> Those are fake, AI generated photos.
Proof? I've seen some of these photos 20 years ago. How long has ai been producing photos?
You speak out about so much of this stuff yet provide no plausible proof of why. You are a very close minded.
Depth of field, and other anachronistic behaviour of the film and lenses in the images the AI is mimicking modern photographic imagery and the technology back then couldn't take such perfect photos nor would they be taken in a modern artistic visual style. The dead giveaway though is the lack of lense aberrations only very modern cameras lack lense aberrations that are easily discernable and they often rely on AI and software to fix such issues, thus the 3 iphone cameras. In short they look like they were shot by a travel blogger on her iphone and then had a sepia filter applied because that is the bulk of the data the AI would train on for similar images.
It is so obviously fake I'm ashamed anyone here took it seriously.
I'll need to find an old copy of a book I have. I can post photos from it showing very similar photos if I can find it among my collection.
Look for film splotches and aberrations of refraction around the edges of the frame, circular lenses converting to square image leaves signs on film when the lenses aren't perfect. The next issue is light values and that isn't something im trying to write a dissertation on.
Some new photos were found from Lt. Bowers's Antarctic expedition in 1912. These photos are not those photos.
People are saying these photos were generated by AI for a 2020's sci-fi book.
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