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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I like the caption of "accused" like we can't be certain that it is or isn't AI.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not up to date on celeb news. Is he the guy whose wife shat on his bed?

Or the other one that slapped someone on stage?

[–] PullPantsUnsworn@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

The slap one

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

90s star of fresh price and bad boys, slapped someone on stage. Dunno about bedshitting

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

I believe that's Depp & that one psycho that tried to take him to court to siphon more money out of him they're referring to. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Will Smith has been having a Kanye-esq descent into madness for several years now, so this comes as no surprise.

Edited to fix spelling error.

[–] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 6 points 1 day ago

These people are all businessmen at the end of the day.

They will do whatever they believe will make them the most amount of money for the least amount of effort.

[–] thanatotus@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you meant "descent"

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You also meant "-esque", unless Kanye is a licensed attorney.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Y'know, I even looked at it when I wrote it and thought "this doesn't look right", but posted it anyway. I'll leave it to remind myself how stupid I am.

[–] thanatotus@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's okay! As long as people are able to understand it. Part of the reason what makes English so versatile.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Ah, yes. American English is known for its touting of literacy via morphological shifts.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

It all went downhill after he slapped Riss Ross in the penis.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That shit still terrifies me.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Smith: "Hey now, conjoined twins are one of my biggest demographics!"

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Meanwhile, the woman in front of him is seemingly holding his hand, but the headband of the woman behind her is somehow over her wrist.

I’ll never understand how a statistical model for “next most probable pixel” can arrive at shit like this.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it's not that easy to determine some video origins.

I'm not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yes and I’ve still never understood how text-clawed LLM chat bots and image generator AI seemed to reach these breakthroughs at the same time, or how they are related, under the sheet.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It looks like she's holding the lower left hand corner of the sign and his hand overlaps hers slightly, that doesn't look generated.

But that doesn't explain her bracelet slipping off onto the other womans head, or his weirdly shaped arm where his tattoo is by his watch.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or his stretched downward face. Those proportions are not right.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Well, he did have cancer...

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Try overlapping your fingers the way shown in the picture. Unless there's something special or wrong with my hand, I can only overlap my fingers that way from pinky to pointer. And if you look at the bottom, it looks like there's a thumb wrapping around.

Which means that's not his right hand, it's his left hand upside down. But we can see that his left hand is on the right side of the sign—it's the one with a pointer that looks like a cross between ET's finger and a penis.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

His thumb would be behind the sign somewhere around the "h". Then you have his four fingers.

Her hand starts right below his pinkie finger and it's her thumb curled up underneath the sign.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 2 days ago

Looks like it could be that one's wearing a bracelet and the other's wearing a headband and the two are just coincidentally lining up.

Frankly, I think this kind of CSI "zoom and enhance!" analysis is kind of silly generally speaking. Does it matter if these images are AI generated? Does Will Smith matter?

Maybe this is AI-generated. Could be. Maybe it's real, could also be. None of the "defects" seem particularly egregious. But at the end of the day I don't see how it's going to change anything of any significance either way.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And how a mega star like this (or more likely his media team) DON'T REALISE

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

It's because they're stupid and they believe they're smarter than us.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I chalk it up to ye olde statistics and having to view data as a matrix or tensor of bytes lol

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 31 points 2 days ago

I'm an expert in fake audiences: From Madden 94 to Madden 25, I've seen them all.

This is a pretty good fake audience: I'll give it a 13. He should try adding Miis. I always like that you could find your friends in Wii games audiences.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Best way to know for certain is to interview people from the audience.

Excuse me, sir?
Excuse me, sir?

Oh. Oh my. I'm so sorry. You and your friends are obviously busy, I'll just g-

Oh god, help me! The nightmares are real!!!!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Woman! Whooooooooaaaaaaaaaaa man!

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

"HEED! MOOVE!"

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The T-1000 mid-transformation?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's like he's wearing the skin of someone elses face on his shirt.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Now I wanna hire a human artist to design me a graphic tee with that man wearing that skin-face shirt!

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago
[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Out of all the celebs that should be allowed to use AI, Will has had to watch his AI avatar fumble through eating spaghetti more than any person probably wants to.

Also, he’s cringe so whatever.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Are we sure this isn't a video google "enhanced with ai".

It's not likely, considering he's got enough money to be a problem for them, but it would tie into thier plan to make everything look like slop so you can no longer tell what is slop.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Why didn't he at least try to hide it with horrible video compression?