People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown.
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@stveje Oh, so there is an actual AI-watermark. What a vicious circle all of this runs in. And such a terrible waste of all our human time and energy. I'd prefer to look at those real, non-AI pictures too!
@CiaraNi It's so depressing. Worst part is there doesn't seem to be any solution.
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@CiaraNi It's so depressing. Worst part is there doesn't seem to be any solution.
"Worst part is there doesn't seem to be any solution."
Agreed. It makes it extra exhausting. There's no end in sight.
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@CiaraNi It takes the joy out of watching interesting pictures and cute dog videos for me. Just one more reason why AI sucks.
@ratiogeraet @CiaraNi It is not just that.
Making people distrust their reality is part of the fascist playbook currently in use by many of the worlds despotic regimes.
There is an article (in German) on Republik at the moment that deals with this very issue.
The alt-right benefit from this method much more than left wing groups.
The article is subscribers only but the author has co-written a book on the same subject
Link to the article:
https://www.republik.ch/2026/04/08/wenn-faelschungen-politik-machen
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@CiaraNi My father when he saw the image, an intellectual: waterdrops don't create that shape on a concave surface, only when its flat.
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"Worst part is there doesn't seem to be any solution."
Agreed. It makes it extra exhausting. There's no end in sight.
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@CiaraNi My father when he saw the image, an intellectual: waterdrops don't create that shape on a concave surface, only when its flat.
@FrutigerAero00 There seems to be consensus that a water droplet only makes that shape when hitting a flat body of water.
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@CiaraNi My father when he saw the image, an intellectual: waterdrops don't create that shape on a concave surface, only when its flat.
@CiaraNi Still, i know this ai issue could bring a pessimistic approach, but I think, on the other side, this issue will connect humans even more, here's why:
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@ratiogeraet @CiaraNi It is not just that.
Making people distrust their reality is part of the fascist playbook currently in use by many of the worlds despotic regimes.
There is an article (in German) on Republik at the moment that deals with this very issue.
The alt-right benefit from this method much more than left wing groups.
The article is subscribers only but the author has co-written a book on the same subject
Link to the article:
https://www.republik.ch/2026/04/08/wenn-faelschungen-politik-machen
@the_wub @ratiogeraet Yes, it's a known strategy
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@CiaraNi Still, i know this ai issue could bring a pessimistic approach, but I think, on the other side, this issue will connect humans even more, here's why:
@CiaraNi We humans wants the truth, and we hate ai, and what we are doing here together is whats keeps humanity alive: searching for clues if its ai or not, looking for the real author, sharing opinions, talking! This is incredible, seeing all of us cooperate to unmask ai!
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@CiaraNi We humans wants the truth, and we hate ai, and what we are doing here together is whats keeps humanity alive: searching for clues if its ai or not, looking for the real author, sharing opinions, talking! This is incredible, seeing all of us cooperate to unmask ai!
@CiaraNi Also it could be a good way to source all artists here on the internet. A good practice we should be encouraging now even more because of ai.
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@fgraver @stveje If I am wrong, I will rush to correct myself. But all signs point to it being faked. I don't know how we 100% irrefutably prove something was AI-manipulated, as some have requested, but a verifiable original source of a real image would at least disprove it. But there is none so far.
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@CiaraNi We've started seeing rare species being uploaded to iNaturalist and other citizen science platforms and then it turns out it's AI and I just don't see whyyyy people are doing that. Like No, your AI imagination of a rare insect isn't just as good as someone finding a living specimen, what do you mean. Who profits from that. Who wants to see a "photo" of a fake bird. What's going on.
@weirdmustard @CiaraNi it's certainly making me question every image I see of a species new to me. Not only birds.
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@CiaraNi Also it could be a good way to source all artists here on the internet. A good practice we should be encouraging now even more because of ai.
@CiaraNi Also, it reminds me when there was this bot boom accounts, we were discouraged at first, but i will keep finding ways to spot ai content, directly and indirectly, i will not let stupid people to get omw, the more informated we keep, the better, keep the fight on!
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@FrutigerAero00 @CiaraNi @VerenaRupp
I was also doubting whether it's real or AI (it has to be a quite big droplet for such a solid crown - or maybe it were two?).
I can't confirm the image, but I trust the poster.So, if this is any good, then it - again - shows how important trust is.
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@CiaraNi Also, it reminds me when there was this bot boom accounts, we were discouraged at first, but i will keep finding ways to spot ai content, directly and indirectly, i will not let stupid people to get omw, the more informated we keep, the better, keep the fight on!
@CiaraNi And now today, i've learned a new scammy way to put genai that seems reliable, which is, putting fake names on the post so it seems valid.
We need to start asking for link sources for this kind of photos and art!
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People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown. It's AI, but people share it in good faith, believing it’s an amazing photo by a human of a real bird in a real moment of time. Meanwhile, humans who have taken amazing photos of real birds captured in real moments of time, like a hummingbird in ballet with a butterfly, get questioned in good faith by people who are tired of being cheated by AI-deceit. The way AI has broken social trust is distressing.
@CiaraNi Amazingly well stated and exemplified!
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@weirdmustard @CiaraNi it's certainly making me question every image I see of a species new to me. Not only birds.
@capnthommo @CiaraNi Cant count the times I've silently accused ppl of posting AI pics of especially beautiful and colorful insects before looking at some other observations and finding that yea, sometimes that species is really that vividly colorful. Doesn't help that photo editors now use "AI" to enhance details either.
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@FrutigerAero00 @CiaraNi @VerenaRupp
I was also doubting whether it's real or AI (it has to be a quite big droplet for such a solid crown - or maybe it were two?).
I can't confirm the image, but I trust the poster.So, if this is any good, then it - again - shows how important trust is.
@stekopf @CiaraNi @VerenaRupp Yeah, its normal if you see an image online and post it bc you think its real. Just like when they gave you a fake bill (or banknote?)
But to leave doubts it would be a good practice to leave sources with links to verify it. It benefits everyone if we are now more careful linking and sourcing images and content.
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People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown. It's AI, but people share it in good faith, believing it’s an amazing photo by a human of a real bird in a real moment of time. Meanwhile, humans who have taken amazing photos of real birds captured in real moments of time, like a hummingbird in ballet with a butterfly, get questioned in good faith by people who are tired of being cheated by AI-deceit. The way AI has broken social trust is distressing.
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green
This makes me wonder: to which extent is the Macaulay Library (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) curated enough so these photos are all real-world moments of real-world avians? I ask this because, as of recently, I've been using it as a image search engine for pictures of Strigidae (true owls) especially for drawing purposes (art based on real aspects of real species).
Many of the amazing photos I've been finding there contains EXIF data disclosing hardware (camera) and geographical (location) info, which (especially camera and sensors info) is some evidence that these are real photos and not AI-generated pictures...
...but I'm also aware that metadata can be counterfeited, seemingly non-captive scenes (a feeling of wrath emerges inside me every time I see photos of owls in captivity and/or chained/bound because they're meant to be free) can be staged, our senses can be deceived... Welp, a constant Cartesian conundrum that just ends up pushing me more into Luciferian-Gnosticism because, in the end of the day, nothing truly exists in this damn cosmic existence.
