Always from now on, it won't end. And I think it's a good example here, as it's clearly indicated with the watermark. Without it I wouldn't have been sure, this image is very good quality. My clues were the calendar is too conveniently place at the perfect location, and I tried to figure out which win version is that, and the thickness of the header of the warning dialog seems too thick compared to the taskbar. Then I started to look for other clues and noticed the watermark
I'm not a luddite, this technology has some good uses, and this is an important step in the good direction that they add a watermark. Next should be an ai notice added to the metadata of the image, so the hosting site could understand it and mark as such, and users can filter it.
Bad actors obviously could remove any kind of watermark or metadata, so this wouldn't help against them, but as we see how it goes with drm there is no perfect way to make sure the slop can be always marked as such.
The crazy thing about the calendar is that itâs right. A year ago, I wouldnât have even expected an AI generated image to get the correct number of days in a week, but not only does it get that right, but it correctly shows that March has 31 days and that March 1999 started on a Monday.
The placement isnât that much of a giveaway either. Five or ten years before this hypothetical photo, that desk would have been just a desk, which is exactly where youâd have put a calendar. Old habits die hard, and I definitely knew people who still hung calendars next to their computer desk.
Itâs only going to continue to get harder to tell.
Fuck me... I only started looking more closely after your comment and noticed that the room's proportions are fucked up. But, at a first glance, it looks like a photo from the 90s...
Given that she's holding what is the second most booty-ass rendition of what's apparently supposed to be a Beretta Model 92 I've seen in my life, AI generation seems to be a fair assessment.
Edit: And the shadow on it makes no sense. Never mind the watermark in the corner.
Edit edit: And March 1998 began on a Sunday. The more you look the worse it all gets.
Fuck, this one got me. I didn't see the watermark. Even looking closely the details don't seem AI, the floppy disks on the table, the cup, the keyboard colouring, the phone wire. Even the numbers on the calendar seem plausible with the bad compression. I hate this doubting every picture I see on the internet
In the 90s, March did start with a Monday in '93 (ruled out due to Start button and Windows key) and '99. But it's unlikely you'd see TV static (with a decently emulated camera shutter effect) behind an error dialog window - is it the desktop background?
The weird hair colour could just be unnatural lighting.
Most other things could be chalked up to JPEG (although the calendar numbering seems like a stretch - I have never seen jpeg make a '3' look like a '1' in that specific way).
What gave me the highest suspicion was the jeans. The stitched parts (mainly the zip part) doesn't look like real stitching, but like painted plastic. So unless there is some product that is actually plastic pants, printed with a jeans texture, that's not a real picture.
And once you know it is AI, it explains the background.
Damn. Even now that I know I'm struggling to find anything that could've shown me. Some things are a bit wonky, like the pants, the calendar, the background. But none of it would be enough to truly convince me if I hadn't seen the watermark. Most of it is easily waved away with the fact that the image is blurry. And details like the books, the screen, parts of the calendar and basically everything else in the image scream "real image" to me.
I know it goes against the general consensus in here, but I think the image itself is real, was likely low quality because it's 25-30 years old, and the Gemini watermark is because someone ran it through to upscale it.
At a former job many years ago, we had an employee get super mad at his PC. He left and returned a short time later with a revolver that he unloaded on said PC. All six shots missed the critical components and it was still running despite the new cooling. Cops hauled him away whilst still frothing at the mouth about his PC.
Not even a joke, I went to a military simulation event dressed as this woman, equipped with an airsoft m16. I shaved for the first time in 10 years, wore a wig, and a gray suit/dress that I had thrifted. I was " Barb from Accounting".
i see the watermark but is this actually a generated image? I'm normally good at being able to tell. this image feels fine to me though? like the reflections on the light switch cover and on the picture frame feel natural. the keyboard looks correct. i guess the vents on the slightly stubbly crt are a bit wonky and the calendar can't decide between 1998 and 1958 lol
it's messy AF, but lines up with 98 which it kinda looks like it was trying to print. I'm actually a little scared with this one, it's a lot less obvious that previous generations.
People mention the gun was wrong, but that's outside my wheel house.
The monitors badge is not any name that existed back then and they gave it a trinitron tube.
The task bar button for the error window is WAY too wide.
ahh crap, totally right. I was looking at it as a monday index for god knows why... it matches 99, but is def not 99 in display so the closeness is just by chance.
