Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal.
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@devnull @hans_zelf @winkleink @pycomtois @luckychronic @BelfastRoadster
"And that "Lee Schofer" photographer is nowhere to be found on the web…
"You just have to look for it.
@Adrenochrome @devnull @hans_zelf @pycomtois @luckychronic @BelfastRoadster
Instagram Account is for Lee Schofield and not Lee Schofer.
About page on the website linked to from the Instagram page is also Lee Schofield
Maybe the same person but doesn't match Lee Schofer as mentioned in the original post.
There are pictures of robins on the Insta page but not this one specifically, unless I missed it.
I'd love it to be real as it does look fantastic. But personally, I'm not convinced.
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Betting that all the Reply Guys saying this image is AI are *loads* of fun at parties
Who seriously cares?
Except the bros that always have to be The Smartest Little Boys in the Room?
We are now living in a world with filters, Photoshop, and AI.
I really don't know if this oic is real or not; some checkers say no, some yes. Some could be, but it has no misinformation, just beauty, and it's nice to see. -
Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.
The photo was taken by Lee Schofer and posted by his partner, Kate Weyer, on her Facebook.
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer
https://x.com/Sci_Nature0/status/2045886932463304729@Adrenochrome Geez, please indicate this is AI instead of spreading misinformation.
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@FinchHaven @Adrenochrome those of us who appreciate photography, wildlife, physics even, care. AI is filling our information ecosystem with garbage. Misinformation spreading is part of the fascist project. When we can no longer believe our eyes and ears, bad actors thrive.
Yep it's 'just' a pic of a bird with some made up splash bullshit. But the fact this is the kind of rubbish we see daily now is a real problem and something people are right to be angry about. #genAI #AIslop #photoshop
@noodlemaz @FinchHaven @Adrenochrome
I'm never going to use AI in my content.
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@FinchHaven @Adrenochrome those of us who appreciate photography, wildlife, physics even, care. AI is filling our information ecosystem with garbage. Misinformation spreading is part of the fascist project. When we can no longer believe our eyes and ears, bad actors thrive.
Yep it's 'just' a pic of a bird with some made up splash bullshit. But the fact this is the kind of rubbish we see daily now is a real problem and something people are right to be angry about. #genAI #AIslop #photoshop
Perhaps a little personal backgrounder is in order
I have +25 years as a professional digital still and video photographer
I've used Adobe Creative Cloud's Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Premier Pro, and Adobe Audition to post-process tens of thousands of Canon CR2 RAW photos, and unedited video
I have some sense of what is real photography, what is AI butchered photography, and what has been created by AI alone
And again, I say, who the fuck *really* cares about something like this?
It's clearly for fun
Maybe everyone let a little whimsy into your lives and stop feeling like you have tell other people where they're wrong
Save your Smartest Little Boy schtick for something important, mkay?
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Perhaps a little personal backgrounder is in order
I have +25 years as a professional digital still and video photographer
I've used Adobe Creative Cloud's Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Premier Pro, and Adobe Audition to post-process tens of thousands of Canon CR2 RAW photos, and unedited video
I have some sense of what is real photography, what is AI butchered photography, and what has been created by AI alone
And again, I say, who the fuck *really* cares about something like this?
It's clearly for fun
Maybe everyone let a little whimsy into your lives and stop feeling like you have tell other people where they're wrong
Save your Smartest Little Boy schtick for something important, mkay?
@FinchHaven not a boy, thanks. You don't get to tell people what they should or should not care about.
Maybe in its original context (boomer Facebook) it was fun. Shared on as if it's a real photo with a likely AI caption? Not so much.I do not want to share slop and fake images. I want to boost photographers. Fine if you don't care about that - some of us do. I don't like being lied to and I don't like how AI slop has infected everything we see (either the reality or the suspicion of it).
You not feeling serious about this one thing does not mean you have a point by shitting on everyone who does. Just makes you a different kind of annoying.
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@FinchHaven not a boy, thanks. You don't get to tell people what they should or should not care about.
Maybe in its original context (boomer Facebook) it was fun. Shared on as if it's a real photo with a likely AI caption? Not so much.I do not want to share slop and fake images. I want to boost photographers. Fine if you don't care about that - some of us do. I don't like being lied to and I don't like how AI slop has infected everything we see (either the reality or the suspicion of it).
You not feeling serious about this one thing does not mean you have a point by shitting on everyone who does. Just makes you a different kind of annoying.
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Betting that all the Reply Guys saying this image is AI are *loads* of fun at parties
Who seriously cares?
Except the bros that always have to be The Smartest Little Boys in the Room?
@FinchHaven @Adrenochrome Wishing all AI apologists a very happy fuck off
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Perhaps a little personal backgrounder is in order
I have +25 years as a professional digital still and video photographer
I've used Adobe Creative Cloud's Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Premier Pro, and Adobe Audition to post-process tens of thousands of Canon CR2 RAW photos, and unedited video
I have some sense of what is real photography, what is AI butchered photography, and what has been created by AI alone
And again, I say, who the fuck *really* cares about something like this?
It's clearly for fun
Maybe everyone let a little whimsy into your lives and stop feeling like you have tell other people where they're wrong
Save your Smartest Little Boy schtick for something important, mkay?
I have zero experience with photography and video, not analog, not digital. I just want to share beautiful pics of nature and architecture, or whatever. Thank you for your words.
