Yes thats the whole point. How are you supposed to for example show your kids and say thats what i look like when I was your age in the future (ik phone existed dw) or to look back on them with nostalgia of its AI generated slop.
Yearbooks cost money and I remember my friends who were on the yearbook committee would talk about how they had page budgets to work within. It would be strange for a school to essentially double up on the pages to have both AI slop images and real images of the same person.
So this is either just a single goof page and not reflective of what's going on, or this is indeed what the portraits are. I doubt there are both these AI images and real images for all students.
I tried looking into it, no news outside that one posting and the account deleted it because they said they were getting hate and people weren't "focusing on the real issue" which sorta just screams that everyone saw through it.
This isn't the photo "for" the yearbook. This is one of those things where the parents pay for a page or section of a page in the yearbook to give a shout out to their kid.
They said this was for a "Graduation Page", so Im assuming their standard pictures they took were listed in the 12th grade section and this was to try to do something "different" on a seperate page for those graduating?
Yea but people take actual nice pics for those and pay a shit ton of money for them. Idk if that's still the practice but when I was in school every senior did a photo shoot, sent in their favorite, and then there'd be a whole section of the yearbook with everyone's photo and quote. If I paid for that and sent that in and got this back I'd be fucking furious.
At my school, you had to submit your professional senior photos to be included in the 12th grade section at all, so this would be infuriating to spend the money to do that, turn it in then get this back as the only photo of you in that years yearbook
Just for senior year for some reason, probably to make the graduate page “nicer” but would still have the photographer take our photos for our school IDs, but if you didn’t get senior photos done or, in my case, have your photos done inside against a back drop, you don’t get your photo in the yearbook
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t use your ID photo, especially cause in my opinion the senior year one is the one you’d want to cater to an sell the most to students/families so to isolate that group is crazy
At my school (IN THE FAR DISTANT PAST) did need the graduation pics to be done by a special place with a fee too. You could technically opt out, you just wouldn't appear, but were pressured by school and sometimes family. I was pretty apathetic about grad photos and I got pushed into it.
My school required us to pay for our own senior photos at a specific local photography studio that had a deal with the administration. You weren’t allowed to get photos taken anywhere else.
Mine was the same. All other years we just took the photo when the photographer came to the school. But for senior portrait we had to all have the same approved tux / black blouse photo which was taken at a studio
School photography companies (largely, there might be some niche exceptions) don't even charge the schools for the photos! They make money off of selling packets, which most school portrait companies give a percentage back to the school
Fun fact: Companies like Lifetouch (Which I work for) competitively bid to win the contract to exclusively be the photographer for these schools.
The companies pay people like me to cover the school's sports and their marquee theater/club events out of their own pocket and, in theory, make the money back and then some by being the ONLY place where parents can get their kid's school photos/senior portraits/graduation photos/prom photos.
It's a great system when it works but parents LOVE to complain about it because they are selfish assholes and only thinking about themselves when bitching about spending ~$40-$100 photos on once in a lifetime photos of their kids despite the fact that 1.) It would cost no less than three or four times that hire a professional photographer to shoot these photos on their own and 2.) Without this exclusive contract, a company like Lifetouch isn't going to work with schools and schools wouldn't be able to put out a yearbook worth a damn.
I say all that to say there is no "photography budget" affected when something like this happens. Either the school was miserable to worth it and so shitty that no student photography company would take it on or, more likely, some asshole in charge thinks this looks cool when it sure as shit does not.
Idk why but this reminds me when they spelled my name wrong in the yearbook and just wouldnt let me return it because "My name was too odd and didnt have time to change it" (even though they totally had time to change it and its also the ONLY spelling of my name?)
my school got my picture while getting everyone elses, got my name right, I graduated with the rest of the class. they just put me in the very last page with the 2 others that didnt/couldnt get their picture taken without my picture. not only was I pissed, but so were my parents as that was $120, got the refund, got to keep it, then lit it on fire right in front of the office
I wasn't even in my yearbook. Not even a blank space. I didnt find out until I bought the stupid book and went looking for myself. I pieced together that they had done pictures in the afternoon while I was gone for work release.
