The comments on the post are all like “Why would they do that??” and I think the answer is they wouldn’t… Also, I don’t really get what a graduation page is, but it seems like the AI picture is next to something that says “cringe”, which to me means maybe it was like one of those pages where they show trends from the year and they called this like ”Cringey AI Art” or something. It’s all just very fishy to me.
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T - people are missing that the oop states in the tweet this was specifically for the graduation *page *. no it is not for the full year book. a high school would absolutely pull this nonsense to be "cutesy" for the graduating class page in the book. which is annoying
Yeah I was on yearbook back when the internet was still kinda new and the world was obsessed with the concept of ".com" and they had us brainstorming yearbook page ideas that incorporated that. Stuff like making up fake web pages for activities, like www. sports. com, www. studengovernment. com. whatever and using techy buzzwords in the copy. It was so cringy, but the idea is to capture the essence of the year, so in an AI heavy time, taking some of the studebts and making an AI photo and maybe having them submit a quote is exactly the kind of thing I expect to see in my kid's yearbook this year.
EDIT because i accidentally'd some links with those sites.
thats what i find suspicious. i could see them throwing in AI clipart or an AI cover easily, but converting students images into AI portraits is crossing a line not just like in terms of believability but also ethically
my high school did way less ethical things without permission back in the day with a huge graduating class. if this person's graduating class fits on one page then i think their parents and staff are likely not so knowledgable of the morality and safety concerns of AI.
my youngest had their photos photoshopped with ai tools so horribly their entire face looked like someone else, and that was only 3 years ago, and done completely without permission and without refund or retakes. this shit does happen. it is serious and has serious consequences.
Dude one of my high school teachers had to be prevented from bombing everyone's grades right before his annual charity concert... again. As in, years in a row. It's a high school, not an ethics lecture, teachers are people and people are dumb.
T. I could definitely see a school doing that.
T I can absolutely see an AI obsessed teacher doing this
T I graduated highschool this year, this is absolutely believable
For the entire yearbook? No. With how much students have to pay for a yearbook, the school knows the parents would throw a fit and demand a refund. They’re not risking that.
They said in the tweet it’s on the graduation pages, not the entire yearbook
Regardless, they’re not doing the entire graduation classes pics just in ai. They may have had another page with the ai ones too but they are not going to not include their actual school pictures in the yearbook. They would lose tons of sales as their senior class is most definitely their main customers.
In my yearbook the graduation pages weren't the student portraits. Like they HAD portraits and the class could submit pictures, but it was more trying to capture the "spirit" of the year. In my year we had a bunch of like social media nonsense on there.
That’s literally not the claim
Also the school spends a lot of money on photographers to come to the school as well.
The schools in your area pay the photographers to come do student photos? In my experience (in the US), the school pays nothing for the photography services. The company makes its money from students/parents buying the prints. I don't doubt that it happens, but I don't think I've ever heard of a school coming out of their own pockets for yearbook photos. In fact, a lot of schools make commission from the prints from the photography company that was selected as part of their contract.
So are the prints free or heavily discounted for students in that case? Any idea how much the school is charged, if it's per student, per hour/day, etc?
So my school paid for pictures because every student would get their pictures taken regardless if they're buying prints or not. In fact, most kids at my school never bought photos from the photographers since for multiple years the photos would arrive late or never arrive at all. I believe the school pays per class average (which is 30 here) and pays them for every class that comes in.
Then the school makes the money back on yearbooks since they cost 80 bucks. They do have sales throughout the year so I had gotten mine for 50. One thing I'm wondering about OOP's school if they're also ran by the students because this does feel like something a student would do for Senior quotes or something similar.
The school (Kansas, USA) pays the photography company for a portrait of every kid (single shot), to go in the yearbook, but parents can order photos beyond that (different sizes, there were also photo touch-up options in my day). If for some reason you were absent the "picture day", you wouldn't have a picture or you could submit your own.
It says in the OP that this is on the graduation page. No one claimed this was done for/to the entire yearbook.
