I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.
Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.
I remember trying to warn people on Reddit that their anti-AI crusades were going to hurt real people making real art, especially surrealists, and got banned from a bunch of art subs for being “pro-AI” as a result. Actually, they phrased it in far more hurtful and inflammatory ways, like “advocating theft.” Apparently caring about not hurting real human beings making real human art is “advocating theft.”
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
P.S. This photo is beautiful and I’m happy you had a mind to capture it and share it. Thank you.
It’s the same thing for writing. Use a single emdash and you get accused of using LLMs. It’s like, no, I’m literate. I read books. Sorry for paying attention in class…
I get these kind of reactions on Lemmy all the time. I say something that isn’t the exact party line, people assume I’m their worst enemy even though our disagreement is very minor in the broad scheme.
There’s always an US vs THEM element to any culture, but to me it seems like there’s been a relatively recent social trend (as in like the last decade) that anybody who isn’t jumping up and down waving pompoms for the one right side of an issue is presumed to be an extremist for the polar opposite wrong side, and all their other views about the world and their overall way of life are probably also despicable. It’s very simple binary thinking and works well with memes - minimal information to take in, quick and easy to process, one obvious right answer. It also fits gaming mindset very well - is this NPC on my side or should I kill him?
This really fits my two hot takes about how we need to fix the left:
- (1) end purity tests: an imperfect ally is still an ally.
- (2) we need to appeal to centrists more; ± straight cis white men feel alienated when we talk about privilege as though it’s a bad thing. We could talk about privilege as though it’s a great thing that you should be proud of instead. Then we’d have privileged allies, which would be really helpful.
I think item 1 would be enough to vastly improve the left’s appeal to centrists, many of whom are just liberals other liberals call centrist for not being liberal enough. Perfection is the enemy of progress.
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If the people who object to slop figuratively crucify real human artists for creating real human art, then they are the baddies.
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Nah fuck AI, this shit wouldn’t be happening if people routinely respected the rule so we could establish trust and benefit of doubt.
Thank you! And yes, I mean I realize it’s a two sided battle. I legitimately hate gen AI and what it was done to the art world. My current career is in the process of being completely devoured by AI and taking photos is something that brings me a lot of joy and connects me to the real world, so it’s infuriating to have both the loss of my career and denigration of my photography due to AI.
Well, also AI is hurting actual human beings. We should be fighting against it too. Yeah, be careful of crossfire, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fire at all.
I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.
Same i remember it was Toxic
Real talk! I got banned for “advocating violence”. Anyone who knows me would find that fucking laughable at best, and completely dishonest at worst. Been a few months now and I can sense an improvement in myself. I get more shit done and hate people a lot less.
People gonna pitchfork. I figure there are enough communities to peruse, getting banned by an overactively axe-grinding mod now and then isn’t a biggie. LPT: it’s not a reddit thing, those same mods are here too.
It’s the same shit on lemmy
I was watching a video yesterday where the video author said it was sketchy that another ytber had used an AI voice but still credited the original voice actor the Ai voice was based on, the voice actor also chimed in that they agreed and were still being paid even though the AI voice was being used.
Literally every time I see arguments against AI from creative it’s because losing income/stealing, he hit both those and yet that is still not good enough.
The goal posts will ever shift and the rage will never end.
In my own anecdotal experience, it’s been a lot better here, but I’m sure instance, communities, etc all have an impact. I have noticed a slight uptick in toxicity recently, but once I started using Voyager’s tagging feature I realized the perpetrators are almost always the same 4 people.
I got banned from a fandom subreddit for pointing out that a certain fan remaster was (partially, with tons of manual work) made with ML models. Specifically with oldschool GANs, and some smaller, older models as part of a deinterlacing pipeline, from before ‘generative AI’ was even a term.
The atla upscale?
Yep.
It’s not the best upscale TBH.
Hence I brought up redoing it with some of the same techniques (oldschool vapoursynth processing + manual pixel peeping) mixed with more modern deinterlacing and better models than Waifu2X. Maybe even a finetune? Ban.
There is no way this lighting is real. Given the follow up pic of the same environment I take it back its correct.
You can see particles on the concrete wall in the background. You can see how the physical objects in the image interact with one another. AI is good at replicating compositions, but you spot it by the details. At least, for now. This image is definitely real.
Nice, thanks for sharing! Maybe it’s even something for c/accidentalrenaissance?
I won, but at what cost? My fellow cones perished.
He is the chosen cone!
I for one, welcome our new pinecone overlord.
in fact i pine over its shining beauty
Incredible that an ai image happened outside your window. What a beauteous happening met upon you.
r/pics is a massive joke anyways. Screw that sub!
I highly doubt AI would properly generate a Fibonacci sequence in the pinecones.
I wouldnt rely on that https://fedia.io/m/adhd@lemmy.world/t/2366867/Pangolin-at-Work-1/comment/11341419#entry-comment-11341419
Dang it!
Eh, “perfect” is relative. There’s still plenty of weird little spots on that Pangolin’s scales
I got banned because I told everybody who was mocking that retarded weather guy to stop mocking him.
Frankie MacDonald?
I think he’s that Canadian dude on the coast and he’s super zealous.
I remember a huge like 20,000+ vote thread where people were just outright mocking him to his face, knowing that he’s not aware he’s being mocked.
I stood up to shame people and I got the shit beat out of me then banned.
Yeah it’s all fine for thousands of people to mock a person with an intellectual disability, that’s totally fine /s
conus pineae divinae
Well, stop feeding reddit’s AI machine.
Said the peen that just can’t help itself.
Looking for a giant peach.
peech*
Too much HDR. I can see why they thought it’s AI.
Still a nice shot. The composion and framing is nice.
Honestly, deep fried images usually give me a headache but this one is actually pretty nice. I think the horrible HDR gives it a painting like quality.
It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.
The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.
HDR would have oversaturated the colors of the little green plants popping up. I don’t know what people are on about there.
Personally, I think HDR works best for images that are almost devoid of color. Like I did the one below of the pillars at the Wisconsin state capitol:
people nowadays are really reactionary and stupid.
the whole anti-AI clusterfuck is just the tip of the iceberg.
if someone doesn’t immediately understand something now instead of asking good questions they reflexively start to regurgitate whatever shit in their head lit up the moment they realized their ignorance.
it’s gonna be the literal death of us all, and no one takes it seriously. people are genuinely incapable of critical thinking now and it isn’t some shitty ego thing to acknowledge it. i’ve stopped caring if i offend people over this, tbh. their latent disrespect for knowledge and rationalism offends me.
Composition*, fellow human.
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It’s not HDR. It’s a single shot, slightly underexposed so we don’t lose the highlight detail. The rest of the work could have been done in a physical darkroom. But thank you.
I think it’s just that the iPhone processing gives it a certain look that people associate with ai for possibly incorrect reasons.
I’m coming!
We trained him wrong on purpose, as a joke.
You go that way. I’ll go home.
I’m coming!
The Holy Pine Cone of Allentown.
Considering OP’s username, one might dub the holy relic The Primogen, I believe.
Ah, nice catch.
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If reddit was a thing before Photoshop was around, I assume they’d block not only that too, but stuff like changing hue, exposure, etc.
