May 26, 2024

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Beautiful. But don’t be small and fuzzy.

Alexikakos
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4 months ago

Here is the      WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE       on the Indiana poet for whom the train was named.
 
He wrote the      POEM     (its original title “The Elf Child”) which became the inspiration for another well known comic character.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

This has got to be (creepily) AI generated.

That woman, her hair, and those eyelashes are not made of sand. Her lips aren’t sand either.

At first I thought maybe there was a real woman holding very still under a layer of sand.. but nobody could hold still enough not to crack it.

Even if it’s not real sand, but something rubbery, just for a photo…. You start to look at the other parts, and then wish you hadn’t.

Look at her left “hand”.. what is that?

Her right arm is weirdly long and straight.

I thought the sculptor might be real.. but his arms are mishapen, too…. and what about his flat chest?

Worse, the woman in the background is oddly assembled from parts that don’t attach correctly…. and is that supposed to be another person on the right?

It’s getting kind of scary that you can’t trust photos any more.

Tigressy
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4 months ago
Alexikakos
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4 months ago

 
I guess it depends on how you trim the picture.
 

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Alexikakos
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4 months ago



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P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
4 months ago

LOL, AI determining the probability of being AI generated.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
4 months ago

I didn’t trim anything.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Tigressy
4 months ago

 
I copied that U.R.L..
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

You guys… those exact percentages mean very little.

If one of you ran the test 3 times your results would probably vary that much.

It’s not like s genealogy test, where you can actually be 16% Catalan and 47% Siberian…. and even those results are suspicious because I don’t trust odd numbered percentages in genetics.

Genetics testing varies from lab to lab and sample to sample, even from the same person.

In this case, results are an educated guess based on analysis by a machine.

I doubt the picture could actually be only partially human, and the tiny differences you found are pretty statistically insignificant.

Any kind of low percentage of human content, as analyzed by software, means the program “thinks” there’s a high probability that the WHOLE picture is AI…

NOT that it found a human nose and some human hair in it someplace, and one analysis found a couple more real fingernails than another.

If the results say 52% AI, there’s a chance someone started with a real photo and used AI to change it… but more likely, the software simply can’t assign a strong probability of whether it’s AI or not.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Who would have thought.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Hey, Mister!!!
Arsenic and Old Lace

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

And of course…

you all probably know he’s
Cary Grant

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

not a Brewster?

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
4 months ago

He’s the son of a sea cook. 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
4 months ago

Luckily

for…
Mr. Grant
… Not in real life!

Come to think of it… he’s not even either of those names in real life.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

(sigh)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Hey, we haven’t had a woman and her dog outside a store on the corner for a while!

IIRC Ms.Storch also painted the woman reading in the cozy commuter train car the other day.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I dunno if I’ve ever seen one before that’s all on one sign.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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4 months ago

They’re not, they’re individual photos stacked.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
4 months ago

I thought I was replying to the 2nd one…

but I may have sleepily clicked in the wrong place.

Look again… that one is all of a piece.

….

Several times, when I was a kid, we traveled back and forth all the way across the US by car.

We probably saw hundreds of Burma Shave signs….
squabbling over who saw them first and had dibs to read them aloud.

Jumping in on your sibling to read the last line was a major crime!

Whichever image I posted it under, I’ve still never seen one that’s all on one sign.

….

I just realised that the top one, too, has probably been posed, whether the signs are old, or reproduced… unless you had them in England too.

They’d be on the driver’s side of the road, so the view wouldn’t be obliterated by oncoming traffic, and much farther apart… a few car lengths.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Yes, the “Wolf” one is one sign, the “He Tried” one isn’t. We didn’t have them in the UK, and we also have far less advertising hoardings (Billboards) than you seem to have in the US.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Remember “Quantum Leap”? Burma Shave was referred to in the pilot episode.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I remember once reading a book about BurmaShave signs. If I remember correctly, it was called “Verse by the Side of the Road.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

This one has a reproduced look about it.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

 

Here it is.

 
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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I only found one

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Yes.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Yeah, I think if there were several, they’d be as glaringly obvious as the first one.

bambushie
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

ok, found it, now what? LOL

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  bambushie
4 months ago

Revel in your mastery 😁

Alexikakos
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4 months ago

@ Everybody

Recemtly, nighthawks posted a few stills from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
I finally decided to read the book.
The characterizations are drastically changed in the movie as is the language (for the worse as far as I’m concerned).
Nurse Ratched is described as having gray hair, and;
“A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big womanly breasts on what would otherwise be a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it.”
McMurphy has red hair.
 

happyhappyhappy
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4 months ago

Do not talk to a quilter like that. I know. My Aunt was one.

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

There was a time when I sewed a lot, and knew every fabric store in town and every fabric department in other kinds of stores.

Any fabric store closing was sad.

Britex in San Francisco was (and I think still is!) the Queen of fabric stores… real silks and wools, gorgeous laces. I couldn’t afford anything but it was an adventure, looking.

I also bought fabric at garage sales, in thrift shops, flea markets… wherever it could be found.

I sewed for my shop, and hired people to help.

I had a room full of fabric, trims, buttons… thread, zippers, ribbons and rhinestones… and yarn to crochet. Plus feathers and flowers for hats.

I sold tons when I moved, but I probably have enough left for the rest of my life…
especially since I never use it.

But sometimes I miss those days.

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