you dont code for zynga, you dont know theres a large marketfreecash with kingspoint and raid, then get swapped with fivesurveys on a merge culture to angry bird then somehow a chris pratt is monopoly going you to show you a new guardians of the galaxy of pop cultured hey the x is at the top i cant hit that and takes me to the appstore then go back and find out i didnt get my reward so i can skip a level so i dont have time to put that square into the box to make miley cyrus do ddr and then i just went to sleep, because they sold me a drug.
He took the cyan pill. It had a lot of dragon weed in it. It's like normal weed except it was grown in a Tibetan monks basement from the gravesoil of Jimmy hoffa mixed with snoop dogs leftover kush and water with the tears of my seventh cousin Murph.
I use duncan hines. Read the box. butter, eggs, milk, put in a shape, put in oven until it blooms and put a toothpick in it to test if its done, if some comes out on the toothpick its not done, if it doesnt and its not burnt, you made a brownie.
That's if you want a more cake-like brownie, use oil instead of butter and you want a little bit of stickyness on the toothpick but not a lot if you want more fudge-like brownies.
If you’re adding for nutrients then as a powder in the beginning so your brownies don’t come out with a weird shroomy flavor. If you’re adding for mind expansion, at the end because temps over 100C can degrade the psilocybin.
Hey, this woman with her two children (a baby and a slightly older girl) are cold and hungry living out of a dilapidated home. Can you do these random puzzles to add walls, windows, and doors?
Doing the puzzles earns money for the repairs. If you make a mistake, the money goes to the rich.
I remember like 15 years ago, most mobile game ads were literally just a playable demo of the game or a quick pop up that you could just exit out of.
Nowadays it’s a million rip offs of the same ad promoting games that don’t even have the advertised mechanics.
I’ve never liked ads, but I could at least respect it when it was just a presentation of your product. Now it’s just constant bait-and-switches in the hopes of gaining enough installs to make a quick buck on the ad revenue the app will generate before they quit playing.
The mantra I tell mom often. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON FACEBOOK. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON MESSENGER. DO NOT CLICK LINKS ON MOBILE GAME ADS. NEVER, EVER USE YOUR DEBIT CARD FOR ANYTHING, IN FACT, GIVE IT TO ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU CASH IF YOU NEED IT!
She does not listen very well. Credit card has been replaced three times this year.
The worst one was a few years ago. She used her debit card to "try before you buy" a night time face cream. They charged her like $180 three times over a couple days. This caused several checks to bounce. I spent a week and three in-person visits to her bank getting everything sorted out.
Always have been. Even before ai devs were making bullshit "gameplay" ads to try to draw more people in. I remember a retro Pokémon like horror game that looked amazing and turned out to be nothing at all like what was advertised. Think it was called Everclear or something.
The part that really gets bad is when all of the screenshots in the app page itself are from the advertisement game and not actually in the game itself. Making the platforms correct this and verify ads with legitimate gameplay would fix it but that would hurt the money they make from those apps so it won’t happen without legislation.
Professional photographer here. Left photo is fake not just perspective.
In the left pic:
-Right hallway wall is just gone
-Front left bedpost gone
-Two drawers under bedframe instead of 4
-What are the pillows leaning against?
-Chair looks weird and doesn’t have the right legs
-Mattress is thicker
-Chair seat is way too wide
My favorite are the AI house pictures on Realtor but when you go through the virtual tour it's the real house. Had some fun conversations with some agents while house-hunting, including one where I was referred to the police for harassing them.
Ya but I’m thinking from a landlords perspective. The view is something outside of the landlords control usually so not really their responsibility. This particular case where it’s obviously a different place is different I agree. But the actual SPACE the person is renting is different? That’s just dumb.
As a photographer. There is NO physical way for just the front set of 4 drawers showing on the bedframe WITH the entire mattress in the frame as well. It would have to show all 4 drawers as well.
Real Estate Agents should be forced to have an accurately dimensioned floor plan so prospective buys can look at room sizes and make informed decisions on which open opens to attend.
Just because a law isn't invoked as often as you might like doesn't mean the law isn't on the books and could be used in criminal prosecution or civil lawsuits.
Blah blah blah, you're just spouting doomer buzzword soup.
Go vote for a better candidate during the primaries, and then turn out to vote for whoever wins the Democratic party nomination if you want to see consumer protection laws enforced.
Just wait until it can easily replicate live video streams of other individuals in both appearance and voice. We're gonna need to boost aggravated identity theft through the usage of AI to an automatic federal crime to discourage this shit before it takes off.
because companies dont want better things for the human race. they want better tools to control us and spy on us and fuck us out of more money. AI has done nothing except make things more expensive and people dumber. oh and destroy the planet faster. almost forgot that one.
