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Photographing the rare brown hyena stalking a diamond mining ghost town

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ninetyninenine ◴[01 Nov 25 03:32 UTC] No.45779047[source]▶
How do we know this isn’t AI?
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shswkna ◴[01 Nov 25 08:01 UTC] No.45779967[source]▶
Good question that probably shouldn’t be downvoted.

A subjective answer is, if you have been there and know this to be real from personal experience.

A more general answer would be, as long as we humans sufficiently interact with reality, we will have a respository of life experience to benchmark against.

Once we cease to do that, and are the product of a life in front of the screen, then we won’t know anymore.

Edit: This place is relatively close to where I live.

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1. ninetyninenine ◴[01 Nov 25 12:29 UTC] No.45781131[source]▶
Give it a couple of years and no one will be able to fully answer the question. I’m quite sure humanity as a whole will in the near future uncover several articles that are like this in quality and citations but find out they are entirely generated and from then on out we won’t know.

We only know now because generated things still have artifacts. That is slowly changing. If the article was written by an AI right now absolutely cannot be fully known.