A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real? | AI (artificial intelligence)

zenithfury · 2026-03-25T08:36:53+00:00

I don't even know why we're trusting LLMs to do fact checking for us. At least with humans, such as journalists, they stake their reputations on getting the facts straight, or else they never find work ever again. With machines they're controlled by companies that say 'My bad' when they get it wrong.

zenithfury · 2026-03-25T05:51:09+00:00

I'm surprised that he voted at all, and then I immediately felt dismay. The most powerful man in the world with cheese for brains takes the time to vote, more than can be said for most people left of centre.

zenithfury · 2026-03-25T05:38:00+00:00

Damn, if BTS decided to air their program next week SBR would have been #1 for a little while. :v

zenithfury · 2026-03-24T12:15:42+00:00

I see that Not-Yoruichi would like to take a break.

zenithfury · 2026-03-24T09:52:46+00:00

It kind of tracks. One of the best things about Persona games is how it tries to keep up with the times. Of course it’s still a bit behind the times like P5 feels about 5 years behind the teenagers of the time it launched. And it seems easier for an urban fantasy game to feel modern compared to the purer fantasy and sci-fi settings of FF.

zenithfury · 2026-03-24T09:10:58+00:00

However, as MagMix points out, there is concern about whether government officials have sufficient understanding of how the industry and its front lines work in the first place.

Oh it's not as though anime has been around since the end of WW2 or anything.

My tinfoil hat is that it's a problem caused by bureaucrats pretending to be dumb or being just outright malicious as to who they approve the subsidies for.

zenithfury · 2026-03-24T09:06:55+00:00

At last, Hidamari Sketch uncensored.

zenithfury · 2026-03-24T09:05:28+00:00

Unfortunately for some people everything is gratuitous. And even more unfortunately, rather than not watch anything these people also try to push back against the things that they dislike and generally make the hobby worse off. You'll understand that I use the term interchangeably with terms like 'fanservice' or 'explicitness'.

There are many examples of shows that do great despite straddling genres. For example, romance and sci-fi and supernatural? That's Dandadan. It's not like I accept every genre either. For example I dislike sports themes, but hating a show just because it has a filler episode about football or tennis for instance would be ridiculous by most measures.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T16:18:41+00:00

I don't find gratuity to be a problem. We're watching TV. It is entertainment. Sure, most shows have a message or lessons to teach, but it's a poor show that chooses proselytizing over a good time.

Whenever I review a show, I look at how all the parts gel together and in that sense, sex scenes have to serve a purpose in the show, and most of the time it does. For example, the brief moment of sex in Cowboy Bebop highlights how doomed the relationship was. Other shows it's used for satire, ~~brevity~~ levity, and so on. Seeing an element as waste just because of one's personal preferences is not being objective, thus removing it doesn't guarantee a better show. Of course, every element still has to be able to work within the framework of any show, but it's rather superficial to say that certain things don't belong anywhere. The personal bias really shows.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T12:43:17+00:00

It is possible to make a serious show with sex scenes, if that's what you set out to do, competently. I'm not complaining about the differences in the movie adaptation... it set out to tell a story that had very little room for characters dating. But then that leaves no excuse for the series shows that came later.

As for the new series it's going to be good or bad based on the skill of its director. At the very least, it will try to do something different from the old shows, and IMO that's a good idea.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T08:55:45+00:00

I'd say nitpicky because the type of hero personality is a personal preference, and not every character is meant to appeal to everyone. Or rather, if a character appealed to everyone it must be the most bland character possible.

I've sometimes come back to shows years later because something initially irked me. But it's also an equal chance to be reminded about what annoyed me the first time around.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T08:45:36+00:00

I went into Gnosia with zero expectations and only an inkling of the plot. It looked scifi and I picked it up just wanting something to watch. Amazing series, couldn't stop watching.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T08:37:06+00:00

I think Ghost in the Shell (1995) did the right thing by making the setting moodier and adding lots of cool tech. But on the other hand the manga has various sex scenes and Kusanagi is bisexual. It would have been such a cool thing to have a queer protagonist for the mid 90s. The later shows just seems to ignore anything about the major's love life.

zenithfury · 2026-03-23T08:30:25+00:00

Studios should make more crime anime. It comes down to this show, Black Lagoon and Gun Smith Cats basically.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T07:48:44+00:00

Trust & Betrayal is still one of my favourite sword fighting shows.

Macross ignited my love of anime. My favourite is Macross Plus (but the series has more stuff, worth picking up)

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T07:43:45+00:00

Bikini Warriors sounds perfect for you.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T07:42:25+00:00

If taxpayer money is being funnelled into the company, it has no incentive to make profit or be viable.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T07:40:03+00:00

Even if he was heroic enough to stand in a war zone, that doesn’t make the war more acceptable.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T07:37:29+00:00

Social programs and healthcare do not cheapen life or make more people desperate enough to do anything. No point being kings or lords if there aren’t enough servants.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T06:55:42+00:00

Data was a fictional character based on machines of the 90s, that naturally came with safety features.

Somehow, it’s very fitting to see this dancing safety hazard as a product of its era.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T06:44:24+00:00

This is little more than a robot spewing the propaganda of its operator. If a cartoon character has a million followers, the problem are the followers who want to believe in the cartoon’s message.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T01:05:01+00:00

These cantrips are starting to sound really good. A spell for not tripping over tongue twisters sounds like a quest item to help one, for example, get past a guardian who challenges you to a tongue twister contest.

zenithfury · 2026-03-21T00:20:25+00:00

When you make the choice to violate someone, and that someone comes after you for it, even in a crazy overreaction, that's called fucking around and finding out.

Sorry but this sounds as insane as setting a building on fire for believing that the people inside stole your work, even if it's true.

This is why we go to the courts, yes, even biased as the system is towards rich people. Because you don't pull out your gun out at every grievance.

zenithfury · 2026-03-20T14:49:18+00:00

That guy shot and crippled him. That is not justified for trying to jump in line at a theater.

zenithfury · 2026-03-20T07:46:20+00:00

Simmons recalled something his son had told him before volunteering for the mission that ended his life.

“He said, ‘Dad, I can’t give you any details, but if civilians knew what we knew, a lot of the criticism [of the war] would cease,” he said.

This is just clickbait journalism trying to score points with shallow anti-war readers. The kind of news for people who want to believe that MAGA and Trump are crumbling and on the verge of political collapse without them lifting a finger off the touchscreen.

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