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[–] H4rdStyl3z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is this a real city? If so, which one?

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

It's Shanghai, Yan'an Road West. You can see the front of Jing'an Temple and the adjacent mall in the distance. There's definitely some editing weirdness going on on the road in the foreground though.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't think its real. Look at the three identical blue windows on the front left house.

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A reflection. At this time of the year. In this part of the country. Localised entirely 3 floors down?

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's a reflection of the far away road.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Looks straight out of Toronto QEW downtown.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It definitely looks a lot like Toronto, but it's been a while since I was there

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Looked like Toronto to me too. Very similar design to the Gardiner Expressway going through downtown Toronto between the waterfront and CN Tower.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It’s AI generated. Weird double lane markers and every car’s headlights and bulbs in their homes being blue.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

it doesn't look ai generated. there are no "weird" details

photoManipulated maybe?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah you’re probably right, it may not be AI, but it’s definitely edited/manipulated. Some of the windows are repeated several times.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I would guess that maybe multiple photographs have been stitched together to make the image alongside the color editing.

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's called a lens filter (or photoshop).
Please stop calling that something is AI generated, you obviously don't know how to tell if it is.
This image was made at least before 2020

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah I might have jumped the gun the gun by calling it AI-generated, when I was meaning to say it’s edited/manipulated. The windows repeat several times. Definitely not just a simple photo that went through some filters.

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The windows repeat several times.

That's called a reflect.
A reflect of a distant light source, that's why it's extremely similar.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean these are reflects? Even the interiors look the same.

image

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I was talking about the 3 blues one.

And if the image is fake, then what is it ? AI generated ?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am guessing Shanghai China.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QoGn9JKuKbNL4wSo8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aWvVKzxK8xD1akBW7?g_st=ac

We don't need AI to design nightmares like this for us. We do it to ourselves.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nah this looks pretty standard photoshopping to me. Pretty sure the colour grading is one of the standard filters in lightroom