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I keep seeing NSFW posts about "araffe women" and I have no idea what that means. Google has no idea either.

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 99 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Next step is for people to also start using it and we'll experience the beginning of AI generated slang

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's plausible. Araffe comment, thanks.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

How dare you talk about my mother araffe

[–] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 31 points 7 months ago

and is a give away to AI generated images

Username: MyPornViewingAccount

Everything checks out.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 11 points 7 months ago

We, ve made it Lemmy ! We created a Word and brought it to Google front page

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 9 points 7 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 points 7 months ago

This is the very definition of Model Collapse.