Post by @CiaraNi@mastodon.green

2026-04-19 10:21 UTC

@cmccullough Agreed. It's awful for good creators too. I've seen a few photographers in the Fediverse get angry with people who asked if an unusually good photo was AI. I can see that this feels frustrating or insulting from the photographer's point of view. It's frustrating for others too though, that we have to check. It feels insulting to belatedly discover something we praised was not real, but AI. The AI ruins everything, including social relations between the humans caught in the middle.

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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-04-20 15:27

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @cmccullough@polymaths.social Interesting. With code you ask whether some unusually *bad* code is AI.

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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-20 15:29

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @cmccullough@polymaths.social I had a long discussion with a German about whether an archive photo of some lads repairing a car in the streets of England during 1970s was AI/KI - he was convinced of this for some time, until I pointed out things that confirmed it was a legit photo - such as the design of lamp posts and telephone poles, and that the car was a genuine model I recognised from my childhood and not the mashup of multiple makes you get if trying to generate "1970s British car" in AI, and the registration mark was in a legit format (another thing AI routinely gets wrong)

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