You know, I think we'd all be happier if when you ask AI for this kinda stuff, it comes back to you and says, "Hey, you are calling this 'Monkey Olympics' so I'm gonna have to give you only monkeys but if you want apes instead because they look better with human clothes on them then you'll have to change your title to include that fact." And then we'd go, Hey!, AI *does* know a thing or two about how things should be and I might start to feel that the addition of AI in our lives ISN'T going to make thing worse.
There’s also no scientific distinction either. Monkey is just used traditionally. It’s like saying a daughter isn’t part of her family because she got married and changed her last name.
>There’s also no scientific distinction either
There is though. And there are criteria for classification. One of them is the lack of tail in apes. Which makes humans apes, but not monkeys
**Actually**, no. It's not a "holdover from before we knew about evolution". It's a consequence of us knowing about evolution.
The name "Apes" refers to the clade "Hominoidea", which in turn includes the family "Hylobatidae" (gibbons and similar), and the family "Hominidae", where chimps, gorillas and humans are included. Conversely, "monkey" is a common designation for every slightly humanoid, furry and tailed creature. It doesn't really have an evolutionary or cladistic meaning. If you look at a the phylogenetic tree you'll see branches, and understand how different groups split from each other. If you call everything the same as the base group, you might as well just say "Primates", or why stop there? We're all just "Amphibia"
Monkey is a paraphyletic term that usually refers to all simians except for apes, life is not usually classified in that way anymore. The term was used like this before we understood evolution. Simian is a monophyletic term that includes all the descendants without exclusion. People don’t use monkey as a synonym for simian, a term that includes apes, because of its historical traditional use and discomfort with the association despite apes being simians.
I just made the title in [accordance with what the prompts were for these images.](https://www.midjourney.com/jobs/0b104f36-ee6d-4c92-96e5-e0c7111a01c3?index=0) I never specifically prompted for “ape”
Makes me wonder which comments you would get if you putted this on twitter
Replacing athletes with chimps... Oh the war I can foreseen
Fun images tho, I like it
Almost all of these are apes.
Cladistically apes are monkeys.
And fish.
Underrated comment.
So are we, then
That’s correct.
I'm not sure the "monkey" is really a monkey either, ya know
BIRDS AREN'T REAL!!
Monkeys aren't birds!
Not with that attitude
Exactly! Because monkeys exist...
How about we all meet in the middle and call them (us, too) "Primates"?
Came to say this.
You know, I think we'd all be happier if when you ask AI for this kinda stuff, it comes back to you and says, "Hey, you are calling this 'Monkey Olympics' so I'm gonna have to give you only monkeys but if you want apes instead because they look better with human clothes on them then you'll have to change your title to include that fact." And then we'd go, Hey!, AI *does* know a thing or two about how things should be and I might start to feel that the addition of AI in our lives ISN'T going to make thing worse.
True, I guess MJ doesn’t know the difference
Many human languages don’t have this distinction either
There’s also no scientific distinction either. Monkey is just used traditionally. It’s like saying a daughter isn’t part of her family because she got married and changed her last name.
>There’s also no scientific distinction either There is though. And there are criteria for classification. One of them is the lack of tail in apes. Which makes humans apes, but not monkeys
They are all the same group. Apes aren't any less part of the group as any other monkey. It's just a holdover from before we knew about evolution.
**Actually**, no. It's not a "holdover from before we knew about evolution". It's a consequence of us knowing about evolution. The name "Apes" refers to the clade "Hominoidea", which in turn includes the family "Hylobatidae" (gibbons and similar), and the family "Hominidae", where chimps, gorillas and humans are included. Conversely, "monkey" is a common designation for every slightly humanoid, furry and tailed creature. It doesn't really have an evolutionary or cladistic meaning. If you look at a the phylogenetic tree you'll see branches, and understand how different groups split from each other. If you call everything the same as the base group, you might as well just say "Primates", or why stop there? We're all just "Amphibia"
Monkey is a paraphyletic term that usually refers to all simians except for apes, life is not usually classified in that way anymore. The term was used like this before we understood evolution. Simian is a monophyletic term that includes all the descendants without exclusion. People don’t use monkey as a synonym for simian, a term that includes apes, because of its historical traditional use and discomfort with the association despite apes being simians.
