#Fake photos

[futurebird]

Fake baby birds.

For some reason there have been a lot of incorrect and even fake images of baby birds going around. Perhaps you saw the AI generated fake baby peacock? The baby crow is a real photo of a real young avian... but it's not a crow (Turns out this fluffy little one is a baby rail-- more info here at the "corvid research blog" which has been mad about this photo for like years. )

Over on the Fediverse (most call it 'Mastodon') there are a lot of people posting about science and nature. @[email protected], Carl T. Bergstrom shared his photo of a (real) fledgling crow just a few hours out of the nest... just look:

What a little curmudgeon! Look at the too big beak and feet! The "so done with it" corvid gaze.

This bird looks like the kind of kid who spends all their time talking to whatever adults will listen about their obsession with traffic light timing. At first? It's kinda cute and a little annoying, but then it

gets really interesting because it turns out some of the light timing problems are related to graph theory---(this got way too specific... But you know the type right? Always calls you Mr. ___ or Mrs. ___ even if you tell them not to?) If you love corvids you should follow Carl T. Bergstrom over on the Fediverse. Every day there's new drama with these guys.

#corvid #crow #baby bird #baby crow #fledgling #corrections #incorrect information #fake photos #birds

[notumbusbumbus]

WTF is Up Wid Dis?

Over the last 2 weeks, Tumblr has been sending me "followers" who have nothing on their pages, all using scantily clad females wanting to be my "friend". I block them all, but their numbers are ridiculous. Obviously attempts to spam/scam, so a word to those idiots doing this - I block shit like this. Go spam/scam a billionaire - that would help us all.

#scammers #spammers #empty profiles #fake photos #go away #piss-off

[ars-ceratinus]

A mountain photograph study that may mean a lot, or very little

#study #digital art #fake photos #forest #back to my "inkpot'' style for a hot minute

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Fake Jenna pic returns

Not all fakes are naughty pictures. Serious Jenna Coleman fans know she’s never (at least to date) posed nude or in a bikini or in bondage-style leather, so when those pics turn up from time to time in a Google image search with her head pasted on someone else’s body, you can ignore or be annoyed by them or both. And just to address the elephant in the room, at the present time the only topless images of Jenna in existence are screen captures taken from the stairwell scene in Room at the Top. Everything else is fake in that arena as well unless she’s planning some surprises in Sandman, Klokkenluider or Wilderness.

But some fakes are sneaky because they aren’t edgy or sexy or anything of that nature.

I’ve seen a few variations with different T-shirts. This one turned up today on Instagram. Problem is it’s a fake. Jenna’s face and a little bit of her hair from next to her right eye is taken from this image she posted to Instagram while she was making Me Before You:

It’s easy to tell the fake because the T-shirt is mirrored but Jenna’s face is not - her left eyebrow is distinctive so you can instantly tell when her face has been mirrored, but in this case Jenna’s original photo was not mirrored as the words on the water bottle are the right way around. In the fake, the hair covers the fact part of Jenna’s face is covered by the bottle.

As fakes go, it’s quite good and it has fooled a lot of people. But it’s still a fake.

#jenna coleman #our queen #fake photos #me before you

[buzzdixonwriter]

AIn’t Real

Take a look at the image above.

What do you see?

At first blink, from the clothes and hair it seems to be a photo from the mid-1970s to early 1980s.

Blink again.

I’m not a professional photographer but I do know something about the science and history of picture taking, and this doesn’t share either the tone or the texture of genuine photos from that era.

I’m not referring here to color faded snapshots but professional photos of the era.  I know something about the various film stocks used at that time; each one has its own unique color warmth and grain texture.

Old negatives create images on microscopic particles of silver suspended in the film’s emulsion.  Depending on how many and how fine the particles were and how sensitive they were to light, the resulting image would display varying degrees of grain from the very rough to the very smooth.  None of those film stocks look anything like this.

So that alerted my radar and I looked closer at the image.

Check the shadows at the feet of the two figures.  They’re almost jet black on a bright and sunny day.  Ambient spill light would lighten it enough to discern asphalt texture beneath it.

Further, not only do the shadows not match up with the figures supposedly casting them, they don’t match up with the shadow from the car itself.

