It's a red-eared slider turtle! 🐢

This was photographic proof that NONE OF THE ROBOTS OF THE TECHNODROME could actually see these turtles. Because image recognition in the 1990s was shit.

All together now:
T-U-R-T-L-E Power
T-U-R-T-L-E Power
T-U-R-T-L-E Power
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Actually, this complex image of reptilian stealth pushes even human cognition, because back when I submitted this, I didn't even notice the second turtle in the top of the image, being very cute! Because all of my attention was drawn to the badass infiltrator at the centre of the image. Very turtley image indeed.

(If you need to know which AI thing this was sent to, this was Microsoft's experiment called captionbot.ai (no longer online), well before the current AI nonsense era. But I think it still serves a point! Turtles can sometimes skillfully avoid AI identification. ...I'll probably post about the other landmark case later on. Maybe.)

(Also, if modern AI had been kept as a niche tool for image captioning and other carefully considered applications, I'd not have been so critical of it. But here we are, the AI bros set the world aflame, and now we fight.)

Original image © Fruggo, GFDL

It worries me that this could lead to the death of tortoises :/

i can "assure" you that todays vision languge models can very much see the turtles, point out the red spot on the back turtles face and the different types of vegetation on screen.

i also didn't see the background turtle at first, like OP.

back when I submitted this, I didn’t even notice the second turtle in the top of the image

oh shit, I didn't see it either 😳