{"id":1866,"date":"2026-01-25T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:26:29","slug":"psa-age-of-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/25\/psa-age-of-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Age of Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image002-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image002-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image002-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image002-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image002.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a scavenger and I find it a point of pride to rebuild and reuse electronics. Imagine my surprise when I found a camera in the dumpster with someone&#8217;s wedding photos! This photographer captured some truly emotional and beautiful moments on one of the most important days of a person&#8217;s life. I consider it a privilege and honor to be unintentionally included in these intimate moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does that sound believable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe everything you read online!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo was generated by Google&#8217;s &#8220;Gemini 3 Pro Image&#8221; (which I think is the same as what they call &#8220;Nano Banana Pro&#8221;). As a developer, it costs less than 13 cents to make a 1MP image that looks photorealistic and could be used for anything from &#8220;virtual cosplay&#8221; and marketing to scamming and spamming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a friendly reminder to never trust anything you see or read online without knowing THE SOURCE and THE REPUTATION of that source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve moved on from the &#8220;Information Age&#8221; into the &#8220;Age of Reputation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> nerdy<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a scavenger and I find it a point of pride to rebuild and reuse electronics. Imagine my surprise when I found a camera in the dumpster with someone&#8217;s wedding photos! This photographer captured some truly emotional and beautiful moments on one of the most important days of a person&#8217;s life. I consider it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,18,17],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-moods","category-techy","tag-neo-lj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}