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It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales. “Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…” … and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind. 36 comments
@Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan that happened to me once but I wasn't dreaming, just made a mistake while hacking my banglejs smartwatch @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan To check if I'm dreaming, I try to read things - the text makes no sense and the words keep changing - not only the word itself, but also the font, for some reason.  @giovannicuriel @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan I learned that trick from Batman the Animated series: "As Batman eloquently puts it at the end of that episode, “reading is a function of the right side of the brain, while dreams come from the left side.”" https://www.inverse.com/science/can-you-read-in-your-dreams I don't really encounter written words in dreams anyway, nothing appears in that level of detail, and it's mostly black and white. More impressions then photos.  @mathiastck @Potatofox @erkhyan for me words keep changing on me as I read things in dreams. Also have a really hard time texting coherent sentences. @erkhyan @Potatofox @mathiastck @elexia this article is amazing! Thanks for sharing it! @giovannicuriel @erkhyan @Potatofox @elexia #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries has been on my mind since we lost Kevin Conroy. I checked his wiki recently and am only more impressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Conroy  @giovannicuriel @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan This trick works remarkably well! False negatives are rare for me; almost always the text changes on the second glance. @giovannicuriel @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan Come to think of it, false *positives* could perhaps be achieved by some mischievous trickery with an e-ink display and a camera and some image "recognition" to change the text while you're not looking 😁 @quincy @giovannicuriel @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan If you successfully get a false positive you need to upgrade that phrasing from mischievous to nefarious. @ZenithAstralis you're absolutely right. that would be truly nefarious. @giovannicuriel @Potatofox @elexia @erkhyan @erkhyan It's also a technique one can use to trigger lucid dreaming, people in dreams don't have the right number of fingers either.   @erkhyan this makes really clear the relationship between recognizing one of The Good People and the uncanny valley; never thought about it before but it makes a lot of sense. I’ve started getting replies of that kind, and I’d like to politely invite fans of AI generators to take their proselytizing elsewhere. I did NOT live through machine translation’s methodical ravaging of the translation industry, only for y’all to welcome the same ghouls into the one last refuge I have. On one hand I’m glad that almost two thousand interactions on this post have only produced one Annoying Reply Guy™, on the other hand I’m irritated that there was still one. So, piece of advice for AI proselytizers: the only opinion of mine you can hope to change is on whether YOU have enough basic intelligence to understand the words “don’t even try to talk me into thinking well of AI generators”. @erkhyan I personally love the ones where it makes centipedes out of everything. Instead of a waistline, it's always more shoulders and torsos.    @erkhyan  @erkhyan: One day, we'll get to make friends with AI. It'll be a lot harder if humans will have invented a lot of nasty fairy tales about AI not wanting to be friendly by then. @riley @erkhyan today's AI is not intelligent, it's just pretend intelligent. Like a jacquard loom it can mass produce something that appears complex, but is actually very limited. It'll require new regulations and controls to make it useful to society, and it will disrupt some roles but not as much as imagined currently. |
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@erkhyan this is also a trick I've used to confirm I'm in a dream before. Just looking at my hands. Over time I've found easier ways than counting fingers though.