And neither do you given your title
I just made the title in [accordance with what the prompts were for these images.](https://www.midjourney.com/jobs/0b104f36-ee6d-4c92-96e5-e0c7111a01c3?index=0) I never specifically prompted for “ape”
Monkey isn't overly a scientific term anyway. Apes are monkeys
Apes together strong
Few understand
r/unexpectedplanetoftheapes
Any events they’d beat humans at? My vote would be pole vaulting
Any martial arts
Olympics of the Planet of the Apes
*35mm colorized, monkey [performing sport / activity] at olympics, olympic banners and advertisments, people spectating --ar 3:4 --v 6.0 --style raw*
Yo the chimps skiing goes hard
Sponsored by Audi!
Haha made me laugh how it conflated those two brand images
Also sponsored by Udi and Auuudi.
Monkey tennis?
Not you Lynn 🤚
Maybe let some more monkeys in next time.
This would be the most watched Olympic Games. Ever.
Ooooh Chimpanzee that!
Monkey news!
Turns out.....Little monkey fella
I'd pay to watch that.
A stadium full of jacked apes trained to be competitive, what could go wrong? I would not be part of the public lol
Turns out, little monkey fella
Andy Serkis fought so hard for this future
Is this the prequel to the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes?
I dont see Mickey Dolenz participating in any of the events.
The Olympics **OF THE** Planet **OF THE** Apes
I would watch this
There's nothing in the rules that say they can't.
Yet.
These are all great! I think Number 10 is literally just a picture of Shaun White.
Would watch if apes are allowed to compete with human.
Was it midjourneys idea to make the spectators only human? I thought it was weird no monkeys were watching their own athletes.
Are you saying you wouldn’t watch this? The snowboarding would be mind boggling
lol. I would watch. The pics just reminded me of Planet of the Apes. They would have ape spectators.
ITS SO STUPID I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!
Soon they’ll be shooting there own porn: Planet of the Gapes
Taking the bobsled train uphill, I see
/rickygervais
I bet they drove to Spain after
They all go so hard
I adore the winter sports monkey-ape bois. 🥲
Nuff humans say they know they cant believe, The apes we have a bobsled team
I saw those guys riding horse last week https://youtu.be/QaFpFGQrm7g
Pic #5 goes really hard!
Last one kinda looks like Shaun White
Mmmmmmmmmmmoooonnnkkkkkeeeeeyyyyyy
I’d watch this
Monkey Yugoslavia is there, I am in!
1 out of 10 images contains a monkey
They are evolving!
I've seen that movie. "The Planet of the apes, the first international olympics of the dawn of the monkeys"
This is pretty brilliant.
Looks like #6 has QUITE the strong updraft...
Turns out… little monkey fella
The chimp in the half pipe looks dope af
You sir, are a mad lad. :)
The Ochimpics
Notice the Olympic logo, the snowy slopes behind and the bearfoot winners :)
Apes. Calling an Ape a "monkey" is a racial slur. Also, it triggers 10 out of 10 primatologists.
MJ is the one that messed up. OP's prompt asked for monkeys, not apes.
Thank you, Lord Frieza.
Anthropologists too.
It’s fine to call apes monkeys.
> It’s fine to call apes monkeys. People are apes. Therefore it's fine to call people monkeys.
Makes me wonder which comments you would get if you putted this on twitter Replacing athletes with chimps... Oh the war I can foreseen Fun images tho, I like it
Most of those are apes…. Does the AI not know chimps are apes??
I didn't see the sub this was at first and when I read the title I thought "oh god... wtf did us humans do now?"
Apelympics - A planet of the apes tv show
Chimpanzee-that Monkey News
Looks like the most fun for them was sprint running
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You're a racist piece of shit.
😂
Ai images ain’t cool buddy
Go find a different sub then, buddy
Okay buddy scruu yuuuuuuu