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on Nov 29, 2023 15:16:37 GMT
Last Edit: Nov 30, 2023 13:29:29 GMT by lumiworx
I ran across this picture on EBAY. This was NOT listed for sale, but it caught my eye.
Has anyone any idea about this?  ?
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Status: Long, long time Contax and Yashica user; glad to be here and hope to contribute.
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on Nov 30, 2023 10:50:43 GMT
Posted: Nov 30, 2023 10:50:43 GMT
I ran across this picture on EBAY. This was NOT listed for sale, but it caught my eye.
Has anyone any idea about this? ?
Whoa! A complete mystery... What on earth do the symbols on the lens represent...? |
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on Nov 30, 2023 13:37:38 GMT
Posted: Nov 30, 2023 13:37:38 GMT
This looks very much like it's an AI generated image (ala', MidJourney, etc.), and it is not real. I've seen enough of AI fakery to get a good sense of what some of them produce, and this tingles my 'spidey sense'. |
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on Nov 30, 2023 16:55:29 GMT
Last Edit: Nov 30, 2023 16:57:39 GMT by xkaes
You are the second person to suggest it's just an AI created photo, and no one else has come up with anything else -- so far.
If so, why they would choose to create a Kyocera Samurai seems odd -- but why not?
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on Dec 6, 2023 16:30:05 GMT
Posted: Dec 6, 2023 16:30:05 GMT
You are the second person to suggest it's just an AI created photo, and no one else has come up with anything else -- so far.
If so, why they would choose to create a Kyocera Samurai seems odd -- but why not?
Generative AI creates derivative images, and doesn't 'know' how to interpret reality accurately, so can only mimic something by fusing a mash-up of the photos it was trained on. If an AI prompt is fed a text phrase to start the process as something like "Japanese war camera in 3/4 low angle perspective with coated lens in brown and bronze", it pulls from XX million photos matching keywords in the given text and generates whatever it presumes will deliver an accurate representation.
If the images used for AI training include photos of Yashica/Kyocera Samurai models, they may get interpreted as fair matches to the prompted text, and assuming the most prevalent camera representations appear to be in a 35mm physical layout, AI may present that body format as the most appropriate generic match for "camera".
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