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I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.
Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.
Looks like AI to me. Why are there pinecone reflections on what appears to be a concrete wall in the back?
I'd love to see another photo of this basement window well.
You answered your own question. It’s a window well. It’s glass.
It’s several panes of glass. Glass is reflective.
When you don't understand how anything works, everything seems like ~~a conspiracy~~ AI
It's not, the needles or whatever are way to consistent, even in the darker areas. AI would have fucked all that up
Also, it's a basement well window, I have one of these as well. So OP would be standing on the side of the window in his house and the pinecone is on the other side in the fire escape well
Think of it like looking into a really big terrarium
that’s exactly why it’s not AI. AI wouldn’t replicate the glass half-reflection that well. and the background is clearly the outside forest, nobody’s having pinecones detritus and plants in their own basement except that greenthumbsman from _goosebumps _
Just for fun I tried reproducing this with chatgpt and it consistently messes up aligning the light beam with its illuminated patch no matter what I try. They always fail on the weirdest details
"Please provide proof of authenticity before I allow myself to enjoy this picture."
I don’t get the ideological hate for gen-AI - especially when it comes to visual art. All I care about is whether I enjoy looking at it or not. I couldn’t care less who or what made it.
There is something special about photography. Photographs capture something real, a physical point in time. What you see really existed.
The problem with AI slop is that it gets better by the day and if you want to appreciate that single physical point in time that a photo represents, knowing that makes it special in ways that AI is not.
Likewise, created art is a window into someone’s mind and soul. Knowing this also makes those works special in ways that AI is not.
That said, the way certain communities crusade against AI is hurting actual, human artists. Especially those whose work skews toward the surreal. That is not ethical behavior and needs to be curbed.
There are communities for AI generated images. The presumption for photography communities is that submissions are taken pictures.
According to OP this is not AI generated.
And I believed them. I was responding to the comment about not understanding the hate for AI generated images.
Except they're not presuming that, at all. Hence the pushback. Sit down.
You sound like AI to me