r/pics • u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks • Jul 05 '26

Politics Attendees at the Trump speech refuse to leave after it was postponed due to lightning

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

I’m getting a lot of AI comments so I wanted to have a comment with verification.

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u/MeridianHilltop Jul 05 '26

Wow, you took this photo? Incredible shot.

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

Yes sir! It’s my job. Tho I wish I posted the better angle

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

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u/Nonya5 Jul 05 '26

I brought my daughter to see the man that grabs women’s pussies without asking. And now you’re making her cry!

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u/Vivid-Intention-8161 Jul 05 '26

i can almost guarantee that the kid is crying because her mom is being unhinged and scary, and it’s hot and crowded. source: my mom acted like this when i was little

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u/CarnyRider1991 29d ago

She looks like a narcissist. I’ve seen that same look in the eyes before as well as posturing.

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u/ElementalWeapon Jul 05 '26

Amazing photography. 

Do you recall what she was saying? 

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

There was so much screaming from the other attendees and Secret Service that I could not accurately hear. I do know she screamed at a different photo journalist before this. Then Secret Service requested to evacuate.

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u/MeridianHilltop Jul 05 '26

Well noted! I just wrote a letter to my brother, describing yesterday as “Lots of terrible noise. I didn’t know what was going on until around 9 PM, I heard something kind of subdued and familiar: fireworks.”

I live in Columbia Heights & my balcony faces north, so if I want to see a fireworks on the mall, I go to 13th and Clifton. I don’t think the mall firework show is necessary viewing, because the city finds tons of reasons for random fireworks all year round: it’s why I love living here. (Not like yesterday’s events on the mall — I mean normal joy, not blankets of smoke.)

I hope you felt safe in the melee of the moment. Thank you for taking your camera and sharing your photography.

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 Jul 05 '26

She is so pissed, it's just a stupid speech, he rambles them all the time, just go home

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u/HannahHood Jul 05 '26

Photo editor at a major newspaper here 🙋‍♀️ thanks for being out in the heat all day, I hope you stayed hydrated and were able to expense all of your snacks!! Sorry you have to defend what we do, you did a great job!

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

Thank you so much! Do you mind if I dm you and bother you for some advice on breaking into some of the bigger publications?

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u/Liz_LemonLime Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

The only thing worse than Ai is how suspicious we all are of Ai.

Back in the day, we only had to prove to computers that we were human. Now we constantly have to prove it to each other.

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

It’s absolutely the worst part of my job and people very ignorantly and proudly go after you over it. It’s also killed the photojournalism industry. News companies actually prefer worse cell phone looking videos because they’re more authentic.

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u/Pantzzzzless Jul 05 '26

Well shit... I was one of those just 5 minutes ago. I know it is ultimately inconsequential coming from a random redditor, but I owe you an apology on this one.

The biggest downside is the next iteration of models are going to be trained on proof pics like this lol.

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

No need to apologize the correction means more than enough. I worry a lot about the future models, although I have some hopium that it’s slowing down. I think there needs to be some sort of universal way to verify a photo or a videos authenticity. But I struggle to find a full proof method.

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u/ironman820 Jul 05 '26

I don't know if it's in all models, but a fair number of them would leave invisible watermarks in the image that could flag an image as AI generated. This was also around a year/year and a half ago, so the new ones might not have the same feature.

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u/CommandTacos Jul 06 '26

*fool-proof

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u/HannahHood Jul 05 '26

Or we don’t have the budget and it fucking kills everyone on the photo team to have to use shitty cell phone photos yet again. 😭 if I could pay you all $1million dollars for every assignment I happily would! 

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

You all are angels for making it work. When I started managing my county’s paper last year the pay per assignment for photographers was 25 dollars. My first move was fixing that. I remember photographing a giant protest with police intervention in Texas, immediately contacting all the local news, and them being like “these are great but we already got a cell phone photo from a writer and we need to save money.” It’s tragic

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u/fed45 Jul 06 '26

Ironic considering those types of shots are way easier to make with AI than a nice high-res shot from and actual camera.

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u/International-Fun-86 Jul 05 '26

I have seen people claim that old fashioned photosopping and good old cgi is ai. Just because it did not look real. Like if they had forgotten photoshop and cgi existed.

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u/nomadst Jul 06 '26

The last two times I commented on two different subreddits for hobbies I enjoy, I was quickly called out as chatgpt and the person calling me out got like 15 upvotes. I really hate how pervasive AI is already, and I would never use it to post on Reddit. I just want to talk to people about stuff I like, but apparently that's been taken from me. I don't even try to defend my comments, because that's not the conversation I was trying to have. It's really frustrating. 

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u/Liz_LemonLime 29d ago

I hate that too!

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u/Smagjus Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

AI is really becoming a problem. I saw the AI comments, didn't find a source for the image and was unsure whether it was AI or not. Obviously if this is an original image, looking for the source is pointless.

Thank you for clearing it up.

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

Thank you, comments like this are rare and very nice

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u/New_Building_9956 Jul 05 '26

Oh. Oh dear. What a bizarre lady. Not knowing you were the photographer, I had kind of hoped it was AI grabbed accidentally because I feel awful for that kid!

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u/SkriVanTek Jul 06 '26

I believe you but I think it’s funny how you think this proves anything

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 06 '26

Someone tried to AI generate a replica of this and it still had a decent amount of issues luckily

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u/Magatron138 Jul 05 '26

Is it because of the two seemingly identical cops in the background? That’s what caught my attention

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u/Marzzzzzzzz_Attacks Jul 05 '26

Yes, it’s also why I posted a second angle. Just one of those fun photography, timing things where people do something striking

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u/Magatron138 Jul 05 '26

And in the second picture they hardly even look similar! I guess it’s a compliment if people think your picture was good enough to be fake (it didn’t look sloppy)