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Innövative sölutiön (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This image… I don’t know if it is AI or it isn’t… but it certainly feels like AI…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Called a Tambur, usally between 15-25 tonns. Reason not bigger / heavier is that then it starts to damage "crushes" it self.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Most certainly ai generated, many things in the picture don't make much sense when looked at in detail. First of all, who would leave that absolute unit of a roll in the middle of the factory? With an axle inside?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

As you've been proven wrong, this is a good time to point out that accuracy rates of humans identifying AI pics is ~50%, or no better than guesswork. Keep that in mind the next time you declare something AI. YOU might be the reason an artist quits their passion, not AI

Edit: Since I see how my statement might be misconstrued. I'm aware this particular pic is AI gen. I'm referring to OP's statement about the axle being nonsense, which somebody else showed is standard practice. And that doesn't really take away from my main point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

How have I been proven wrong? The other commenter posted a (real) picture of a similar thing, that proves that these exist (which I haven't put into question), not that the other picture is not ai generated. They even said that some detail bugs them, so no one has 'proven' the first image is a real photograph.

On the other hand, the poster of that link didn't say they're quitting art, just not posting it online. But even if that were the case, receiving (even unjust) criticism is part of being an artist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As you’ve been proven wrong

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was referring to OP's statement about the axle, which somebody else pointed out is standard practice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I'm not buying that given the second half of your comment. You're just trying to weasel out instead of apoloigising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's getting ready to be lifted like this: https://www.123rf.com/photo_135982015_paper-mill-production-of-paper-rolls-for-the-printing-industry-paper-rolls-in-a-factory.html

The one thing that bothers me is the lack of chocks to keep it from rolling, but we can't really see in the black area, they could be there, or the floor could have an indentation or something

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's how they make paper and a lot of other flat goods like tape. The manufacturer makes these gigantic rolls then there's this entire industry called converting where a company, a converter, takes it and process it down into a finished product. They may add adhesives, lamination or printing to it during the process.

You can go to a store and buy 3M tape but 3M doesn't actually make it like that. They make a 12ft wide, 10,000 ft roll that someone buys and forklifts into a machine that cuts it into a bunch of smaller rolls that you can buy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Those machines are referred to as slitters. I designed and built 2 for 3M Abrasive division back in the 1990's. Talk about a process that involves less than reliable hardware, (I never met an air bar or pneumatic web sensor I didn't hate), and enough wishful thinking to achieve the speeds 3M wanted them to run at that would make an Alchemist proud. I was constantly amazed that my designs even worked at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Adobe stock photos link says its generated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Ok I'm gonna make an ai to feed generated prompts into a generative AI, let it run for a week and sell the mountain of slop as stock photos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Do it. You either get that cheese or they stop being shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

[2] is ai generated or so it says. [4] is real but not as big, and not quite a ton, it says '307kg'.