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      It’s pretty amazing. Something about the symmetry of it, the faux-orderliness of the embossed fonts against the stark blue defiant scrawl, the crowd of people in the distance against the few cops in the foreground. The upwards curve of capitol hill building vs the downward curve of the hats of the cops. The blue sky and text imploring clarity and freedom vs the brown uniforms and dead grass.

      All of it incidental, but captured like it was a planned painting. There’s more I’m sure I’m missing, but yeah, this is an amazing photo.

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        You can’t have counterculture without a strong prevailing culture. SLC pushes back in surprising ways small and large. Great to see it.

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      They’re double dog daring us to. Many are still clinging to the hope we can vote our way out of this in 2-4 years, but at the rate this coup is progressing, how long until that hope gets extinguished and violence is the only remaining option?

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    14 hours ago

    Oh, look! It’s the rich’s enforcers, they found something they bother to investigate…

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    I’ve seen it from more than one angle now, so I know it’s real, but damn if that isn’t the most AI looking f’ing image…

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      Really? Can I ask you why?

      It doesn’t strike me as AI at all. All the little details are in the right places, nothing is turning into weird amorphous blobs, the hand we can see looks real, the lettering looks plausible, there’s no weird artifacting on the building, I could perhaps go on, but like, yeah, all the things I check to see whether I think a photo is AI generated or not seem to check out in this one.

      So I’m quite curious, and feel free to not answer, it’s whatever, but I would like to know, what makes this image feel like AI to you?

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        For me it’s the setup of the photo itself - feels absolutely staged.

        Also those police hats look so dumb - they look like someone photoshopped a hat onto someone without understanding how hats work.

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        The best stuff now doesn’t exhibit a lot of those. It’s also pretty easy to take an existing image and do a little in-painting.

        The crowd itself looks a little janky. The sky is HDR blue, But then the cop uniforms our blown straight to black there’s no detail in them. The lense is wide enough to give some spherical shaping to the building that doesn’t follow through in the local scene. The patches on the cop’s arm are broken in a way that’s unusual.

        I’m guessing that the AI and the phone played with the curves quite a bit, The patches on his arm are just broken in an unusual fashion. I saw an image from it from another angle so I’m certain it’s real.

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        It’s the almost complete lack of shadows. My guess is there was a very thin cloud cover diffusing the sunlight. You can kind of see this on the right-side officer’s hat shadow.

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        Makes me think a solid misinformation strategy would be to doctor real photos to look like they’re AI generated.

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        I think the phone they used went ham on HDR.

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        Lots of that lately; reminiscent of the cybertruck on fire in front of the trump tower. I absolutely assumed that was ai at first