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Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by keldami » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC

Schiendelman wrote: post #10

sjsanc wrote: post #5

The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now.

As someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

>I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

That is exactly what an AI Bot would say XDXD

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by tejohnso » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #8

Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt as he's a macro photographer: https://www.nickybay.com/

> Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated.

What would be so worrying about someone using AI to generate images for their site?

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by yreg » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

tejohnso wrote: post #12

sph wrote: post #8

Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt as he's a macro photographer: https://www.nickybay.com/

> Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. What would be so worrying about someone using AI to generate images for their site?

I don't mind it at all for decorational images, but in this case I would mind. I suppose I would mind the inaccuracy, the worry that the creatures might not look exactly like the real world ones look.

Not that it actually matters but if those images were generated it would feel pointless to me, even if I can't tell the difference.

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by BigTTYGothGF » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC

tejohnso wrote: post #12

sph wrote: post #8

Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt as he's a macro photographer: https://www.nickybay.com/

> Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. What would be so worrying about someone using AI to generate images for their site?

The whole point of the site is the images and facts.

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by wkrsz » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC

Schiendelman wrote: post #10

sjsanc wrote: post #5

The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now.

As someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

What does "stacked" mean in this context?

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by an0malous » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

michaelscott wrote: post #4

The kind of site that makes one happy the Internet exists

OpenAI will scrape it and start serving you isopod facts and pictures from their app

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by ravila4 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

wkrsz wrote: post #15

Schiendelman wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

What does "stacked" mean in this context?

You take multiple pictures at different focal points and combining together computationally because the depth of field at the magnification is very shallow. The resulting image looks somewhat flat, but highly detailed.

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by ravila4 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

ludicrousdispla wrote: post #6

I can't tell whether the images are heavily photoshopped or AI generated.

This is standard macro photography. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/related/e56465d1-86b9-3a3...

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by stared » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC

As much as the website looks nice, the design looks AI generated - image loading animations, or quotation marks for species names. (Both are needles decorations.)

Re: Isopods of the world

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Post by sjsanc » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC

tejohnso wrote: post #12

sph wrote: post #8

Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt as he's a macro photographer: https://www.nickybay.com/

> Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. What would be so worrying about someone using AI to generate images for their site?

In my own experience, whenever I detect something AI generated I lose the ability to evaluate how much I can "trust" something. Compare an article on Medium with a published book on the same topic; both are human-originated but the substance of one implies authority, quality etc. Generating a website and pictures with AI requires very little effort and care, and I have no interest in carelessness. Like most humans, I can't help but evaluate the author alongside the art.