So here’s the photo that was removed by mods today. This is Mel at the top of her cat tower that has a climb through bottom and she is holding on through the bottom and the top this photo was taken with an iPhone 16 Pro. It’s too bad. The mods do not recognize a real photo compared to AI #caturday
iPhone Portrait mode offThis looks so much better without the yucky AI filter. Very cute cat!
Look man I still don’t believe you. I’m going to need atleast 12 more pictures of this adorable creature as proof of their existance. As we all know ai can’t yet recreate a human giving a cat treatsand pets so I’ll need that too
So I see people arguing whether this is AI or not and I just wanna say that
What people should take away from all of this is that we’re rapidly approaching a point where we’re simply unable to accurately determine whether something is generated or not. And we, as individuals and as a society, are not ready for that. We’re heading into a different world, and we better prepare for it, as well as re-examine our relationship to art and images before we’re forced to do so by the circumstances
It will never be worth accepting every image as real
That’s how you entirely become detached from reality.
Always question the legitimacy of every new image
This was a real picture with an AI portrait filter applied. So it really is an AI image, and the original that OP posted looks normal and non-AI. We are not yet at the point where it’s impossible to tell them apart.
People didn’t use to call those AI images. They used to call them images with a filter
Sure, some form of machine learning was involved, but so was your Google search for the previous decade. Unless one specifies what one means by AI, I still stand by my statement
In addition, OP’s image was still real, even if it had a filter on. A lot of people’s images have such filters on, especially since often they’re applied automatically. That’s the whole difference and the point
You named your cat NOT AI SLOP?
I think NOT AI SLOP is a very cute kitty.
Nice, the mod listed the reason for the removal as “AI Slop”
The rampant ignorance-based AI hatred on lemmy is off the hook. People are just jumping on the knee-jerk insult bandwagon at this point.
I don’t hate all uses of AI and use it quite a bit (particularly for translation and coding). But I absolutely do hate the low-effort, garbled memes it generates, and the endless sea of garbage websites with inaccurate AI-generated text that make it hard to find real information anymore.
That’s the slop, and you can easily hate the slop without hating everything about AI.
Silly in this case, though. That looks like a real cat, and doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of slop.
I applaud your well-reasoned response, BreadstickNinja.
More importantly, they didn’t name their orange cat after food.
Thus the removal.
Hilarious. You can literally see the reflection of your phone taking the picture in the cat’s eye.
That is a neat detail I would not have zoomed in to see without it being pointed out, thanks for sharing!
I mean it should be easy to dispute with the mods. Simply submit 2 additional photos. One of the cat and one of the tower from an angle which shows said hole. 🤷♂️
[Bevis chuckle]
Yeah! Show us your kitty, OP! Show us all your holes!
Yes. Let’s put additional burden on someone sharing a fucking picture of a cat instead of expecting moderation to use three brain cells.
That’s exactly what AI SLOP would say!
Ngl, if I hadn’t previously seen cat towers with holes in them like that, I likely would have assumed that the bottom paw was an ai indicator at first too.
Mind you, I would likely have zoomed in to check because, unlike a decent phone camera, most ai images don’t zoom well, you start seeing artifacts; a real picture will usually zoom well enough and pixilate a little different. It isn’t foolproof, and eventually it won’t be that easy as the various models improve.
But both versions posted here are almost definitely real pictures of an actual cat, not generated. Zoom in a little and you can see reflections and fur details that won’t be there with ai
Using my feline-tuned framework and cat-egorical classification systems, I must conclude this is genuine cat. That baby has immaculate whiskers, impossible to reproduce with current techniques
I saw that pic yesterday and my first thought was “that’s an amazing picture. The photographer had a good eye and probably also some good luck.”
Trust the online world to translate this to “only AI can be this good”.
Pretty kitty 😊
That’s very sad
Cute orange girl!
first off, beautiful cat.
secondly, you’ve clearly doctored the image. focus blur just doesn’t look all blobby like that. what software did you use to touch it up? that may indicate why it was flagged as fabricated.
edit - it looks a bit like the ‘depth of field’ feature that some samsung phones have. was it something like that? (i’m not being combative or accusatory just in case i sound that way - i just want to help if i can provide another valid perspective)
This is portrait mode on a smartphone. Pretty common photo manipulation, potentially done automatically without their knowledge even.
I took a few photos of my friend and her family a while ago with her iPhone and the photos looked like that too, very focused on the family and a blurry background.
That would be my guess as well. The fake depth of field makes it look more fake. It’s probably a built-in feature of the iPhone, maybe even enabled by default. This one is actually pretty good for a fake, the border is pretty sharp, but, for example, it blurred the whiskers when it shouldn’t
Anyway, my verdict is that it’s a real kitty and it deserves real smooches!
I think the latest iPhones use LIDAR to do the bokeh?
A very open aperture looks like this. Or a bokeh effect.
Definitely a bokeh effect. Shallow DOF would still have captured the whiskers.
But I don’t doubt it’s a ‘real’ photo. I don’t generally like the iPhone portrait mode because of its artificial DOF. I mean, unless I’m going for that — but it’s tricky because it pulls nonsense like the above photo.
I’m not savvy enough, but to me this looks like it could’ve been taken with a dedicated digital camera with a proper lens. OTOH esp. iPhones are pretty good at processing photos and making generally good decisions for you. Anyhow, not AI.
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