I got a misprinted copy that didn’t have the senior class at all (the freshman class was in twice) and I didn’t notice until I had already gotten my friends to sign it. Fortunately I was on the newspaper staff that year and the same teacher ran yearbook so she just gave me a new copy. So I have two copies—one with signatures but I’m not in it, and one with me but no signatures lol
Return, demand a refund, AND tell people next year what happened this year and that they might want to consider VERY carefully whether they want to risk it. Make the repercussions of this fiasco memorable.
And after you tell them make sure one kid starts a slow clap that spreads until every last one of the other students at the school is on their feet applauding with tears in their eyes l, carrying you out of the school on their shoulders before the angry school disciplinarian (who is in the job not because he sought a career in education but because he hates children and wants to make their lives miserable failures) can get his hands on you to finally expel you.
I'd demand they go back to the drawing board and make a real one. When I bought my yearbook, it was to remember people I went to school with, not shitty AI slop.
20 years from now you won't want to see a bunch of ripoff bitmojis. You'll want to see your old friends.
There's no context here & I bet this is being misrepresented. Notice how they didn't take a shot of the whole page it's just a close-up of that pic?
I bet the part of the yearbook that's supposed to have real photos has real photos and this is just some silly section of the yearbook using these pics
"Instead of using our actual school photos..." would suggest that there is no real photo of the students in the yearbook. Or at least that's the way I read it.
Nah Having it on school grounds is much more public and shows discontent with the school/district rather than the person. Plus it may not have even been his/her decision anyway
And going to a private residence feels like a line is being crossed either way
Yearbooks are usually put together by a class of Seniors, no? Probably should go find and hand them back to the students who made this terrible decision instead.
Unfortunately, the government is run by guys getting funded by sociopathic techbros, who are excited to use AI to do the evil plan from Winter Soldier, and now they're making it federally illegal to even try to put any limits on AI at all.
yeah anyone on staff with a gaming pc could do it.
as far as consent? kids in school do not have the right to consent how their images are used inside the school. in fact you would be surprised how little rights children actually have.
Glad i live somewhere where GDPR exists and photos of your likeness are considered personal data. Once fed to an AI for processing, they are considered biometric personal data, and thus sensitive. School could get their ass sued.
Odds are it was someone elsewhere in the chain of command. My school counselor decided to use AI to “add emotions” to our photos (she is on the yearbook committee)
I didn't want to pay for the fancy tie photoshoot, so they said that if you don't get them, they'll use your standard school headshot, so I went with that. They changed their mind at some point and they pulled me out like I was never existed at that school.
Luckily I hated my high school and hometown and never looked back after moving away.
It's a committee, but these AI pictures are awful to have in place of real pictures.
I went to a work event where we had the same thing (they were given a picture, then they printed AI cartoon from the picture) and some details about each person - the department they're in, the skills they have. Everyone got a page with like 10 people on it, and the activity was to network and find all the people on your page, and talk to them about their skills.
There was one girl on my sheet I just couldn't find. I found other people in her department and asked if they know who it is and if they're here today, and they couldn't place it. There were like 4 people trying to figure it out. After like 15min, the very first girl I started with said "hey so I think that might actually be me, I just didn't send in a picture so I didn't think I'd be in the activity.. but it has hair like mine and those are skills I have, so I think it's actually me."
Why not use the actual picture? And this is for a year book, the whole point is to look back at it in 20 years and go "holy shit, I forgot about John Doe, he was such a nice person" etc etc, and that's not going to happen with a cartoon picture of them. It's ridiculous, even though it's probably students who made that decision. An adult supervisor should have stepped in and said absolutely not.
Kinda both. It's like an extra credit class. Lots of kids who want to go into journalism or marketing will take it to put it on their college applications.
When I was a senior in school I joined an elective that I thought would be fun. When I got into the class I found out it was a fake class that was made so people could do senior events. I complained to a teacher I was friends with and she made up a fake class just for me so I could spend time learning what I wanted.
