Isopods of the world(isopod.site)
46 points by debesyla 2 days ago | 7 comments
stared 2 minutes ago
As much as the website looks nice, the design looks AI generated - image loading animations, or quotation marks for species names. (Both a are needles decorations.)
sjsanc 2 hours ago
The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now.
Schiendelman 1 hour ago
As someone who has done some stacked photos, they always look suspicious! If it's any consolation, I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!
wkrsz 32 minutes ago
What does "stacked" mean in this context?
ravila4 11 minutes ago
You take multiple pictures at different focal points and combining together computationally because the depth of field at the magnification is very shallow. The resulting image looks somewhat flat, but highly detailed.
keldami 1 hour ago
>I recognize the photographer and they are the sort of person who would never use AI!

That is exactly what an AI Bot would say XDXD

sph 2 hours ago
Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated. I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt as he's a macro photographer: https://www.nickybay.com/
sjsanc 1 hour ago
Indeed, I saw the watermarks. It's clearly a testament to his skill that his consistency is so unbelievable. Maybe that's common in macro photography but I'm genuinely floored by it.
tejohnso 1 hour ago
> Plenty of worries if those images are AI-generated.

What would be so worrying about someone using AI to generate images for their site?

sjsanc 2 minutes ago
In my own experience, whenever I detect something AI generated I lose the ability to evaluate how much I can "trust" something. Compare an article on Medium with a published book on the same topic; both are human-originated but the substance of one implies authority, quality etc. Generating a website and pictures with AI requires very little effort and care, and I have no interest in carelessness. Like most humans, I can't help but evaluate the author alongside the art.
BigTTYGothGF 37 minutes ago
The whole point of the site is the images and facts.
yreg 42 minutes ago
I don't mind it at all for decorational images, but in this case I would mind. I suppose I would mind the inaccuracy, the worry that the creatures might not look exactly like the real world ones look.

Not that it actually matters but if those images were generated it would feel pointless to me, even if I can't tell the difference.

michaelscott 2 hours ago
The kind of site that makes one happy the Internet exists
an0malous 22 minutes ago
OpenAI will scrape it and start serving you isopod facts and pictures from their app
rhet0rica 2 hours ago
This may be the most important story of the year (for creatures with 20 pods.)
nickgray 2 hours ago
Cool site and beautiful photos!
ludicrousdispla 2 hours ago
I can't tell whether the images are heavily photoshopped or AI generated.
ravila4 5 minutes ago
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