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.

#AI #labor #profit #economics #UnionStrong

@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 @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.

@davidaugust

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.