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"Neither snow nor rain" - US mailman delivering Christmas packages, Chicago, 1929 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't tell what's AI or real anymore. I'm only 33. Obviously the poorly done or sloppy pictures I can tell. But sometimes.....I just don't know anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm no photo-ologist, but this one is probably especially challenging because a 96 year old photo naturally is lower quality, which could hide imperfections more easily.

I'm also no AI-ologist - I often miss even the obvious ones - but it didn't occur to me that this might be fake until I read your comment. It does seem that the postman is unusually happy.

edit: Add two missing letters that completely reversed my point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It could be AI colorized which is what I am hoping I cought on to lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That does seem pretty feasible. In fact, the first thing I did before responding was check when color photography became popular; at a glance there wasn't an answer about commonality in the wiki page, but color photos were apparently invented most of a century beforehand, so really I'm not sure either way.

I hope this entirely unproductive comment helps. For the time being, I'm just going to assume it's real and that this guy took pride in his trade.

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

I take pride in what I do, so I can see some people relate job=pride. But yea I'm in the same boat as you.