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The trend of UFO sightings follows revolutions in photography. There's been spikes in the amount of them when cameras became widespread and photos were easier to develop, when cameras became digital, when photo-manipulation software came about, and this next one will be because machine learning-based video generation is becoming increasingly sophisticated.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 54 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I always heard that UFO sightings dropped drastically once cell phones became widespread.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 48 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yes. OP is making stuff up. As cameras became better we started getting less and less sightings for UFO, Bigfoot, Lockness, ect.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 10 points 3 weeks ago

Better cameras made it harder to capture "UFOs", but generative AI makes it easier again.

I searched for "ai generated ufo sightings", and yeah, there are a lot.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

But with AI generated images we'll get more 😊 /j

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

OP say lot words to say AI getting big when few words do trick

[–] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s because they KNEW!

They started hiding!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, you fool, we're taking more pictures than ever... And they're deleting them with their space haxs

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aside from that one time the Goodyear blimp in NJ took a 5 month break in 2020 and then showed up to the first Giants game and then people filmed the UFO.

NJ also had a mass panic last year with "drones". Absolutely a UFO rash by real definitions, not the UFO=alien version. Those people went outside at night and saw distant planes landing for the first time. There's what, 4 major airports that put descent over the state? I'm sure there were some drones (something about [training for?] lost radioactive material) but it was definitely less than what was reported. Cell phone video was an awful option for aircraft at night but everywhere.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had approved the drones for research and many also belonged to people in the area, President Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at her first White House briefing on Tuesday.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The NJ MAGAs were big mad that even their donny couldn't tell them it was "suv-sized drones" all along. And man, the people that saw actual planes, real planes, plain planes, and called them holograms... I ate so much popcorn watching that fiasco unfold. So many grainy videos, so many spooked people livestreaming, so many hobby drones, so many cgi/Ai videos, and the orbs! So many orb videos from people who've never focused a camera at night, so many existing conspiriscists finding their place in the limelight. That was a riot.