Featured: Bowie Labyrinth Owl
Came upon some egregious AI owls this week. Most of you enjoyed these previously.
They annoy me because they get mixed in with some potentially good content, but it shows me the feeds don’t check what content they put their name on.
The worst is when they title it “Amazing photograph!” or something that attempts to legitimize it.
Which is the best of the worst this week?
Look at this googly eyed Muppet. JK, this one’s real! It’s a Spotted Wood Owl. That’s why I need to pay attention.
This owl looks like it was possessed and then fell intoa like of turmeric.
Looks more like a poorly-executed Photoshop job than an AI, but a fake’s a fake and I’m sure it fooled FB boomers all the same 😔
True, this one looks like someone playing with the color sliders.
I’m sure it tricks all types of people. I’ve had plenty of coworkers that come up here from the city get freaked out by all kinds of everyday animals like they were encountering aliens.
If they passed them off as “art” I wouldn’t care, but they have captions like “nice photo” or “amazing shot!” I don’t like them mixing fact and fiction.
This could be a real Striped Owl, but it’s on one if these weird group pages. The owl looks real-ish, maybe some processing done to it, the background is blurry and it’s cropped tight, so it’s hard for me to get context.
Here’s a real one:
Only sources Lens turns out for the questionable image are Reddit and Pinterest, so that makes me feel it’s fake. The real image comes from Cornell, so it’s as real as it gets.
The one looks like someone rubbed its feathers with a balloon while it was passed out drunk.
User: Computer, make an owl standing on a windowsill.
Computer: Okay, just let me fire up the ole’ coal powerplant here… And… Voila!
Owl: I’m only half-owl actually. Now give me your credit card information before I fuck up your computer.
I’m glad someone commented on this guy!
It’s so non-owl like to me except the face, yet it’s enough to suggest “owl” moreso than a chicken. The forward facing eyes are what makes me register it as a bird of prey, and the floof shape says owl instead of a hawk or eagle.
Otherwise everything is just so off on this guy. Wrong color, wrong beak, looks like wrong feet, wrong wing feathers.
