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Debra Echoles
November 15, 2023 at 8:03 am
Another reason to smile) ????
Plate_Armour999
November 15, 2023 at 8:03 am
another batman?
& spiderman’s foe
Al Rods
November 15, 2023 at 8:25 am
Her argument for the toast being real is “I’d eat that”?
JayCreates☮
November 15, 2023 at 9:59 am
Obviously the staged section of the video
Lexy Savvides
November 15, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Note to self: don’t record a video on an empty stomach again
Bulolo Wilber Innocent
November 15, 2023 at 8:29 am
BTW, I wish we could get a link in the description to access these images
M ZK
November 15, 2023 at 8:34 am
i don’t think it is too hard to tell the difference to be honest.
The images are nice enough to present but even the slightest amount of zoom shows that the images lack depth have the smoothing effect.
They do not pass the uncanny calley, it almost feels like video game rendered people and focusing for just a moment would help with weeding out what is real.
Lastly real photos have leave traces of chaotic random scenery that AI images do not reproduce well.
milo
November 15, 2023 at 2:36 pm
For now. But what about in 5 years?
M ZK
November 15, 2023 at 2:52 pm
@milo I think once video games surpass the uncanny valley then AI will too.
It would be interesting to see that happen in the next 5 years but I don’t think it will.
K
November 15, 2023 at 8:40 am
Says the website that publishes AI generated articles LOL
JMCU
November 15, 2023 at 8:41 am
I would agree with Lexi that context matters as to how AI Imagery can be used.
Charles Smith
November 15, 2023 at 8:55 am
The point made at 07:28 is key. We probably need to read everything about Pablo Picasso & his contemporaries adaptations to painting vs photography. (NatGeo’s genius season 2 & especially Picasso’s War How Modern Art Came to America) Sometime downstream we will hopefully get the next Salvador Dalí?
Christopher Mara
November 15, 2023 at 9:01 am
I wish you showed the complete images. It’s obvious that these photo are cropped. Cropping leaves a lot of the evidence of manipulation out.
Nicholas Doulgass
November 15, 2023 at 10:04 am
The bose headphone inclusion for marketing was so cringe ????
Jeffrey Weinstein
November 15, 2023 at 10:11 am
They have bone structure apps these days called “Why Am I Ugly”. Where insecure teenage girls superimpose their facial features over that of models.
nothingmatter
November 15, 2023 at 10:14 am
Girl: “Do we win a prize”
Editorial Manager: “Yes you do you get to go home”.
????????????
Brian Nave
November 15, 2023 at 10:14 am
An enemy could get you in a lot of trouble by putting you somewhere you shouldn’t be.
Brent Smithline
November 15, 2023 at 11:42 am
Feel that a new standard should be developed when it comes to recording images. Each and every image should be digitally signed in such a way that if it is altered from the original, it would be able to be detected. If you can think about it, eventually things like this can be done. Standards, standards, standards.
Cody Jacques
November 15, 2023 at 11:49 am
Regarding ai. We need a bill of rights that protects our likeness. We should also revise slander laws to emcompass false or modified images.
Jeffrey Weinstein
November 15, 2023 at 12:50 pm
I am surprised that the human race still isn’t forming our kids developing bone structures, to avoid those creepy, unfriendly-looking deep set brows.
CNET
November 15, 2023 at 2:18 pm
Do you think AI photography should be regulated?
Ken Shouldice
November 15, 2023 at 2:28 pm
Photoshop destroyed the authenticity of photographs.
AI only makes it easier to generate deeper more complex illusions.
I couldn’t wait for “information at your finger tips” (IBM circa 1984),
totally naive to the fact that our society has not developed an adequate definition of “truth”.
milo
November 15, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Ai needs to be HEAVILY legislated. It is very dangerous imo.
superultrafabulous
November 15, 2023 at 3:12 pm
This entire AI “photography” movement is wrong. If you didn’t get the right pose or somehow the shot didn’t come out then that’s it, it didn’t come out. Anything AI does for you after that point is a waste because it didn’t happen in this time and space. It’s not real. Nothing is better the truth of the moment. Any rewards on offer are hollow. Silly cosmetic things are one thing but AI generated “photos” of Isreal/Palestine war are on another level of shame that cannot be photoshopped out.
rgen28
November 15, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Eventually there won’t be photographers. Everything will be fake
Nick Roosevelt
November 15, 2023 at 7:11 pm
Seems like they are looking for the wrong things.
Teetwo Dev
November 15, 2023 at 7:35 pm
???? What’s worse really? A fake Ai picture or a “real” Kardashian?
Kilian Smith
November 15, 2023 at 8:02 pm
You’re a true visionary! ???? – The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same..