https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
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@davidaugust @sarae @ai6yr @sundogplanets Yeah, it's a bummer. It's being integrated into so many systems these days.
Thanks for being responsive to feedback!
@unlambda @sarae @ai6yr @sundogplanets
Happy to be responding, not so happy I got this way wrong and doubled and tripled down. Oops.
The problem was decidedly between the chair and the keyboard over here, I borked up, the call came from inside my cranium.
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@sundogplanets @davidaugust @ai6yr I'll see your goats, and raise you a couple of bunnies.
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@liquor_american @ai6yr @trevorparker
I have replaced the image and edited the original post. It may take time to propagate.
I messed up.
@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker Thanks!!! And, sorry that company fooled you
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@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr I appreciate this whole thread actually. Well done humans on detecting, correcting and forgiving. Adding a lupin to the goats and bunnies of forgiveness.
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@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Upping the ante — two cute dogs competing in synchronized sleeping.
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@sundogplanets @davidaugust @unlambda I suspect the "filter" you used is actually AI, as well. Which is typical nowadays. It's been asked to redraw the original image in a different style, and it's not "filtering", it's AI slopping it.
@ai6yr
Well, yes. See for example the screw on the scissors to the left. No filter in the old sense of the word would come from the original photo to the "filtered" result.
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@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker Thanks!!! And, sorry that company fooled you
@ai6yr @liquor_american @trevorparker thank you. Yeah. I was (clearly) surprised to learn they did that.
Now figuring out how to get my data off their systems and find better alternatives.
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@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr I appreciate this whole thread actually. Well done humans on detecting, correcting and forgiving. Adding a lupin to the goats and bunnies of forgiveness.
@IcooIey @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
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@davidaugust @IcooIey @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Thanks,everyone in this whole #Thread on #ThreadThursdays, for demonstrating/affirming once again the excellent reasons I left #Xitter behind for the more intelligent discourse enjoyed here in the #Fediverse
Solidarity from Tacoma
Here's a random kitten just for joy...
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@davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Upping the ante — two cute dogs competing in synchronized sleeping.@RunRichRun @davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Also called the ‘double croissant’ position.
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
(www.vatican.va)
edit: messed up and replaced image with a fixed image. I stumbled, foolishly, into using an AI filter I thought, foolishly, was a traditional style image filter.
#AI #labor #profit #economics #UnionStrong
@davidaugust Gotta love when the big man gets it right
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@sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
YES! Thank you. Quite welcome.
Still almost can't believe I not only got it wrong but I doubled and kinda tripled down on my wrong. Humiliation is mine, goats help.
Thank you very much!
@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Don't think you should feel bad about getting taken in by the slop merchants.
We live in interesting times where nothing may be what it seems. Kudos for making the situation clear once you realized what was going on.
Here's an AI Free label for your troubles to use on your next truly AI Free photography project.
AI Free (@AIFree@mstdn.social)
Attached: 4 images Four different AI Free graphics are available: 1. AI Free Logo with Caption 2. AI Free Logo with Caption and Black Border 3. AI Free Logo with Caption and Red Border 4. AI Free Logo Four resolutions are available: Large (7"), Medium (3.5"), Small (1.75") and Tiny (0.875") Download the AI_Free ZIP file for original graphics ODG file plus PNG files of all versions in all resolutions AI_Free ZIP: https://drive.proton.me/urls/K0M4DNQR5G#wAB43eU9zHM5 Directly download the Small PNG image (1.75") version below #AIFree
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@davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker
Yeah, the whole company is a generative AI company. Sorry. That's their selling point and base technology.
@ai6yr @davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker That also means I need to find a way to re-do my Ko-fi page in GIMP, since I decorated it up with Canva.
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@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Don't think you should feel bad about getting taken in by the slop merchants.
We live in interesting times where nothing may be what it seems. Kudos for making the situation clear once you realized what was going on.
Here's an AI Free label for your troubles to use on your next truly AI Free photography project.
AI Free (@AIFree@mstdn.social)
Attached: 4 images Four different AI Free graphics are available: 1. AI Free Logo with Caption 2. AI Free Logo with Caption and Black Border 3. AI Free Logo with Caption and Red Border 4. AI Free Logo Four resolutions are available: Large (7"), Medium (3.5"), Small (1.75") and Tiny (0.875") Download the AI_Free ZIP file for original graphics ODG file plus PNG files of all versions in all resolutions AI_Free ZIP: https://drive.proton.me/urls/K0M4DNQR5G#wAB43eU9zHM5 Directly download the Small PNG image (1.75") version below #AIFree
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@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Took this as a bit of an opportunity to boost the labels, but a serious issue is knowing the provenance of something like this filter. Wouldn't it be good if you had been able to choose filters attested to be AI Free from the get go, rather than it being a crap shoot?
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@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Took this as a bit of an opportunity to boost the labels, but a serious issue is knowing the provenance of something like this filter. Wouldn't it be good if you had been able to choose filters attested to be AI Free from the get go, rather than it being a crap shoot?
@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be nice. I wish it had been more clear in their interface.
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@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be nice. I wish it had been more clear in their interface.
@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Would love to see this become more of a marketing thing. That is, people promoting that their tools are AI Free. Kind of like "organic" food products.
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@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Would love to see this become more of a marketing thing. That is, people promoting that their tools are AI Free. Kind of like "organic" food products.
@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be great. I imagine there is already an appetite for it.
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@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be great. I imagine there is already an appetite for it.
@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Feel like you experience here is a great case study justifying such an initiative.
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@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
Feel like you experience here is a great case study justifying such an initiative.
@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
I agree.
I am debating if it might be good for me to write up my experience as an article of sorts for my https://stuff.davidaugust.com. Not sure yet if that is a good idea or exactly how to frame it.
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@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr
I agree.
I am debating if it might be good for me to write up my experience as an article of sorts for my https://stuff.davidaugust.com. Not sure yet if that is a good idea or exactly how to frame it.
@davidaugust @mastodonmigration @unlambda @ai6yr Not quite the same thing, but I wrote up this article https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653 after I found myself yelling swear words at the International Space Station, because it's a bright satellite, even though I used to be super excited about watching it. Made me realize my relationship with spaceflight had really dramatically changed thanks to for-profit tech companies, and writing it up helped me sort through that.
