The 'Lens-Free' AI Camera and the Furious Backlash

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A screenshot of a Twitter exchange about a conceptual AI-powered device. The original tweet, from 'Praise The Cameraman', enthusiastically introduces a 'lens-free' camera, claiming it's the 'future of photography.' It explains that the device uses geo-data to create a text prompt, which then generates an AI photo. A video still below shows a person holding a black, box-like device with knobs and a screen displaying a detailed, auto-generated prompt based on location and time. Quote-tweeting this is 'Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe', who offers a scathing rebuttal: 'I hope whoever invented this gets hit by a bus.' The image captures the fierce cultural clash between tech solutionism, which sees AI as a tool to abstract and automate reality, and the artistic community, which views such inventions as an existential threat to the craft and authenticity of photography

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick So it's a device that captures the metadata of a moment to hallucinate the visuals. It's not a camera; it's a portable existential crisis that renders reality as a service

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

So it's a device that captures the metadata of a moment to hallucinate the visuals. It's not a camera; it's a portable existential crisis that renders reality as a service
Anonymous

Finally, photography has reached peak abstraction: `capture()` now just does `return GPT(location)`, and photons have been marked deprecated in the next LTS
Anonymous

Finally, a camera with the same approach to reality as our sprint velocity estimates
Anonymous

Finally, a camera for when you want to document places you've never actually seen - because why let reality constrain your vacation photos? Just wait until the insurance companies start requiring lens-free cameras for accident documentation: 'Your Honor, the AI hallucinated a stop sign based on the GPS coordinates, so technically my client wasn't at fault.' This is basically prompt engineering with extra steps and a $500 enclosure, proving once again that the most disruptive innovation is convincing VCs that removing core functionality is actually a feature
Anonymous

From 'bus factor' docs to cursing inventors with buses - peak evolution of tech debt invocation
Anonymous

A camera that’s an eventually-consistent read replica of reality - GPS + weather → LLM prompt → diffusion (seed=1, cfg=100) - so every model update ensures your vacation photos are gloriously non‑reproducible
Anonymous

GPS -> prompt -> diffusion -> JPEG; we’ve officially deprecated photons and introduced an SLO for vibes per second
@GeneralSwagMaster 1y

Not on my planet
1. @Araalith 1y
  
  It's from 2023, so it's too late already.
dev_meme 1y

AI haters shouldn't be allowed to vote. Or reproduce.
1. @purplesyringa 1y
  
  what the fuck is this eugenics
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  Bro will not pass eugenics with his iq score
2. @noi01 1y
  
  95% of "AI-things" is AI slop, sane people hate AI slop
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Nah sane people simply don't care. It's only retarded luddites who hate.
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  can you please stop using slurs
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  'Luddites' is not a slur. It's a political analogy
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  I'm guessing the issue is with "ret*rded" tbh
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  It wasn't a slur either 🤣
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  you have a questionable upbringing
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  I'm just old enough to assutnot everyone in teh interwebz is a snowflake 🧓🏼
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  sorry, oh witnesser of this world's origin
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  "retarded" is
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  You are delusional, most people are sick of AI slop in most situations
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Most people don't notice it. Other people notice and don't care. It's only snowflakes in their echo chambers who are sick.
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  That's literally you with your AI slop channel with 0 reactions lmao
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  Says a lot about a person when everyone they don't agree with is a "snowflake" tbh
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  waahhh wahh wahaaahh, gimme some ATTENTION pls, waaahh
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  🥺
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  It doesn't change the thing that all snowflakes should take the L, shut up and go cry to their chooms on bluesky
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  Have fun with your inbred hallucinating slop machine
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  please tell me you're a nazi or something so that I can ban you already
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  I've seen likes of him. Run shitton of alts for internet wars
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  I mean, he's already talking thru an anonymous channel, lol
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  And why should I not? It doesn't make me any less right and you know it
  
