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> and connected them realistically… Well, that's the crux of the issue that you don't seem to see. For many observers, it does not look realistic. The unnat
by jasode 5y ago
> and connected them realistically…
Well, that's the crux of the issue that you don't seem to see. For many observers, it does not look realistic. The unnaturalness of the pixels is what makes it plausible for Apple software to have a bug. If it looked 100% realistic to everyone, we wouldn't be in this thread discussing it.
E.g. Image saving algorithm with a software bug can cause pixels to be incorrectly "replaced" even though the programmers never intended it:
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
EDIT reply to: >, especially when the image so clearly depicts that.
You still seem to be missing why this discussion of AI error was even possible. In this very thread, there are commenters who still don't see "clear depictions" of a realistic foreground leaf even after being made aware of parallax demonstration in the update... because the blurriness keeps hijacking the brain to make it look like a fake artifact. Consider that the actual person who took the original photo didn't realize it was a real foreground leaf. (Or so he claims.)
In other words, saying "Am I crazy? I don't see why there's debate about the dress being blue or white when ... it is clearly and realistically BLUE" -- doesn't actually add to the discussion. Hey, it's great that the foreground leaf looks realistic to you. But your personal perception is not
relevant to why others perceived it as an artifact.
- nawgz 5y agoI don’t think you read what I wrote, so I’ll say it again: claiming some image processing AI introduced an entire branch, twig, leaf construct in place of a face is comical, especially when the image so clearly depicts that. I’m much more likely to interpret this thing as anti-capitalist sentiment being expressed in a ridiculous fashion than an actual good faith argument there could be a bug so rare but so profound that people’s faces are mistaken for the background and the AI’s post hoc justification is that there is a branch and leaf there so it’ll output that. It doesn’t even make sense what is being claimed here, your links don’t really change that Edit: I see a leaf in the foreground, and the situation was a highly (digitally) zoomed picture with a tree in the foreground. This has nothing to do with color perception like you imply; the fact that a bunch of people - whose perception was previously influenced to believe in AI error - don’t think it shows the exact literal situation it correctly shows hardly makes it a relevant discussion Edit 2: what I see might not be relevant, but the camera software showed the situation correctly, and you’re still arguing because the digital zoom produced artifacts that the entire branch / twig / leaf that was literally there might NOT have literally been there and could have been added by some magic unexplained AI replacement. It doesn’t even make sense. There is no room for human perception here. If the software was rendering leaves instead of faces, it wouldn’t be a single guy finding that scenario, and especially not when the argument the leaves didn’t exist in the first place was based on compressed video. Comical stuff. This is literally conspiracy theory argumentation from you
- jasode 5y ago>_I_ see a leaf in the foreground, You keep repeating "I". Again, the emphasis on "I" in your sentence is not relevant to the commenter right above you perceiving something else: "The blurry plus the tiny twigs connected to those leaves still make my brain think it's some GAN artifacts." The blue/white dress example was not to apply color to the iPhone example but a cultural reference to this perception debate: https://www.google.com/search?q=was+dress+blue+or+white https://www.google.com/search?q=was+dress+blue+or+white Or put another way, consider : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind EDIT reply to: >This is honestly blowing my mind that you think theory of mind applies Let me try to put it this way... nawgz sees a clear and realistic leaf in the foreground. Case closed. Therefore, nawgz would not even submit a Twitter post or a new thread to HN wonder why the head is missing. And yet, such a thread exists with (some) commenters wondering if the software had a glitch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235 Stepping outside of yourself and considering Theory Of Mind might help explain to you why such a thread exists with comments even though you yourself see no issue with the photo. EDIT2: >There is no room for human perception here. There is room for human perception because the person who took the original iPhone photo and posted it on Twitter is a senior iOS programmer with a degree in computer science and yet he overlooked the possibility of a real leaf. If we take his story at face value, his particular mind and perception initially chose to believe that iOS photo software replaced the head with a leaf rather than consider a scenario that a tree branch in front of his own house occluded the walker's head. Only when another programmer on Twitter theorized that a real leaf is in the foreground, he then went back outside again to notice that there's a low hanging branch on his tree. (That's his later video showing parallax demonstration.) The original photographer did not believe the pixels in his own photo. That's a human perception issue. That faulty perception led to software theories from some programmers in that Twitter thread including this comment: >When you open iPhone camera, it keeps recording. When you take a shot, it takes some frames from before and after you pressed the shutter and then merges those to create a detailed photo. One of this frame had this leaf on her head. -- from https://twitter.com/masnun/status/1476457354128281600?s=20 https://twitter.com/masnun/status/1476457354128281600?s=20
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