T. Graduating this year, EVERYTHING is AI
T - public school admins would 100% pull a stunt like this.
I worked on yearbook in my senior year and the seniors have always gotten their photo taken professionally if they wanted for their page on the yearbook. But that year was the first year that the drama teacher was in charge of the yearbook, and she had the brilliant idea that we should use the yearbook software to cut out the background of people's photos and just have their posed body as a standalone image. It looked awful and it completely undermined half the point of getting your picture taken, because a lot of my friends paid to get their photo taken at very visually appealing locations, and I even went to a local park and had my mom take my picture with her nice camera. Not to mention that some people were sitting down and some people were standing so it just looked really weird. And when I tried to express that to her she immediately shot me down and tried to say that everyone she had shown it to had liked it, except I knew for a fact she hadn't asked any actual seniors about it because every person I showed hated it.
So long story short, I can absolutely imagine this happening. T
T - The whole thing is on Twitter and OOP explained it. They put the original photos in the back of the yearbook but did not ask for permission to do this from students.
U- It looks like its somthing to be like a senior superlatives page. but I think that its sus that they're getting thier yearbook when half the ear is left.
The OP is Australian, and the Australian school year ends in December and starts back up in January. with that context it makes a lot more sense.
100% T.
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U - There's no way a whole yearbook committee would sign off on this. There's usually a team of students lead by a student editor and a faculty advisor, plus it would have to be approved by the administration. No chance they all agree to go with that.
yes the students would 1000% push back. people are mentioning teachers on here when my high school yearbook didn’t even have a hands-on teacher. it was all just students in the yearbook club
U. They probably did this on one page to be funny or because it was a themed page. I do not believe they would do that for the full book. If that was the case, why wouldn't you take a picture of the whole page? It's not like anyone would recognize the people since they would all be cartoon characters anyways.
The person who posted it did say that. They said the normal pictures were untouched
"Normal pictures"? The post says "instead of using our actual school photos"
“for our graduation page”
What's a "graduation page"?
They’re usually a section of separate pages that dedicate more space to each student in the graduating class. Like you can see this person’s senior quote off to the side. Some schools will do pages like this and still have the normal section for the photos of that grade where it’s just the rows of student pictures and their names listed off to the side.
I see. Our school doesn't have a separate section. The Seniors section has more space and more elaborate layout than the Juniors.
I suppose if they had their regular school photos, an AI generated "celebration" page isn't too far-fetched. Although it would tend towards caricature.
I still don't believe it, given the lack of evidence.
"They fed our faces to ai for our graduation page of the school year book"
Yeah... so to me that means OOOP's yearbook has a page of ai photos. Kinda how they said
They didn't say "the school replaced all the photos in our yearbook with ai images". Still not super cool that the school is training ai on images of their students without their consent.
Oh good catch. I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. That, plus the sub this has been posted in, I guess I mostly assumed. Thanks!
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ive seen something similar for i believe a manager at walmart, it was a clearly gpt image posted up in the back with the dairy items. no context for why
U - you guys need to understand that this subreddit is not about “is it plausible” this subreddit is about “could it be easily faked.”
You guys have to stop voting T because you think it’s possible, unless it there is something that PROVES it’s real or highly likely to be real, you say U.
People think it's highly likely to be real because we've been through high school.
That doesn’t prove anything. You’re using your personal feelings to judge this.
You know this isn't a court of law, right? We're all going off vibes and opinions here. And the vibes and opinions of anyone who has completed high school or owns a yearbook are that the claims made are extremely narrow and realistic to a high school yearbook, being far more difficult for it to be faked than for it to be true.
It’s very easy to generate AI images so that’s not true.
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U - there's no reason why a school would do this
U - Many people literally pay outside photographers for their graduation photos, and yearbooks often cost money, as well. There's no way this would fly... would it ? I haven't been in school for a very long time, but now I'm second-guessing myself because of how things are. Anyway, I'm still going with an untrustworthy PopTart.