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Inhabited Beauty

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For photos of beautiful, still-inhabited locales! It can be a quick snapshot of your local town, a breathtaking pro photo of a city, or a pic of some fascinating piece of modern life.

The only real rule is that it must be an actively inhabited/used location (ie not ruins or natural locales). Otherwise, go wild. Anything that you find beautiful or interesting!

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[–] bassomitron 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get that everyone likes to witch hunt AI art as if it's the bane of humanity, but this is such an idiotic comment. You can literally Google the city.

[–] ownsauce 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bottom layer of the photo was altered, you can see something like a parked cae that repeats itself, middle of the OP image, the two bottom layers partially repeat.

[–] bassomitron 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Altered photo, sure. But this is a famously known city and suggesting it's just an AI image is ridiculous. You can literally take 1 minute to search this city name and see countless night time images similar to this one.

[–] ownsauce 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The city is real but the image is not reality.

[–] bassomitron 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My man, it is. It's only slightly altered. Like I said, there's dozens of images online that look the same. I imagine the glitch at the bottom is an attempt to avoid auto copyright detection bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Do you live in the castle or something? You seem kinda personally defensive about this.

[–] Scolding7300 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the original photo posted was heavily edited, hence the complaints. Not sure if you were looking at the newer edit or not (see other comments for context)

[–] bassomitron 2 points 1 month ago

It wasn't that heavily edited. Like I said in another comment, a quick Google image search shows tons of official photos that were shot with a similar style. It just looked like it had a long shutter exposure making the lights look a lot more vivid/bright than natural and the bottom had been altered in a way that seemed to try and avoid auto copyright detection. Anyway, people are welcome to believe what they want.