A lot of people are using upscaling and way too many phone filters to update old photos.
Someone gave me a t-shirt of a movie poster from the '80’s. I guess they started with a web search results image of the poster and upscaled it so much that the final result ended up looking like first gen AI slop.
Is the left photo AI? Something seems wrong with the top.
Photo manipulation existed before AI. Before computers even.
Wait til the youngin’s learn where “cut” and “paste” come from
Well duh, phones existed before computers
Nope, unless they had AI back in May 2000.
now I want to know the state of gay politics in 2000.
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wonder who they’ll scapegoat 20 years from now
If we’re on the same track we are on now? UNMARRIED WOMEN!!!* Gasp! Shudder!
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Where women are defined as being over the age of 14.
Whatever it is would be regarded as absurd today and you’d be called a troll for even suggesting it.
2000 version: “You’re hurting the gay rights movement by suggesting they’re a slippery slope to trannies in the ladies room.”
trans people existed then. it was not a big deal, besides a sitcom gimick.
my mother called me with a new moral panic about… furries, the new thing that scares her…
britney spears, rolling stone photoshoot, 2000
long before AI, in the days of old, we had photo editing
A lot of people are using upscaling and way too many phone filters to update old photos.
Someone gave me a t-shirt of a movie poster from the '80’s. I guess they started with a web search results image of the poster and upscaled it so much that the final result ended up looking like first gen AI slop.
We were very new to digital photo editing back then. the airbrushing was real.