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  • How do we know this isn’t AI?
    by ninetyninenine
  • Good question that probably shouldn’t be downvoted.

    A subjective answer is, if you have been there and know this to be real from personal experience.

    A more general answer would be, as long as we humans sufficiently interact with reality, we will have a respository of life experience to benchmark against.

    Once we cease to do that, and are the product of a life in front of the screen, then we won’t know anymore.

    Edit: This place is relatively close to where I live.

    by shswkna
  • I don't think these images have this, but there are people working on that problem.

    The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity https://c2pa.org/

    "The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA, provides an open technical standard for publishers, creators and consumers to establish the origin and edits of digital content. It’s called Content Credentials, and it ensures content complies with standards as the digital ecosystem evolves."

    I first heard about this here, which provides a good overview of how t works right now: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/18/C2PA-Inve...

    by bigiain
  • Do you have a specific suspicion, or is this more of a general question?

    If so, how do we know, you ain't AI?

    Well, we cannot know for sure, but we can look at your profile, see your comment history, spot irregularities in your text, etc. - same with the picture. The photographer is a real person, with a history. And as of my knowledge, at very high resolutions, a complete fabrication would take a lot of work, that it could not be spot easily.

    by lukan
  • Interesting thing I've noted with wildlife photography competitions is they're often about the backstory of the animal, not so much the photo. Here there photo by itself is not particularly interesting (IMO) but because of the animal and the conditions, it's considered award winning.
    by ratmeadow
  • "Doing X" vs "doing X in space"
    by potato3732842
  • https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1024xn/p0m8k93b.jpg.webp like something out of Piranesi or Lovecraft
    by internet_points
  • Actually, like one particular scene from the movie "Stalker" by Tarkovsky.

    https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a13eba20099e...

    by stared