@SchmidtGenetics Cock-in-elle
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Why post AI slop?
I don't think that's AI (generated). I think that's the HDR effect of a mid-2010s phone camera, contrast and sharpness boosted, with some crushed blacks and blown-out whites, and then cropped. The cropping may have happened somewhere before the other steps, which were all probably achieved using some, I'd guess pre-2021, built-in AI enhancements.
Brand new iPhone zoomed in, it’s the digital zoom and whatever enhancements it automatically does.
Thank you for correcting me, and that's shocking to see such a leap backwards in processing/enhancements. I had an iPhone 14 pro for a few years and cannot recall ever getting a photo like that.
Just to confirm, I went back and looked at an old pic that I recall being surprised by how low-quality a result that I got. It's of my black and white dog jumping, digitally zoomed in, on a harshly lit day, that I later cropped. While the image approaches the results you got, it is still doesn't look as extremely processed.
The cameras on your phone are undeniably better than mine were, which means that this look is 100% post-processing. Since most photo quality enhancements have been powered by some form of AI for about a decade now, this appears to give a bit more credibility to the sentiment, but not the intent, of @Formfiller@lemmy.world comment: Apple is eating its own dog food, poisoned as it may be.
I’ve noticed it does very wonky things when you use the digital zoom, I was at 7x iirc. Too much data to fill in. I didn’t crop it at all after taking it.
Even with the AI off I’m sure whatever processing they do would be considered AI still. I’m in the fence about stuff like autofill and other automated tools in photoshop, there’s gotta a line somewhere.
Brand new iPhone zoomed in, it’s the digital zoom and whatever enhancements it automatically does.
You have to turn off the AI feature or it will ruin your photos with AI
Modern phones have done automatic processing of images long before AI, it is turned off.
I turned the AI off on mine and it stopped doing this AI shit to my pictures
How do you propose digital zoom works without filling in data? Optical zoom allows live images, which skips most enhancements, starting digital zoom doesn’t allow Live Photos and starts mandatory automated processing and enhancement.
What's 20c?
c is the speed of light in a vacuum, so 20c is warp 20. OP is critiquing the speed of the bugs' coitus, I believe.
68°F.
If you think of 20°C as super conveniently being room temperature (68°F) and use that as an anchor; you can then, within about +/- 40°F, think of every +/-5°C as about +/-10°F. For example:
- 20 - 10 = 10°C (50°C) is approx. 68 - 20 = 48°F
- 20 - 20 = 0°C (32°F) is approx. 68 - 40 = 28°C
- 20 + 10 = 30°C (86°F) is approx. 68 + 20 = 88°F
That is, if you use 20°C/68°F as an anchor, take the difference in Celsius from 20°C, multiply that by two, and add it to 68°F, you have a decent approximation of what the temperature is in Fahrenheit. That's assuming 20°C is the only anchor you have and that you never want to learn what other temps are – just a compact, minimal-memorization algorithm that gets you close enough for the rare times you need it.
(The real algorithm is that x°C = (y°F - 32) ÷ (1.8))
I considered that, but then how is there a foot of snow? Snow melts above 0°C
Our weather has always been weird. A month of frost still, but daytime temps can get upwards of 30c. Snowed a foot yesterday, chinook today, most of the snows melted, but what’s in the shade and protected from the wind is still there.
All snow doesn't instantly melt above freezing just like all the water in your pot doesn't instantly evaporate when you turn on the heat. The temperature can rapidly fluctuate up above freezing while there's still a bunch of snow on the ground, and that takes a while (sometimes days) to melt. Melting is affected by factors like shade, snow depth, etc., so while the picture shows no snow, there might be plenty surrounding it – which could be expected accounting for survivorship bias (namely that the lovebugs are unlikely to be lovin' on top of a foot of snow).
Ambient air might be above freezing, but the piles of snow in the shade are still below freezing.
At 20°C!? Is this some kind of Df climate thing that I'm too Cf to understand?
Yup. The big piles don't melt until July.
Don’t forget the piles from the ice rinks never melt!
Welcome to Chinooks in Calgary.
My condolences. That does not look fun in summer.
Gets funner, we have Microclimates too. Some communities can grow gourds, while others are just shit out of luck without greenhouses.
I’m oversimplifying, but gets the point across.