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rumschlumpelHow is this a shitpost?
galoisghostIt’s an AI generated anti AI image. It’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford
ZagorathIt’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford
No offence, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s…not very far.
Still, I can smell it here in Brisbane. Which is still not that far on a global scale, but it’s a fair bit further. (Brisbane the city, that is, not the Brisbane Water that Gosford sits on.)
How can you tell?
His fingers for example. His thumb nails are widely different, one left finger looks weirdly fat. The fence behind him is different to the right and to the left of him, the bridge seems to consist of weird poles. There are many subtle hints, just look a while into the details and it will feel kind of odd.
I’m embarrassed to say that for me it took until the H in Human. It’s clearly an “It”. Which, considering how incredibly meticulous the rest of the sign was (itself quite suspicious in retrospect) is very jarring and out-of-place. The fact that the H is transformed not just into mess, but into a perfect rendition of two other valid characters is a very AI type of mistake to make.
There’s also, in retrospect, the question of where the photo was taken from. The photo shows an angle of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I don’t think is possible, especially when you add in that brick footpath and metal railing. It resembles, perhaps, parts of the railing from Circular Quay, which is west of the Opera House, and thus cannot show both Opera House and Bridge in the same photo. The angle appears to be from near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, but here’s what the view looks like there:
There’s also something just a bit “off” about the whole text. It looks digitally super-imposed. I’d be prepared to believe it was Photoshopped in over a blank board (or a board with a different message) even if it isn’t AI, long before I’d believe it’s 100% genuine.
The writing on the sign looking off was the first thing I noticed. The truly damning evidence is that the only place to get a photograph of the Sydney Opera house and the Harbour Bridge together in the angle shown is from Mrs Macquaries’s chair which much further away than shown in the photo. Maybe m there’s some trickery that can be done with a camera to make the Opera House look closer, still there’s a problem as there is no metal fence where this was supposedly taken.
edit2: actually looking at the first pic again that footpath isn’t bricks; that’s the shadow from the railing; it’s just concrete
Yeah I noticed that too after writing my own comment. But still, the railing sits on a big concrete foundation, and it’s pretty clearly right on the water. Near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair the railing doesn’t have the metal wire, doesn’t sit on the concrete foundation, and is notably raised up above the water.
PotatoesFallIronically the writing looks kinda AI generated lol
Or just photoshopped. Certainly doesn’t look handwritten …
It’s the lighting of the board more than the handwriting that looks fake, although that is very clean handwriting if real.
Matty_rI think it might be real. I agree that the lighting makes it look fake, I thought so too. But after looking at the lettering there are slight imperfections in some letters that would make sense if written by a marker. But I’m not the best judge of these things, my initial thought was fake/ai as well.
Sentient Loomit’s AI
Thumb shadow and apostrophe style switch, plus perfectly filled whiteboard markers lead me to think this is a Qwen image edit.
They trained their model on text added to images, so it often pops above background stuff.
Plus this is an uncommonly shaped whiteboard marker to get this rounded style, and there are no lift marks.
Also ironic is that none of the listed automations require machine learning and there’s been hard coded technology for them for a while.
abbiistabbiiit is AI generated.
There’s nowhere that thw operates house and Harbor bridge line up like that without something else being in frame.
The ground and fence behind him look more like they maybe the opera house surrounds than that side of farm cove.
They are going to be AI now, because fuck the planet!
I wonder if we’ll all get cheap GPU’s when the bubble pops
Those are specialized for server clusters. It makes zero sense to put them in a PC, and you probably don’t get a lot of gaming performance / Watt from them.
But if you are building a simulations lab that can spare a GPU failing here or there (because also, they become unreliable), then maybe. But the odds are good that the price difference doesn’t make it for the difference in flops / Watt when compared to new stuff.
So selfish, what about shareholder profit? We can really increase our margins by getting rid of Dougie and the crew
Oxysis/OxyI like self checkouts, I like not having to talk to people. Just easier on my very autistic brain.