When I was in HS we had a yearbook club that any student could join and be a writer or photographer, and then there was a teacher advisor who chose a couple students for editors to oversee the other students. We worked for about 3 hours after school every day and a half day on Saturdays. I designed every page and they were all reviewed by the other editors and the advisor. It was a lot of work but very rewarding and I learned a ton. I can't imagine how something like this abomination here could have happened back then, even if the technology existed.
In the case of my school (not yearbook, just typical school photos) it was the counselor’s idea to “add emotions” (she’s on the yearbook committee which also handles school photos)
Part of me wonders how much of a mess you could make the school or yearbook committee go through by waiting until they're printed then bringing a suit for likeness rights. I wouldn't even care about winning and would be ok losing money just to make life suck for the idiots who thought it was a good idea.
Isn’t this grounds for a lawsuit? I’d certainly try to return my copy for sure, also something something privacy concerns, but the students didn’t consent to this, etc.
Actually because these are sold and distributed this may be a HUUGE no no depending on the jurisdiction. As anyone not 18 and not having a signed consent by a guardian cannot have their picture distributed for monetary gain.
It's so weird - I remember my high school being super weird about all kinds of attributions, copying papers, all sorts of things in assignments... to keep from even the *chance* of their being a copyright liability issue... what the fuck is even going on *nowadays* that this makes sense?
Most schools I've sent my kids to had some sort of media release form that parents signed each school year. Form said the school could use pictures/media for whatever purpose basically.
Kids might not agree to it, but the parents did. I suspect that's the case here too.
Is it stupid, yeah. Did the parents consent to the school using the media however they wanted? Most likely.
It's not the "the school", it's your idiot classmates on the yearbook committee for coming up with the idea and the yearbook advisor for approaching it.
I'd bet a million dollars that someone out there will put their face through an AI generator, and then get plastic surgery to look like said AI avatar.
I do not like this not one bit. imagine if the AI messed up-
I mean, it would've been sweeter to have someone maybe draw them if they really wanted a cartoon version and like side by side to the actual person..but i don't think anyone wants themself being compared to a robot that takes prompts.
Man I can maybe see that for the students who didn't show up to picture day and never submitted an alternative.
When I was in high school, they used generic photo placeholder icons for those kids. It looked pretty stupid. I'm not sure if this AI shit would have been better or worse, but I could at least understand the point behind using it for that.
But if this is just straight-up replacing student photos, who's gonna bother buying a yearbook? The whole point is to have actual pictures of the people you went to school with, not cartoon drawings.
Do schools not require you to sign those photo release forms anymore? While I do think it’s an odd thing to do that I’m sure someone thought was a cute idea, it’s not like it wasn’t consented to (probably not explicitly) if you already signed the form.
This would make me laugh so hard getting a actual picture of the ai instead of the graduating pictures 😂😂😂😂 this would have pissed so many parents off in the 2000s
Yearbooks in my highschool were expensive. They edited thousands of student photos alongside sport team photos, events, interviews with students, and more content for a yearly, unique, and creative experience. This is taking a shit on not only the yearbook but also the skills of the editors who worked on everything else. I have no clue who the hell had the power yet low intelligence to do that to every single student photo.
Oh so now your likenesses can be freely used by those AI engines for all of time. Nice job, school administrators. I would seriously consider suing, that is so fucked
I’m so glad that I graduated when I did, and not only that but my school’s faculty were fairly technically literate, so they would’ve certainly forgone using AI for the yearbook from the get-go.
Without consent… assuming the US, that is definitely something you can take legal action against. Generally schools have a high standard of student privacy and protections
Isn't the point of a yearbook photoshoot to see real pictures of the people?
Yes thats the whole point. How are you supposed to for example show your kids and say thats what i look like when I was your age in the future (ik phone existed dw) or to look back on them with nostalgia of its AI generated slop.
OP hasn’t said anything but how do you know there’s not another section with real photos?
Its not even OP. According to another post they found this on twitter.
High probability it's a karma-farming bot just waiting to be sold or auctioned off at some point.
Yearbooks cost money and I remember my friends who were on the yearbook committee would talk about how they had page budgets to work within. It would be strange for a school to essentially double up on the pages to have both AI slop images and real images of the same person.
