Who's ready for quantitative easing in Q4?

bezos with his new freaky looking wife that looks like lizard grinning.
- She definitely gives Mileena vibes.
- Yeah the thoughts in 3 out of those 5 people all look quite different.
  Musk looks like he just trying to hold in another hitler solute though for sure.

There was probably an AI filter with the compression that makes this very real photo from a decade ago look like AI slop.

A reddit thread 9 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/5mac9k/this_pic_of_paul_ryan_laughing_with_congressional/

Yeah, sure, but have you considered the feelings of the people who came here to just comment "AI slop"?
Count my opinion as however invalid you feel like after knowing that I'm one of those CRT screen lovers for retro video games, but I honestly think the AI smoothing look WAY WORSE than just the low res original. I don't know why people like it more? But i guess people also like that TV motion smoothing junk that's enabled by default on new TVs too.
- No disagreement here. I'll take the .jpeg pixellation over AI filters anyday.
- It depends on which type of ai upscaling is being used.
  Some are basically a neural net that understands how pixelation works with light, shadow, and color gradients and can work really well. They leave the original pixels intact, figure out the best guess for the gaps using traditional methods and then correct the guesses using feedback from the neural net.
  Others are way closer to "generate me an image that looks exactly the same as this one but had three times the resolution". It uses a lot more information about how people look (in photos it was trained on) than just how light and structure interact.
  The former is closer to how your brain works. Shadow and makeup can be separated because you (in the squishy level, not consciously) know shadows don't do that, and the light reflection hints at depth and so on.
  The latter is more concerned with fixing "errors", which might involve changing the original image data if it brings the total error down, or it'll just make up things that aren't there because it's plausible.
  Inferring detail tends to look nicer, because it's using information that's there to fil the gaps. Generating detail is just smearing in shit that fits and tweaking it until it passes a threshold of acceptability.
  The first is more likely to be built into a phone camera to offset a smaller lens. The second is showing up a lot more to "make your pictures look better" by tweaking them to look like photos people like.
- We are just old. I HATE tv smoothing, it looks like ass. I love crts and good flat screens but man that smoothing shit is awful. Also gaming on crt is peak for me.
  Kids know nothing else.
I think it mostly looks so good because this was taken at a bill summoning be a professional photographer with a big, fast lens and very good camera sensor, and decent lighting in that room. Possibly with a fill flash indirectly lighting too.
AI filters are only necessary when you are compromising one of the other ingredients, bad lighting lens or equipment primarily. Or a bad/lazy photographer.

Every time I see this meme I hope it's the last time I'll have to see it :'(

As long as more than two people still exist, something like this meme will be reality.
- What a dangerous fantasy to indulge in.
  The only thing more obscene than the laughing billionaires is the cynical satisfaction you take in declaring their victory to be a law of nature.

AI slop.

which is odd considering plenty of real pics of "laughing politicians" (or even just people in suits that might look like politicians) exist to use.
- No billionaire's were harmed in the making of this meme
- It's real. Not AI.
Nope, this one is real, just weird looking people and poorly upscaled.
News article from 2016: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/11/obamacare-repeal-republicans-president-obama-veto-health-column/78597014/
Original image:
Reference portion that was particularly mangled:
Mangled, but still recognizable as just .... Funny looking people.
Except for this guy:
He doesn't seem to have been mangled at all. Just looks real weird.
- he has a face mask on.
Dang you're right. I stole it from somewhere else and didn't bother to inspect it
Edit, apparently this is a real picture that got deep fried a bit.
- That's the insidious nature of it eh, only so much time anyone has to inspect stuff, it passes the 10 foot squint, but this stuff is only going to get more believable in time
Not everything is AI slop, I think you're overfitting. Paul Ryan Reuter 2016 Obamacare Repeal
Wait isn’t this a real picture? I swear I’ve seen this before the clankers took over. That’s Paul Ryan, this is from like 10 years ago or something, isn’t it?
- Yeah it’s real. People are just overeager to call every picture “ai slop” even if it clearly just been filtered/enhanced.
Dude in front has 37 knuckles.
What gave it away?
- Assuming this is a serious question, zoom in on the face of the blonde woman on the right.
stop with the slop already

Off with their heads!

Ironically, this looks like AI. Those people don’t look real.

Because they aren't and you're right.
- Idk, I think that’s what Trumps cabinet looks like. Inhuman.
- It's just an ai upscale, actually. I really wish people wouldn't do that. It makes trying to find signal in the noise so much harder.