Such a deep thought 
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You cant read Kevish?
The invasion is hopefully overā¦
Pour one out for me: we are off to vacation in the alps. Waiting for the train I notice: Left the cam at home. Fuuuuudge.
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@mino Trusty phone camera it isā¦ Enjoy your vacation!
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Man, that would make me so upsetā¦
Yeah looks like it.
And yes it did. Took an hour to get back to neutral and accept my fate.
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No, it will only get worse. Even small, niche forums are attacked now using AI bots that fill in registration forms, even answer questions regarding the motivation to sign up, and then start posting spam.
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This is sad. I wonder whatās a good solution to this. Often people go in the direction of using a real ID and giving up your anonymity (not that many here are anons) but this shouldnāt be the solution. Especially in FOSS circles people are often privacy conscious and will not submit to those validations.
pick your poisonā¦
On Gimp-Forum, the first post from new human users is usually a question, and AI isnāt very good at generating that (especially with adequate screenshots).
And well before AI we would get posts without much meaning/value (when they arenāt a copy-paste of another post) from spammers trying to farm enough karma before they can post spam.
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About 15 years ago I inherited a niche forum that was at the time already a decade old. We had all sorts of problems with spam signups, upwards of a hundred per day. The first defense was making it so every user had to be validated, which was something the forum could do automatically. But then the bots got past that. Then we made it so that users had to be manually validated by an admin, which helped a lot, but sometimes it was hard to tell real person from spam bot and it was a lot of work to sift through sign ups every day.
Itās a bummer that itās still an issue today with other forum softwares, though since it doesnāt seem like a daily occurrence here maybe itās not quite as bad these days.
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We used to be pretty lax but we had a big spam attack in January, so now the first post of anyone has to be approved. This and a few forbidden words has kept spamming to very manageable levels.
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The EU has an anonymous protocol for age verification in the works, which, I imagine, can be used for this purpose too. At least to whitelist new accounts (and put everyone else in a sandbox first). I imagine other countries will come up with something similar in the medium run.
Spam has been around since the dawn of the internet. It is an arms race, resulting in more and more sophisticated methods, but eventually the problem is always dealt with. The development of LLMs may provide a final incentive for states to step in and provide a protocol simply for (anonymously) verifying that one is a real person.
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I just experienced AI censoring itself. It began responding for a couple of seconds and then removed the output (a few paragraphsā worth). Too bad I was not recording. This is the first time it made me really uncomfortable. 
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Just did exactly the same. Visiting friends in Turkey. Realise as I get to airport that left camera bag by the door at homeā¦ ffs. Iāve ended up downloading the 7-day free trial of the Leica Lux app so at least I can shoot jpeg and dng files. Will see how that goes. Hopefully itās not some kind of Leica gateway drug. (It wonāt be.)
Edit: One effort with the Leica āEternalā preset. Canāt tell how it is on my phone, tbh. Erkā¦ realised accidentally turned RAW off so itās HEIF
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One could say the cat is staring daggersā¦ well knife and fork.
I donāt know exactly what Eternal is supposed to evoke. Oversaturated with darks, as someone put it.
Show us Contemporary, Classic and other looks it has. 
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Oh God, yes Iāve tried Eternal on a few other shots where the effect is more obvious now and itās awfulā¦
You asked, so hereās a collection of Classic, Teal (lol), Natural, Vivid, Standard
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I am conducting initial tests on my new personal website, self hosted in my home server. Not even 10 hours in I was āattackedā by an OpenAI crawler that completely demolished dhcpcd by crawling through all my website pictures, making me lose network on the machine and require a reboot.
DDoS by OpenAI, what a time to be alive.
Protections are now in place, lesson learned 
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