So this is either just a single goof page and not reflective of what's going on, or this is indeed what the portraits are. I doubt there are both these AI images and real images for all students.
Yup. I worked in the class that did school yearbooks with a friend, and they are VERY stingy on money. They have an exact dollar amount.
They even griped about adding student quotes because it would cost extra to print and when you're making some 1000+ yearbooks, that's a lot of money.
Absolutely no way in hell they doubled up on real and AI photos.
i saw the original post and OP said in the replies that the next page had the real photos
OP is just reposting without context for karma.
The real pictures were also in the yearbook.
This picture was on extra pages that their parents paid for.
It's fake ragebait buddy.
Absolutely. Notice how the words on the right say "cringe". They knew what they were doing.
I tried looking into it, no news outside that one posting and the account deleted it because they said they were getting hate and people weren't "focusing on the real issue" which sorta just screams that everyone saw through it.
Ragebait all the way down
The Twitter OP then goes on to say the real photos were also in the book. So saying "instead of using our actual photos" was bait.
This isn't the photo "for" the yearbook. This is one of those things where the parents pay for a page or section of a page in the yearbook to give a shout out to their kid.
didn't know that was a thing, lame
Also, who puts out yearbooks in December?
Did they hire photographers and did this anyway? Or did some "genius" think they'd save on the photography budget with this?
They said this was for a "Graduation Page", so Im assuming their standard pictures they took were listed in the 12th grade section and this was to try to do something "different" on a seperate page for those graduating?
Yea but people take actual nice pics for those and pay a shit ton of money for them. Idk if that's still the practice but when I was in school every senior did a photo shoot, sent in their favorite, and then there'd be a whole section of the yearbook with everyone's photo and quote. If I paid for that and sent that in and got this back I'd be fucking furious.
I graduated high school in 2023, it’s definitely still the same where I went
Not to mention, the original pictures are saved and used for further image processing. Good luck getting your children out of a mugshot you paid for.
Yep, that's still a thing. I have a niece and a cousin graduating this year that have both had senior pictures done.
Those pictures are still there. This is an extra page
At my school, you had to submit your professional senior photos to be included in the 12th grade section at all, so this would be infuriating to spend the money to do that, turn it in then get this back as the only photo of you in that years yearbook
Your school didn’t have a photographer come? You had to do it yourself?
Just for senior year for some reason, probably to make the graduate page “nicer” but would still have the photographer take our photos for our school IDs, but if you didn’t get senior photos done or, in my case, have your photos done inside against a back drop, you don’t get your photo in the yearbook
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t use your ID photo, especially cause in my opinion the senior year one is the one you’d want to cater to an sell the most to students/families so to isolate that group is crazy
At my school (IN THE FAR DISTANT PAST) did need the graduation pics to be done by a special place with a fee too. You could technically opt out, you just wouldn't appear, but were pressured by school and sometimes family. I was pretty apathetic about grad photos and I got pushed into it.
My school required us to pay for our own senior photos at a specific local photography studio that had a deal with the administration. You weren’t allowed to get photos taken anywhere else.
Wtf? Sounds like that studio profited handsomely. Probably a friend of the principal or something
I see you've heard of the American way.
Mine was the same. All other years we just took the photo when the photographer came to the school. But for senior portrait we had to all have the same approved tux / black blouse photo which was taken at a studio
School photography companies (largely, there might be some niche exceptions) don't even charge the schools for the photos! They make money off of selling packets, which most school portrait companies give a percentage back to the school
And don't the photographers retain copyright on the photos? Feeding them into some public AI is probably a violation.
Flip a coin
Hi! School photographer here.
Fun fact: Companies like Lifetouch (Which I work for) competitively bid to win the contract to exclusively be the photographer for these schools.
The companies pay people like me to cover the school's sports and their marquee theater/club events out of their own pocket and, in theory, make the money back and then some by being the ONLY place where parents can get their kid's school photos/senior portraits/graduation photos/prom photos.
