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sloot

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Judging by the transparent bark on the yellow one, I'd guess this is AI generated... which is disappointing because I wish it were real.

26 Nov 2024 at 13:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tiny.tilde.website
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Nini

@sloot @bruces No, just seems like the paint layer is somehow being split from the metal sign underneath with the growth so the paint is actually on the top of the bark.

26 Nov 2024 at 14:56 | Open on oldbytes.space
CohenTheBlue

@sloot @bruces oh, it is real. People nail all kinds of trash on living trees >:(

26 Nov 2024 at 16:17 | Open on ohai.social
Patch You Up

@sloot @bruces Reverse image search shows it was posted 5 years ago. Either it's real or someone took some time in photoshop. I'd argue the former, as there are similar examples of trees peeling paint off signs in this way.

26 Nov 2024 at 16:39 | Open on mastodon.social
dynamic_hubzilla
@sloot  @Bruce Sterling @bruces @Derek Caelin is writing a book

For what it's worth, the yellow image was evidently first posted in March 2020: #^https://tineye.com/search/5e53be9cf7b26759e9f9eec9fe43611f42de5f7b?sort=score&order=desc&page=1

That doesn't rule out AI or photoshopping, but I guess it's useful to know.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any of those TineEye links that was still live.

What I had initially guessed about that yellow sign was that bits of paint had been lifted by the bark and somehow stayed on the surface as the tree continued to grow, but I don't know enough about bark growth to know if that makes any kind of sense.
@sloot  @Bruce Sterling @bruces @Derek Caelin is writing a book

For what it's worth, the yellow image was evidently first posted in March 2020: #^https://tineye.com/search/5e53be9cf7b26759e9f9eec9fe43611f42de5f7b?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
26 Nov 2024 at 17:12 | Open on hub.netzgemeinde.eu
crazyeddie

@sloot @bruces This is so the era of bullshit. I know this sort of thing happens so did a search on it just to see and yeah--there's no real telling if any of these are real. Some clearly are not.

Sign that says, "NO BIKES ALLOWED ON TRAILS" being eaten by a camilion tree.
26 Nov 2024 at 17:40 | Open on mastodon.social
Cavyherd

@crazyeddie @sloot @bruces

Again, I suspect the bark tissue is inserting itself between the inflexible metal of the sign substrate and the more flexible (probably acrylic) layer of the paint.

27 Nov 2024 at 4:56 | Open on wandering.shop
crazyeddie

@cavyherd @sloot @bruces That's nice. Suspicions are fun things to have. Can never have enough, I always suspected.

27 Nov 2024 at 18:51 | Open on mastodon.social
pruwyben

@sloot @bruces I'm pretty sure they aren't AI - these images have been around for a while, before AI images were a thing - but I'm not sure if they're real or not.

26 Nov 2024 at 22:11 | Open on social.ridetrans.it
Cavyherd

@sloot @bruces

I'd actually suspect that the bark has grown in a thin layer inserting in between the substrate and the sign's paint. This actually seems entirely plausible to me, and is somewhat supported by the particular way the image is distorted by the expansion of the bark surface.

27 Nov 2024 at 4:55 | Open on wandering.shop
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