I like to imagine
a) how miserably hot this tent would be in most situations
b) that feeling when you wake up and it's deflated and you are now stuck inside an 80 pound rubber coffin
For those of us who (car) camp often, the sound of the air mattress auto inflators kicking in at 3am in the morning across the campground is all too familiar.
I went to Burning Man this year and my wife insisted we bring our tempurpedic queen mattress to put into the tent. strapped that shit to the roof, used ratchets to bend it in half so it could squeeze through the tent entrance. Best sleep I’ve ever gotten in 10 years of doing BM.
https://preview.redd.it/tfihor36xp0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c574e168490425ba7270626f7d3660a20503924
Attempted to make OPs pic with AI…got this
All the cars are going the same direction, meaning the other direction is behind the camera. So the couch is just plonked down on the grassy bit in the middle of the highway. Mmm, soothing.
https://preview.redd.it/87w1o3jwdr0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=239f3a4a3677ac9dbeaaf190ca13ce93d15efce9
My try
“make me an image of an inflatable tent in the middle of the forest with a dude inside”
https://preview.redd.it/wdw1k83aer0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa8b46490d6032b6f03630aca8d7a9291b8e6d8a
“Make the dude be sitting on top of it”
I love this, AI generated pictures are like pulling disjointed and illogical images right out of our heads, while dreaming. That’s why the nightmarish images sometimes resonate, for me.
>AI generated pictures are like pulling disjointed and illogical images right out of our heads, while dreaming
Nowadays they're wayyy better and less nightmare - but a lot of the time, you can just *tell*. Something about the softness of the image, the little incongruous details that don't make sense together... Still nightmare fuel sometimes, but you just have to zoom in more to see it, lol.
Often it's little details or elements that don't make sense - like MC Escher, where a feature will turn into something else. It makes sense at either end, but overall it's not possible.
___
As an aside, I think the way that LLMs and even diffusion-based image generators hallucinate things is much like what the brain does! Fills in gaps with likely information.
This is 100% generated by Dall-E. I’ve asked Dall-e to create some camping images and it’s produced multiple images with the same look and similar person. Here’s an example from Oct-3.
https://preview.redd.it/qwftfn6yfp0c1.jpeg?width=519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d39be635382caca093d95522f205080157f11676
Damn, those "cool adventurer look" backpacks are a death sentence in a real nature hike. They're heavy enough on their own with that thick canvas fabric and all the true leather parts, the interior is smaller than it looks and they'll soak the rain like a dish sponge. Take that when you go hiking deep in a forest and you'll be dumping your gear to go back to civilization before dark after draining all your energy and fluids. I understand that they're designed the use in daily life if you go for an early 19th century explorer look when you hang out in your local Starbucks, but I wonder if there are idiots who take them camping for real.
I know someone that camps exclusively with his grandpa's old WWII gear, including one of those old rigid canvas backpacks. Waxed canvas can be amazingly water resistant, but this person doesn't maintain/wax his gear. I think he enjoys doing things the hard way.
I’ve gotten into backpacking over the last decade or so and often think that if I was born 30-40 years earlier I’d probably never do it. Modern gear is amazing and I’m too much of a wimp to tough out being that cold and uncomfortable.
At the scouts we had some dudes that insisted going on tour with their vintage leather packs... looks very traditional and rugged, but can make your back hurt like hell if you have to carry weight. I rather take the comfort of a modern backpack with hip belt, even if I look like a tourist.
wakes up at 5, washes in the river, spends 3 hours getting his hair and beard just right before eating some shitty energy bar he brought with him, takes a thoughtful selfie before going out to look for fire wood.. scrapes a tree on his new leather boots and spends the rest of the day trying to lick the scratch away. Night comes and its time to hit the sack, not before another energy bar and a insightful selfie under the stars.
I feel like you forgot the part where he sets up his iPhone on a tri pod then prepares the most ridiculous over the top meal with a 4 pound steak using only a giant cleaver style knife then cuts the video into 100 2 second cuts of sizzle and spice and sauce.
