As I normally scratch/kit build etc it's not often I buy anything new but have just received my G. Fawkes gunpowder van. Definitely a rule 1 purchase but a cracking model with livery beautifully applied 

first sound of Christmas in UK is when you hear 'Last Christmas' by Wham! This year I heard it at Coventry Arena shopping centre on 30 November.

I couldn't resist another 600 warship at £89.50 from Rails of Sheffield, and added weathering. it arrived a couple of days ago and this is the first chance that I have had to show it off.



this is the first time that I have added basic weathering to a diesel loco and I think that it's not bad at all. as for the bogies? 5 minutes work with a swiss file - It took me longer to  get the body off to switch off the cab lights (I wonder why Farish ship DC locos with them on?)

Regards,

Alex

They mentioned on the TV that Norris is the 11th British F1 champion, so I amused myself by trying to remember the other 10 before I looked them up. I couldn't get past 8 - I missed out Jenson Button and John Surtees. A lot of people think Stirling Moss won it, but of course he never did.

Anyway, congratulations to young Nando! (that is his name isn't it...?)

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Malc-c on Yesterday at 11:31:38 AMAnd that's the main issue.  All these images above have been in good faith, but to the eye they all look plausible. AI can be used to generate deep fakes and for of an older generation who are so used to believing that a photo can't lie often won't accept it.

People have used AI to generate topless, or even pornographic images of well known Hollywood stars - Its been almost impossible to undo the damage it done to their reputation as the images have to be examined through meta data to prove they were fake.  But by then the damage is done.

Couldn't agree more.  I hate to use a slippery slope argument, but that's what this is.  A normalisation of a fundamentally disruptive and damaging technology.  While I get that photo-manipulation has always been a thing, the scale of what you could do was pretty limited and required specific skills the vast majority of people have never had.  By definition AI images are dishonest and available to everyone, and while we can all see the problems with the attempts at adding snow, that won't be the case for much longer. 

I come here to see and read what other people build, warts and all, indeed the warts are the real benefit as they show me that my limited skills are no different than other peoples, and so I feel part of a broad accepting community of varied skill, practice and approach.  As more people use AI manipulation (indeed as more and more gets 'built in' to the technology we use) this will diminish and expectations will change, standards will converge to a highly manipulated norm and everyone will be worse off for it.

Sorry for the rant, I could go on for days like this!  Think its time at least for us to have a forum rule that any AI manipulated images have to be labelled as such as I know I can't stop the march of AI as much as I might want to

Real estate agents have been producing photos of properties for sale that look bigger than they actually are for ages. I know because they did it to my townhouse, and that was back twelve years or so.

I do think that Malc-c has a very valid point, though.

It's the SWR M7 loco today for £65. Nabbed myself one

Quote from: Jim Easterbrook on Yesterday at 11:42:15 AM

Quote from: Browning 9mm on Yesterday at 08:58:26 AMand they used to say that the camera never lies

They were lying.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by (non AI) fake photos of fairies supposedly taken in 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Nooooooo....that was real 

Quote from: Jim Easterbrook on Yesterday at 11:42:15 AM

Quote from: Browning 9mm on Yesterday at 08:58:26 AMand they used to say that the camera never lies

They were lying.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by (non AI) fake photos of fairies supposedly taken in 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Not really the same. The camera didn't lie, it took genuine photos of fake subjects - unlike AI manipulated or, pre-AI, Photoshopped alterations after a photo's been taken.
 

Quote from: Browning 9mm on Yesterday at 08:58:26 AMand they used to say that the camera never lies

They were lying.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was taken in by (non AI) fake photos of fairies supposedly taken in 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies