Came for the rant?
Skip the photos and scroll down :) It's just some shrooms and moss - nothing very fancy.
There is this forest in Poland I like. Most of the times we would go mushroom picking it was there. It is not very far, lets say 1h walk from my home and we have been walking there many times before. During my last visit I really... really wanted to go there with a camera and a mushroom basket and that would not be the most enjoyable as the camera weights like a ton and is hanging on my neck :p
That is where big brothers come to the rescue. One day, I got a call from him that he is coming over so we go mushroom picking! He drove 90 km to od it in the middle of the week.
Isn't that just sweet? :)
And these were the first mushrooms I saw after we entered the forest.
One rotten stump and few types of fungi sharing the space.
The moss around it provided enough moisture for all of them.
See the tiny ones popping right from it?
And a big branch like a fence between neighbours.
"Yo, ma man! Is it raining on your side?"
"Nah... but I see clouds coming."
"Brilliant! Cheers bro."
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Lastly a little note about the recent AI discussions that took place. I did not want to write another post about it as it would probably turn to a very long rant :p.
AI is here to stay and there is no doubt about it, or a way not to be around it. But it is all a matter of how we - humans use it and how honest we are with each other when using it.
Do we want Hive to be humans sharing their stories, knowledge and thoughts, or do we want to read what bots wrote, because they form sentences better?
English is not my first language and I know I make mistakes, just as others do. And oh boy.. have I seen all kinds of grammar mistakes and typos around. But this doesn't even bother me. It only tells me that someone took their time to write the text they best they could. And they did not use any AI correction tools, enhancers, fixers, call it whatever you want, that will change the sentences, words and style. That what makes the text and the whole account unique. If the text is completely changed and formatted by a bot, it looses the personal touch. Otherwise after a while all posts will start to look the same. But we are not the same - we are all different, come from different backgrounds, cultures and traditions. Why do some try so hard to look (text) and sound the same?
I read someone's comment (I can't remember who or where now, there have been plenty of them lately) that AI helps with formatting and putting the text nicely - if someone can't do such simple thing as adding spaces between paragraphs and needs to use AI to do it (because it does it better), then it's just lazy. Plain and simple. Even the excuse that AI does it better is a lazy one.
I tried to make it very short, it didn't work. Maybe I should I ask AI to summarize it for me in a pretty way :p
And with this thought..
Here is a nice AI poem for you. I used ChatGPT to write it for me in just 5 seconds :)
I put a lot of effort into writing the prompt and waiting whole 5 seconds for the result.
Enjoy your Weekend everyone.
And don't ask AI to do it for you ;)
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- when Friday comes (UTC time) post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, I will check and report stolen images or text!)
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Happy FungiFriday!
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos, graphics and text are my own.
