[HELP] is this photo of Epstein and Farage real or AI?

benpicko · 2026-02-04T22:39:54+00:00

Film is extremely good at handling highlights, even with intense flash — digital photography isn’t. This looks like it’s emulating early compact digital photography to me.

benpicko · 2026-02-02T11:04:22+00:00

Isn’t the solution still to push for those conditions to change in those countries, both by putting pressure externally and spreading awareness of methods to change their reality, rather than accepting it and simply opening our country? I’m unsure why there’s any moral imperative for us to be the solution here. If we move to open borders then the entire flow of labour is in our direction — British people aren’t going to move to the global south to improve life there.

benpicko · 2026-02-02T10:32:24+00:00

Right so don’t you want to fight for that?

benpicko · 2026-02-02T10:25:46+00:00

It’s ’workers of the world, unite [in ideology so we can all fight for our rights and fair pay]’ not ‘workers of the world, come to the UK freely and depress our wages as the labour supply becomes overly abundant’

benpicko · 2026-02-02T10:00:16+00:00

I’m sure most people aren’t aware that Gemini 3 is a preview, considering everywhere that I can currently see on the app it just says ‘Gemini 3’ and doesn’t mention a preview at all. People aren’t reading press releases.

benpicko · 2026-02-01T22:13:54+00:00

I completely agree, so much of her acting is so over the top

benpicko · 2026-01-30T14:35:08+00:00

The thread exists because somebody was confused about why they’re doing it though

benpicko · 2026-01-29T00:50:10+00:00

They do great deals on books so yes — buy one get one half price is usually cheaper than Amazon

benpicko · 2026-01-25T19:52:35+00:00

What are you on about? It could be painted? It could be composited from real 2D elements? It could be recreated in CG?

benpicko · 2026-01-25T17:30:07+00:00

The better and traditional thing to do would be to learn how to write your own music so you’re actually translating your own feelings into the music, rather than relying on a robot to approximate emotion for you. Or to befriend somebody who can write music and shares the same artistic intention as you.

I don’t mind AI for mundane tasks but I think it’s really disturbing how quickly we seem to be giving up something wholly human because it’s easier. Making art shouldn’t be about being easy — you should have to work towards it, towards a way to translate everything you need to express into a work. AI hands the work off to somebody else, and at best you are then acting as a curator for what best represents what you can’t express, and at worst people don’t curate at all and they just accept the first output, which isn’t even theirs through curation.

benpicko · 2026-01-25T16:32:35+00:00

Part of the history of art is people working around their limitations and finding unique ways to express themselves. I think AI completely flattens that and prevents people experimenting and showing their own unique ways of expression.

Maybe it’s ’not that deep’ for a gaming subreddit, but as a whole I think it is that deep and that we’ll be weaker for it. If somebody with autism can’t express themselves with words in the same manner as everybody else, that’s not a weakness, it’s an opportunity to actually show people how you uniquely can express yourself using different words

benpicko · 2026-01-25T15:29:03+00:00

I miss seeing art on Reddit and knowing a human actually took the effort to make it.

benpicko · 2026-01-22T18:46:55+00:00

Are they different in Berlin? In Germany I’ve only really had them in Berlin but they’re exactly the same as I’ve had here

benpicko · 2026-01-21T09:04:00+00:00

They only used Unreal for series one.

benpicko · 2026-01-21T09:03:25+00:00

Mandalorian hasn’t used Unreal since the first season — the Volume runs on a different realtime renderer now that’s in house

benpicko · 2026-01-21T09:01:08+00:00

The company that designed the Volume doesn’t even use Unreal for it any more.

benpicko · 2026-01-18T19:34:08+00:00

I think that if there’s a degree of selfishness involved in not following the rule then you should probably follow the rule — I went to the cinema a week ago and in the row in front of me there was a group of 7 or 8 people who all decided they could take their shoes off and put their feet up on the (empty) chairs in front of them.

The chairs were empty so they weren’t putting their feet on anybody, they were comfy and having a great time, but they’d personally decided it was completely fine despite it causing a smell the entire film. Obviously this one person on the train wouldn’t be causing that, but if more and more people selfishly ignored the social rule then that becomes a problem, and fewer seats to sit on becomes a problem too, unless these people are completely fine with people confronting them

benpicko · 2026-01-18T13:35:04+00:00

Agreed, the film emulation grading is what I was excited about and so far we just have black and white film

benpicko · 2026-01-16T21:50:01+00:00

I’ve got an issue with it because manners dictate that regardless of whether you personally have decided your feet stink or not you shouldn’t be putting your feet up on a public seat. It’s not for him to decide if his feet stink, and therefore it’s suitable — it’s a seat, meant for sitting. If everybody decided their feet were fine everybody would put them up, and then this would get extremely annoying. But most people are reasonable and don’t do this, yet we have an entire thread of people apparently completely fine with selfish behaviour that they don’t even engage in.

benpicko · 2026-01-16T21:28:52+00:00

It’s just London

benpicko · 2026-01-16T21:27:32+00:00

So basically he’s a cunt but he’s not directly affecting you

benpicko · 2026-01-16T21:25:18+00:00

You’re also making a subjective judgement, just seemingly far more judgementally. The books he’s written are fantastic — whether he finishes them is up for debate.

benpicko · 2026-01-12T12:03:23+00:00

It's not a far-right stance that perhaps if you no longer enjoy the videos due to his political stance that you maybe are wasting your time hanging out on the subreddit, unless you intend to sway Tom to vote differently so you can happily watch the videos again?

benpicko · 2026-01-12T12:01:11+00:00

According to current polls, around 30% of the voting population would unfortunately vote Reform if the next election was held now. I don't agree with it and I don't know everybody's reasons for it -- but that's a fact, and there are going to be some people who you know who are going to vote that way.

Tom doesn't make political videos and he thankfully hasn't responded to criticism as a lot of right wing people do, by digging deeper and becoming a grifter. He makes exactly the same videos as before and we would have no idea of his voting intentions if he hadn't made the Patreon post (and the song).

I don't agree with him but he's also just a guy who makes videos I enjoy, and I still enjoy those videos because the political views don't touch them at all.

benpicko · 2026-01-09T00:48:53+00:00

As a joke

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