• Awoo [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Third picture feels like AI. It has that "I am an image generated based on a training set" feeling to it really strongly.

    Given that none of the images this poster makes have the same style between them I'm going to guess they're all AI.

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      I'm not sure of the timeline here because the acct is suspended now and it's difficult to find screenshots or the art they uploaded but I think at least some of their art predates the good furry art generating AI models

      Differing styles wouldn't be unusual because they could have been commissioning different artists rather than drawing it themselves

      Edit: I found a source for the first image

      https://www.deviantart.com/playfurry/art/Battlefield-560638322

      It's from 2015 and unrelated

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        at least some of their art predates the good furry art generating AI models

        Maybe feds had their own before the idea made its way out into the public. Generating fake pictures of people would be a useful thing for a fed faking identities online.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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          9 months ago

          Feds have better things to do than manufacture furry drama online lol

          If it was them they could have easily just paid someone to draw it

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            9 months ago

            Why pay someone to draw it if you have a generative image tool to play around with?

            • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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              9 months ago

              The feds creating novel solutions (as of the time of posting) to one of the big problems of computer science to create online furry drama seems unlikely to me

              Beyond just the furry drama it still seems highly unlikely the feds had/have exclusive AI tech that can generate pictures of new, realistic human faces when there have been conventional image editing techniques to do the same for decades now at much, much less cost than AI

              This kind of thing isn't unheard of but it's usually exclusive to things like... cryptography (like the NSA figuring out differential cryptanalysis before anyone else) where there is no substitute for having this advantage regardless of cost

              • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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                9 months ago

                Well feds created the internet and try to propose changes to FOSS so it’s not out the realm of possibility. But it’s unlikely they’re infiltrating the furry community, and if they are, they’re lying to their boss about the reason.

                • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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                  9 months ago

                  I'm sure they're using AI now that it's out there and they probably have their own models or variant tech cuz it's not that hard to make your own at this point