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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.
Welcome home then.
こんにちは!
I gotta check if Laid Back Camp has a new series!
Most recent series was last year. I think it was meant to be the last one.
Konnichiwwa.
Incredible that an ai image happened outside your window. What a beauteous happening met upon you.
Welcome to lemmy
Just as the prophecy foretold!
Eat it for permanent +0 to HP.
Completely unrelated, but tonight I opened an app to look for hotels, and it greeted me with a message that I had a "0% off" coupon for my next booking
Looks like AI to me. Why are there pinecone reflections on what appears to be a concrete wall in the back?
I'd love to see another photo of this basement window well.
When you don't understand how anything works, everything seems like ~~a conspiracy~~ AI
You sound like AI to me
Just for fun I tried reproducing this with chatgpt and it consistently messes up aligning the light beam with its illuminated patch no matter what I try. They always fail on the weirdest details
It’s several panes of glass. Glass is reflective.
that’s exactly why it’s not AI. AI wouldn’t replicate the glass half-reflection that well. and the background is clearly the outside forest, nobody’s having pinecones detritus and plants in their own basement except that greenthumbsman from _goosebumps _
"Please provide proof of authenticity before I allow myself to enjoy this picture."
I don’t get the ideological hate for gen-AI - especially when it comes to visual art. All I care about is whether I enjoy looking at it or not. I couldn’t care less who or what made it.
There are communities for AI generated images. The presumption for photography communities is that submissions are taken pictures.
According to OP this is not AI generated.
It's not, the needles or whatever are way to consistent, even in the darker areas. AI would have fucked all that up
Also, it's a basement well window, I have one of these as well. So OP would be standing on the side of the window in his house and the pinecone is on the other side in the fire escape well
Think of it like looking into a really big terrarium
You answered your own question. It’s a window well. It’s glass.
He is the chosen cone!
I for one, welcome our new pinecone overlord.
in fact i pine over its shining beauty
I highly doubt AI would properly generate a Fibonacci sequence in the pinecones.
the ai witchhunt gets a bit silly, sorry you got caught up in v it. very cool photo!
