(03-12-2024, 09:49 AM)BIAD Wrote: Allowing for the public's acceptance that the fashion business relies heavily on photo-editing and manipulation
of images to enhance their products, along with colour-enhancing in commercials for the same reason, a lazy
legacy media decided that members of the Royal family should not be allowed to tinker with their own shots
of themselves and their kids.
However, after discovering that the image sent to the 'news-creating' agencies of this dying trade wasn't from
anything connected to artificial intelligence, a technology that threatens thousands of jobs in their litte fiefdom,
the short-lived outrage quickly died down.
The image of the recently hospitalised Princess of Wales and her children was briefly discussed in another
thread her at Rogue Nation and a day later, the furore had quelled in the established shovellers of shite when
they begrudgingly accepted what their dwindling followers had dealt with for decades.
But then came the grumblings from a sector of their kind that are known as 'Royal Photographers' and 'Royal
Correspondents', a small group who speak in a high social-class voice and offer a perception that they have a
greater access to thr realms of royal households than the regular plebians.
As we slowly move away from the divisive acts of race and gender, the class/caste levels of 'privilege' -a status
many in all the types of information-gathering enjoy, will be quickly butter-patted to hopefully reflect that even
with wealth, happiness will still be beyond the reach of all of us.
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Anyway, Kate admitted she messed about with a picture and if I were her, I would wonder if I'll end-up
hitting a pillar in the Alma tunnel because of this defiant act.
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My word! What IS this world coming to when just any old royalty can manipulate images of cuffs and thereby perpetrate heinous crimes of hidden agendas upon a trusting and unsuspecting public? Doubtlessly it simply had to be done, in order to avoid disclosing to would-be kidnappers and the like that the young lady in question clearly keeps daggers hidden up said cuffs, purely for defensive purposes, of course!
But this claim from the article, THIS claim, I call bullshit on:
Quote:“It’s all but impossible to say what tools have been used — it could be photoshop style tools, which incorporate elements of AI and generative AI, or something else. Currently the technology doesn’t allow you to trace what tools have been used,” says Hannah Perry, lead digital researcher at the London-based think tank Demos.
What the hell kind of "expert" would make such a blatantly false claim? I'm no expert at all, but even I know that almost every software package, and almost every camera, leaves footprints on photos when taken or manipulated that tell you exactly who and what was there. Even I, lowly little old me, have software that will parse out that information for you forthwith. Free-to-download-from-the-internet software at that. It's not super secret squirrel stuff!
All modern cell phones, and most digital cameras, leave an imprint not only of the phone make and model, but also even the camera settings the image was taken with, and even the location on Earth's surface where it was taken, and the compass direction the camera was pointing!
After a photo is taken, almost all software image manipulation packages leave their mark on that data as well, right down to time stamp the image was manipulated and the software version that was used.
Honestly, I think that "London-based Think Tank" should probably look in to hiring a better class of "expert".
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