Take a look at that car, particularly the license plate.  There’s a couple of readable letters and numbers on it, but there are also symbols that resemble letters and numbers but aren’t actual letters or numbers.

Finally, wot da hell is going on atop the car?  Some kind of Lovecraftian horror?

AI generated image.

Not real.

Now what’s the big deal about this, you ask?

Most people at first glance see the image, interpret it as a photo from the mid-1970s to early 1980s, ///accept it as genuine///, and scroll on.

I’m different because of my background and experience; I saw clues that tipped me this wasn’t real. 

So what’s the harm?  If it had been a photorealistic work of hand drawn art, would it be problematic?

Not if identified as such.

But this image was prompted to look as much like a genuine photo as possible.

As noted most people see it, register it in their mind, then scroll on.

This image -- in and of itself -- is harmless.

But imagine images that look real at a brief glance that shape you opinion and views on something.

Nothing extreme, no shots of celebrities doing outrageous acts, but let’s say a politician seen in close proximity of a person accused of bribing politicians.

The meeting never occurred, but you seen the image and without recognizing it was AI generated, you accepted it -- and the implied relationship -- as real.

See where that leads us?

This is not a new phenomenon.  Political campaigns have doctored photos for generations, hoping to trick viewers into believing something that didn’t happen…

…did.

Sometimes it’s accomplished by skillful editing, cropping out elements that entirely change the meaning of the photo.

Sometimes it’s accomplished by surreptitiously adding an element, adding a person to a photo who wasn’t there.

Sometimes it’s accomplished by overlaying the face of one figure over the body of another, creating the impression they did something they didn’t do.

Most people don’t pay close attention to what they consume.

The nice thing about poison is that you’ll see the results PDQ.

Fake photos can take a lifetime to kill you.

 © Buzz Dixon

#artificial intelligence #AI #fake photos

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 4 and End of Alastor's bad day Alastor survived his fake date and will probably (not) think twice in the future before trying to one-up Lucifer on unknown projects. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #radio demon #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #radiostatic #kinda ? #charlie morningstar #charlie hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #vaggie #my art #and we will never know what else happened on that fake date #except that Vox is still alive after it which is a miracle #also yes I do have the full color HD version of the photo #still haven't decided if I'm gonna do something with that #it's just my desktop background for now #fun fact their poses in the photo was greatly inspired by the “cock shame”/“pussy facing the world” meme

[hoofpeet]

Photo study :] 🐱🐟

#hoof draws #me w/ my little dinner !!! #edit-- in light of this getting attention. make sure you don't do photo studies of ai generated images #kinda defeats the point of doing photo studies and i wouldn't have done this one if i realized the og photo was fake

[cnl0400]

Character references for the undateables

I love all the little details!!

Sharing these because knowledge should be #free and #available to #everyone

#obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me thirteen #obey me raphael #obey me mephistopheles #I admit that I didn't notice that raphael was wearing a crown thing 🥲🥲 I feel like a fake fan #love Thirteen Skirt-Short... soo cool #also the tattoo reference... so cool I love her tattooo #I have shaky hands... sorry... aah 🥲🥲 #anyways I was going to upload these yesterday but I have been busy lately 🥲🥲 #i have the unedited photos if anyone wants them idk... or anything else from the artbooks. you can ask #I have all pf them and they never provided a sneak peak so you could made your mind... a shame tbh #also a shame they didn't translate the notes... smiling mephi is his honest reaction to seeing his younger brother :'')) #post0400

[perseruna]

a shard of ice & eternal flame

#yennefer of vengerberg #jaskier #yenskier #yennskier #the witcher #sometimes you gotta take fake wedding photos for your fake marriage you know for the bit #wdym the fake officiant we got to fake officiate our fake wedding was actually a real one and now we’re legally married????? #this is so embarrassing omg #mersart #artists on tumblr #illustration #yennefer x jaskier

[gravidasomnia]

#Biker Girls #Pregnant Biker Girls #AI generated #Fake Photos #SDXL #Pregnancy is Beautiful #AI art nonsense #Terrible AI motorbikes #Pregnant AI

