https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
edit: messed up and replaced image with a fixed image. I stumbled, foolishly, into using an AI filter I thought, foolishly, was a traditional style image filter.
Edit: turns out it was AI, I messed up. Fooled and foolish. Sorry about that.
nope, processed stock photography, the scissors are occluded in the original, this is a filter on a stock photo. I found it as part of the Brown Black and White Modern Labor Day Instagram Post template on Canva. It is not AI:
@davidaugust @ai6yr @trevorparker What filter? It did some awfully slop-looking things to your image. Are you sure your filter isn't itself a bit sloppy?
On edit: The more I look, I'm increasingly convinced your filter *does* sloppify. It's introducing details that aren't in the original, and not just like visual anomalies. I mean look at how it "filtered" the tool in the far background that has no discernible detail. Or look at the snips in the fore. Same story, the "filtered" version has detail that does not exist in the original.
Your filter is not just transforming image information.
@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker
Edit: turns out it was AI, I messed up. Fooled and foolish. Sorry about that.
nope, again. It is a simple filter, no AI:
@davidaugust @ai6yr @trevorparker My friend, have you investigated how "style match" in Canva works?
Edit.. from the horse's mouth: "Style Match is part of the Canva AI ecosystem" https://www.canva.com/help/style-match/
@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker what tghe actual F. DID I GET FAKED THE F OUT?!?!?
Why the F isn't it a filter like photoshop and other apps have had for decades. WHAT THE F!!!!!!!!
Did I really fuck up and stumble into using AI. GOD FU- *metaphorically throws laptop because I can;t afford to do that*
I better not run into anyone who works for Canva in the next hour..............
@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker
Yeah, the whole company is a generative AI company. Sorry. That's their selling point and base technology.
@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker
it didn't used to be....they had been a fairly traditional graphics package and I, obviously, engagingly and embarrassingly, didn't realize how deeply in their interface the AI had gone. My foolishness.
This is gonna hang on me for a while. God F-ing damn it.
So humiliating. Now to purge the drivel I foolishly spewed.
@davidaugust @ai6yr @trevorparker Might be appropriate to further edit your original post at this point.
On edit: It's easy to get fooled. It's now incumbent on us not only to examine and understand our tools, but also to utterly distrust the makers of these tools who absolutely do not respect artists or their art.
@liquor_american @ai6yr @trevorparker
I have replaced the image and edited the original post. It may take time to propagate.
I messed up.
@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker thank you. Yeah. I was (clearly) surprised to learn they did that.
Now figuring out how to get my data off their systems and find better alternatives.
@davidaugust @ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker
It's not just Canva. I do work for a bunch of different companies and there's a ton of AI shit built into their systems now. I just ripped one out that used a google document AI tool to get the text out of a PDF. I replaced it with a simple script. I admit, I then left the AI summary crap there, but at least 99% of the AI work was removed.
It's everywhere. Hard Coded in.
I try to keep it extremely limited, warning them that this shit is going to be 100x more expensive the moment a "winner" is picked from all these AI companies, but they love getting results ASAP..... even if they're wrong. 🤷
@coldfish @ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker
Yeah... the depth I, clearly, didn't fully internalize the reality of.
I am learning, the hard way, one needs to (by one I mean I) scrutinize further and protect one's projects from the collapse and when a "winner" is picked to try to avoid future maintenance issues.
I really appreciate and relate to your reaction here.
@JMMaok thank you May you never put this much mistake and egg on your own face.
I do not enjoy messing up, no one really does, but I tried to double down...
Much facepalm.
@liquor_american @ai6yr @trevorparker
Edit: turns out it was AI, I messed up. Fooled and foolish. Sorry about that.
I am sure. The lighting on the stock image lends to the geometry of the scissors becoming less distinct without much manipulation.
The filter is a simple "etching" filter. The source image set ups the reality of the spacial reality of the scissors becoming vague and unclear/artificial seeming.
@davidaugust @liquor_american @ai6yr @trevorparker How do you think style matching filters work?
They are generative AI.
https://www.canva.com/help/style-match/#why-does-my-photo-look-different-after-applying-a-style-
"Style Match uses AI to change how your photo looks. When you apply styles to photos of people, facial features or skin tones may look different. Try a different style or report the content if results are unexpected."
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