It's a great system when it works but parents LOVE to complain about it because they are selfish assholes and only thinking about themselves when bitching about spending ~$40-$100 photos on once in a lifetime photos of their kids despite the fact that 1.) It would cost no less than three or four times that hire a professional photographer to shoot these photos on their own and 2.) Without this exclusive contract, a company like Lifetouch isn't going to work with schools and schools wouldn't be able to put out a yearbook worth a damn.
I say all that to say there is no "photography budget" affected when something like this happens. Either the school was miserable to worth it and so shitty that no student photography company would take it on or, more likely, some asshole in charge thinks this looks cool when it sure as shit does not.
"Cringe" sounds about right
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Id return the yearbook
Yup. They were expensive when I was in school 700 years ago. I’m not spending money for cartoon faces. That’s ridiculous.
I was there, Gandalf. I was there 700 years ago. I was there the day the strength of the education system failed.
The Class of 1324 kicked-ass.
flashback to a student in the background while George W Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act
seven... hundred years ago? Jeez da Vinci, I'm glad you're still with us. Love that aerial screw of yours
I secretly invented vampirism.
And I thank you for that. I have been a vampire since Andrew Jackson bit me back in 1830.
Noice. I love randomly running into family.
There's exponentially more of us now
Can confirm Paul Rudd turned me a few weeks ago
turned you what tho
Might've been the only good thing Andrew Jackson did with his life, ngl
He's still alive. Lives in a small Romanian village.
I know that village. My first vic—-uh, family member is from there.
Before or after he beat you with his cane?
Before, he then had to beat me with his cane to trigger the turn
I dunno, I think that sick fuck just did that for fun. Sorry your sire sucks xo
No you didn't. You're not from Serbia ;)
You don’t know me. ;)
TIL Da Vinci invented the mile high club.
just know I bestow you an upvote out of anger >:(
This is why I stay on this site
I hate it when I want to make a joke that won't make sense to anyone.
Anyways, he used the Occulus Perpetua, clearly.
🪞
Idk why but this reminds me when they spelled my name wrong in the yearbook and just wouldnt let me return it because "My name was too odd and didnt have time to change it" (even though they totally had time to change it and its also the ONLY spelling of my name?)
my school got my picture while getting everyone elses, got my name right, I graduated with the rest of the class. they just put me in the very last page with the 2 others that didnt/couldnt get their picture taken without my picture. not only was I pissed, but so were my parents as that was $120, got the refund, got to keep it, then lit it on fire right in front of the office
I wasn't even in my yearbook. Not even a blank space. I didnt find out until I bought the stupid book and went looking for myself. I pieced together that they had done pictures in the afternoon while I was gone for work release.
I got a misprinted copy that didn’t have the senior class at all (the freshman class was in twice) and I didn’t notice until I had already gotten my friends to sign it. Fortunately I was on the newspaper staff that year and the same teacher ran yearbook so she just gave me a new copy. So I have two copies—one with signatures but I’m not in it, and one with me but no signatures lol
Yeah, how else would you spell gayraidenporn?
How do they even do that?!
Return, demand a refund, AND tell people next year what happened this year and that they might want to consider VERY carefully whether they want to risk it. Make the repercussions of this fiasco memorable.
And after you tell them make sure one kid starts a slow clap that spreads until every last one of the other students at the school is on their feet applauding with tears in their eyes l, carrying you out of the school on their shoulders before the angry school disciplinarian (who is in the job not because he sought a career in education but because he hates children and wants to make their lives miserable failures) can get his hands on you to finally expel you.
The people there next year…are in this yearbook as well. They’ll know lol.
Yeah, that's not what they paid for
I'd demand they go back to the drawing board and make a real one. When I bought my yearbook, it was to remember people I went to school with, not shitty AI slop.
20 years from now you won't want to see a bunch of ripoff bitmojis. You'll want to see your old friends.
And sue the school district. What a betrayal.
what's the point of the yearbook atp
It's now a hypothetical journey through a year that might have happened
"We've had a great year, haven't we?"
“Sir it’s February.”
you do not recognize the bodies in the water.
We’re just trying to help, Carol.