Still should be plenty of regular checkout lanes too.
I hate self checkout, I like being able to space out and find it stressful doing the whole song and dance.
I like the idea of self checkout. The practical reality is often quite bad … I’d rather deal with a cashier (cashiers in my country rarely do small talk, it’s a very rote interaction) than having to wait for an employee to deal with the self checkout’s weird issues.
This is why self scan is my favourite. Just scan stuff on your phone as you walk around, pack your bags ahead of time and the only time the staff need to get involved is age checking alcohol or painkillers, if there is some problem you had scanning something or if you get a random rescan request (which is admittedly horrible as it makes you feel like a criminal when they find the one item that didnt scan right). So much easier and faster than any of the other methods.
I’d rather not use phone apps …
When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.
Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.
Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.
So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.
If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?
That seems to be where we’re headed.
What happens to the misbehavers?
MissJinxyeah I would love a life without human conection…but thats just me and I have mental issues lol
We should definitely change our whole society because a minority have not been socialized properly.
I’m old. I was socialized properly, I just don’t like to spend my low energy arguing with people like you because we are different. If people were nice to each other it wouldn’t take so much energy. I prefer machines
We are not different, that is just an excuse. I have grandkids already for Christ sake.
We should not be encouraging social disconnection in our society and become dependent on machines.
I get it, they are more convenient for YOU. But at what cost to everyone else?
Like I was saying, just because we have a bunch of people who have not been socialized doesn’t mean we should be encouraging it with technology.
You say your old, but you personalize like a teenager still.
GladaedThere is very little benefit from having a cashier scan your groceries. They rarely if ever interact with you. And self checkout also has staff assisting. They seem more relaxed.
hazelWho pays your rent?
What’s going on with your checkouts lol
TrackinDaKrakenThe cashiers were stressed because the corporations treat them like shit. I expect in the run-up to introducing self-checkout, they made it even worse, to justify charging us to work for them.
That said, I admit that while I hated the idea at first, because people would lose their jobs, I like self-checkout better.
HOWEVER, ideally, we’d have human cashiers, well-treated and well-paid, and enough of them to ensure a short wait. But, that’s not as profitable, so we get what we have now. Because, billionaires are ruining everything, and at an accelerated rate.
Why is it ideal for people to spend their productive time sitting at a cash register? That does not provide value.
In a theoretical society in which all of my material needs were met, and I was given ample time off, I would volunteer to sit behind a cash register for a few hours a day and help people check out their groceries. I’m sure I’m not the only one. What do you even mean by “productive time”? When you say that it “does not provide value”, do you mean monetary value or social value?
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DrDystopiaOne would think I’d love the idea, being Scandinavian and everything. Human interaction with people outside my absolute inner circle is a pain.
Turns out that interacting with AI is even worse so I’ve bought an eBike to avoid public transit, stopped eating at QR code places and such. I don’t work for free, for the companies benefits, by doing selfscan shopping. Unless it’s somewhat reasonable, every interaction with public services is a “go-slow” operation.
They told me I could become anything I wanted, so I became sand. Not very smart throwing me into the machine.
Become sand my friends and maybe one day we’ll meet at the beach.
People should have to work shitty service sector jobs so that I have someone to talk to. Because obviously I will never encounter other humans if they aren’t being forced to trade half their waking hours for money. What am I supposed to do, talk to people who aren’t being forced to put up with me if they don’t want to lose their income?
The “AI” being pushed on us now is trash, but if we do eventually get to the point of being able to automate away the vast majority of jobs, we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI, make robots do the shit that you wouldn’t do for free, and let us all have free time to do the things we actually want to do.
AllNewTypeFaceIn a neoliberal society, having some human cashiers for the lonely people to have a natter to about their aches and grandkids while they ring up their groceries is as much human contact as one can ask for. This isn’t Communist 1970s Sweden, where the government employed social workers whose job was to check in on lonely old people.