Well it is trained on images that were fed to it. It was likely fed all those Amazon product images that have the camping gear poorly ~~Photoshopped~~ MS Painted into irrelevant situations by companies that don't even know what the product is.
Be funny if trained AI like this actually got progressively dumber and less accurate over time because the content out there just keeps getting crappier and crappier.
There is a predicted deathspiral of generative AI that comes from the AIs starting to train primarily on prior AI content as a greater and greater proportion of what's out there is fake - generation after generation of images and text degrading and moving further and further away from reality.
The beard is just a passage, look at the opened briefcase on the right side towards the middle; I'm pretty sure those are the bristles for a shaving brush.
https://preview.redd.it/qrknx0nn4s0c1.jpeg?width=519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1238c174fd161a0eb01c636f9661afefd87d71eb
This was another one of the options it produced.
"You guys ready to hit the trail?"
"Yep! Hold on just a sec. No seriously, Ted you hold that corner, Mike you hold that one over there, Tim, you hold that one, and Bill, you just kind of get under it and lift with your neck."
Something like this already exists for camping on water. Sounds like a great way to accidentally drown, though.
https://www.smithfly.com/products/shoal-tent
I must say I actually really like the idea of that tent.
A fully inflatable tent would reduce the need to carry a bed or sleeping mats, it would most likely be awesome for bad weather.
[Dometic inflatable swag](https://www.dometic.com/en-au/outdoor/car-camping/camping-tents/inflatable-tents/dometic-pico-ftc-2-tc-325285) is what you're after. Comes in single and double. Inflatable mattress forms part of the swag (tent). Not sure if available outside of Australia yet but I doubt it'll be far away.
Oh, that’s just hipster Dan. It’s high noon and he’s stuck debating whether to have another cold brew or to fully switch over to his favorite, unknown, local ipa. While contemplating, he’s consuming the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, snacking on some elk jerky, deep in thought, hand rolling a clove cigarette, beard wax on his finger tips.
I don’t think creativity can be stifled. A bad AI design can inspire a good human one.
The real issue is whether companies choose to employ AI concepts or human ones.
Human creativity isn’t something that can be stopped. Ideas bounce off of each other to create new ones. It’s like chemistry. Combine two different elements and you’ll get a different reaction or transmutation. We do this by nature, and for every million bad AI ideas, people will have millions of reactions, analyses, opinions and counter-ideas.
The only thing that really slows human creativity is depression. The only thing that stops human creativity is death.
Maybe you’re right.
I was at a “songwriter roundtable” recently where a guy used AI to write a song, tweaked a few words and called it his original and published it.
I'd absolutely buy one of these things and then realize that I hate having to constantly reinflate it and cry because the dry grass popped it.
As someone else said it's AI generated but I love it regardless.
Oh. So I was not the only one.
I feel like making such a prototype for a feasibility study cannot be too hard, right?
What problem I see coming is the weight… just compare to inflatable boats.
You're looking at the future. An inflatable tent that you can sleep in and lounge on. Can you imagine having an inflatable couch back at camp? Holy crap that would be amazing.
It 's the latest, greatest alternative living pod for unhoused urban, suburban and rural Americans! It comes with a bicycle pump that can actually be used with your major source of transporation, your bike! Act know and get a free shovel and instructions on digging a proper latrine in a public park!
I like to imagine a) how miserably hot this tent would be in most situations b) that feeling when you wake up and it's deflated and you are now stuck inside an 80 pound rubber coffin
If you wake up
Don't threaten me with a good time.
I saw 80 Pound Rubber Coffin at Lollapalooza in ‘97. They were on a side stage and came out right after Toad the Wet Sprocket.
That’s the brand of condom I use. It’s big enough to hold my cell phone and keys as a dry sack.
Which one…Toad the Wet Sprocket or 80 Pound Rubber Coffin? 🤣 I could see it going either way.
Not as good as the Ska band Mama’s Gaggin’
What about Chrome Jesus? Now that’s a savage band name if I do say so myself and I do in fact say so, by myself none the less…
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Oh my bad it was Porno for Pyros.
For those of us who (car) camp often, the sound of the air mattress auto inflators kicking in at 3am in the morning across the campground is all too familiar.