They are supposed to get filed away and be a historical record. Replacing with AI photos completely destroys that aspect.
I can remember all those years ago how hard those kids worked on the year book and it was a big job. This seems cheaper for sure.
Yes but those kids learned so much. That's where many journalists start
I mean...
I hate this, but it's also pretty on brand when it comes to representing 2025.
ATP is the main molecule that powers the yearbooks metabolism
It's made in the powerhouse of the LLM
Mitochondria!
Mitocondon't
In the US you can use an official school yearbook to help get a passport.
This should piss anyone off.
A $60 donation to your school
$60?
Bruh.
Shit was $100 when I was in school.
I graduated high school in 2002.
Mines was like $120 wtf
There's no context here & I bet this is being misrepresented. Notice how they didn't take a shot of the whole page it's just a close-up of that pic?
I bet the part of the yearbook that's supposed to have real photos has real photos and this is just some silly section of the yearbook using these pics
They never said there's no real photo. The complaint is putting a real photo into some shitty ai database without their consent.
And it doesn't even look good, it looks like one of those shitty bitmoji things Snapchat tried making trendy ages ago.
"Instead of using our actual school photos..." would suggest that there is no real photo of the students in the yearbook. Or at least that's the way I read it.ETA: Scratch that, didn't notice the "for our graduation page" part.
Nobody said they did this to the entire yearbook. And students create the yearbook and likely made decision to do this for a special section.
Feed the database with student faces and names without their consent.
Leave them in a 6ft pile outside the principal’s office in protest
Or house
Nah Having it on school grounds is much more public and shows discontent with the school/district rather than the person. Plus it may not have even been his/her decision anyway
And going to a private residence feels like a line is being crossed either way
Yearbooks are usually put together by a class of Seniors, no? Probably should go find and hand them back to the students who made this terrible decision instead.
This should be illegal. You don't consent to giving the massive corpo overlords your personal data, they shouldn't be able to just give it away.
Unfortunately, the government is run by guys getting funded by sociopathic techbros, who are excited to use AI to do the evil plan from Winter Soldier, and now they're making it federally illegal to even try to put any limits on AI at all.
Good lord, things feel more and more hopeless with every passing day.
It's not gonna get better until those assholes face consequences
People seem to have forgotten that we used to be the consequence.
That's very beautifully put. Really wish more people in the US had a French mentality.
Just leaving this here for no reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
20 minutes to download/install StableDiffusion and a single pc with a dedicated GPU and they could've done it in-house.
yeah anyone on staff with a gaming pc could do it.
as far as consent? kids in school do not have the right to consent how their images are used inside the school. in fact you would be surprised how little rights children actually have.
Not saying it's right but that's how it is.
Pretty sure the parents/guardians would want to sign off on this. I know I wouldn't for my kid.
That’s not true at all but does vary by state.
i’d be mad about the fact they did this without asking. this isn’t giving your data away.
Glad i live somewhere where GDPR exists and photos of your likeness are considered personal data. Once fed to an AI for processing, they are considered biometric personal data, and thus sensitive. School could get their ass sued.
You could organize a group book burning
I concur
I would love to have been witness to the discussions (and ultimate decision) to do this. WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THE LOGIC?
"It is like very trendy. It'll be like totally cool."
Probably more like "Boss got sold this dumb shit by a tech bro in Thailand and we have find a use for it."
"What does it do?"
"Picture filters and stupid quotes...wait I've got the perfect division for this..."
"Such and such company came to us and said if we use their program it would be free and everyone would love it"
Said company being a data collection agency that now has images of all the kids and their names at the least.
We never had a yearbook, but is it the schools that do them or a committee from the seniors?
Good chance it was determined by the kids on the yearbook committee. Otherwise by the teacher in charge of it. Either way, this sucks
Odds are it was someone elsewhere in the chain of command. My school counselor decided to use AI to “add emotions” to our photos (she is on the yearbook committee)
Yikes
They skipped me in my yearbook.
I didn't want to pay for the fancy tie photoshoot, so they said that if you don't get them, they'll use your standard school headshot, so I went with that. They changed their mind at some point and they pulled me out like I was never existed at that school.
