Cool megathread topic BTW, I love comrade Stalin

My life would be easier if someone could help me out with the kitchen and accompany me onto the train, but no, have to do it alone...

Sorry to everyone who I haven't replied to, I forgot that I supposed to be travelling today and this means I'll have to spend all day doing nasty stuff like cleaning up the kitchen (because if I leave everything to rot for two weeks, it will be even worse), and then somehow navigating the station (very large and disorienting) and getting on train with several changes

I will go through the AI thread as soon as this is over, I really do want to figure that out, I just can't commit myself right now

Oh, and now that you point it out, you're right, some of the buildings are curved in a way that I don't think physics support...

Advice for digital drawings is good, too (I sometimes look at digital drawings and share the ones that I liked, wouldn't want to be accidentally promoting "AI" stuff because I didn't notice), I just kinda picked the first picture that I had at hand for practice

But how do you figure out that an image was never a JPEG? Thought JPEG is the most natural format for photos and such, the sort of thing that people would want to fake using "AI".

elements that are repeated a lot in the background in places that aren't attached.

Would the background "forest" in this "AI"-generated image be an example of this? The one that I circled in green. It looks oddly repetitive, I don't think natural forests are this regular...

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Next one... I think here, the main tell would be how the bridge disappears into nothingness? The thing the other people in this thread mentioned about little details being wrong. And the way how the metal rods that make up the bridge are unnaturally blurry/squiggly/whatever.

The reflection in the lake might be wrong, too, but I don't really know how that's supposed to look. Guy's face is a little blurry, but I could be convinced that that's bad camera settings if not for the bridge. He's wearing a clothing that doesn't have buttons. Right hand looks normal, but left hand is unnaturally tiny, even if well-formed.

That's a helpful checklist! Just tried on this image from a recent post about an AI-generated game video:

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• Eyes and the face look surprisingly okay, except for that one deep line that goes right across his nose. Thought at first that he's wearing glasses, but apparently he's not.
• Reflections are inconsistent, there's a car reflecting on the ice when there is no car that could cast that reflection
• I guess whoever published that picture was smart enough to pick a frame that doesn't show hands... No buttons on the jacket, either
• I'm not sure what a car dashboard is supposed to look like, but this does not look right
• Weird detail: WTF is that red thingy on the house supposed to be
• This particular one gets watermarked by the AI, but I'm trying to learn how to spot it without that

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Good quote, indeed they're getting hard to spot, it made a very realistic face for the guy... I guess all I can do is practice to at least spot the most obvious ones. Surely they'll be used a lot for misinformation in the coming decade, I want to be prepared.

Do you have examples of the glossiness?

Their archivist has political power, rather than just handling archive stuff?

Admittedly, I don't have patience for NYT, I believe all of them should be thrown into the or face Nurmberg Trials Part 2, so I didn't read very closely, but it sounds like the archivist is just refusing to do their job for this document so that it can't get passed into law, or something like that?

Any normal human would get fired for saying "I don't like this document, so I'm not going to do my job", but I guess rules are different when you're a politician
And Biden etc. won't even do anything about it, because his party loves defeat

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What kind of animal is this?

Can I be part of the Pokémon delegation? Imagine a Vaporeon (like the one in my profile picture) just sitting at the meeting, with its cute water-type paws on the table...

I think we also got a Porygon2 and a Primarina/Sobble/Raichu/undecided on here!

I genuinely feel really bad for the children... Having to worry about getting shot dead for no reason by your classmates in school, or by the police that they also put in the schools...

Honestly? If I was leader of a nuclear-armed country, I would have already launched them.

Respect to the leaders of the free world for being a lot more patient and strategic than me.

It seems like westerners (even the so-called "progressive" once) are horribly racist towards the DPRK people in particular. Like, more so than their average hatred of anyone on the . The DPRK has suffered so much at the hands of the imperialists, first the imperialists occupied the southern half of the peninsula, then in the war 1950-1953 they killed like 25% of the population and dropped thousands of bombs on Pyongyang and on all the land, committed massacres against the Koreans both in the north and in the south, quite similar to what's happening in Gaza now. (And now the think their grandfathers deserve to be respected for having done that. If there's a hell, all the Yanquí soldiers will burn there )

Then they've been imposing very harsh sanctions on the DPRK since the 90s. Because how dare a people want to feed themselves and have technology and industry and a nuclear programme for self-defense.

And now the average thinks it's funny that their technology is sometimes outdated and that they're very reverential (is that a word?) of the leaders who led them through these difficult times, made good decisions that lets them still survive as a country instead of going the way of the USSR ( ).

I've seen the way westerners of today talk about DPRK, what they would do to these people if given the opportunity. I am glad the DPRK has nukes. I hope they build more nukes, all the nukes. There is no reasoning with westerners who don't see you as a human being. Only way to deter them is that if the imperialists invade again, their own land gets hit wit the nukes. Never give up the nukes.

Death to America.