This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.
This happened one day in the window well outside my office. I got banned from r/pics for posting it.
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.
To be fair, I totally understand why people think it's AI. Between the phone camera processes and the extreme postprocessing, this looks more deep fried than some memes I've seen. It almost looks like it's got a cartoon filter applied.
Add on the fact that OP is trying hard to down play how much editing has been done, it starts to feel like it doesn't add up. If OP posted the unedited photo to show the bad phone sharpening and admitted how much editing was done on top of that, people would understand what they are looking at.
Don't get me wrong, it looks cool, but when someone says "oh, no I just took this with my phone", I look at that and think that's not the whole truth.
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.
the ai witchhunt gets a bit silly, sorry you got caught up in v it. very cool photo!
The default subs are controlled by people involved with karma farming. Some of them are so bad that the mods will ban anyone with a high number of upvotes to prevent them from competing with the bots.
Funny enough, I bet the same mods will let a bot report your pic in a few months.
r/pics is a massive joke anyways. Screw that sub!
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.
conus pineae divinae
Thomas Kinkade's pinecone.
Welcome to lemmy
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.
serves you right for posting something so lewd.
stupid sexy pinecones...
Nice, thanks for sharing! Maybe it's even something for c/accidentalrenaissance?
Lol when I first saw iPhone my brain read it as the default signature iPhones put in emails.
Sent from my iPhone.
I won, but at what cost? My fellow cones perished.
Incredible that an ai image happened outside your window. What a beauteous happening met upon you.
Quest item.
Just as the prophecy foretold!
Welcome home then.
https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images
It passed this test.
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.
