Always love when self agrandized authorities act like idiots. Feels like the box wine wins wine competition article.
I have a friend that does photo competitions. They say winning is more about knowing the judges than anything else.
Apple implements a good amount of post processing into their camera app, not surprised judges were not able to be 100% certain.
Yup, as does every other smartphone manufacturer. This includes certain processing stages that specifically use AI to (hopefully) enhance the perceived image quality.
So if they dislike that, they should ban all smartphone cameras and probably a lot of post production software.
Just ban the software. Banning the camera is completely unnecessary just don’t use the oem cam app, use one that shoots in raw or such
Also, lots of people are paranoid about AI and art AI is specifically designed to not “look like AI.” So there’s bound to be tons of false positives.
I wish I could disable the AI enhancements on my phone.
I want my selfies to actually look like me.
I don’t understand the frustration. With all of the recent examples of people winning photo contests only to reveal later that their “photos” were made by AI, it’s only natural that judges grow paranoid of these things.
As for your friend’s comment on photo competitions, that sounds like someone who’s butt hurt for not winning. I enter some photo contests ocasionally and I have yet to see one in which the winner hadn’t produced some pretty decent work.
Oh my friend wins lot of the time and does great work. They have also seen judges choose crap work too. So they know what to submit and not submit when certain judges are judging. It is a real thing.
Maybe that’s gonna push Apple to provide a mode where less post-processing is applied. Not the kind of stuff the average user will want to use, but at least having that option would be nice.
Apps like Halide can give RAW files, which I think gives access to data much closer to what the sensor actually recorded.
It should be the actual data the sensor recorded, since raw is typically lossless.
I suppose all these photos made by other people in the same location with the same two mannequins are AI generated, too? Also this video from August 2021.
The problem we’ve seen since ChatGPT burst onto the scene is that AI detection is abysmal. So many false positives out there.
I truly believe AI is going to be our undoing.
It definitely will be. Thousands of sci-fi writers warned us, but noooooo humanity has ZERO self-restraint. We’re already as good as gone, and not just because of AI. Climate mutilation, insatiable list for wealth at the expense of everyone, combined with AI. We are already as good as extinct. Fate accompli.
It’ll be our undoing in the same way that coke, cotton gin, the mechanical loom and transistors were our undoing; an extremely disruptive technology that will cause generations of upheaval and suffering before a new balance is found and something else is disrupting the balance.
Any photo could be AI at this point. Either you close the contest for good or you accept all contestants. Disqualifying on a hunch dismisses all semblance of credibility. I mean of course it looks off, that’s the point of the photo you silly judge.
Only tangentially related, but… I can’t help but think this sort of constant paranoia is bad news. Step 1 of getting someone in a cult or into conspiracy theories is to suspend belief in commonly accepted information.
Yes fear. Fear that your skill and knowledge is no longer useful or you job no longer relevant.
The thing I fear is the flooding of the net with crap well more crap then now. Also people actually believing the crap. Trusted information sources and authenticated people are the only way I know around that.
The mannequins threw it off… “Those are clearly not people!”
Yes, you are correct. That doesn’t make it AI generated…