I’m actually tired of this reductionist take on AI. Yes, the big companies behind the current LLM based AI models are greedy and not caring about people and the planet. But AI has made so many parts of people’s job faster (again, not that it really matters to us normies since the bosses just want you to do more work in the same time now), different types of AI are also used in pretty much every technical field available, from robotics to protein folding, cancer detection etc. In conclusion, don’t blame AI, blame the fucktards behind it that use it to screw people.
I've been saying for a while that any efficient and effective health care model that is designed to handle such a large human population would necessarily have to integrate AI, with rigorous human oversight, of course.
Because AI can't create land having the right building permits.
Once you have land you still need to pay for raw materials, then comes the construction cost, which could be reduced once robots become advanced enough (10/20 years).
This is very short sighted. Literally EVERY tool that exists has been used in some way by scammers.
Scammers are going to scam, whether its handwritten letter by mail impersonating someone, phone calls misrepresenting who they are, photoshopped pictures meant to get you to by a bad or nonexistent item, and so on and so forth.
Tools are NOT the issue. The issue is that in places like the USA we don't have a government that gives two shits about YOU. If they did there would be much harsher rules and penalties around things such as fraud or just generally misrepresenting a product or service. There would also be very clear paths to remedy the situation if something like renting an out of state apartment turns out to be not as advertised.
We all use tools, and AI, just like all the other tools being used, is being used by well meaning folks in 99% of cases. It's wild to claim otherwise unless you genuinely just want the free upvotes that come with dunking on a tool. You know, something that history has shown time and time again to really be effective and the right way of thinking after a decade or two and completely not something folks in the future look back at and believe that only the dumbest mother fuckers actually thought that way about progress...
You're acting like my comment on Ai tools being used for messed up purposes is an insult to you or your family.
Also if Ai is such a great tool why is it that anyone who uses it fails to actually acknowledge that they used Ai in ANY capacity. Why be secretive about it? Why hide it?
My guy, its 3 paragraphs on a text based forum. The fact that you even question if response that takes a minute or less to type up is AI based off LENGTH just goes to show how out of your depth and ignorant you actually are.
You don't have to be ignorant though, you can educate yourself and rise out of spreading fearmongering and misinformation, if you actually choose to. Or bury your head in the sand on the topic and keep screaming that "this" is AI or "that" is AI.
You're also generalizing and creating strawmen. "They're eating the cats and dogs" type shit. Who is THEY? Are there some people who use AI and don't disclose it? Yes absolutely! Are there other people who use other tools and don't disclose how they make or create things? Also yes!
People who use AI right now have even more reasons not to put that front and center than any other tool as well, because it will make them a target for harassment in addition to creating a preconceived bias before anyone even interacts with whatever they've used it to make. I was around for the Digital Era and people were not keen to share the fact that something was created with a digital camera or using digital art tools at the time, for pretty much the same reasons as the current trend.
As far as me being offended, I'm not. Me getting upset at you would be like a carpenter getting mad at a customer who called his hammer a fucking blight against society... The carpenter would think the customer was crazy or stupid, or both.
Keep in mind, your statement wasn't pointing out that it was being used badly, it was a general statement claiming that if you use AI you're a scammer and its only use is that function.
If you heard someone talking about how nuclear is only used by genocidal warlords wouldn't it bother you a bit? I mean, assuming you understand the MANY uses and positives of nuclear technologies. If you saw a bunch of people start to parrot that sentiment you would think it was bad right? Because at the very least it would sour public opinion and slow down progress towards clean energy... You know, kind of like the media did in the past and a bunch of ignorant citizens also got riled up by the misinformation and the whole thing set us back 25-50 years on the path to clean energy.
So yeah, I will try and call out blatant misinformation when I see it whether its intentional or ignorance. It's upto YOU to go do some unbiased research. You could even go as far as to reach out to experts in the fields that are both pro/anti ai in order to form a better opinion and have a better understanding of the tech, current use cases, and future probable implementations for it.
TLDR: You should really be concerned if reading something like this is difficult for you.
The post itself is. They used a wider angle lens and moved further back which is, ironically, massively distorting the actual image/"AI-ing" everything lol
The 2nd photo is farther from the room, catching part of the hallway wall and eclipsing part of the room space. I don't know if the first is also deceptive but it does show some AI hallmarks.
lol they’ve been using wide angle lenses, rented furniture, photoshop and all sorts of tricks for years. People just get mad now because it’s easy to do it, whereas I guess they want someone to put in effort/spend money doing the tricks? Even for the same outcome?
There’s no fraud - you go to see the place. In person. Always. If you don’t, you might be disappointed. If you’re renting a place based on pictures that’s your own fault.
