I read that as “butterfly”, was confused. Reread it correctly, and still am.

Literally every time I hear news out of my U.S my brain is boggled.

Gus is the motivational inspiration the Lemmyverse needs.

Also, I love seeing these regular photos of Gus, thanks for sharing them!

This one is not AI, but when I’m unsure I like to do a reverse image search.

I think it’s good to be skeptical, but don’t lett it ruin your enjoyment of cute things!

Most AI is super obvious still, and even the subtle stuff has tells.

I quite enjoyed the book. I agree there wasn’t much new, but it did feel like a nice stepping stone between Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and the original trilogy.

I believe you’re right. The image itself is pretty low quality, at least on my end, and I think that adds to the confusion.

I am not saying you specifically edited the image, but there may have been some brightening or color contrast adjustment at some point, which is what I meant when I said “enhanced”. At the very least there may be some image compression from the many times the same image has been shared since 2013… In which case I suppose that would be “dehanced”.

Not that there anything wrong with editing or “enhancing” images. All professional photographers do it in one way or another, and it has been practiced since the early days of photography.

I think it is important for people develop critical thinking skills in order to differentiate between A.I. and non-A.I. images. Far too often I have seen people believing the most absurd things are real. There is nothing wrong with people calling it out when they see something that doesn’t look or feel right— even if, as is the case here, we are wrong in our assumptions.

This is how we learn.

A reverse image search brought me exact results from as early as 2013, which is long before A.I. was creating images like this. I agree that something looks off about the image, and it’s definitely enhanced in some way, but I don’t believe it to be A.I. generated.

Or maybe sleep-post?

So cute!!

You should Xpost this to !dogs@lemmy.world

Hehe, I love his little bandit mask. He’s a ham bandit! A hambit?

I really like librarything, but the app doesn’t have all the features the website has. In general it’s great for cataloging your own books and crowdsourcing information but doesn’t have the community aspect, although the website does have message boards.

I tried storygraph briefly, but didn’t keep up with it. It felt like a chore to me at the time.

I’m intrigued by BookWyrm though, and am interested to see what others say about it. Haven’t tried it yet but definitely considering it.

Why does he Capitalize Random Letters like I did when I was a Teenager with Big Emotions.