Knuckledragger

A cursed mix of AI,Photoshop, politics and professional wrestling: AI clearly thinks Joe Biden is Ric Flair.

Speaking of man made horrors, this is Derna, Libya:

CW: If you think feet are gross, skip this one. AI generated casting of the next Quentin Tarantino movie: Bonus, if one can call it that: Some things are best left unimagined.

Over the last few weeks, I revisited a bunch of photos I took between 2006 and 2008, I posted a few taken with the first "modern" film body I owned, an EOS Rebel G as well as a Rebel K2 (which I recently resurrected.) I also took a bunch with a Dollar Store Camera and a Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim, both of which are on the previous page of this thread. In the late 00s, I was not nearly as good at editing photos as I am now. Also editing software has gotten a lot better. Lastly, my eye has changed quite a bit. I'm both more and less forgiving toward the flaws of a given photo. First some previously covered ground: The Edgartown public library, November 2006. Dollar Store Camera, Kodak Gold 200. Pontiac GTO, Edgartown. 07/29/08 - 1:57PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. These two ^ were my favorite shots with both cameras when I took them. Amherst, 07/14/08 - 8:07PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. Hadley, 07/14/08 - 8:32PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. Hadley, 07/14/08 - 8:17PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. The EDG lighthouse and some dinghies, June 2007. Dollar Store Camera, Kodak Gold 200. I cannot imagine why I didn't like this photo enough in 2007 to pass on uploading it. Amherst, 07/11/08 - 6:25PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. This shot required adjustments to the levels, colors and cropping. I'm not sure if that's a light leak or just the sky in the upper right of the image. I like it either way. Dollar Store Camera and Kodak Gold 200, October 2006. This one was a mess. I ran it through Topaz DeNoise AI and then adjusted the colors and levels in Photoshop. I do like the "half remembered dream" quality the DSC produces sometimes. Amherst, 07/14/08 - 8:05PM. Vivitar UW&S, Ritz Crystal 200. Foolishly pointing the Vivitar into the sunset. Its plastic lens did something amusing this time. Tune in next time for a bunch of re-edits of photos I took of Katherine the dancer in 2006.

I have questions.

EDM fans are so bland. ULF self portrait. Click for slightly larger. Cursed woodstock: Cursed metal band: His true calling: The year is 2050, Todd Howard has just announced Skyrim to be released on the PS9. Rekt. Cannot dispute.

We had a wild one here on MV yesterday. Driver was drunk and attempted to flee.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is currently 87% off on Steam. It's been on my wishlist for ages. Furthermore, Never let it be said that the furry community passes on the opportunity for a joke.

Via Reddit:

In the parlance of our times, wake up babe, the new 300mm Orestegor dropped. Not actually, that'd break my toe. With that said, I had a bunch of packages waiting for me at the post office today. The Janpol Color 55mm F/5.6 enlargement lens arrived. It's weird and have no idea what I'm doing with it yet. I also got a second copy of the Meyer Optik Orestegor 300mm F/4. If I had any doubts about the extent to which my old copy is afflicted with haze and fungus, they are now laid to rest. Allow me to illustrate: Old 300mm, around F/8. Edited in Photoshop to bring the contrast and colors up to acceptable levels. The same, unedited. The new 300, today, unedited. Shee-it.

God damn.

This person knows how to cat.

Nice shirt though. Mexican Snoop Dog. This one is from a huge set of "Barbie Dream Home IRL" which got very dark at the end. I love how AI doesn't know how to gun. Abandoned Scout, Haines AK.

This guy likes sliver.

I'm almost 50 years old (most of head-case: "Cool story, Knuckles. We almost remember being 50 years old.") I'd like to think I'm still "hip" and "with it" but the zoomers inform me on a daily basis I am lacking in "rizz" and that's "no kizzy on god fr fr no cap." With that said, I use most of the same technologies the youts do. Discord is possibly the single most important app I use. Where I draw the line is Tik Tok. I have never used it nor will I. The other side of that coin is the fac that I can't stop staring into the abyss that is AI generated images. A generated "white Snoop Dogg" looks like Kid Rock.

Conversely, in the "low stakes, but still terrifying to me dept" is Elon Musk as the ultimate EDM bro: AI is as good at rendering DJ equipment as it is human hands.

Needs a cat to appreciate that sunbeam.

I elected to exclude some feet photos which are a non-euclidean nightmare they'd make Yog-Sothoth wince. I've still got a whole folder full of cursed AI images yet to go. The real horror here is the AI itself. Right now it's at the "haha that's so funny it's trying to make something real" phase. In a shorter time than we can imagine, it will be nearly impossible to identify AI images. I'm sure we will have people who becomes experts in the field, but that will not stop the era of disinformation from accelerating further. "Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in."