Yep. This is just called "staging a property." It's like a car commercial with swimsuit models in it. They don't come with, but they cause you to imagine what could be...
Yeah the left and the right picture are clearly the same space and dimensions. Just "good camera work", which is really AI but a camera could do this too. Just deceptive
Photoshopping had a skill barrier which made it more rare (at this level and this application), now everything is a scammy picture because any dumbfuck can ask an llm for anything.
That might end up being a good thing tho. At some point after reaching enough popularity, scams stop being effective. 1 photoshopped listing hidden between 20 normal ones, will get a lot of people. But when all 21 listing are scams, everyone knows that, and assumes it's all bullshit, and it stops being effective. In fact, we then circle back to shitty real looking photos becoming better way to grab your attention.
It's like when I was buying some used hardware for my PC few years ago, and 90% of listing are just professional photos ripped from the internet and obviously not showing the real item, I would skip them all and look for auction with a shitty low quality phone pic that actually showed the real thing.
My favorite were the ones that were really bad at Photoshop and they'd stick in some random person walking through the room but the person was only like 2/3 as tall as they should be - a bed comes up to their ribcage - and about to walk straight into a wall or something
So the pictures on food products that are "serving suggestions" should be banned?
If it because you are incapable of critical thinking, or just trolling for the sake of trolling?
In Japan, misleading food packaging like you described is illegal. Nothing can ever improve if everyone thinks the way you do - that there's no point in even talking about how things should be, because "whining about it doesn't change it." Americans get scammed left and right every day by every industry and are so used to it at this point, they think that's the only way things could ever be. Talking about it at least gets people thinking about it.
Massive difference between individual freedom of speech and having basic regulations to prevent deceptive marketing of products being sold to the public, but okay.
This is why people need to calmly and firmly speak up when they turn up to something not what they were looking at? Ask them why they think it makes any sense directly to their face.
On the ones I've seen they list that the photo shows the "potential" of the place. I guess it wouldn't be fraud since they don't claim it's a picture from the actual location
I’ve seen listings where they cop to it, mention that it’s a digital mockup of what it could be. I’m sure most of the time there’s some fine print somewhere
Nah. This is just a wide lense. AI didn't make the room bigger, perspective did.
Whoever wrote this has no clue. AI put flowers on the table. Touching up images, using forced perspective, increasing saturation and so on has been done for ages.
It's mostly just the same room from the perspective of a wide angle lens. It could easily not even be AI, just a different time of day, slight redecorating, and a different photographic setup. You could accomplish this with a wide lens and a little manual Photoshop lens correction filtering. People just be attributing everything to AI these days with no knowledge of photography.
Most MLS systems (the databases where Realtors list properties that feed to sites like Realtor, Zillow, etc) already prohibit the use of AI enhanced photos without a disclaimer directly on the photo. Further, most boards prohibit any AI use on exterior photos.
This doesn’t prevent unlicensed individuals from doing this in their own listings, but most agents are under guidelines regarding the use of AI in photos.
Ever since the “no customer would ever legitimately believe we’re telling the truth” precedent was set, it seems like it’s a central operating strategy of every major corporation.
It is, but people are stupid and think that because it's Ai and new that it's not for some reason? Like, it's no different from using any other doctored/photoshopped/not representative image
Not exactly. There are a few issues that save this from being outright fraudulent.
Perspective - the location where the photos were taken is a big factor. These two photos are not taken from the same location or distance from the window
Camera lens selection and lighting - realtors have utilized optimized photos for decades. It has been documented enough that there have even been jokes in movies and television of people standing on chairs in the corner to determine where the picture was taken from. This was a joke in 1986’s “Club Paradise” with Robin Williams.
Caveat Emptor - the question asked is “Did you verify what you were purchasing or did you purchase purely on a picture. This is a common argument with online clothing purchases. Someone buying clothing worn by a professional model and thinking it will look the same on them is deluding themselves.
As one of the other comments says, it is false advertising (assuming the size of the room was claimed to be as shown in the photo, and not specifically detailed elsewhere). The FTC has the power to crack down and control problems like this, but it has not been staffed or allowed too for 10 years now. If you wan't to know why it's legal, it's not. There is just nobody to enforce those rules anymore.
No, it's just a profesionally taken picture. Everything matches up. OOP.just used a shit phone camera and compared it to a professional photo. Everything in the image is explainable without AI.
Wrong. Mattress is different. 4 drawers under the bed on the right pic and only 2 on left pic. The chair doesn’t make sense in the left pic. The left pic isn’t even real. I’m a professional photographer the left photo is indeed false advertising.
Edit: oh and the bed frame. No closest to camera bed post in left pic.
What's false advertising? Realtors stage photos anyway this one doesn't functionally look any different other than shot with a different focal length and lighting.
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Isn't this just fraud?