From shopped to slop

A co-worker recently asked which AI I used to make some drawings in a presentation. I made them all by hand in Inkscape, so I'm not sure if I should feel good or bad about the question.

Time to go back to commissioning portraits from painters who forage to make their own pigments.

I miss the good honest deception of spending hours trying to make misinformation pieces for fun. Truly, people are too lazy to even hoax authentically anymore, truly a shame.

Latest version of photoshop keeps pushing AI tools anyway, so they're interchangeable imo

"It was GIMPed"

Really annoys me that people look at old shopped images or CGI videos and go "I think this is AI".

I saw someone reposting this video and people were like "oh that's got to be AI" but no, it's a Blender video from 2021, guys.

Went from Photoshop: I can tell by the pixels. To AI: I can tell by the fingers.

MS paint still with a niche following

The shadows on this post are all wrong.

As ever, Jasc PaintShop Pro lies sad and forgotten :'(

wt:retouch

Verb

retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)

1. (transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:

For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;

Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;

Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;

Add every grace, which time alone can grant;

To future ages ſhall your fame convey,

And give more beauties than he takes away.

TBH you cN usually tell a photoshop from an AI, but Adobe outlived its relevance regardless.

I'm old enough to remember when Photoshop became a thing and everyone said it was the end of the world as we know it.

That we won't be able to trust images ever again, that people would use it to mass produce misinformation and it would lead to abuse.

I can't tell if that was a mad panic or if that's exactly what happened though.

It's fucking sad and funny thinking about the (subscription) versions of Photoshop released in the last couple of years, ones where Adobe added AI-based tools.

Will CGI be the next to go?

Pretty sure humans still use Photoshop, and LLMs are being trained on their work.

What end of an era?

So people don't know how to use language anymore?

Or is tech literacy so low that people don't even understand the difference between an edited image, and some absurd slop generated bt a trash machine?

I've been using a borrowed version of Cs6 for so long, I'm honestly afraid what autocorrect/autotune nonsense has been baked into the whole Adobe platform that is just part of the modern creatives work flow.

Always preferred Micrographics Picture Publisher.