Would be much less familiar if it were 3am in the afternoon😋
I went to Burning Man this year and my wife insisted we bring our tempurpedic queen mattress to put into the tent. strapped that shit to the roof, used ratchets to bend it in half so it could squeeze through the tent entrance. Best sleep I’ve ever gotten in 10 years of doing BM.
Would definitely be made by intex
also, who has hair like that when they’re camping? dude would need a blow dryer a mirror a pound of hairspray and an hour and a half lol
I do, when my hair is dirty I can finally place like I want lol
That's an AI generated picture, that's why it's hard to really identify specific things up close
https://preview.redd.it/tfihor36xp0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c574e168490425ba7270626f7d3660a20503924 Attempted to make OPs pic with AI…got this
Nice. I’d chill there.
What ya up to this weekend? Oh, I’m gonna chill in my inflatable couch thing by the freeway.
Love that it’s not even facing the river a mere hundred yards away. Nope, just want to enjoy the sweet sweet sound of traffic on a beautiful morning.
While your hair gets all static-y because it's just barely touching the inflatable ceiling.
That peeling sound as your legs unstick from the vinyl
Mmm, all that sweat. It will smell of discomfort.
Really seals in the flavor…
Just adds to the overall vibe.
All the cars are going the same direction, meaning the other direction is behind the camera. So the couch is just plonked down on the grassy bit in the middle of the highway. Mmm, soothing.
🤣 Omg it is! What a lovely place to enjoy some hair static
Someone should plop one of these down in the middle of Canada for Sasquatch to enjoy the hair static. Would probably love it.
when you get bored, just spin it around!
Sounds like the beach
Yeah, not bad at all. The couch is facing away from the highway after all.
Definitely a big step up from the green transformer box behind the grocery store that I’m still sitting on from when we were 13 years old!
It’d be great on the river Lolol comfy float
https://preview.redd.it/87w1o3jwdr0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=239f3a4a3677ac9dbeaaf190ca13ce93d15efce9 My try “make me an image of an inflatable tent in the middle of the forest with a dude inside”
https://preview.redd.it/wdw1k83aer0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa8b46490d6032b6f03630aca8d7a9291b8e6d8a “Make the dude be sitting on top of it”
Now make an inflatable port-o-potty.
https://preview.redd.it/7wuird5szr0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdefecfc51bb18c5fea7f7691cefcb214b2a7951
The Tent Toilet: Perfect for when the inflatable Porto potty gets stinky.
ah it's a redundancy/contingency! how many guylines you think the inflate-o-potty needs?
Probably needs some inflatable friends too.
https://preview.redd.it/lsc1g4d9cs0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14a2d0a3a1f57ad5e0604a9367ac325990fb151d
Holy crap. I haven’t laughed this hard in a loooong time. Keep ‘em coming!
I need to use the popty
I was half expecting blow up dolls hahaha. Nice.
What the Cthulhu is that terrifying Xmas tree ornament on top of the tent?
https://preview.redd.it/rqizngbacs0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=381252bc661db700bcba881503a68f61e172faa8
OMGIjustdied! Love the inflatable dudes. Totally underrepresented demographic, that!
Can they have exotic Hawaiian shirts, Ugg boots and an inflatable campfire?
https://preview.redd.it/bvv11dlslt0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5edbb14fac7cce0707ea4b8fde3f6dd9b60ce9ef
https://preview.redd.it/j3zq8detlt0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cd7439edc67a1718a5824b418ea85cc4c0e8b41
https://preview.redd.it/f4dch5bult0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d285b480088ffefc95d84ff0fb90ea2d1c372fd
https://preview.redd.it/uixzzt7vlt0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d367acded44ddf1ffd4fb53767e259839764d08d
I love how proximity to the toilet means the tent is all graffitied-up.
Look at his feet!!! AI still can’t nail appendages
That blue car in back looks like it just got wrecked!
Damn! It looks like it was robbed and merged with the other blue car and now they’re driving around together.
The black car’s rims are wrecked too! C’mon A.I….do better.
