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.

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@davidaugust @ai6yr Those are some bizarre β€œscissors.”
@trevorparker @davidaugust Oooh, good call, AI slop. Unboosted.

@ai6yr @trevorparker

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.

@liquor_american @davidaugust @trevorparker Filter is definitely AI redraw, it's slopping the original image, sadly. :-( And end user would not know this without careful inspection. Just out of curiosity, which filter is it?

@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:

https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116648706889088224

@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/

@liquor_american @davidaugust @trevorparker Yeah, this is AI restyling for sure... it's not traditional filtering , it's generative AI. You can take any photo from the web and "Copy art style" and it will regenerate your photo in that art style... i.e. Manga, etc.

@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.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/magic-layers/

@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.

@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker Thanks!!! And, sorry that company fooled you 😑

@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.

@ai6yr @davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker That also means I need to find a way to re-do my Ko-fi page in GIMP, since I decorated it up with Canva. 😀 Not that I've been actively soliciting on it for the last few months anyway, but, ugh.