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davidgroreply
lemmy.world

I believe it's also not a proper picture in the wider sense: The whole thing was probably generated, not just the water, "plastic", and device.

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hayvanreply
piefed.world

Definitely machine generated because they couldn't be assed to even look for the actual photo. The tool, the lab, nothing makes sense there, it's all fake.

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fonix232reply
fedia.io

I suspect it's not because the article writers couldn't find the picture but because of the legalities of just taking an image from another source.

This is also why e.g. Wikipedia is full of old, or crappy celebrity pictures - Wikipedia requires an open license for the photos they host, but most celebrity photos aren't licensed as such.

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Ech
lemmy.ca

I simply can't comprehend people who's first thought, even before using something that already exists, is to turn to llms and image gens for a worse result. It's so fucking stupid.

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SpruceBringsteenreply
lemmy.world

It's a bot, it's probably generating images from articles as soon as they publish. Probably so reddit can pump engagement stats for the board.

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Echreply
lemmy.ca

Still stupid. If it can scrape the article, it can scrape the photos.

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DreamMachinereply
lemmy.world

It's just an extension of rewriting, they want to host "original" content over reposts, but rarely care about accuracy.

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Blue_Morphoreply
lemmy.world

Because there's no people behind it. Probably a perl script that scrapes news and feeds it into an LLM to create click bait articles.

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