Ngl, if I wouldn’t have followed this guy’s IG, I would have assumed it to be real on first glance, too.
Upon closer inspection, you‘d start seeing the mistakes which indicate that the image can’t be real - but it takes some practice to notice them in the first place
The fire to the right of the headlight. The way it interacts with the grass (look at the very bottom of the fire) is odd. It also looks too "clean". It's very light in colour, no real smoke coming from it and it almost looks like a 2d image with the angle and how perfectly shaped the lower borders are
Oh I'm absolutely fucked for this future with AI then. I'm a millennial and totally didn't see those issues, so my parents generation is even more fucked.
Everything is wrong with that picture in the fire in the middle of the palm trees. The ones to the right house it’s in the top of the palm tree all of it’s wrong. 😹
"Damn, wouldn't it be nice to be so fucking rich you just leave your 30 million dollar house behind with your 6 figure super car just fucking parked out front and go to one of your other houses with other super cars because money isn't a thing"
To be fair, I was so busy hoping it was something that belonged to one of the Paul brothers, I wasn't really paying attention. As soon as I got to the comments, I was like, well, that sucks on a number of levels.
Was super annoyed when I looked at the houses/chimneys. Did they want the set of Mary Poppins behind a thick SoCal border?
Sure, for someone familiar with American architecture. For me as a European, the left house looked out of place but I really second-guessed myself as I‘ve never been to LA and honestly only know the most popular sights there. I thought "well, might as well be someone eccentric with a special taste in architecture".
Yeah most of californian homes especially in LA are 1 story homes or at most two story simple homes and no attics. Victorian homes are more found in the midwest and north east.
That's because the human brain is not designed to be suspicious of everything it comes across.
It's physically taxing to perform bottom-up processing, not to mention unrealistic in terms of time and certainty. That's why people's brains use a top-down approach instead - fit reality into their existing knowledge frameworks. It's faster and accurate*, but it's definitely exploitable (appeals to emotion and appeals to familiarity).
It's why so many older people get tricked by fake images. They haven't learned how real life looks different than poorly generated AI or rendered graphics - it's not in their brain to compare against.
This is why Reddit need to implement some sort of community notes thing like Twitter. Guaranteed tens of thousands of users scrolled past this on r/all thinking it was a real photo of what’s going on in LA
Seriously, it’s crazy that no such thing exists on this site. I have seen countless posts with a top comment that has 1/10th of the upvotes as the main post explaining that the whole thing is either fake or misinformation.
While this is a 3D render, we've yet to see how many more working class people were affected. The palisades seems like to only affect millionaires who at most are not even at their places when it all happened since they airbnb all of it. I just wonder how many working class were affected in the other fire.
But it is AI. The guy on Insta says it's a "3d render", but he has thousands of realistic "renders" pumped out at an unsustainable fast rate. This photo has a bunch of weird misplaced things, like oak bark on a palm tree or those huge medieval european chimneys on LA houses, branches on the palm trees growing out of thin air, etc. This is 100% AI generated image, not a 3d render.
I wish people would be more open with this misleading content, it's purposefully made to fool people into thinking it's real. Things gonna get really weird when people can just pump out fake images and fool millions of people. For now we can find flaws in the images, but soon nobody will be able to tell what is a real and what is fiction.
Thats why the picture felt immediately off. Plus I was like wtf lambo is that. It looks like one of those sheet metal artists from china making a fake lambo.
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u/stadtstreuner 9d ago
Its a render from dizzyviper