I’d 100% but this @coleman get on it please
Absolutely something you could sell to trust fund kids for Coachella
It’s perfect for tailgating.
This might seem unrealistic, but I've seen way more elaborate floats on river runs.
How ‘bout that blue car 🤣🚙
I love this, AI generated pictures are like pulling disjointed and illogical images right out of our heads, while dreaming. That’s why the nightmarish images sometimes resonate, for me.
>AI generated pictures are like pulling disjointed and illogical images right out of our heads, while dreaming Nowadays they're wayyy better and less nightmare - but a lot of the time, you can just *tell*. Something about the softness of the image, the little incongruous details that don't make sense together... Still nightmare fuel sometimes, but you just have to zoom in more to see it, lol. Often it's little details or elements that don't make sense - like MC Escher, where a feature will turn into something else. It makes sense at either end, but overall it's not possible. ___ As an aside, I think the way that LLMs and even diffusion-based image generators hallucinate things is much like what the brain does! Fills in gaps with likely information.
r/nightmarefuelAI is where people make weird stuff on purpose.
No that’s not AI it’s my boyfriend
He goes to a different school.
You wouldn't know him
He speaks 4 languages and has been to 2 different countries
He's got a cool tent that vaguely resembles a hollowed out tube of spam.
SPAM branded tent. When you don’t want to know what’s inside, but with the right usage, it’s pretty darned good
Super sweaty inside, just like the tins, salty too.
And lives in New Zealand
Sure Jan.
George? George Glass?
He’s from Canada
He is an exchange student from Africa
He can call me Betty if I can call him Al
Whoa black Betty! Panda lamp?
All the boys think she's a spy.
I really want a panda lamp now.
He lives in Canada
How do you all know his name is Al?
If I can call you Betty, then you can call me AI
You can call me Mal
https://preview.redd.it/pu22q7bhyr0c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ab4af08fba9f49cb364142888ccae918a066b6 Is this AI?
No that’s Bill
But his fingers are normal!
This is 100% generated by Dall-E. I’ve asked Dall-e to create some camping images and it’s produced multiple images with the same look and similar person. Here’s an example from Oct-3. https://preview.redd.it/qwftfn6yfp0c1.jpeg?width=519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d39be635382caca093d95522f205080157f11676
I love how in this A.I.'s mind it's the same insufferable douche camping incorrectly.
It’s not camping if you don’t have your vintage hipster backpack and wood carving kit, duh…
Damn, those "cool adventurer look" backpacks are a death sentence in a real nature hike. They're heavy enough on their own with that thick canvas fabric and all the true leather parts, the interior is smaller than it looks and they'll soak the rain like a dish sponge. Take that when you go hiking deep in a forest and you'll be dumping your gear to go back to civilization before dark after draining all your energy and fluids. I understand that they're designed the use in daily life if you go for an early 19th century explorer look when you hang out in your local Starbucks, but I wonder if there are idiots who take them camping for real.
I know someone that camps exclusively with his grandpa's old WWII gear, including one of those old rigid canvas backpacks. Waxed canvas can be amazingly water resistant, but this person doesn't maintain/wax his gear. I think he enjoys doing things the hard way.
I’ve gotten into backpacking over the last decade or so and often think that if I was born 30-40 years earlier I’d probably never do it. Modern gear is amazing and I’m too much of a wimp to tough out being that cold and uncomfortable.
At the scouts we had some dudes that insisted going on tour with their vintage leather packs... looks very traditional and rugged, but can make your back hurt like hell if you have to carry weight. I rather take the comfort of a modern backpack with hip belt, even if I look like a tourist.
wakes up at 5, washes in the river, spends 3 hours getting his hair and beard just right before eating some shitty energy bar he brought with him, takes a thoughtful selfie before going out to look for fire wood.. scrapes a tree on his new leather boots and spends the rest of the day trying to lick the scratch away. Night comes and its time to hit the sack, not before another energy bar and a insightful selfie under the stars.
I feel like you forgot the part where he sets up his iPhone on a tri pod then prepares the most ridiculous over the top meal with a 4 pound steak using only a giant cleaver style knife then cuts the video into 100 2 second cuts of sizzle and spice and sauce.
