thedirtyknapkin

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

it's tough to know what you're seeing without seeing it. can you post a side by side showing one image at 160 and another at a bigger iso where you aren't noticing this effect?

the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the "don't create the torment nexus" meme for tons of social media impressions.

though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won't get to post on social media from the mines.

the robots won't be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.

same reason harlan ellison wrote i have no mouth and i must scream i suppose...

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

nah, it's going to be the opposite.

if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can't see it and think we're weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they'll also think we're weird for caring.

our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video, or wanting things made by people when the ai generated thing is "good enough".

we'll be getting eyerolls for gifting a nice art set or a camera to our niblings. we'll embarrass our grandkids when we get upset at the ai point of sale system that mcdonalds starts using. "back in my day they had big touch screens where you could manually select your toppings on the burger, now you just yell into a box and MAYBE gets it right"

actually, if social media tech is anything to go on we won't even have that much control. your order will be algorithm based. chosen for you based on your recent ad footprint. the ai obviously knows what you want better than you do. the kids won't see it as weird. they'll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same, but we're going to hate it. the corps will push it anyway because it's so massively profitable with the demographics that like it and every restaurant will be owned by like 2 companies. they'll just force it on everyone else. we'll bitch about it, but most people will still keep going.

edit: had more thoughts on this in the shower.

we'll get to the point where we barely even have to pick a place to eat. there will be 2 apps. one owned by disneycokemcdonsldsalibaba, one owned by pepsifoxraytheonamazon. we will all be either a coke person or a Pepsi person and will likely just follow whichever brand our parents did. they'll be inherently political and each have a sponsored candidate in every election. it will define the entire world you live in. when it's time to eat you get a notification and the app orders you your meal.

it'll start as a service for when you can't decide what to eat then after it gets a critical mass of users it will start to enshitify into forcing what you eat before selling to the disney megacorp who will then push it into everything they own.

this is only for the rich people that these brands cater towards of course. we who would have once been creatives will be working manual labor at the camps for the underemployed. afterall, we're better off with the structure. it helps us be productive towards society. it's what's best for us....

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

only because people never stopped asking it to be able to id birds.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

they're just both wearing their most expensive outfits.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

it's not a sign of quality, it's a sign of what's to come. these companies will keep putting out things that work. sadly these live action Disney remakes sell very well even though everyone seems to hate them. that's what this tells us. if not for this info we'd all just be sitting around scratching our heads over why they keep doing them. this at least tells us why.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i just wish it wasn't the general direction the industry had decided to push things.

it's become the expected norm. it's the performance metric games are optimized to hit now, and it's far from prefect.

i was just playing red dead 2 yesterday with dlss and i was legitimately struggling to do some things due to the artifacting. like there are some small missions and challenges that require you to find and shoot specific tiny birds with a bow, but dlss struggles with small things flying across a dynamic background. the birds would literally fade in and out of existence.

same thing with trying to snipe distant heads. the little red fatal zone indicator would ghost like hell and fade in and out.

like, it may be better than needing to drop your resolution, but it still kind of sucks sometimes.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

ah yes, ignoring that it should actuality be a polygon, implying a closed shape with straight sides much like this ignores the "weapon" and "used for thrusting or striking" parts of the definition.

not hard to make strange things fit a definition when you just ignore parts of it.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

no no silly, that's what the private prisons are for.

they don't want to kill us, they want to enslave us.

free slaves are cheaper that rock breaking machines.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yeah, quick psa for passing readers.

never plant bamboo unless you either want to live in a full on bamboo forest and drown out every native plant around you or are ok With spending the rest of eternity fighting for you life to stop it from spreading.

 

Luka likes to bury her face into my hand sometimes. it's the best.

this feels like a meme format, but I don't know what it would say.

 
 

her name is alluka and you can see the royal quality of her countenance at first gaze. be grateful to witness her.

 

stopped by my favorite birding spot after work and had these fellas fly in over my head. guest appearance by a great blue heron.

shot on sony a7siii with a tamron 150-500. all handheld and after the sun was behind the mountains, so you'll have to excuse some shakiness and focus issues.

music: creep - original song by Radiohead - performed by scott bradlee's post modern jukebox.

 
 

shot on a7siii with a nikon Ai-s 28mm f/2.0

 
 

I'm sick as hell right now and this pulled up right outside my front door last night. stepped out to take a picture because nothing felt real for a moment. then i started coughing and kind of regretted it. worth it?

 

took this riding into Milwaukee the other day when it was foggy as hell over like a third of the county...

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