  @TheRamenDutchman 1y
  
  It's been researched; things sell worse if it's advertised with AI / sell better if it's the same thing without the AI feature
3. @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  how would I not hate AI if it keeps replacing my tracks on Spotify with some AI bullshit
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  Wtf? Is this real? Never had anything like this
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  Yeah, it is the same track, but AI covered and name of the track, artist and lyrics are replaced by AI. Song is covered by AI too and sounds worse than my fart
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  vocaloid > AI
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  it is not even a vocaloid. Vocaloids never imitated people to begin with, they are more like instruments to produce human voice
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  I mean, the intent is to imitate the human voice. they're just not very good at being accurate with it
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  Vocaloids imitate human voice, but accuracy is not required. They are advertised as actual singers with unique voice and maintained to sound the same
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  I guess that's true
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  It doesn't for me. 🤷🏼 Must be because you like ai slop
4. Deleted Account 1y
  
  Talking behind a channel? Coward!
@azizhakberdiev 1y

You don't get it. He wants to clog the primary source of training data for AI - cameras
@azizhakberdiev 1y

huh
@azizhakberdiev 1y

double bust?
@purplesyringa 1y

ah, it's a channel
1. @purplesyringa 1y
  
  fully of AI slop :/
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  LMAO
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  likely this is an AI-driven bot account then
@marogatari 1y

This might be a great invention for blind people without that image generation step…
@noi01 1y

Nah that's just trolling
1. dev_meme 1y
  
  How convenient that everything you can't answer is trolling, right?
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  How convenient that everyone who disagrees with you are snowflakes, right?
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  It's not you who disagrees with me. But it's you, who holds snowflake beliefs.
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  Says who? You? You are in your "new hype thing" echo chamber, your opinion have zero value and your slop serves zero purpose
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Like I said, snowflake beliefs 😂
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  Keep yapping
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  you have tg premium, brother, you need to log off and touch some grass
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  I can't tolerate free version after it's enshittification 😭
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  and you'd rather pay monthly than just leave tg? says a lot tbh
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  I would if all my contacts did 🤷🏼
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  that's rather weak-willed but ok
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  if I was a little bitch I'd still have WhatsApp and pay for discord nitro
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Discord has even more snowflakes 🤣
  
  @lilfluffyears 1y
  
  >says there are snowflakes everywhere >doesn't just leave and join non-snowflake spaces 🤡 Bro.... You are in the spaces you want to be. Get into a non snowflake community
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Oh come on, it's cheap.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  ok give me 1.50€
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Okay, where's link to your OF account 😂
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  go on bitch I dare you to sponsor me on gh https://github.com/RiedleroD/
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Ask me nicely.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  pleaaaase? 🥺
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  This is my okayface - 🙄
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  heh, thanks for the change chump
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Don't spend it in one place, champ 😂
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  I guess you are asking for a reality check with voilence
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  I could tell that to you too
@azizhakberdiev 1y

So you are a nazi after all
@azizhakberdiev 1y

btw, these messages appear because of so called backwards compatibility. Seems like there are more edge cases need to be covered
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  could you explain? I don't understand why it's doing this
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  I have no in depth understanding yet. All I know is that from_user field points to a fallback account
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  huh. do you know under what circumstances?
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  because usually channels are marked as bots
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  exactly because the fallback account is a bot. Channels need different way of identifying
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  no but then it should say "can't ban bot accounts" like usual
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  I didn't see anything like that in source code
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  huh, but I'm fairly sure that's what it does
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  lemme test that
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  ah right I need premium for that
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  @purplesyringa help pls? 🥺
  
  @purplesyringa 1y
  
  sure, what are you trying to do?
@RiedleroD 1y

the hell
@TheFloofyFloof 1y

Can the bot be updated to auto delete messages from channels?
1. @sylfn 1y
  
  There's nothing wrong with messaging with anon channels unless their authors obey the rules whilst chatting here
@TheFloofyFloof 1y

