The invention of photography just barely predates the first photographic hoaxes.

I keep coming back to Death of a Fantastic Machine.

Spotting a fake used to mean spotting edits, such as a repeating background, a shadow in the wrong place, or artefacts around a pasted-in object. That worked because manipulated images usually started with a real photo, leaving clues behind.

AI-generated images are different. They’re created from scratch, with no original image underneath, so those kinds of editing mistakes often don’t exist.

Even this is out-of-date, thanks to edit-models. This is why ‘replace her clothes with a micro-bikini’ is a problem. The model also doesn’t clone-tool from nearby in the same image, like us Photoshop Phriday veterans. They’re fully capable of generating an image from scratch, but replace just enough to blend into a given photo.

An image used to be reasonable proof that something happened.

Ehhhh.

Dinguses jump at shadows. You get people going ‘I can tell it’s photoshopped because of the pixels!,’ or sneering ‘I bet you’re an LLM’ over polite efforts to deal with their bullshit.

The Xbox people have a better grasp of things. Consoles have little reason to exist… and the writing was on the wall when the PS3 stumbled out the gate. Really, in the PS2 era, all those Renderware / id Tech 3 / Unreal 1 games running the same on every platform was a big hint that there was no longer a benefit to having different platforms. Now there’s just various badges over x86 PCs and smartphones - and the smartphones are starting to run Steam games.

None of which is to say that Microsoft has conducted their grand scheme to computer-ify the console market with any degree of finesse, consistency, or follow-through. They’re still idiots for setting successful studios on fire, and for refusing to shit or get off the pot vis-a-vis whether there’s gonna be an Xbox The Next One.

Do any of them belong in a fruit salad?

You built this functionality on purpose, you twits.

Several recent DOJ headlines have me wondering if there’s some holdout wing of competent stubborn bureaucrats, or if one ratfucker or other has ulterior motives for everything that sounds sane.

“So, in a cosmic sense…”

Cat, grooming: “Holy shit I’m delicious.”

… some of which are physical versions of a code in a box. Or worse, a physical login for video streaming.

Well, half your digital library. We stopped paying another company so your money doesn’t count anymore.

We’re keeping it though.

you burnt multiple comments on a point i never even made

I could put a sticker on your forehead and you’d try to pick it off the mirror.

Learn to swim.

Incorrect.

Criticism zero percent conveyed by snipping ‘okay, Einstein.’

‘Everyone should be smart enough to figure this out’ is not a claim to be a suuuper geeenius.

im not sure […] why you’re worried about seeming intellectually superior to the next person

They aren’t.

Mu. You’re accusing someone worried about everyone being a dick, as if they think the problem is only other people. It’s a rhetorical attempt at reversing a nonexistant grasp for superiority - and it’s a non sequitur. Even if someone believed they, themselves, would act decently, they could be right to worry about other people, and only mistaken in forgetting they are other people.

And his stated goal was competitive markets forever, not absolute monarchy with more steps. People dunk on conservatives by quoting that book.

Did they say “everyone else?”