AI Images Slammed as ‘Just Swapped Characters’ Draw Pushback — 5ch: ‘Humans Are the Same, Just Swapped Genes’

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The story

A casual chat thread on 5ch’s “Anything Goes Live” board turned into a lively debate over how to judge AI-generated images. One poster claimed “AI images are all the same, they just swap out the character,” prompting pushback like “Humans are the same too, just with different genes” and “Even with the same look, motivation changes completely depending on the character.” The thread eventually settled on the take that “that criticism might’ve held up three years ago, but the technology has moved on since then.” The conversation also drifted through plenty of other trivial banter — a poster bragging about his girlfriend’s looks, jokes about a caution label written in Kansai dialect, and confusion over why the thread doesn’t display poster IDs — building into the kind of scattershot buzz typical of the board.

What people said

1AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:15
Double Punch 👊😅👊 vs 🙅 Cross Chop's 🏡
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1790282380/ VIPQ2_EXTDAT: none:none:1000:512:: EXT was configured
10AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:18
1000 Anonymous (Still Kicking) 2026/09/25(Fri) 12:17:20.55
👊😅👊
12AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:18
Re: #10
Koru koru koru lol (a jokey laugh sound, like saying "lol" over and over)
13AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:18
Re: #10
This is amazing‼
11AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:18
A field?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJxzA6_boAA8JOR.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJyV1L1bcAAmW50.jpg
16AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:19
Her looks are just too good
19AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:19
Re: #16
That's my girlfriend, y'know?
Cut it out.
18AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:19
AI porn images are all the same, they just swap out the character
22AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:20
Re: #18
Humans are the same too, just with different genes though
27AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:21
Re: #18
And yet how motivated you get totally depends on the character
48AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:25
Well, if we're talking about AI art from like three years ago, Re: #18's take is fair enough, but the times have moved on already
21AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:20
24AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:20
Re: #21
What is this, lmao
28AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:21
"Caution: risk of low-temperature burns" — wait, why's that written in Kansai dialect? (pun: "yakedo" means both "burn" and, in Kansai dialect, "but")
32AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:22
Re: #28
'"Caution: risk of low-temperature burns — why's that in Kansai dialect?" — why's THAT in Kansai dialect too?'
35AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:23
36AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:24
Re: #35
What's even funny about this?
52AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:25
Why doesn't this board show IDs?
56AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:26
Re: #52
Because everyone's been on their best behavior
57AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:26
Re: #52
There is one though?
Wait, you can't see it?
59AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:26
Re: #52
Because some coward started the thread
64AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:28
Ta-daaa~
90AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:34
Guess I'll run it again then

128AnonymousSep 25, 2026 12:40
Lunch

Background and Talking Points

Boards like “Anything Goes Live” (nandemo jikkyo) aren’t built around a single topic — they’re defined by a chain of off-the-cuff posts, and this thread is a textbook example. The exchange about AI-generated images is easier to follow once you consider how rapidly image-generation quality and expressiveness have improved over the past few years. AI art used to be criticized as “mass-produced,” with similar compositions and faces even when the prompt changed, but as models have improved, they now reflect prompt differences much more faithfully — which is likely what’s behind the comment referencing “how it looked three years ago.” On the other hand, these live-discussion threads tend to drop the context between posts, making it hard for readers to follow why an image was suddenly posted or how a spat got started. Since this thread also included some personal insults and baseless assumptions, those exchanges have been left out of this article.

*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “You Guys Look Like You’d Eat 🍜😅🍚.”

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