cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world•How AI slop undermines our understanding of realityEnglish
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    8 days ago

    big oof.

    We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

    the author of this substack is woefully misinformed about the state of technology 🤦

    it has, in fact, been possible for several years already for anyone to quickly generate convincing images (not to mention videos) of fictional scenes in real locations with very little effort.

    The photograph—which appeared on the Associated Press feed, I think—was simply taken from a higher vantage point.

    Wow, it keeps getting worse. They’re going full CSI on this photo, drawing a circle around a building on google street view where they think the photographer might have been, but they aren’t even going to bother to try to confirm their vague memory of having seen AP publishing it? wtf?

    Fwiw, I also thought the image looked a little neural network-y (something about the slightly less-straight-than-they-used-to-be lines of some of the vehicles) so i spent a few seconds doing a reverse image search and found this snopes page from which i am convinced that that particular pileup of cars really did happen as it was also photographed by multiple other people.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•carrot.pyEnglish
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    16 days ago

    only hobbyists and artisans still use the standalone carrot.py that depends on peeler.

    in enterprise environments everyone uses the pymixedveggies package (created using pip freeze of course) which helpfully vendors the latest peeled carrot along with many other things. just unpack it into a clean container and go on your way.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Sounds like a threatEnglish
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    16 days ago

    If they had just repeated what I had on my image, I wouldn’t have complained at all.

    They posted my address. Stop blaming me for shit other people dead.

    My assumption that whatever they posted came solely from your image was because they said:

    That barcode above is your full address btw

    to which you replied:

    But the post didn’t until you posted it.

    Do you see how someone looking at that exchange would read it as you acknowledging (via the word “But”) that whatever they posted did in fact come from the barcode, and you are complaining about them decoding it?

    If they in fact obtained and posted your full address via some other means, I’m sorry for misunderstanding - and curious how they learned it!

    I’m still also confused by the fact that the barcode does not (as far as I can tell) contain a full address but rather just a zip+4 - which you also (still) have visible in text form in the image.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Sounds like a threatEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’m really curious - was it actually your full address, or just your neighborhood? If the former, do you know how they learned it?!

    From reading the thread (only after they had already edited their comment) my impression is that whatever they posted came solely from the image you posted. Was that not the case?

    Apologies if I’ve misunderstood.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Sounds like a threatEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I didn’t. You posted my personal information on the Internet.

    They did, but so did you. They could not have posted it in text form if you hadn’t first posted it as a barcode which anyone (still) can decode.

    i fully agree that they should have told you privately instead of posting it in text form, and i personally would have deleted their comment if it was on the instance where i could (and if they hadn’t edited it already to remove your address).

    however, i must say: you appear to be confused. it has been six hours since their initial comment pointing out that you are doxing yourself via that barcode, and it is clear from your replies that you desire not to have your address published here… yet somehow you have still not replaced the image with a version that censors the barcode.

    lemmy has an “edit post” function. if you don’t want your address to be public, you should edit the post to replace the image with one that censors that barcode. HTH!

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