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

#i love i loveeee ludovica sm shes so cute. ive only known her for 5 min but i fell in love with her design and i love her friendship #with vasco ^_^ i think them having each other makes hiding their sexualities a little less lonely so thats sweet #ik in modern au shes considered an old friend of vascos but i originally assumed she and vasco fake dated in college or smth #to get their parents off their backs until they came out properly and continued to stay in touch as friends after LMAO #im not very familiar with period fashion so i had to look at renaissance costumes as reference. but i have to admit i love the #high waistlines used in some of their dresses.. i have a minidress with a similar high waistline pressed against the chest and sleeves #also if u squint machete is holding a little paper bag in the 2nd photo which is supposed to be his lunch courtesy of vasco <3 #idk what ludovica would wear in modern au but i thought poet shirts might suit her because theyre like somewhere evenly between #masc and femme. to me anyway.. based on observation lesbians seem to love poet shirts and i think she looks good in one #these are all shitposts.. ill draw serious art of them one of these days i promise #i listened to fools rush in and it reminds me of them.. especially when it goes 'though i see the danger there / if theres a chance #for me then i dont care' like its so poignant and bittersweet.. a little indulgent when u think of those small moments they have togethr #save me gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries... gay catholic furries save me #my art #myart #doodles #fanart #others ocs #canisalbus #fur #furry art #machete #vasco #vaschete #ludovica #sfw fur #furry #anthro

[maggie-butlive]

Zendaya (who should be) at the 2023 Oscars.

#zendaya #oscars 2023 #oscars #red carpet #red carpet arrivals #euphoria #not real #fake photo #i was fooled

[harveyguillensource]

Not sure we’ll survive tonight’s premiere, tbh 🦇🩸

#harvey guillén #harvey guillen #wwdits #guillermo de la cruz #what we do in the shadows #wwdits cast #set photos #what we do in the shadows season 5 #wwdits season 5 #July 2023 #cw: fake blood

[xeptum]

cabbage puppy!!! source

#cabbage #salad #puppy #fun #art #project #had to share #green #pup #dog #animal #fake #love #photo #photography #cute

[jarrows]

holo of generals kenobi and skywalker reviewing plans for a joint operation in the outer rim

1/?

+ still detail:

#i don't think?? star wars has photos?? so here is a fake stereographic holo instead lol #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #i rewatched the PT for the first time in like........forever.... this week #good times #feels good to have the star wars brain worms again #i missed it lol #star wars #holos from the front

[hindahoney]

So many of you are genuinely monsters and you think you're the heroes. Forgive me for not believing that any of you ever actually gave a shit about Palestinians, as you sit here in your pro-hamas rallies with swastika flags while you chant "gas the jews!" and tear down posters of kidnapped hostages. You glorify Hamas, the terrorist organization that uses and abuses Palestinians, that shoots them if they try to evacuate from zones that Israel has warned they're going to strike.

You have been silent for decades while Lebanon and Jordan keep their Palestinian population in refugee camps. You have been silent when no other neighboring country has given Palestinians citizenship status that would enable them to live a comfortable, normal life. You were silent when Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas rockets misfire and kill innocent Palestinians. You were silent when Hamas steals aid meant for civilians. You were silent when Hamas dug up water pipes from the ground so that they could make more rockets.

If you were silent then, you're using Palestinians as a mask for your Jew-hatred. If you want to really advocate for Palestinians, keep the same energy for every country, not just the only Jewish state, and try to educate yourself on what Israelis have been doing to try to help Palestinians, because I promise you it's way more than you've ever done in your life.

#how can i believe or trust you if youre using photos and videos of syrian kids being killed and saying theyre palestinian #not to mention the fact that every single message i get from someone claiming to be a palestinian supporter is just straight up violent #the amount of times ive been called a kike and told that theyre happy my people are dead #how can i believe you arent a fucking monster if these are the messages im getting and this is whats happening #how can i believe you are acting in good faith if you are cheering on the death of jews #and if you havent done jack shit for palestinians before this #if you didnt do an ounce of research #if you watch these fake videos coming out of pallywood that have been debunked so many times and use the same actors #and you dont try to factcheck them at all #and you just eat up anything hamas says