Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs

Show us the real bugs life. Animals of any variety doing the mundane, exciting, or otherwise indescribable tasks we apes do.

Prompt for post image:

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Would I hire this animal? (Are they actually doing their job) (new) +2 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters
  20. Retro Sci-Fi
  21. Get Your Bard On!
  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Prompt: 1000s of monkeys sitting at typewriters, orderly rows, dystopian, digital art, ultra HD, 4k, close up, bokeh, depth of field

    Workflow: Low effort. I was on my phone when I came up with the idea so I just used Bing/Copilot/DALL-E, iterated on prompts until I finally got a good image with the typewriters facing the correct direction… Though having them face the wrong way did have a level of humour to it.

    (first time here, so hopefully I don’t break any rules!)

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Pretty smart idea, feel like the 1000 monkey typing hypothesis has been discussed quite often, so I guess we needed one in that contest. Also somehow a great metaphor of AI generating images and texts

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I had that same thought about AI generating images and text. I almost called it “Generative Pre-trained Monkeys”…

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Not only did you not break any rules (That I can think of) but you did a great job. Effort does not always equate to quality, but repetition often does.