkle is also auto-pastiche. Said so on DeviantArt, I just didn't know what "YiffyMix" was, so it didn't register.

What's missing is MLP photography. Not the Ponies Around the World photography, that's nice but the ponies aren't the focus of those pictures, it's where they are. MLP photography would be set-ups, like Kimono's Townhouse or better. Kinda rare. You can push a button on a camera or cellphone but photography is hard! Who knew?