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I have zero experience with photography and video, not analog, not digital. I just want to share beautiful pics of nature and architecture, or whatever. Thank you for your words.
Yeah, I mean, that's exactly where I am
I love photos -- no, strike that: images -- and simply love something new and entertaining
And, as I just posted to another thread, a whole hell of a lot of #AI experts simply seem to have never heard of Adobe Photoshop
I'm so old I can remember when the goto put-down gotcha! tag was "'shopped!!!"
Now people with no clue see anything unusual and it's all with the "AI!! AI!! AI!!'
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Yeah, I mean, that's exactly where I am
I love photos -- no, strike that: images -- and simply love something new and entertaining
And, as I just posted to another thread, a whole hell of a lot of #AI experts simply seem to have never heard of Adobe Photoshop
I'm so old I can remember when the goto put-down gotcha! tag was "'shopped!!!"
Now people with no clue see anything unusual and it's all with the "AI!! AI!! AI!!'
... and filter! Filter! Filter!
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We are now living in a world with filters, Photoshop, and AI.
I really don't know if this oic is real or not; some checkers say no, some yes. Some could be, but it has no misinformation, just beauty, and it's nice to see.you say "I really don't know if this pic is real or not" - then why are you posting it? If it's not real, then it is fake and disinformation. Do you want to contribute to spreading fake images online?
You also say in some other post "I just want to share beautiful pics of nature and architecture" - but if this is AI-generated, then it is not a picture of nature. It is a fake image and, just like photoshopped ads it gives a fake impression of what nature is.
Even giving you the benefit of the doubt for posting in good faith originally, now that so many people explained why it was actually AI-generated, why are you not deleting the post?
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@Adrenochrome hey, just fyi y'all can use the Google SynthID watermark checker to verify that this was AI-generated.
@lynatic @Adrenochrome Asking the slop machine to tell you if something was produced by the slop machine.
All it's going to do is what it always does: give you an "answer" that sounds plausible.
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Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.
The photo was taken by Lee Schofer and posted by his partner, Kate Weyer, on her Facebook.
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer
https://x.com/Sci_Nature0/status/2045886932463304729@Adrenochrome@mastodon.social That splash is suspicious: What's the water bouncing up from?
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@lynatic @Adrenochrome Asking the slop machine to tell you if something was produced by the slop machine.
All it's going to do is what it always does: give you an "answer" that sounds plausible.
@dalias @Adrenochrome typing @SynthID in a Gemini message forces a SynthID tool call to execute before the LLM runs. The LLM receives the output from the SynthID checker (a very normal old-school program) + your message as context.
Of course the LLM could still randomly decide to lie about the result of the tool call, that's why I ran this and similar queries multiple times in different chat contexts.
To answer why I'm using an LLM to do this at all: There simply seems to be no other way to reliably use the SynthID checker (sometimes the Google reverse image search executes it and notifies you of a positive but sometimes it also doesn't) , this is the only supported way by Google (even tho I still consider it bad design).
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@dalias @Adrenochrome typing @SynthID in a Gemini message forces a SynthID tool call to execute before the LLM runs. The LLM receives the output from the SynthID checker (a very normal old-school program) + your message as context.
Of course the LLM could still randomly decide to lie about the result of the tool call, that's why I ran this and similar queries multiple times in different chat contexts.
To answer why I'm using an LLM to do this at all: There simply seems to be no other way to reliably use the SynthID checker (sometimes the Google reverse image search executes it and notifies you of a positive but sometimes it also doesn't) , this is the only supported way by Google (even tho I still consider it bad design).
@lynatic @Adrenochrome Exactly, that's the problem. It's taking a somewhat rigorous result, but then passing the output through an LLM which could just alter or replace that result with whatever bullshit it deems statistically plausible.
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@Adrenochrome this is AI but if this were a surrealist painting it would sure be magical.
The feet along with the branch, the shadows and light simply don't match, hard to notice if you are not trained that alone is enough to tell.@Adrenochrome I'm a graphic designer, I've spent hpurs looking at the smallest details
So 1. The feet are too well focused compared to the branch = fake or poor editing 2. look at the feet one has 3 falanges and the other has 4, one has a nail-finger, the other does not. 3. Shadows come from different directions, plus if it's raining there's most likely no direct sun to cast those shadows. 4. The feathers look like hair = creepy, from a far they do the job but that's... hair. -
@Adrenochrome I'm a graphic designer, I've spent hpurs looking at the smallest details
So 1. The feet are too well focused compared to the branch = fake or poor editing 2. look at the feet one has 3 falanges and the other has 4, one has a nail-finger, the other does not. 3. Shadows come from different directions, plus if it's raining there's most likely no direct sun to cast those shadows. 4. The feathers look like hair = creepy, from a far they do the job but that's... hair.@Adrenochrome 5. Why does the moss look radioactive green? It looks like 1 dollar store fake plants with water. 6. I won't say anything about the dropplet at first sight I thought it was photoshoped but I'm also an engineer and that's not how dropplets work... nor camaras... so yeah.
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Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.
The photo was taken by Lee Schofer and posted by his partner, Kate Weyer, on her Facebook.
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer
https://x.com/Sci_Nature0/status/2045886932463304729@eniko just fyi you might want to check the comments on this one, if not the way the droplets look on this versus how you would imagine surface tension and high-speed photography to work
