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I guess some people thought it was AI, but just a cool moment in my basement window well.
Edit: taken with my iPhone several years ago since that’s all I had with me when it happened so quickly.
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Too much HDR. I can see why they thought it's AI.
Still a nice shot. The composion and framing is nice.
Honestly, deep fried images usually give me a headache but this one is actually pretty nice. I think the horrible HDR gives it a painting like quality.
It’s not HDR, it’s a single shot and no tone mapping has been done. Just levels adjustment that could have been done in a physical darkroom.
The number of things that confuse people in this image really surprises me, but I’m assuming you’re talking about the light beam, which is the sun raking concrete at a very sharp angle. The detail it’s exposing on the concrete is actually just like that, even in the raw image.
people nowadays are really reactionary and stupid.
the whole anti-AI clusterfuck is just the tip of the iceberg.
if someone doesn’t immediately understand something now instead of asking good questions they reflexively start to regurgitate whatever shit in their head lit up the moment they realized their ignorance.
it’s gonna be the literal death of us all, and no one takes it seriously. people are genuinely incapable of critical thinking now and it isn’t some shitty ego thing to acknowledge it. i’ve stopped caring if i offend people over this, tbh. their latent disrespect for knowledge and rationalism offends me.