Must be 1948, which makes sense because that was before restarting the computer was invented, so if it crashed the only option was to put it out of its misery and get a new one. They had them in vending machines for $3.50.
There's a friggin' drop shadow on her arm and the gun as if somebody made this in Microsoft Word. The shadow falling across the corner of the computer tower wouldn't line up with the part on the wall and bookshelf like that, not to mention the edge of the door frame.
Check out the noise on the computer screen which magically disappears over the dialog box. Gotta say though, lighting and everything else looks dead on, just the details.
yeah i agree that the computer screen doesn't make sense. but like it's not a dead giveaway imo. like if this picture was organic, maybe these people chose an image that didn't make technical sense because it wasn't too important for the photos composition. you know what i mean? like this is scary close to being indistinguishable from some old photograph and i hate it :p
it could be an error over an ATI tuner window, but they liked to show blue when there was no signal. The taskbar button for the window is really wide and that's a sony trinitron tube with a namebadge that didn't really exist back then
I did this to epic on my charge nurses computer last night and she thought it was magic. I've made it clear that I will provide these and many other services to the charge nurse as long as I don't ever have to actually do it personally (I don't want to have to explain to other adults what their job is). Thus the balance is maintained.
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hopesdead@startrek.website · 59 pts · 203d
This is the most 90s image I have seen in a long time.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 96 pts · 203d
Good job clanker, another human fooled successfully. See the watermark in the bottom right.
diskremover@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 203d
I wanna cry man, I wanna cry. HOW LONG do i have to ask myself "Is this AI?" whenever I see an image on internet?
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 203d
Forever. I'm sorry.
diskremover@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 203d
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 203d
Always from now on, it won't end. And I think it's a good example here, as it's clearly indicated with the watermark. Without it I wouldn't have been sure, this image is very good quality. My clues were the calendar is too conveniently place at the perfect location, and I tried to figure out which win version is that, and the thickness of the header of the warning dialog seems too thick compared to the taskbar. Then I started to look for other clues and noticed the watermark
I'm not a luddite, this technology has some good uses, and this is an important step in the good direction that they add a watermark. Next should be an ai notice added to the metadata of the image, so the hosting site could understand it and mark as such, and users can filter it.
Bad actors obviously could remove any kind of watermark or metadata, so this wouldn't help against them, but as we see how it goes with drm there is no perfect way to make sure the slop can be always marked as such.
JiffyBag@feddit.org · 3 pts · 203d
Define "clearly" đ it took a while for you and I to notice the watermark and over half the commenters still believe this is a real image.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 203d
It's a new thing, my eyes haven't got used to it yet. I see more ai images without any watermark than with one.
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
The crazy thing about the calendar is that itâs right. A year ago, I wouldnât have even expected an AI generated image to get the correct number of days in a week, but not only does it get that right, but it correctly shows that March has 31 days and that March 1999 started on a Monday.
The placement isnât that much of a giveaway either. Five or ten years before this hypothetical photo, that desk would have been just a desk, which is exactly where youâd have put a calendar. Old habits die hard, and I definitely knew people who still hung calendars next to their computer desk.
Itâs only going to continue to get harder to tell.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 202d
Fuck me... I only started looking more closely after your comment and noticed that the room's proportions are fucked up. But, at a first glance, it looks like a photo from the 90s...
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 202d
They even got the shadow on the wall from the camera flash...
Edit: also, the computer instructed to make this image was probably like "Hmmm. Mental note"
hesh@quokk.au · 5 pts · 203d
March 1999, based on the wall calendar
flandish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
98?
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 203d
Looks more like 1958 to me, the whole thing is a blur. Doesn't seem like a compression thing, more like AI generation.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 203d
Given that she's holding what is the second most booty-ass rendition of what's apparently supposed to be a Beretta Model 92 I've seen in my life, AI generation seems to be a fair assessment.
Edit: And the shadow on it makes no sense. Never mind the watermark in the corner.
