• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    We once had a whole family of cats - father, mother, and three kittens - and the one male kitten, Charlie, absolutely REVERED his father, Jake. He would often sit or lay next to his Papa, always taking the same position.

    One of my favorite photos was when Jake was getting old, with his fur getting raggedy, and he was looking out a window, with Charlie next to him, in the same position, but with his front leg over his father’s shoulders, comforting him.

    They’re both gone now, but I hope they are together, wherever they are now.

  • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The “Kubrick Stare" is one of Stanley Kubrick’s most recognizable directorial techniques, a method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that the character in question is at the peak of their derangement.

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    2 months ago

    This is what i look like wandering around in life and I wonder why people dont approach me.

    I walk with purpose, usually squinting, jaw set, and a straight face. I’m looking straight forward and ignoring eye contact and nods of acknowledgement.
    I see, in my peripheral vision, people glance at me and I dont return it- even if I’ve decided they’re of interest.

    Just all around a warm and welcoming vibe.

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    This is AI though right? Not real kitties.

    The white and black blur in between the cats is clearly trying to be a tail but the color and placement are wrong. The pile in the top right doesn’t make sense, the stairs leading to a square door set at an angle from the stairs is wrong, and the building to the left of that makes no sense either. Plus the overly rich texture of the stairs

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      I’m going to start ripping my own hair out of my fucking scalp. It’s like every post I make now has an accusation of AI because of real world photography not always making 100% sense.

      This is AI though right?

      No

      Not real kitties.

      Real kitties.

      The white and black blur in between the cats is clearly trying to be a tail but the color and placement are wrong.

      Could also be a dog or another cat that’s behind the two. That blur is on another stair and these two are much closer to the camera, can easily obscure something behind them.

      The pile in the top right doesn’t make sense

      It’s blurry as hell. You have no idea what that is. You called it a ‘pile’. That could also be flaking off concrete or vines. Saying that it “doesn’t make sense” when you have so little information on what it is is not the immediate assumption you should be making. If you’re dismissing things because of an assumption made on a lack of information then it’s not helpful to anyone.

      the stairs leading to a square door set at an angle from the stairs is wrong

      Once again, perspective. This is at the bottom of a set of stairs looking up. You would not be able to see the landing at the top that would continue into that door. Moreover, pretty sure that door is a gate for the gap to the right of it. The white is the same as the railing.

      and the building to the left of that makes no sense either.

      You literally can’t see it.

      Plus the overly rich texture of the stairs

      Jesus christ. Concrete just looks like that sometimes.

      What I would really like is for people to bother going to look for an original source before making these accusations. You think an AI two years ago was able to make that image with no blatant errors in the cats themselves? Especially when no one else in the post is making that accusation? And especially when the same poster made another post of AI cats and it looked like this?

      These accusations are exhausting. Firstly because they’re just accusations with zero follow up. It took me 10 seconds to find the original post of that image. Why couldn’t you have done that yourself? Secondly because it scares the hell out of me that things we’ve known about since the dawn of photography are being forgotten about en masse for the easy way of pointing and saying “AI.”

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    Animals making direct eye contact with the camera in images is an ai tell.

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      No it’s not. I have hundreds of photos on my phone, that I took myself, of my cats staring directly in to the camera that say otherwise. It’s dead simple to make an animal, especially a cat, look at the camera. You just make a “psst psst” sound, or dangle something floppy right above the camera while taking the photo.


      Mocha would like to have a word with you.


      And so would Casper.

      I can go on if you’d like.