Luckily I hated my high school and hometown and never looked back after moving away.
When I was in school the students made the layout and design, but a teacher had final say
It's a committee, but these AI pictures are awful to have in place of real pictures.
I went to a work event where we had the same thing (they were given a picture, then they printed AI cartoon from the picture) and some details about each person - the department they're in, the skills they have. Everyone got a page with like 10 people on it, and the activity was to network and find all the people on your page, and talk to them about their skills.
There was one girl on my sheet I just couldn't find. I found other people in her department and asked if they know who it is and if they're here today, and they couldn't place it. There were like 4 people trying to figure it out. After like 15min, the very first girl I started with said "hey so I think that might actually be me, I just didn't send in a picture so I didn't think I'd be in the activity.. but it has hair like mine and those are skills I have, so I think it's actually me."
Why not use the actual picture? And this is for a year book, the whole point is to look back at it in 20 years and go "holy shit, I forgot about John Doe, he was such a nice person" etc etc, and that's not going to happen with a cartoon picture of them. It's ridiculous, even though it's probably students who made that decision. An adult supervisor should have stepped in and said absolutely not.
Kinda both. It's like an extra credit class. Lots of kids who want to go into journalism or marketing will take it to put it on their college applications.
When I was a senior in school I joined an elective that I thought would be fun. When I got into the class I found out it was a fake class that was made so people could do senior events. I complained to a teacher I was friends with and she made up a fake class just for me so I could spend time learning what I wanted.
I went to a small school, it was weird.
When I was in HS we had a yearbook club that any student could join and be a writer or photographer, and then there was a teacher advisor who chose a couple students for editors to oversee the other students. We worked for about 3 hours after school every day and a half day on Saturdays. I designed every page and they were all reviewed by the other editors and the advisor. It was a lot of work but very rewarding and I learned a ton. I can't imagine how something like this abomination here could have happened back then, even if the technology existed.
I can't explain it but this is such a school thing to do
I cant explain why I agree wholeheartedly 😂
Yeah, they already sell our data to universities and scam companies and shit, lol.
Me and my younger brothers all got letters from Vector/Cutco when we graduated, I threw that shit out.
W H Y?
you literally have the real photos, what is the point of generating new pictures?
In the case of my school (not yearbook, just typical school photos) it was the counselor’s idea to “add emotions” (she’s on the yearbook committee which also handles school photos)
Oh dear, our students aren't expressing enough emotion! Fix this before someone catches on!
I thought I couldn't care less about year book photos. If they did this to me or my kids I'd be more than mildly infuriated.
There are scenes in tv shows where the police use old yearbook photos to identify people or friends look at yearbooks together.
I find the image funny of people in the future trying to do that and find those fugly ai drawings instead.
Part of me wonders how much of a mess you could make the school or yearbook committee go through by waiting until they're printed then bringing a suit for likeness rights. I wouldn't even care about winning and would be ok losing money just to make life suck for the idiots who thought it was a good idea.
That sounds like even more work than just putting the pictures in the book
They fed all of our photos into a clanker to make an “all together” photo. It’s honestly sad.
Also all those photos are the property of the AI company and they can use it as they please.
This is obviously fake ragebait. Are people here falling for this?
Yeah there’s no way this is real
Right why not show the whole page of pictures. I suspect this is saying using AI is cringe
Is there any chance this is actually true?
And then they tell us we can NEVER use AI and that it’s wrong
Smells like bait to me. OP's other recent post says they just found this on twitter.
Isn’t this grounds for a lawsuit? I’d certainly try to return my copy for sure, also something something privacy concerns, but the students didn’t consent to this, etc.
Nobody said they did this to the entire yearbook. People are getting way too bent over this without full story.
Actually because these are sold and distributed this may be a HUUGE no no depending on the jurisdiction. As anyone not 18 and not having a signed consent by a guardian cannot have their picture distributed for monetary gain.
