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Fucking AI slop
Every image that's posted now has someone calling it "AI slop" without the slightest bit of evidence, reasoning, or research. It's so frustrating. I hate the stuff too, but honestly you're laundering their image. If everything is called AI slop then the valid calls don't matter. It also works to say "their technology is so good, this real image can be mistaken for their output." It's bad in so many ways. Please stop, unless you want to put more effort in.
Yep! As much as I dislike the use of genAI for most purposes, the accusations can do more harm than good.
I think it is indeed getting harder to tell. Still, I'd rather let some filthy undisclosed genairs through the door than shout down the humans actually still putting in effort. (I realize I'm digressing from this post with an older image.)
Nope, it's at least as old as May, 2020. It's just painted cardboard, not that hard to set up IRL.
Yeah this feels like a pandemic lockdown stir crazy activity.
It's from 2020, AI was nowhere near good enough to get close to looking like this.
In fact, here's the OP, a photographer on Reddit: https://www.vxreddit.com/r/pics/s/3qM4aq12UU
Tineye shows a 2020 post with this image, you sure?
What made you think this was AI generated?
The dog isn't even reacting to the inferno unfolding around it.
There is no inferno! THIS IS FINE
you faker you
Lmao gottem