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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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Yes, Sergeant Pygmy, sir!
Nice. Looks almost 3d printed
The ArtBot does some decent work sometimes. I usually have it generate 8 images and typically 2 are pretty close to what I want.
I wanted wingtips instead of hands, but this one was the only one with the hand looking not too creepy or facing the wrong way. I also didn't want the hat really as I requested the flat head like the original pic, but I didn't feel like running it again.
I still kind of hate AI art in principle, but for things like this where it's obviously fake and just for fun, I like it in that I would never spend the time to make this pic manually, but if I type in a quick sentence and 2 min later get this, than I think it is a fun addition to the post.
The AI in my feeds has gotten weird the last week or so though. Now I get a dozen pics of obvious AI owl, yet still real enough to maybe trick a casual observer and the current post caption is "no one will like this post because i am disable." I don't know why that is the bots caption for these photos as they are captions for, uh, healthy? AI generated animals? It's just weird to me.
Oh interesting. I didn't even notice it was AI. I figured you just had a huge collection of images lol! I kind of agree about the just for fun aspect, ig, not sure lol. I mean I'm not a huge fan of ai art but I guess this situation is different, like the owl was clearly not a real owl... But idk why someone would fake a real owl unless they wanted upvotes/clicks/what have you. Tangent: I don't get why news articles will use ai images as a sort of header image when it doesn't really add much to the story
This is the type of thing that annoys me. This is real enough looking that it can trick people. It's being passed off as real. This one isn't troubling as the fake owl is just standing there, but I come across ones doing not natural things and I don't like the lines being blurred between real and fake. My Army Owl should not trick anyone over maybe age 4.
The other side of it is when they have a nice pic that I could use, but instead of talking about the shot and the owl, it's just some dumb add for BMW or something and the image is stolen so there's no real info or story.
This stuff is about half of my default Facebook feed. I've recently learned I can go and just get what is essentially a Subscribed feed, but then I do miss actual good recommendations for things like the non-US owl photographers that give me all the great pics of the fish owls or the exotic Scops varieties, so I'm stuck looking through the fake crap and ads anyway. Flickr is much better for that, but people dont seem to include stories or comments as much, so I just get a pic with no context most of the time. I can't win! 😅
Oof that sucks. I would hate having to parse through all that just to find non AI owls. Do photographers have sites they post stuff on? That might be a place less susceptible to AI lol. But then you would be restricted to a small set of photographers... Hmm this is indeed tricky. I don't use flickr or Facebook so I cant really help you out :( if I find some cool stuff I'll try to post if I get the chance. Maybe I'll go look at mastodon or something, see if there are photographers there.
I did see some are getting on Threads. I'm not sure if there's a way to cross-post from there if they're defederated, but it would be nice to let them know they're getting some attention over here. Then we could ask questions or get some more background details and such. I get the reason why many instances didn't want to participate with them as a platform, but it also cuts us off some from people doing good things there.
Oh interesting. I haven't looked at threads either. It would be cool to like idk encourage people to post more on Lemmy or mastodon rather than threads but I get what you're saying. I just feel a bit iffy about "letting threads in" Also I saw some owl posts on mastodon but very few that seemed to have proper credit
I'd rather people be here, but Facebook made it easy for everyone already on that platform to be on both, so that is a ton of momentum for Threads. I can't imagine there is a ton of money in owl photography, so it's going to be the quickest and easiest way to expand reach.
I'll just keep sharing stuff the old fashioned way and giving the credit where it's due.
Fair enough, makes sense
Perfect for stacking multiple of them
Now I'm picturing like a Solo cup pyramid of these guys... 😆
Could also be good for matryoshka dolls
Ok, I have to share. I fly a paramotor, and there's a guy who used to be in the sport who is infamous for lots of reasons. But one of the awful things he's done is kick an owl in flight.
The reason I'm posting this, is because he's also infamous for selling his own paramotor, and the model is "flat top". So a guy known for selling flat tops has kicked an owl on video.
Damn you, Jeff Groin! 😠
I was going to give him a pass if it was going to hurt his engine and endanger him, but it looks like he was going after it on purpose. I had the audio off, but he looked quite pleased with himself. Meanie.
I hope he crosses paths with a breeding Barred owl!