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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

"Obviously" has been a conclusive reason to condemn things since social media began. So of course "obviously AI" falls under that impeccable standard.

Also just curious, is taking photos with an iPhone something people apologize for now? I don't keep up with all the latest acceptibility rules.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I can see why, it looks AI as hell...

I think it looks nice. AI or not.

I'd have to stare at it for longer than I have to decide if it's AI. So until I can do that, I'm going to trust the OP until I can verify their claims.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Lol when I first saw iPhone my brain read it as the default signature iPhones put in emails.

Sent from my iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I don't see how they could have mistaken this for AI. It just doesn't have the vibe, there's too much roughness and it's not just totally overloaded with details.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's the people who impersonate art with slop who deserve the blame for the confusion, not the people who object to the slop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If the people who object to slop figuratively crucify real human artists for creating real human art, then they are the baddies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

A careless false accusation is a bad thing, but not as bad as creating the situation of fucking up the culture in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no way this lighting is real

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I don’t miss Reddit. That place was bad for my mental health.

Same i remember it was Toxic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got banned because I told everybody who was mocking that retarded weather guy to stop mocking him.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I won, but at what cost? My fellow cones perished.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

TIL what a window well is. I would honestly love to see what it looks like from outside. Is there some kind of covered up grate on top?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here it is several years later. It’s an office that I rent. The landlord apparently does not care about maintaining the windows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was so confused by the image initially as I hadn't seen a window well that deep before. This follow-up picture made it all click, thanks for sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sometimes. The smaller (typical?) ones tend to either be fully covered or have a grate. Many are big enough to stand in, to have plants/garden, or even be used as emergency exits. And might not have any covering.

This one almost definitely had a grate of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think I got banned from /r/pics for some random comment too. We can be twinsees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Right? I don’t get it. They gave no reason except pointing to a rule that stated no posting someone else’s work as your own. Which obviously was not the case here. But they did not respond to a request to look into it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I have a mental image of you in a basement sweatshop in Philadelphia- the air is full of smoke and there's a constant barrage of German speeches and gunfire being played over the loudspeaker, broken only by the occasional steam whistle. You take a longing glance out the window, wishing you were on one of the higher floors so you could jump. And there is it.

Pinecone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Quest item.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, stop feeding reddit's AI machine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Said the peen that just can't help itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Looking for a giant peach.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Too much HDR. I can see why they thought it's AI.

Still a nice shot. The composion and framing is nice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

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:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Composition*, fellow human.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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