Re: Disc's without power

On 5/12/2025 12:36 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 11 May 2025 23:51:19 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

https://moneyinc.com/50-worst-places-to-live-in-the-u-s/
9th worst place to live in America - Youngstown, OH. Maybe you forget Frank getting his armer on to ride through Youngstown?
Pictures like that don't really tell a story and it is entirely opinion.

 Congratulations.  You've been fooled by AI.
 1. Gary, Indiana was generated with AI.  Notice that there are no
readable letters or numbers on any of the buildings.
 2. Camden, New Jersey was also done with AI.  I don't see any house
numbers on any of the buildings or doors.  Someone must be taking care
of the road because there are no weeds in the road, while there are
far too many weeds near the houses.  I would also expect there to be
some graffiti on the walls, broken windows, and trash on the streets.
 3 and 4 are similar to 2.
 5. St. Louis, Missouri shows the first indications of graffiti.  Some
of the artwork is too high or badly located to be real.  St Louis is
spelled wrong (because the AI screwed up the text conversion).  The
green "lawn" area looks too real.  Unkempt lawn do not support a
monoculture but tend to support a diverse assortment of plants.  No
debris anywhere is rather suspicious.
 6. Again, the graffiti doesn't look real (no text or numbers).  It's
amazing how many photos of slums can be found without clutter, trees
or street signs.
 I'll skip forward to:
9. Youngstown, Ohio which looks very much like the other photos.  At
least there's one trash barrel in the photo.  However, I really doubt
that the city trash and recycling services provide garage collection.
Most garbage collection involves multiple barrels, by type of waste,
to make recycling possible.  Blue would be recycling.
 30. Bakersfield, California is an exception.  Facing the sun, one
cannot see any detail or colors.  Also, not trash and debris in the
street.  Same with
43. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
 41. Marion, Indiana shows a small sign in a window, that's completely
unreadable.  No other letters or numbers anywhere.
 ALL of the 50 photos show very similar sky, clouds, and green plants.
None of the buildings, objects, poles, etc show any sign of having a
shadow on the ground.  It's also amazing that almost all of the photos
have almost exactly the same color green plants, even though they are
located in 50 different cities.

I think Jeff's right. The notion of cars parked at the curb in Gary, IN but surrounded by forests of green weeds is pretty weird. So are the forests of weeds growing through pavement in other images.
The image purportedly from Youngstown has trash containers that don't match the company that does the collection (Waste Management). There's bright sunlight on one house, but no corresponding shadow from adjacent houses. The roofs of the houses are amazingly perfect, etc. etc.
As I said, the article contained not one bit of actual data. A young hack journalist hit on an idea and picked a near-random set of cities to slag. I do wonder how she got the fake images. I doubt a hack journalist would do them herself. Are there people one can hire cheaply to do such work?
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- Frank Krygowski