Edit edit: And March 1998 began on a Sunday. The more you look the worse it all gets.
flandish@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 203d
i love this deep dive lol
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 5 pts · 203d
It also has the AI watermark in the bottom right corner. This one doesn't take a rocket surgeon to pinpoint.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 203d
hopesdead@startrek.website · 1 pts · 203d
I think it says 1998.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 202d
I read 1958, but it could just be blurry
hesh@quokk.au · 1 pts · 203d
I initially thought 1998, but March 1 wasn't on Monday that year.
thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz · 43 pts · 203d
Fuck, this one got me. I didn't see the watermark. Even looking closely the details don't seem AI, the floppy disks on the table, the cup, the keyboard colouring, the phone wire. Even the numbers on the calendar seem plausible with the bad compression. I hate this doubting every picture I see on the internet
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 202d
In the 90s, March did start with a Monday in '93 (ruled out due to Start button and Windows key) and '99. But it's unlikely you'd see TV static (with a decently emulated camera shutter effect) behind an error dialog window - is it the desktop background?
ulterno@programming.dev · 2 pts · 202d
The weird hair colour could just be unnatural lighting.
Most other things could be chalked up to JPEG (although the calendar numbering seems like a stretch - I have never seen jpeg make a '3' look like a '1' in that specific way).
What gave me the highest suspicion was the jeans. The stitched parts (mainly the zip part) doesn't look like real stitching, but like painted plastic. So unless there is some product that is actually plastic pants, printed with a jeans texture, that's not a real picture.
And once you know it is AI, it explains the background.
gerryflap@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 202d
Damn. Even now that I know I'm struggling to find anything that could've shown me. Some things are a bit wonky, like the pants, the calendar, the background. But none of it would be enough to truly convince me if I hadn't seen the watermark. Most of it is easily waved away with the fact that the image is blurry. And details like the books, the screen, parts of the calendar and basically everything else in the image scream "real image" to me.
Tower@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 202d
I know it goes against the general consensus in here, but I think the image itself is real, was likely low quality because it's 25-30 years old, and the Gemini watermark is because someone ran it through to upscale it.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 203d
At a former job many years ago, we had an employee get super mad at his PC. He left and returned a short time later with a revolver that he unloaded on said PC. All six shots missed the critical components and it was still running despite the new cooling. Cops hauled him away whilst still frothing at the mouth about his PC.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 203d
batmite8675309@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
Like Homer looking for the "Any" key.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Was that employee Elvis?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Uh-huh
Reygle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 203d
Agent641@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 203d
Ghost in the shell? Meet 5.56x45 in the shell.
jrnmedia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
Looks a bit like Scully lol
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 202d
Because it is
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 202d
Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Not even a joke, I went to a military simulation event dressed as this woman, equipped with an airsoft m16. I shaved for the first time in 10 years, wore a wig, and a gray suit/dress that I had thrifted. I was " Barb from Accounting".
null@piefed.nullspace.lol · 18 pts · 203d
Reygle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 17 pts · 203d
Another image of add to my "Women holding guns to computers/monitor" collection.
MBM@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 202d
This one's AI though, for some reason
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 202d
oh
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
Is uh......is that like a sex thing? Or.....ya know what? I'm not sure I want answers.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 203d
Nah dw, nothing NSFW here.
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 202d
It is definitely not safe for whomsoever wants to use that monitor for work.
Steve@startrek.website · 6 pts · 203d
Folder dump plz
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 202d
i only have 2 images though so do you still want to see them? (now one since someone said this is AI)
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
I was just thinking, this is not the first image like this I've seen and I'd really like to know the context I'm missing.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 202d
that one image where another one is holding a rifle into a pc monitor?
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
That one actually has two different pics, one with her standing with the gun, the other with her pointing it at the monitor.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 201d
Oh okay
vogi@piefed.social · 4 pts · 203d
Came here to say that, maybe they were onto something...
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 202d
i see the watermark but is this actually a generated image? I'm normally good at being able to tell. this image feels fine to me though? like the reflections on the light switch cover and on the picture frame feel natural. the keyboard looks correct. i guess the vents on the slightly stubbly crt are a bit wonky and the calendar can't decide between 1998 and 1958 lol
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 202d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 202d
it's messy AF, but lines up with 98 which it kinda looks like it was trying to print. I'm actually a little scared with this one, it's a lot less obvious that previous generations.
People mention the gun was wrong, but that's outside my wheel house.
The monitors badge is not any name that existed back then and they gave it a trinitron tube.
