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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The trend of UFO sightings follows revolutions in photography. There's been spikes in the amount of them when cameras became widespread and photos were easier to develop, when cameras became digital, when photo-manipulation software came about, and this next one will be because machine learning-based video generation is becoming increasingly sophisticated.

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[–] Pechente@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In addition to intentional manipulation, AI might hallucinate things that aren’t there when used in computational photography when it’s trying to fill in the gaps.

Blurry cloud? Now it’s a weird looking airplane.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

AI might hallucinate things that aren’t there when used in computational photography when it’s trying to fill in the gaps.

So it's putting things that "aren't there" in when it's...filling in things that aren't there? This is why "hallucinate" is such a problematic term. It obfuscates the fact that this is what these programs do with everything - they were designed from the start to make shit up. It's not "hallucinating", it's fulfilling its core programming function.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Now it’s a weird looking airplane.

With too many fingers.