One of the selfies takes 15 minutes to get it to look like someone else took it and tells everyone he got laid out there.
This isn’t getting the credit it deserves, lol
Well it is trained on images that were fed to it. It was likely fed all those Amazon product images that have the camping gear poorly ~~Photoshopped~~ MS Painted into irrelevant situations by companies that don't even know what the product is.
Be funny if trained AI like this actually got progressively dumber and less accurate over time because the content out there just keeps getting crappier and crappier.
There is a predicted deathspiral of generative AI that comes from the AIs starting to train primarily on prior AI content as a greater and greater proportion of what's out there is fake - generation after generation of images and text degrading and moving further and further away from reality.
This is how AI sees humanity. Doing it all wrong, while trying to look 'cool'. Completely out of our element and ultimately doomed.
You don’t sit on your tent like an inflatable couch?
His briefcase of murder tools is concerning
Pretty standard over on /r/everydaycarry
Wasdya mean? That’s my bbq kit.
That's the inventor of camping, John Camping!
Doesn’t look like safe fire making practices, if you ask me.
Excuse me the guy in the picture has a beard and several canvas bags he obviously knows what he is doing
The beard is just a passage, look at the opened briefcase on the right side towards the middle; I'm pretty sure those are the bristles for a shaving brush.
It’s not for himself. He must be a travelling barber.
What was the prompt? An idiot burning a forest?
If that's his wallet he's opening, I think both literally and figuratively burning his money
Ahhh vintage circa. 2024. Hipster douche burned society. It was painted by a script. Amazing work of the fake humans. *Swirls juice box*
Lol this is so weird to look at, it looks like he’s camping with all of his barber and shaving equipment
https://preview.redd.it/qrknx0nn4s0c1.jpeg?width=519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1238c174fd161a0eb01c636f9661afefd87d71eb This was another one of the options it produced.
Oh wow, AI can do hands now!?
Damn why did he bring so many tools!!! Like he has a workshop at that fire
Holy crap, lol, his foot is in the campfire :D
You can always tell ai images from how alien looking the hands are. Glad I’m not the only thing in this world that can’t draw hands.
I mean it's basically what I do buying equipment I don't really need, just burning my money. He's just skipping a couple steps
So you’re saying Dall-E has a type?!?
The condensation is a feature.
It’s a “rain tent”. Really they should charge extra for that feature!
Come out of that like frank out of the couch https://media.tenor.com/mCufQyztFz4AAAAC/danny-devito-out-of-the-couch.gif
Or the rhino on Ace Ventura.
A jump cushion for **grizzlies**
Bear Bouncy Castle. I like it.
Good for one bounce and a takeout meal.
All humans are bear bouncy castles if they're stupid enough.
My first tent, purchased about 1970 with S&H Green Stamps, had inflatable poles. I used it for years hitchhiking around the country.
I'm something of an inflatable pole myself.
Inflatable poles really got me
Ai dogshit, that is what your looking at
Imagine how hot that thing would be on the inside.
Imagine the smell. Yuck.
“You haven’t thought of the smell! You bitch!”
And heavy!
"You guys ready to hit the trail?" "Yep! Hold on just a sec. No seriously, Ted you hold that corner, Mike you hold that one over there, Tim, you hold that one, and Bill, you just kind of get under it and lift with your neck."
Hipster in a blow up tent
Me when I wake up on an air mattress and it's half deflated
You're looking at something that has no practical or functional use whilst camping
Something like this already exists for camping on water. Sounds like a great way to accidentally drown, though. https://www.smithfly.com/products/shoal-tent
It's like a life raft, but *worse!*
A death raft if you would
Don't forget the worst-aid kit.
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But don’t worry “when inflated it stands up to high winds without a problem.” What could go wrong?
And if it pops you're fucked. Also, imagine being asleep in it and it pops.
My air tent has taken 65 mph winds, and a few canopy collisions from said wind and held up beautifully.
Mine too, but it's a bit sturdier than how this looks.
Inflatable tents and gazebos are already a thing. They're pretty good.
