u/HeartofCin

First time poster, and currently only saw the movie and barely starting the book. I absolutely fell in love with this story and it really made me wonder and think about so many things that we humans just do that are strange and alien to everyone else.

For example, mimicry of an animal sound where the animal does respond if it's accurate enough. Like how people make the accurate noise that chickens make to warn that a predator is around; calling kittens with a call a mama cat would; chuffing at a Tiger to show you are friendly etc.

I understand the Eridian language is very complicated with many different tones and sounds and that they are capable of holding multiple conversations at once, but maybe it's possible to make "crude" sounds to try and communicate. It definitely will be bad, but humans do have a talent for mimicry. Maybe whistling, or singing (polytonal singing) may allow surface level interactions but that's about it.

TLDR: Bought a shirt that had an AI filter on an art piece by Dani Oliver. Seller refused to give refund, got my money back via Claims. Don't buy from this store. This is what they send out as "high quality products".

The levels of disappointment I have and also the shame that I "fell" for such garbage is immeasurable. I wanted to buy a nice gift for my husband who loves the game Chrono Trigger. So I went to a website that seemed like it was an official store (turns out they are an "official fan" store).

Found a shirt that had all the characters on it and bought it. Now I am not too familiar with the entire game, but the pixal art looked like the sprites my husband showed me, so it looked legit to me. Only to have the shirt arrive and it was clear that AI was used HEAVILY! I was devastated. Felt like a fool and definitely didn't want this ish. So I tried to communicate with the sellers and of course they claimed, "it's as advertised on their page."

The thing is, on their store front it's clear they just super imposed a jpeg on a model as the image was "low" quality, but you can still tell it was pixal art. Now they claim that the shirts are hand made but what came in of course has AI written all over it. But something didn't sit right with me as I can tell when stuff is AI generated. So I image reverse searched and now my guilt has deepens.

Turns out this "offical" art, is actually a fan art from the artist Dani Oliver (Abyss wolf) and you can see the original art work is leagues better. So now I know it was actually art, but this website took this image, and used an AI filter to "enhance and smooth" the pixal art.(which is absolutely asinine.) Now I don't know if this artist gave this website permission to sell his work as they claim to "work with fan artists". I feel awful for buying potentially stolen art work, and it being Ai "enhanced" goes against my stance on ai. I just wanted to get something nice for Hubby. Thankfully I filed a claim and I got my money back.

Do you think potentially humans could attempt to "mimic" Eridian speech? Similar to how we can with animals on earth?

"This is hand made art" says the website seller with stolen pixal art