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.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    “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.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      There is something special about photography. Photographs capture something real, a physical point in time. What you see really existed.

      The problem with AI slop is that it gets better by the day and if you want to appreciate that single physical point in time that a photo represents, knowing that makes it special in ways that AI is not.

      Likewise, created art is a window into someone’s mind and soul. Knowing this also makes those works special in ways that AI is not.

      That said, the way certain communities crusade against AI is hurting actual, human artists. Especially those whose work skews toward the surreal. That is not ethical behavior and needs to be curbed.