The task bar button for the error window is WAY too wide.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 202d
March started on a Sunday in '98, though.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 202d
ahh crap, totally right. I was looking at it as a monday index for god knows why... it matches 99, but is def not 99 in display so the closeness is just by chance.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
Must be 1948, which makes sense because that was before restarting the computer was invented, so if it crashed the only option was to put it out of its misery and get a new one. They had them in vending machines for $3.50.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 202d
The lighting on the gun is completely mismatched from the image and tipped me off pretty quick.
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 202d
is it though? looks like it's reflecting the camera flash to me
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
There's a friggin' drop shadow on her arm and the gun as if somebody made this in Microsoft Word. The shadow falling across the corner of the computer tower wouldn't line up with the part on the wall and bookshelf like that, not to mention the edge of the door frame.
cevn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
Check out the noise on the computer screen which magically disappears over the dialog box. Gotta say though, lighting and everything else looks dead on, just the details.
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 202d
yeah i agree that the computer screen doesn't make sense. but like it's not a dead giveaway imo. like if this picture was organic, maybe these people chose an image that didn't make technical sense because it wasn't too important for the photos composition. you know what i mean? like this is scary close to being indistinguishable from some old photograph and i hate it :p
cevn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
Just the thumbnail and I wouldnât even question it. Scary times.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 202d
it could be an error over an ATI tuner window, but they liked to show blue when there was no signal. The taskbar button for the window is really wide and that's a sony trinitron tube with a namebadge that didn't really exist back then
cevn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
I think I see what you mean now, it was worded confusingly. That taskbar button is too wide though.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 202d
I wasnât âfooled by AIâ but simply gooning the Inox Beretta 92 compact.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
With the jank-ass safety lever and the top grip screw in the wrong place?
Don't worry, I have a worse one you can look at. Here you go.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 203d
SIGKILL
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 202d
92% sure thats a Beretta 92 FS, possibly the compact variant, but very good pun either way!
Maybe we can cause a causality loop if someone shops it into a Sig P226.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 202d
Def not a sig, pretty sure you're dead on. I wasn't even making that pun, tbh. Wish I had, it's a good one lol
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 202d
I am a nerd of many realms lol, your pun actually made me go check, 'wait, is that a Sig?', haha!
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 203d
This, of course, does nothing to resolve a hung task because the computer is off to the side.
shadow2@startrek.website · 3 pts · 203d
Finally someone who understands why this is just a waste of a monitor
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
run,
RUN AS A MOTHA FCKN GANGSTA.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 202d
Hey, the screen is not the computer!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
I had that sweatshirt, desk, bookshelf, PC case, and ceiling light. I didn't have the gun or I'd be freaking out.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
Is this some kind of
rm -rf /hostage situation?betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Yeah, still in the
sudostage.hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
And no trigger discipline at all on that sudo. That's criminal negligence. Very Baldwin-inspired.
redsand@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 201d
kill --9mm
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 203d
IDE is an anagram for DIE
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 202d
Sarah Connor at home:
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 203d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 203d
AI
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 203d
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 203d
The calendar and photos in the frames are slightly garbled
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 203d
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 202d
Not how March was in 1998 or 1999. Also the shadow leading from the firearm along the arm is also bogus.
Tower@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 202d
That's absolutely March of '99. There's a legitimate question as to whether the calendar says 1999, given all the jpeg, but it did exist.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 202d
Derp I'd checked 1998 and then didnt check 1999 after I saw the shadow.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 202d
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 202d
It has too much jpeg on the year numbers imo compared to the month name, March is clear but the year looks like 1/958
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 203d
You may not exit the simulation until you have completed your primary task.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 203d
pyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
someone told her about chatgpt
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 202d
I did this to epic on my charge nurses computer last night and she thought it was magic. I've made it clear that I will provide these and many other services to the charge nurse as long as I don't ever have to actually do it personally (I don't want to have to explain to other adults what their job is). Thus the balance is maintained.
Una@europe.pub · 3 pts · 203d
It's funny to think she might be like 50 today. Idk
JiffyBag@feddit.org · 11 pts · 203d
If she was real. (It's AI)
ExFed@programming.dev · 3 pts · 203d
I'm the cloud infrastructure business we like to call that the 9mm test. It's quite effective.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 202d
I would like to think that the timeline we are currently in would have been terminated had she pulled the trigger.