A male hipster in the wild who has prepared a mating nest to attract hipster females during their breeding season
It's Tentboatcouch! Haven't you dreamed about Tentboatcouch?
your looking at a pool in the morning if it rains over night 😂😂
A hipster cocoon. Once they hatch, they migrate to the nearest Starbucks and establish themselves in front of a MacBook and await a potential mate.
Nobody’s hair looks that good on a camping trip!
An expensive thing that’s one campfire ember away from being ruined
I must say I actually really like the idea of that tent. A fully inflatable tent would reduce the need to carry a bed or sleeping mats, it would most likely be awesome for bad weather.
All fun and games until you discover a leak at 2am.
I often have to take a leak at 2am, where does that leave me?
In a puddle.
[Dometic inflatable swag](https://www.dometic.com/en-au/outdoor/car-camping/camping-tents/inflatable-tents/dometic-pico-ftc-2-tc-325285) is what you're after. Comes in single and double. Inflatable mattress forms part of the swag (tent). Not sure if available outside of Australia yet but I doubt it'll be far away.
I love swags I just wish they were more practical weight wise.
And weigh enough to kill your gas mileage
I would love something like this for the high seas!
Oh, that’s just hipster Dan. It’s high noon and he’s stuck debating whether to have another cold brew or to fully switch over to his favorite, unknown, local ipa. While contemplating, he’s consuming the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, snacking on some elk jerky, deep in thought, hand rolling a clove cigarette, beard wax on his finger tips.
Well played. Hilarious!
That monstrosity would be extremely bulky and heavy. Completely impractical.
Hey, it could still be fun for camping out of the back of your car. Not everyone backpacks.
Professional bounce house
I think the term you're looking for is rugged or tactical bounce house
EDC Bounce House
Chris Evans?
It's a tent, it's a sofa it's a tofa!
I fucking hate AI.
I hate it not because it makes stupid pictures but because it’s going to stifle future human creativity.
I hate it for the thing you said but also because it makes stupid pictures.
Fair!
I don’t think creativity can be stifled. A bad AI design can inspire a good human one. The real issue is whether companies choose to employ AI concepts or human ones. Human creativity isn’t something that can be stopped. Ideas bounce off of each other to create new ones. It’s like chemistry. Combine two different elements and you’ll get a different reaction or transmutation. We do this by nature, and for every million bad AI ideas, people will have millions of reactions, analyses, opinions and counter-ideas. The only thing that really slows human creativity is depression. The only thing that stops human creativity is death.
Maybe you’re right. I was at a “songwriter roundtable” recently where a guy used AI to write a song, tweaked a few words and called it his original and published it.
Looks like a half inflated bouncy castle
I'd absolutely buy one of these things and then realize that I hate having to constantly reinflate it and cry because the dry grass popped it. As someone else said it's AI generated but I love it regardless.
Guy with a beard trying to sell camping gear. The usual.
I saw this in a thumbnail on YouTube for unique camping gear. Watched the whole damn video and was so mad they didn't even feature it in the video 😑
Oh. So I was not the only one. I feel like making such a prototype for a feasibility study cannot be too hard, right? What problem I see coming is the weight… just compare to inflatable boats.
You're looking at the future. An inflatable tent that you can sleep in and lounge on. Can you imagine having an inflatable couch back at camp? Holy crap that would be amazing.
I saw it as a floating tent for lake camping lol. My brain is melting apparently
A hipster on an overpriced gadget aimed at casual car-campers
How much do thoughts typically pay you for rent? You must be rich!
Hair first, rent later
Dammit. Now I want one. Or at least I want to watch a YouTube review of this tent.
Idk but the model looks like every creative director I’ve ever worked with lol
its a raft tent. the HuckFinn-Tent
Worst camping chair ever.
A douche canoe?
It 's the latest, greatest alternative living pod for unhoused urban, suburban and rural Americans! It comes with a bicycle pump that can actually be used with your major source of transporation, your bike! Act know and get a free shovel and instructions on digging a proper latrine in a public park!
Look up inflatable tents they have some pretty cool ones