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.
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Isopods of the world
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Re: Isopods of the world
#52Only the terrestrial ones. Sea isopods are a different planet (see Bathynomus).
The kangaroos from the invertebrate world. This group contains one infamous taxonomic troll move, when an English decided to name several different genus with anagrams. So everybody now needs to remember the differences between Nerocila, Cirolana, Conilera, Rocinela, Anilocra and Olencira. All because he wanted to impress a woman called Caroline. To add insult to the crime he created also Livoneca, that everybody was (wrongly) calling Lironeca, just because exceptions are annoying to remember. The joke was expanded by a second taxonomist later with Renocila and in 1990 a third author created Creniola and Norileca. I would wish to strangle all of then with my own hands. Slowly.
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#53Nicky Bay is incredibly talented and prolific, my favourite macro photographer by far! Big fan of his spider photography, there are many cases where the only high-quality pics of some species will be his. I'm not as deep in the isopod world but this looks like an invaluable resource for people trying to ID + explore them.
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#54This is raw AI slop, easily identified as such the second you see it.
100% generated website from the code to the text to the pictures.
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#55The 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.
The people who are saying that this is not AI are either being misled or they are lying.
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#56TIL people keep isopods as pets. What a great find!
There are several different, sometimes overlapping markets for them.
Reptile and amphibian keepers use them, along with live plants, to set up a bioactive tank that is relatively self-cleaning and self-maintaining.
Keepers of very small reptiles sometimes maintain colonies as feeder insects.
And still others skip the scaly middlemen and keep isopods as pets. They can get hilariously expensive. Just a couple of years ago, rubber duckies (featured on this site) used to be $90 a pop due to their rarity and difficulty in keeping them. Since they exploded in popularity, however, they're a much more reasonable^1 $15 a head or so.
[1]: For certain definitions of reasonable.
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#57The 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
There is curiously nothing on his website about this isopod site.
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#58Nicky Bay is incredibly talented and prolific, my favourite macro photographer by far! Big fan of his spider photography, there are many cases where the only high-quality pics of some species will be his. I'm not as deep in the isopod world but this looks like an invaluable resource for people trying to ID + explore them.
On close inspection, this does not appear to actually be Nick Bay's website, but rather someone impersonating him.
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#59As much as the website looks nice, the design looks AI generated - image loading animations, or quotation marks for species names. (Both are needles decorations.)
I don’t care if someone uses AI to get a simple website up. I’m here for their content, the photos.
The photos are all either stolen or AI generated.
Re: Isopods of the world
#60Earlier 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!
> I recognize the photographer There is curiously nothing on his website about this isopod site.
So.. I don't know, maybe you don't know them as pillbugs (slaters).. but there's a whole gallery from 2023 https://www.nickybay.com/pillbugs-sowbugs-isopoda-checklist/