It's so weird - I remember my high school being super weird about all kinds of attributions, copying papers, all sorts of things in assignments... to keep from even the *chance* of their being a copyright liability issue... what the fuck is even going on *nowadays* that this makes sense?
that's way more infuriating than mildly
Yeah I'm throwing that yearbook out
Or cutting out the pages
Most schools I've sent my kids to had some sort of media release form that parents signed each school year. Form said the school could use pictures/media for whatever purpose basically.
Kids might not agree to it, but the parents did. I suspect that's the case here too.
Is it stupid, yeah. Did the parents consent to the school using the media however they wanted? Most likely.
I don't believe you, for a few reasons.
Better then secretly "beautifying" the images which ends up changing some people's skin color
Apparently it white washed one of the students anyway so, no it’s not.
Just put my ugly ass face on the damn year book already.
What the, but I mean, the actual fuck?
Maybe that is what they look like...
This doesn’t seem real. Need to see the whole yearbook or at least more pages to believe it
This cannot be real! Source? At a glance this looks like rage bait bot driven nonsense
Your pictures are already fed into AI if you use social media and upload even 1 selfie
lol
Who gets a yearbook in December?
It's not the "the school", it's your idiot classmates on the yearbook committee for coming up with the idea and the yearbook advisor for approaching it.
"Cringe"
Of all the things that did not happen this did not happen the most
Hell! NO. Give me my money back! No way in hell is this a good idea.
If you are in Europe file a complaint for violation of GDPR, if you are not...well...
Think this goes past mildly infuriating
They should walk out of school
This surely must've broken some data protection laws, even in the US??
This is probably illegal
I'd bet a million dollars that someone out there will put their face through an AI generator, and then get plastic surgery to look like said AI avatar.
I do not like this not one bit. imagine if the AI messed up-
I mean, it would've been sweeter to have someone maybe draw them if they really wanted a cartoon version and like side by side to the actual person..but i don't think anyone wants themself being compared to a robot that takes prompts.
The quote on the side is so fitting.
Stardew Valley High School
Man I can maybe see that for the students who didn't show up to picture day and never submitted an alternative.
When I was in high school, they used generic photo placeholder icons for those kids. It looked pretty stupid. I'm not sure if this AI shit would have been better or worse, but I could at least understand the point behind using it for that.
But if this is just straight-up replacing student photos, who's gonna bother buying a yearbook? The whole point is to have actual pictures of the people you went to school with, not cartoon drawings.
It's not the school photos but the graduation page. like towards the end where seniors say a thing. Still shitty to do.
I would actually take this back to the office and demand a refund. I don’t care how much it cost for them to make my copy, it’s worthless.
I'll be honest even if it was drawn without ai I'd still be pissed
And yet they don't want students using AI to help with homework
Do schools not require you to sign those photo release forms anymore? While I do think it’s an odd thing to do that I’m sure someone thought was a cute idea, it’s not like it wasn’t consented to (probably not explicitly) if you already signed the form.
This would make me laugh so hard getting a actual picture of the ai instead of the graduating pictures 😂😂😂😂 this would have pissed so many parents off in the 2000s
This is why Australia is banning social media
My school did the same thing for the cover, they had a photo of the entire year sitting together but gave it to some crappy ai
Yearbooks in my highschool were expensive. They edited thousands of student photos alongside sport team photos, events, interviews with students, and more content for a yearly, unique, and creative experience. This is taking a shit on not only the yearbook but also the skills of the editors who worked on everything else. I have no clue who the hell had the power yet low intelligence to do that to every single student photo.
Oh so now your likenesses can be freely used by those AI engines for all of time. Nice job, school administrators. I would seriously consider suing, that is so fucked
I’m so glad that I graduated when I did, and not only that but my school’s faculty were fairly technically literate, so they would’ve certainly forgone using AI for the yearbook from the get-go.
Another “Black Mirror” usage of AI.
Without consent… assuming the US, that is definitely something you can take legal action against. Generally schools have a high standard of student privacy and protections
This sub is losing its purpose. THIS IS EXTREMELY INFURIATING!
https://i.redd.it/l93vt6mffd6g1.gif
The students and parents should sue the school.
I am not lawsuit happy, but this is BS.
Lawsuit?