The real image of the teens in the comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/comments/1qb4875/comment/nz8bi0o/
Teens Invent Device that Removes Microplastics with Ultrasound Waves, Winning $50k https://share.google/9Q9Lf8fSzIhUMkRA7
Fucked up they wouldn’t give them credit with a proper picture.
I believe it’s also not a proper picture in the wider sense: The whole thing was probably generated, not just the water, “plastic”, and device.
Definitely machine generated because they couldn’t be assed to even look for the actual photo. The tool, the lab, nothing makes sense there, it’s all fake.
I suspect it’s not because the article writers couldn’t find the picture but because of the legalities of just taking an image from another source.
This is also why e.g. Wikipedia is full of old, or crappy celebrity pictures - Wikipedia requires an open license for the photos they host, but most celebrity photos aren’t licensed as such.
we know why.
Sloppers gonna slop
Wasn’t diverse enough to meet quota
I simply can’t comprehend people who’s first thought, even before using something that already exists, is to turn to llms and image gens for a worse result. It’s so fucking stupid.
Because there’s no people behind it. Probably a perl script that scrapes news and feeds it into an LLM to create click bait articles.
It’s a bot, it’s probably generating images from articles as soon as they publish. Probably so reddit can pump engagement stats for the board.
Still stupid. If it can scrape the article, it can scrape the photos.
It’s just an extension of rewriting, they want to host “original” content over reposts, but rarely care about accuracy.
And then it posts a picture of a piece of plastic and engagement is lower.
This is a high tech low tech solution
But our buddy in AI image generation needs a capital B too, so we’re pumping their numbers as well.
Didn’t want to bother getting the rights for the real pic maybe?
Holy fuck
But I want the sonic screw driver one.
But it doesnt work on wood
