#I can't even imagine what it's like for people who rely on the captions because of audio processing or hearing issues

[highfantasy-soul]

Is anyone else having issues with the Amazon Prime Video player? It just...doesn't register the ad at the beginning of the video so everything other than the episode itself is completely out of sync. The 'skip recap' and 'skip intro' buttons come on a full minute too early, when there are alternative language subtitles they show up a minute too early (which SUCKED for the WoT finale when the cold open was in the Old Tongue and I had no idea who was saying what, and had to try to remember the dialogue that was coming up over the recap and try to match it to the scene that didn't start for a bit, just hoping I got who was saying what lines right not to mention that in the middle of the episode, I get a subtitle talking about 'you said you saw and Ogier here' and that dialogue went with the NEXT scene, not the scene we were still watching) AND the end of episodes are extremely frustrating because the interface thinks the episode is already over when it's not, so it shows the 'next up' suggestion with NO FUCKING WAY TO HIDE IT!!!! When you're watching a 'free with ads' show and there's a next episode ready, it tries to quickly skip to the next episode when there's like a full five minutes left of the episode due to it ignoring the ad breaks!! And as there's no 'previous episode' button, you have to go fully out of the player, try to get into the show page without it just starting another episode, and replay the end.

Like, how does one fix that and could Amazon get it together because it kind of ruins the climactic ending of episodes and all the reveals/set ups when you're frantically trying to stop the next episode auto playing or you're staring at a super bright 'My Spy' ad in the corner of a super dark and intense scene for about two minutes.

[thechekhov]

So I'm not an artist but i know a few things here and there about it, so i can understand some things about what people talk about like layers or some brush stuff but when it comes to AI art I don't have that artist eye that would help immensely distinguish between real art and ai generated images. I used to use the "look at the hair/hands/fingers/toes/ribbons" advice but some AI is actually progressing to a point where the people making those images hide the noticeable stuff or the AI actually did a decent job .

I looked at that ghost image and the only thing i could even kinda assume was the rainbow glass looking effect but I've seen oil painted images that look so realistic that i immediately assumed it was AI until i read a caption or notes.

Do you have an insight or advice or tips to share to make it a bit easier to distinguish without relying to see other people, if there even are people, who say anything about questionable art?

I don't know if they're really tips, per se. I'm not an AI sleuth or anything, nor do I mean to be. I just think it's necessary to label this stuff. Especially because the further in we go, the better AI is getting at looking very reputable and real. There will be, I imagine, a day when no one can tell an artificially generated image from one created by a person... and it's important to try to normalize NOT hiding it early on.

That being said, with that image in mind I saw the following:

Yeah, the cabinet handles. They're not symmetrical. That's it. That's the only thing that tipped me off. That and just... another sixth sense I can't place.

If I was an artist that drew these, I would probably fix that. It's not an aesthetic choice.