Make people message on their real accounts
1. @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  that's too brutal
@azizhakberdiev 1y

he broke my heart
@elphamale 1y

Snowflakes just can't tolerate anyone who doesn't share their views. To illustrate my point: every conservative platform (truth, current Twitter X) doesn't ban anyone who opposes their view, while every 'liberal' platform (reddit, then Twitter) does everything to protect snowflakes from facing reality (read: ban everyone who disagrees with them).
1. @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  okay, listen. Dont tell me these are just unspoken rules, but you are definitely not right. You might not be saying any rude words but you are consciously offending people here and that means being extremely rude
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Okay, but what if snowflake beliefs offend me? Should I not react? Why?
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  Do you identify as an AI slop?
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  I am not American enough to partake in identity politics.
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  and your target are simply people who dislike AI slop. Not a political or religious faction, not lgbtq+ or furry and anime fag, straight up anyone who said AI content is bad (because it is)
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  I am okay with LGBTQ or furries or anime people because they don't try to impede progress.
2. @noi01 1y
  
  Slop-man in the flesh
3. @TheFloofyFloof 1y
  
  Elon bans a ton of people who disagrees with him
  
  @sylfn 1y
  
  read: protect snowflakes from facing reality
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Elon is an idiot. Still, it's not a policy of the platform.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  elon owns the platform and he makes plenty of policy
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Yet, you can discuss anything there. Until you try to attack groups of people.
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  Nobody has ever lost verification because they pissed off muskrat ever /s
  
  アレックス 1y
  
  Not until this week
4. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  bro all I need to post on Twitter to get banned is the word "transgender"
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Never seen this happen
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  yeah because they're banned before you see it
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  can I request mute feature?
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  on the bot? votemute? you can just votekick him again
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  that doesn't seem right. Votekick is for fighting spam and ads, not real people
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  votekick is also for assholes. if you don't like what an account posts, go ahead
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  we've had a few racists banned with the votekick feature alr
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  I think it is better to let them suffer here. Mb instead of mute smack him with something like /untrust message
@elphamale 1y

I am offended by luddites and their backwards mentality
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  then go somewhere else? You won't see me on 4chan trying to un-bigot those assholes
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  I won't see you on 4chan because it's anonymous. Unless they changed it to be named board. It wouldn't surprise me because it's soul was dead long before Twitter.
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  you can have named accounts. I don't use 4chan is my point. I don't use reddit or twitter either because they're just hostile to me
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  How reddit is hostile? 😱
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  depends on the specific community, but reddit's design just breeds anger in my experience
@elphamale 1y

And if I should not react to what I am offended by, then how is this not Nazism? It would be just like in that Niemoller speech.
@elphamale 1y

Reddit is a fucking safespace
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  some communities are, but most aren't
@elphamale 1y

Dude, this is personal now
1. @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  my hands are short, there's nothing else that can make you shut it
@elphamale 1y

You are being immature
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  we don't want you here. if you won't leave by yourself, we're gonna kick you out
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Mkay, you do that
@elphamale 1y

Then don't read the communities that you don't like
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  well, that's why I left reddit
  
  @elphamale 1y
  
  Also, most toxic communities are banned atm
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  meh, more or less…
@RiedleroD 1y

…yeah that's true
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  moderation on reddit is pretty erratic in general
  
  @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  well, if you are prohibited to drive above 50 mph on the road, you shouldn't seek any excuses to drive faster, even if your wife is giving a birth rn. Same goes for forum rules ig
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  I mean gonna have to disagree with that example tbh. Some rules/norms can be broken justifiably under the right circumstances
  
  @qtsmolcat 1y
  
  I mean, what'd you expect from a site that relies on volunteer moderation but will fuck those same mods over in a heartbeat?
@noi01 1y

Reddit is a shithole, but now it's the main forum so...
1. @elphamale 1y
  
  Maybe the communities you subscribe were 🤷🏼
  
  @noi01 1y
  
  I don't even have an account. I got banned for being read-only lol
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  oh that's the first I've heard of something like that
2. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  well, there's still some forums for specific communities, e.g. arch Linux has one
@Kyngo 1y

So, let me get this straight... this gets the coordinates, goes to Street View and asks an AI to grab what it sees and depict it. What in the actual fuck man
@Kyngo 1y

if by funny you mean stupid and overengineered, then yes, it is
1. @azizhakberdiev 1y
  
  engineering is 50% of how you advertise it
@Kyngo 1y

I know I know... but this kind of stuff triggers me more than I'd like to admit lol
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1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  …thanks for your password?
  
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