Highway Named For Trump

[Goonch]

[riversedge]

1. I would not have been surprised if it did happen--but LOVE this one.

[Goonch]

5. For the record...

It was done by this human without the aid of AI. Your allegation is unfounded and your conclusion lacks civility and reeks of personal attack or flaming. The appearance of stalking and besmirching any member here is not a way to "Spread the love" brother.

[highplainsdem]

6. I deleted my post. It did look like typical AI mistakes. I didn't say you'd done it with AI, but I thought

it did look like typical AI, something I thought you'd found elsewhere, and I was pointing out where the illo didn't work as well as it could have.

Since that was your work, it would be simple to fix problems like the sign being misplaced, and having two last names and then a first name to identify the highway. If I thought it was AI because of details like those, other people might also think it's AI.

[Goonch]

7. Nothing to "fix"....

Image came from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-20/highway-to-hell-acdc-bon-scott-tribute-perth-festival/11617342 and the names are exactly as they need be for effect not road sign accuracy. I'm an artist and use "artistic license" on occasion to augment or modify an image to make a point - which you have apparently missed in your dogged pursuit of AI.

[highplainsdem]

8. Australian highway, I see. Not British as I'd guessed. But both countries drive on the left side.

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Your having a pic of a highway that obviously was NOT American was another reason I thought that was an AI mistake, as I'd mentioned in the reply I deleted.

And the sign you converted for your photoshop image was not a real road sign. It wasn't even a sign used for the upcoming festival, when that highway would be closed for the festival. ABC Australia's photo caption, in that Oct. 2019 article about the festival that would be on March 1, 2020, says:

Pic date unknown (Supplied: Perth Festival)

so they don't know where the pic came from. I'd guess that's a photoshopped pic to begin with. The pic in the article is the only pic showing that sign over that highway that I could find checking both Google Images and YouTube, and if there'd ever been a real Highway To Hell sign over Canning Highway, even for a short time, there would have been lots of different photos of it.

I would never have guessed you were just adding some names to what was apparently already a photoshopped image that didn't look anything at all like Aussie highway signs.

As you'll see in the thumbnail pic on the second video below.

The first video below is about the festival 4 months after the ABC article you linked to. The YouTuber is using the same apparently photoshopped picture the festival had given to ABC for their story in 2019.

I'm still puzzled by why you used Trump and Epstein's last name, but Maxwell's first name. That had seemed very much like an.AI error. Especially combined with the other oddities that seemed to be AI mistakes.

Anyway, this was why I'd thought it was an AI pic. I'm sorry I offended you. It just seemed to me like an AI pic you'd found somewhere. DUers often post AI pics they've found elsewhere, and I have pointed out problems and oddities with those AI pics.

[Goonch]

9. Missing the forrest for the trees

Having a sharp eye for details or tunnel vision can be a blessing or a curse depending on the content, the circumstances, the intent and the execution.
My intent was to visually draw attention to a two matters of interest simultaneously.
Your nearly obsessive focus on why I chose to use the first name -Ghislaine - an unusual eye-catching name, much more so than the
common Maxwell, sure caught your attention. See how that works?

BTW:
Resistance is Futile: The Inevitability of AI Art

https://briantubbs.medium.com/resistance-is-futile-the-inevitability-of-ai-art-f8068c741303

[highplainsdem]

10. Do you think anyone here wouldn't know who Maxwell is, especially with the name following Trump and Epstein?

I noticed what was odd about your image there because with so damn much AI slop around, that sort of thing does jump out at people, and it will make people familiar with AI errors think that image is likely AI.

And for that matter, if your intent was to draw attention to the Epstein scandal, you could have simply used his name and Trump's. I've never seen anyone refer to it as the Ghislaine scandal or the Epstein and Ghislaine scandal.

And no, resistance isn't futile. LOL! Did you know that Medium account you're recommending there belongs to a Christian fundamentalist pastor who uses AI to generate worship music for his YouTube channel?

https://youtube.com/c/pastorbriantubbs

Showing he's unethical as hell, since he likes AI tools trained on stolen intellectual property.

It isn't at all surprising that a fundie who's unethical would like to tell people, "Resistance is futile." Very authoritarian.

And not a message we usually see pushed on DU.

[Goonch]

11. I accept your apology.

[highplainsdem]

12. You didn't answer my question about that authoritarian fundie minister whose post on Medium you

wanted me to read.

I do have an account on Medium, but I don't log in there to read authoritarian messages from unethical fundie ministers who apparently love AI. I'd never heard of him before. Is he a favorite of yours?

[UTUSN]

3. Was going to say...

[Cha]

4. I'm glad I clicked on. TY