cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20533297
Not a bike lane, train, or bus lane in sight. This was the future of travel in the 1950s.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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I love the color consistency of this
!fuckcars@lemmy.world indeed
Dope photo tho
pls let me work from home
I can feel the shitty air in my throat
Needs more lanes
One more lane will fix it
Make it a double decker of highways. Scratch that, make it 5 levels of highways.
Look closer, it’s already a double decker.
Thanks.
I know it’s not, but it looks like the Gardner “expressway” in Downtown Toronto, pretty much any time of day.
Where is this? I'm a big fan of cityscapes, and even though being in this would depress the fuck out of me I do find it beautiful.
Still can't tell if it's AI but here's a very similar photo from Shanghai which does seem real https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/131659989093808148/
I thought if it was real it could be from the same photographer but no luck, however there are some really nice photos by her here if you like cityscapes.
Edit: found an earlier reference to this photo from 2019 which also claims to be in Shanghai but not where it actually is.
I couldn't find the answer but I'm gonna guess Tokyo. If anyone finds a source I'm interested to know as well.
Mm, Tokyo, are you sure? Nobody appears to be drifting.
Traffic is the wrong side of the road for Japan. There is some text at the ground level of a building in the bottom left that looks like Chinese-style characters, but I’m not sure.
I hate that I have to look closely at these to try to evaluate if it’s AI or not. I think it’s real but I can’t say with 100% confidence.
AI, check the identical blue windows on the high rise in front/lower left, continue with the other wacky windows there.
Nonetheless a fantastic cityscape.
Considering its in a Reddit post from 2019, I think this is regular ole Photoshop, not AI.
Those windows with the curtain drawn the exact same way and the on ramp looking like something out of Cities: Skylines look like AI, but everything else looks too logical to me. They even have the sign accurately laying out the nonsense traffic pattern of the road looping around and underneath the highway.
It's very well done and I hate that it takes this much effort to check whether or not a photo may or may not be fake.
Yup. There also weird double broken lane markings. Everyone’s headlights being blue as well.
I'm putting my money on AI if this is a US setting, too much spacing between cars.
Judging by the Subway sign in the lower left, I'm thinking this is somewhere in China. The locations I've seen in Tokyo only have the name in English.
Another working day has ended
Only the rush-hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings
Into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
This is in Asia somewhere? Trying to find recognizable logos on buildings and don't see any.
I'm fairly sure it's AI garbo. Some of the lower right lane markings are my first giveaway but identical window interiors galore, all the headlights look the same color/shape, and there's weird random lines across the road on the very bottom, mid left of the photo
Reckon that's evidence of Photoshop rather than AI, especially considering its at least 4-5 years old (2019).
I low-key love this. I usually put on the lane assist and cruise control and just kinda zone out and vibe to the music I've got on.
OTOH, that’s a really nice composure of people’s suffering. I feel conflicted.