Tim Bray 🇨🇦“Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch” - astonishing photo and interesting how-it-was-done narrative.
Clyde Davidson@timbray Pure AI. There are no galaxies that are together like that NOR are visible from Earth like that!
@lugh_clyde In these particular times, you really shouldn't throw that particular accusation around.
Ditol@timbray
Actually, it is quite the opposite: in these particular times one has to prove a photo of a magnificent phenomenon, a result of hours and days of hard work, is not some AI slop. I just saw a video of another "magnificent phenomenon" two weeks ago, fortunately it was clearly recogniseable as AI. So when I saw this photo, I immediately thought this was another AI slop image. In my mastodon timeline. I hate it. Then I read the blog article. But since the internet is full of fake blogs written by AI agents, I am still only 95% convinced. I hate the time we live in.