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Looking at some of your work, it is stunning but it is very similar in style to AI artwork, do you have any recommendations for how to tell apart photography like yours from AI.

I've been thinking about this. And this may sound controversial at first, but I'm hoping people will hear me out.

We should stop trying so hard to detect AI art.

I think we should all lift that burden from our brains.

I have often talked about "woke goggles." Where conservatives have lost the ability to enjoy anything because they are hypervigilant about detecting anything woke. They've cursed themselves into just hating everything. All they have left is the "God's Not Dead" Cinematic Universe.

And I worry people are getting AI goggles now. They are so concerned about accidentally enjoying robot art and hurting artists that they have overcorrected to the point where they are hurting artists.

One cannot say "AI is all soulless slop that always looks bad" and then accuse a real artist of making something that looks like AI and not hurt them. By doing so, it includes the baggage of all of the "slop" comments along with it. This crusade is having collateral damage to the very artists we are trying to protect.

Yes, we need to be cautious about malicious AI images. Misinformation and deepfakes are going to be a big problem. People using AI imagery for profit is already a mess. But if you are cruising your feed and like a cool sci-fi robot gal or a photo of a waterfall and it turns out to be AI... that's fine.

It was trained by real artists and AI is going to create some cool shit because of that.

Honestly, I think a lot of the worst slop is because the dipshits creating the prompts have no artistic taste. People keep blaming the AI for how bad it looks and often don't consider it is a product of the loser who published it.

There is plenty of non-slop out there that has fooled me. And, like it or not, it is going to get harder and harder to tell what is AI. Until there are better tools or better regulations, I don't think there is much we can do to avoid enjoying AI art every once in a while. If only by accident.

Current "AI detectors" are mostly a scam. Even the best forensic-level AI image detectors struggle to stay above 70–80% accuracy across a wide range of models and image types. And that's in controlled lab conditions.

Free online tools often drop to near coin-flip accuracy (50–60%), especially with newer image generators and post-processing applied.

The best way to avoid AI imagery is to look at an artist's body of work. It's much harder to create consistent, non-obvious fake images in a large sample size. That is usually enough to have confidence in authenticity. Plus, if they have posted similar art before 2022, you can pretty much rule out any shenanigans.

Otis literally died before genAI was available.

But images you see in the wild, just let yourself enjoy them if that is what your brain wants to do. It'll be okay.

I just think we are attacking this backwards. If we want to protect artists, we need to support them.

Calling out random AI art does not support them.

It does not put money in their pockets.

It does not grow their audience.

Over a decade ago I tried to lead a fight to create better systems of attribution on websites like Reddit and Imgur. I even spoke to the Imgur team after an article was written about me.

I asked them to allow sources on their posts and to develop tech that would help people find where an image came from. They said they were "working on it" and it never manifested.

IMAGE SHARING SITES STEAL MORE FROM ARTISTS THAN AI.

But we just kind of accepted it. No one really joined me in my fight. The prevailing defeatist attitude was, "That's just the way it is."

I think now is the time to demand better attribution systems. We need to be vigilant about making sure as many posts as possible have good sourcing. If an image on Reddit goes viral, the top comment should be the source. And if it isn't, you should try to find it and add it.

Just to be clear, "credit to the original artist" is NOT proper attribution.

And perhaps we can lobby these image sharing sites to create better sourcing systems and tools. They could even use fucking AI to find the earliest posted version of an image.

And it would be nice if it didn't require people to go into the comments to find the source. It could just be in the headline. They could even create little badges "made by a human" for verified artists.

Good attribution helps artists grow their audience. It is one of the single most effective things you can do to help them.

I literally just got this message...

There are maybe 10 popular artists who I helped grow their audience early on. Just because I reblogged their work and added links to all of their social media. I even hired my best friend to add sourcing information to every post because I believed so much in good attribution.

Calling out AI art may feel good in the moment. You caught someone trying to trick people and it feels like justice. But, in most cases, the tangible benefits to real artists seem small. It impedes your ability to enjoy art without always being suspicious. And the risk of telling someone you think they make soulless slop doesn't seem worth it.

But putting that time and effort into attribution *would* be worth it. I have proven it time and time again.

I also think people should consider having a monthly art budget. I don't care if it is $5. But if we all commit to seeking out cool artists and being their collective patrons, we could really make a difference and keep real art alive. Just commit to finding a cool new artist every month and financially contributing to them in some way.

On a bigger scale I think advocating for universal basic income, art grants for education and creation, and government regulation of AI would all be helpful long term goals. Though I think our friends in Europe may have to take the lead on regulation at the moment.

So...

Stop worrying about enjoying or calling out AI art.

Demand better attribution from image sharing sites.

Make sure all art has a source listed.

Start an art budget.

Advocate for better regulations.

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Deepak Yadav, 49, shot his 25-year-old daughter, Radhika Yadav, three times.

Radhika Yadav was a state-level tennis player. After an injury ended her professional playing career, she founded her own tennis academy. Her father disapproved of her independence. He wanted her to shut down the academy because, according to him, people mocked him for living off his daughter's income.

"I was very troubled and stressed. This situation kept bothering me as it hurt my dignity. Because of this tension, I took out my licensed revolver and, when my daughter Radhika was cooking in the kitchen, I shot her three times from behind, hitting her waist. I have killed my daughter," he told the police after confessing to the murder.

This murder is a chilling reminder of how patriarchy and its values continue to endanger women. Radhika’s independence and success wounded her father's pride, simply because it defied patriarchal norms that dictate men must be providers and women should remain dependent.

Saying RIP is not enough. We need justice, we need real change - for Radhika.

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tbh you’re kind of an asshole and you’re not really hot enough to get away with it so this isn’t gonna work

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Rosie O’Donnell I love you

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😍 Merveilleuse nature avec un arc-en-ciel 😍

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“In the fall, I took an introductory coding class. We were learning Python, and we were running and testing lines on Google’s Gemini Code Assist,” she said. “It would ask me a question, I would fill in a blank, and then it would autofill the rest of the line. I wasn’t learning anything.” When she tried opting out of the autofill so she could actually get some hands-on practice, Rosenstock found that the option to turn it off was buried deep in Gemini’s settings—an annoying but typical tendency when it comes to Google’s A.I. software. “And our grad instructor was very lax about it. You could use it for answering a whole question,” Rosenstock added. “They didn’t tell us not to use it too much, which was very strange to me.”

Many schools actively encourage the use of AI to complete lessons, which is upsetting for some students. Instructors are using it too, leading to situations where the student might receive incorrect, partially hallucinated feedback.

Imagine going into debt for an education and coming away from it with nothing. No skills, except how to give prompts to ChatGPT.

It's good to see students push back! More of that please.

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So funny how I'm online like allllll the damn time but I don't know jack shit about influencers or any of that shit. I don't have tiktok, insta I legit only have an account to contact artists and otherwise forget it exists, YouTube is only for music, I nuked my Twitter and facebook, bluesky is 99.99% art stuff, and then the rest ofy interneting is here and talking to friends on discord. I'm terminally online but doing fucking nothing

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the celine dion cover of alone is better than the original heart version. i’m right.

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im mentality me

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i do not care for The Craft (1996)

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"No Masters, Sack your Boss"

Pasteup spotted in Western Sydney

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both is good

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Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Ammonites (Devonian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アンモナイト (デボン紀)。