I threw one of these on my grandma’s ceiling, it got stuck and she had to get on top of a chair to get it down, and it left an eternal grease spot. Sorry, grandma!

A series of images showing Elly Lin, an AI-generated person, perusing the museum while wearing various cultural clothing was shared to its Instagram page.

First, that isn’t an ‘AI generated person,’ it’s someone’s sock puppet avatar. Second, dressing up your sock puppet avatar in questionably depicted culture-specific garb like it’s a 1980s American Girl doll is both racist and cringe.

The AI pictures were first shared to Lin’s Instagram page back in October. The caption reads, “I know some might question why I admire the British Museum while acknowledging its controversial history. I understand the criticism. Yet from another perspective, these artifacts, though far from home, have been preserved and protected. Truthfully, many wouldn’t have survived the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution decades ago”.

So to sum up, the British Museum was boosting shiny, culturally appropriative AI images with an over simplified narrative on why looting these items (and by implication not returning them) is Good, Actually.

Once again demonstrating that the primary use of AI is propaganda.

I’m so gay I downloaded the shark instead of buying it :3

(I haven’t sewn it yet… I’m getting around to it!)

The weak are meat; the strong eat.

Regular reminder that if you were born before 1989 you probably only got 1 measles vaccine, as was recommended at the time, and no booster. The booster bumps effectiveness up from 93% to 97%. You can ask your doctor to test your antibodies for measles immunity to see if you need it, or ask to just go ahead with the booster if you know you didn’t get it.

We adopted a kitten recently—I say kitten because he’s under a year old, but he already weighs 9 lbs and has the strength of an adult cat—and good god he’s been in turbo mode the entire time. He’s a sweet boy, but I’ve literally never encountered a kitten that needs 5+ hours of hard, excited play per day to wear out! It starts between 6 am and 7:30 am every morning, and my husband and I have been taking shifts wearing him out and supervising him.

You know those automatic air sprayer devices that people use to teach cats what’s off limits? He defeated ours while we were asleep. Woke up and saw him with it on the floor, empty of air, and him still activating the now-useless spray mechanism because he liked the noise it made. We have surrendered more surfaces to him than I would prefer to admit, but man I only have so much energy and I gotta pick my battles 😂

What is ice skating but ballet on skates? And it’s in the Olympics.

Second thought (Better idea): After seeing the second photo and thinking more of the timeframe these are taken… Photographs then were most likely daguerreotypes and tintypes. Which means their prints were in reverse, and they do not use negatives, like modern film photography, so flipping the photo right-side up was not a straight forward process

This is a neat idea, but it makes me wonder why there aren’t more examples if it was so useful for early photography. Or maybe there were, and we’ve just lost any record of them.

For what it’s worth, the poisonings are almost always children or people who are familiar with safe mushrooms in their home country that look just like the death cap, not local knowledgeable foragers.

That said I don’t eat foraged mushrooms either, even though it’s probably safe, because you only get one liver.

I’m a guy on my phone with one good eye doing my best to see what I’m looking at. You could have taken the opportunity to consider there are people not looking at this with 4k on a giant screen, but calling me a bot for thinking those were the same image on a phone is probably more reasonable 🙄

Since it is slop, yeah, mods should delete it. Go through my post history if you want to see how much of an AI stan I am, lmao.

FBI continually doing more than any foreign power to undermine the credibility of the FBI.

I didn’t call it a flip, but thanks for the reminder.

First image is literally 7 years old. You can investigate the others to prove they’re AI if you really want, but I’m not chasing down every false alarm.

All of this is nonsense, because it’s a 7 year old image. (Does nobody know how to reverse image search anymore?)

You are not as good at being an image detective as you think.

Could also be climbing and at a funny angle, could be licking minerals (a common reason for goats to climb).

I can’t imagine there’s a lot of training data for mountain goats, especially climbing at weird angles, which is part of why I think this likely isn’t AI generated.

When’s the last time a district swung by nearly 40 points? That’s nuts. Good, but wild.

Pretty sure it’s just the tilt-shift effect giving that impression, goats can climb basically anything short of a perfect 90 degree angle.

E: actually AI edit of a real photo

Do they get super soft or are they still firm? When I tried putting daikon in curry it kind of turned into neutral mush, which was fine but not what I was expecting.

Too bad they don’t start using this compiler at Anthropic.

You know the saying ‘never trust a skinny cook’? These fuckers are downright skeletal.

Will they feature this magnificent owl everyone keeps referencing?