Edit: fuck off with that ai slop!
(Looking at the hands)
Edit 2: I admit it when i am wrong and thanks for all who showed me that i thought it was ai slop!
so: fuck off with those aggressive upscalers which made thinks look even more shitty!
Very much real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMaBVfIedFw
Skip to 9:41 for the relevant section
Looks more like some aggressive upscaling than an AI generated image.
This is from a series of photos by Joseph Byron Clayton. It went viral back in 2014, here is an article from back then.
I checked it in an AI checker says it’s real
Don’t trust them blindly, I tested one by submitting a very obviously generated image and it came back as 99% probability of being real.
Yep I tend to try a few. Any other tips?
A reverse image search helps since anything predating decent image generation is in the clear.
Ooooh good tip thanks
Nice Vsauce video related to this picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMaBVfIedFw
Cant imagine doing that in the time of 45 min exposures.
Can’t tell if you’re joking, but the time of 45min exposures was definitely over in 1920. ; ) Panchromatic plates (which were also much more sensitive) were invented in 1906, and the Leica small frame camera was invented in 1917, so there must have been some selfie-ready film (or glass plates) available.



