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Re: Owls in Towels

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Post by ttoinou »

GreenWatermelon wrote: post #91
ttoinou wrote: post #9

Do you think this kind of internet nuggets will still exist in our soon to be post-AI world ? We won't be able to know who sent a real vs. a fake picture

I guess we will have to rely on extra-net signals: Meta clues from the real world. For example, the website creator doesn't seem to be looking for profit, nor did they add much oin terms of personal info that would point to him looking for internet clout. The FAQ page comes across as genuine and, as another commenter put it, whimsical. It's also all self hosted, and on a unique domain, while mass-content-farmera pref…

Good clues, but what about verifying the authenticity of pictures people send you ? The author here is gathering pictures from others

Re: Owls in Towels

#102

Post by GreenWatermelon »

ttoinou wrote: post #101
GreenWatermelon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess we will have to rely on extra-net signals: Meta clues from the real world. For example, the website creator doesn't seem to be looking for profit, nor did they add much oin terms of personal info that would point to him looking for internet clout. The FAQ page comes across as genuine and, as another commenter put it, whimsical. It's also all self hosted, and on a unique domain, while mass-content-farmera pref…

Good clues, but what about verifying the authenticity of pictures people send you ? The author here is gathering pictures from others

It'll always be on case by case basis. My mother sending me an awe-inducing picture on WhatsApp? Yeah she probably found it on Facebook, and it's likely it's fake.

In this website's case, I trust the author did enough due diligence to ensure to the best of his abilities that no AI pictures end up on his site. Looking at the submission page (0) he takes submissions by email, and requests the "name of the wildlife sanctuary and the photographer (if known)" which signals he isn't just putting random pictures from the internet.

Text forgeties existed wver since words were written down, and Text has existed for millennia. We had to deal with possible lies and forgeries the entire time.

Photo and Video are very recent inventions, so it was about time they got the same forgery treatment. Now we will have to rely on the same signals of trust as we had before.

0: https://owlsintowels.org/submit/

Re: Owls in Towels

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Post by iainctduncan »

PSA: Many (I mean many) bird injuries are from window strikes, including in this adorable list. These are often fatal even if the bird appears to fly away. My partner is a bird biologist and does work specifically on this area. Unfortunately, fancy modern glass buildings (including that which is in style at universities and other techy campusus) are brutal for this, because the birds can see through the building and think they can also go through. This is not minor, it is actually an existential threat to some species in some urban areas.

There are some very effective and cheap solutions if you have a window birds are hitting. Wavy lines on the window with a bar of soap work well. Even better are strings hanging in vertical lines outside the window. Believe it or not, your brain gets used to these and you stop noticing them very quickly. They cut down on bird fatalities a TON.

Example: https://www.birdsavers.com/

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