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Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by dylan604 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #2

> The silhouette of Brown is neatly demarcated against the bubbling surface of the Sun. His downward trajectory is perfectly framed between sunspots, active regions on the surface of the Sun that are slightly cooler than their surrounding areas. This is not just a pretty picture; it is truly a masterpiece Excuse me while I go wash off the stench of AI-generated descriptions. The picture is very nice, though.

it's from iflscience which I would be shocked if there were more than 10 humans working for that site. it is so heavily loaded with ads/tracking that it gives no indication of giving a shit about its readers. i saw several parts of the site not loading due to uBO. just to see what was missing, i disabled uBO and after refreshing was presented with a blocking popup that says "our site depends heavily on" blah blah with a link to how to disable the blocker for the site. however, that's how i got to the modal was by disabling the blocker. the site was more functional with it enabled.

again, what would one expect from a site that has that feel of doing nothing than hoping to generate a viral headline just to infect those unfortunate to have actually followed the link

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by squigz »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #27
causal wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is not just a ... Dead giveaway

Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

Has AI content detection become at all competent?

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by cindyllm »

squigz wrote: post #32
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

Has AI content detection become at all competent?

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Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by TylerE »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #27
causal wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is not just a ... Dead giveaway

Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

HN can't even get it's web front end out of the 90s or meet basic accessibility standards.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by TylerE »

LargeWu wrote: post #18
dahart wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> making his photos limited edition is a fantastic weay to put the pressure on to actually buy FWIW, limited edition printing is absolutely standard practice for working artists who use media that can be easily or mechanically replicated, including photographers, printers, and digital artists. The feeling of FOMO that it instills is indeed one reason, that benefits the artist, but the main reason limited editions are…

If there's any difference between printmaking and photography, it's that printmaking requires one to physically print each item. There's a non-trivial amount of manual setup to do, and the process can take days. Photography can be printed basically on-demand owing to the nature of the medium. It doesn't mean that limited runs in photography are less valid, though. Once that print is editioned no reputable artist will…

A lot of modern prints aren't really made like that. They're just run off on (basically) nice commercial inkjets.

Sure that's not exactly fine art, but there's a big market for it, including things like collectors. Virtually all concert posters are printed this way, for instance.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by markdown »

mholt wrote: post #9
wincy wrote: post #3

It’s a very cool picture. Andrew McCarthy sells prints of these and other astrophotography on his website[0] although they’re always limited run prints. I bought the one of the sun with a SpaceX rocket for a friend who is into astronomy. As a sales strategy, making his photos limited edition is a fantastic way to put the pressure on to actually buy instead of thinking about making a purchase indefinitely, even if fro…

I get the whole scarcity thing -- and I've even asked Andrew about this -- because if I'm willing to give him my money after saving up for it, but it sells out first, wouldn't he make more money if he took mine then? But, I guess we just have to have an art budget with some money already set aside if we want to jump on opportunities when artists do this. I respect it, but yes it's a bit inconvenient. PS. The full, un…

If I were him I would put out a limited edition at a fixed price like he currently does, but then add $X0? $X00? cumulatively to the price of each additional unit sold.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

causal wrote: post #22
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #2

> The silhouette of Brown is neatly demarcated against the bubbling surface of the Sun. His downward trajectory is perfectly framed between sunspots, active regions on the surface of the Sun that are slightly cooler than their surrounding areas. This is not just a pretty picture; it is truly a masterpiece Excuse me while I go wash off the stench of AI-generated descriptions. The picture is very nice, though.

> This is not just a ... Dead giveaway

Let’s bump up the AI even more, instead of “dead giveaway” you should have used hence.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by markdown »

dahart wrote: post #8
wincy wrote: post #3

It’s a very cool picture. Andrew McCarthy sells prints of these and other astrophotography on his website[0] although they’re always limited run prints. I bought the one of the sun with a SpaceX rocket for a friend who is into astronomy. As a sales strategy, making his photos limited edition is a fantastic way to put the pressure on to actually buy instead of thinking about making a purchase indefinitely, even if fro…

> making his photos limited edition is a fantastic weay to put the pressure on to actually buy FWIW, limited edition printing is absolutely standard practice for working artists who use media that can be easily or mechanically replicated, including photographers, printers, and digital artists. The feeling of FOMO that it instills is indeed one reason, that benefits the artist, but the main reason limited editions are…

> You can spread the profit across a run and give a group of people something for a low price instead of giving one person a high price.

Why not somewhere in between those options:

For example (made up numbers), sell 100 units at $100 after which the price goes up by $10 for each additional sale. So the 100th unit would be $100, the 101st unit $110, the 200th unit $1100, and so on.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by Swenrekcah »

squigz wrote: post #32
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs. I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

Has AI content detection become at all competent?

I think we probably need to go the other way, a comment or article needs a ‘faceId’ check before submission to get human stamp.

Of course that brings a whole another set of problems.

Re: Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

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Post by squigz »

Swenrekcah wrote: post #39
squigz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has AI content detection become at all competent?

I think we probably need to go the other way, a comment or article needs a ‘faceId’ check before submission to get human stamp. Of course that brings a whole another set of problems.

That sort of thing is trivial to bypass and is a massive privacy violation.
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