I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.

Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.

  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    444·
    22 days ago

    To be fair, I totally understand why people think it’s AI. Between the phone camera processes and the extreme postprocessing, this looks more deep fried than some memes I’ve seen. It almost looks like it’s got a cartoon filter applied.

    Add on the fact that OP is trying hard to down play how much editing has been done, it starts to feel like it doesn’t add up. If OP posted the unedited photo to show the bad phone sharpening and admitted how much editing was done on top of that, people would understand what they are looking at.

    Don’t get me wrong, it looks cool, but when someone says “oh, no I just took this with my phone”, I look at that and think that’s not the whole truth.

    • mgenehoffman@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1811·
      22 days ago

      Thanks for your meaningful, informed, and helpful contribution.

      Of course it’s edited. Pro tip: every image is edited. Nothing anyone sees is raw from the sensor. It’s all completely arbitrary. Even people who shoot film show edited photos, they just offload the editing to the film lab. Someone else is doing the processing for them.

      Even direct from a digital camera to jpeg, the camera is performing countless transformations and adjustment s before burning to jpeg. See film emulations on Fuji cameras for example.

      The entire point of photography is to present to people a compelling vision that feels the way you did when you saw it.

      That being said, this is basic curve and a vignette.

        • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
          155·
          22 days ago

          I mean, it’s basic settings in like every fucking phone for the last 15 years? Get over yourselves - you aren’t judges at National Geographic photographer of the year, it’s a neat pic dude wanted to share.

          Let people share neat things.

        • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          61·
          22 days ago

          I mean even your sentence is edited. Nobody forms a true thought without altering it in their mind. Talking is the art of representing the thoughts and atoms in your brain in the way we want you to see it. Literally everything is a lie. So lying is always morally acceptable. /s

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        21 days ago

        The interesting part about doing a vignette is that it shows up in ELA when you run it through any one of the dozen doctored image detector websites, the re-encode around the changes shows up in the data when it inspects them, this image has zero error level deviation.

        That’s interesting because it also doesn’t appear as AI at all through the AI detection tests. But here you’re saying it’s actually edited. Maybe the CDN was heavy-handed enough to destroy the ELA. Zip up your edited copy and give that to the masses. The nay-sayers can run it through Fotoforensics and see it’s manually edited. You have already passed all the AI detection pages with 0% AI probability.