Chicken and AI - caveats and trickery

Chicken and AI - caveats and trickery.

AI can be great fun...even someone with limited or no artistic experience and come up with a funky chicken...yes?

My rant today is not about the use of AI, its people deliberately trying to fool people about these amazing photos that are promoted as photos, but to the trained eye you can see they are not. They garner thousands of views from the people they fool....

example 1.

so as you know, the feet are wrong with the wrong number of talons, its got the wrong eyes from another species, same as the wrong beak, and the wrong feather pattern

These photos often look too good to be true....and they are...but 30,000 people thought it was great....and it is a compelling image; but of a fantasy bird, and its not a photo....so it is a lie. A fake.

This is a photo....true, but of a painting....a great and famous image by Manual Sosa; i think that is a hobby hunting a swift, which would be extremely rare in real life....but could happen. but look at the # to get clicks? is anything real? and admins should ban these people from proper wildlife photography forums.

Here is my badger in the snow.....30 seconds in AI.....but arguably more appealing than my real images....

Must try harder....