ABasilPlant
@ABasilPlant@lemmy.world
InfoSec Person | Alt-Account#2
- Comment on It's a skill 4 weeks ago:
Oh boy, this was a 20 minute rabbit hole.
Tl;Dr: this is probably AI generated.
Using google image search, I found is that it was created by this account in Oct/2024:
www.instagram.com/gothtoon/p/DBh-p4WgThS/
Alternative front-end: imginn.com/p/DBh-p4WgThS/
There is the copyright symbol with this user in this image.
If you go through the comments and other posts by that user, it does look AI generated. Their threads account has a linktree, which has a link to a discord server, which I momentarily joined to see what the deal is about.
Looks like it’s a project started by a user named Emo Bot 9000, and they’ve created a bunch of characters, the most famous of which is the frog mage. This is a message on discord that supports this:
Another user asks whether the frog mage stuff is made using AI, and Emo Bot 9000 essentially replies yes:
Now, although the image in this lemmy post is, to the best of my searching, nowhere explicitly labeled AI, I think it mostly points to being generated by AI. The simplest way to confirm would be to ask them on their discord directly, which I don’t intend to do.
Although reverse search tells me there are earlier appearances of this image, they’re either false or the PFP of a commenter.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 6 months ago:
Yep! Series 4 hasn’t “released” on YouTube yet. I saw Paul William’s story on instagram that they’re releasing Series 5 on TV, but sadly I don’t have access to that. I’m fine being behind by 1-2 years though.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 6 months ago:
I’m a huge fan of the original British TM, but TM New Zealand is honestly amazing. The whole thing is available on YouTube (thanks Little Alex Horne + team!!!).
In my and many of my friends’ opinion, TM New Zealand Series 2 is one of the best TM series. Ever. TM New Zealand is absolutely unhinged.
Series 1 feels a bit off, which is probably because it’s unlike British TM. One gets used to it fairly quick though.
TM NZ Series 3 (final episode releases on YouTube in 2-3 days)
- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 7 months ago:
Just out of curiosity, what are the reasons you dislike AccuWeather?
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 7 months ago:
This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours. It requires Javascript until the issue #9 is fixed.
- Comment on I'm down and need picked up! 7 months ago:
Unshortened + removing all refs: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVVXQT7W
Full URL is: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVVXQT7W?ref=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_9…
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 7 months ago:
- Submitted 9 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 67 comments
- Comment on Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be 10 months ago:
Tom Scott: Britain’s largest battery is actually a lake
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 11 months ago:
That’s not a very valid argument.
First and foremost, most devs probably see it as a job and they do what they’re told. They don’t have the power to refute decisions coming from above.
Second, in this economy where jobs are scarer than a needle in multiple haystacks, people are desperate to get a job.
Third, yes, there may be some Microsoft (M$) fan-people who end up being devs at M$. Sure, they may willingly implement the things upper management may request. However, I’m not sure whether that’s true for most of the people who work at M$.
Your comment suggests to shift the blame to the devs who implement the features that upper management request for. Don’t shoot the (MSN) messenger.
- Comment on Twstalker: new twitter frontend 11 months ago:
Looks cool and I’m glad something new has arrived after nitter.
A few things, however:
- It doesn’t look like I can view comments on tweets; I can only view the tweet. (Firefox mobile if that matters)
- It’s pretty slow. It’s not a big problem, but it is very noticeable.
- Somewhat irrelevant, but why is it called TWStalker? It’s a… bit of a weird name. ‘Stalker’ makes me feel like I’m doing something illegal even though I definitely am not.
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government 11 months ago:
See Wendover Productions’ most recent video, “The Increasing Reality of War in Space” (from around 7:54); they talk about SpaceX launching unknown satellites and not reporting it either.
- Comment on A new CGP Grey video, try to keep spoilers out of the comments for this one. 1 year ago:
You need to have end cards enabled.
