So, sure, in this group of only billionaires someone climbed onto the roof of a pickup truck to take a picture, that would be realistic? Trying to picture this scenario and it seems even more awkward than a drone shot.

And again, 7 of the most famous billionaires manage to casually run into each other in a parking lot with no one else around… Well except the guy climbing onto the roof of a pickup truck to take a picture…

There may or may not be artifacts, I’m not really interested enough to scrutinize, but I’m thinking a lack of artifacts won’t be a good gauge when someone can Photoshop out the rest of the way and/or models get better.

Without the usual artifacts, there’s still plenty to go on.

The scene just doesn’t make sense. They are standing around in a circle parking garage next to a cyber truck. They wouldn’t meet up there if they were meeting. Further, think about the camera situation. Looks like someone on a ladder or a drone took a picture from above. That’s a weird amount of effort for a pretty stupid shot.

But yeah, if the person has a better sense of plausible scenes, then it’s much harder to know if it’s an AI image or not. On video we mostly have duration to go by, since LLM vid generation can’t hold it together too long (other weirdness happens too of course, but broadly speaking we just can’t trust pictures or very short videos).

And someone would be taking a picture of them taking a selfie? They would be standing in a circle in a parking lot while someone gets above them to take a shot from above, either on a ladder or a drone? Forget the situation, the logistics of the pictures themselves just don’t make sense either.

Exactly what comments are you saying they didn’t read?

The only time you need background data is for real time updates

And makes total sense here. I need to know the second that never ending pasta bowl starts.

Works on contingency? No, money down!

It is an interesting thing that applies to the right, and a good illustration of why Tucker Carlson is understandably concerned about silencing the personalities on the left.

As a generic late show host, he was fairly middle of the road in a languishing media product (late night shows). The political climate gives him a value he wouldn’t otherwise have. If Trump had never been elected and they just casually announced that Kimmel’s show would be discontinued after this season, the general reaction would be ‘meh’, with some disappointed fans to be sure, but no huge outpouring of support.

That cuts both ways, conservative media nut jobs audience are there because of the ‘leftist’ media. Their schtick of ‘owning the libs’ and general ranting about libs isn’t so engaging when the left is denied a platform. Then you can just get ‘generic blonde lady on fox news’ for the smooth rolling propaganda and cranky white guy ranting doesn’t have the same hold.