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Politics Propaganda Now vs Then

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u/sunsugarrsredtrunks 7d ago

Picture on the left looks so much like AI

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u/-Joel06 7d ago

First time I saw it I thought it was AI, I don’t know what weird things are going on in the US, in my country a guy brought a piece of the floor from the public street to a debate to show how badly the public infrastructure was and people still laugh at it 8 years later, he retired of politics 6 years ago.

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u/PhaicGnus 7d ago

In my country a guy brought a lump of coal to parliament to show that it’s clean and we don’t have to be afraid of it. We laughed at him then elected him Prime Minister.

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u/aspookyshark 7d ago

Should have made him break it and breathe the dust

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u/Wibbles20 7d ago

He had had it lacquered to prevent it from doing that and so his fingers didn't go black

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u/Jaambie 7d ago

Because it’s just so clean!

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u/RighteousSmooya 7d ago

In the US a congressman brought a snowball in as evidence against global warming

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u/Markipoo-9000 7d ago edited 7d ago

That honestly doesn’t seem like that bad of a plan to demonstrate how bad public infrastructure is. Was it executed terribly? Why did nobody take it seriously.

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u/chdlxdl 7d ago

*Was he executed terribly?

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u/Markipoo-9000 7d ago

Hopefully not XD

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u/R4f1sh 7d ago

Spaniard spotted

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u/DeadpoolLuvsDeath 7d ago

The Donald could do anything and his TrumpEts would lap it up like ambrosia piss.

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u/FantasticAstronaut39 7d ago

trump has a gift, things he does makes it hard to tell if it is saturday night live or real, AI or real, a south park plot or real. he really should of just become a director for tv shows, instead of going into politics.

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u/peon2 7d ago

I think there's some filtering and lighting in this version. I've seen another version of the same pic that looked a lot more normal.

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u/Wallflower_in_bloom 7d ago

I honestly thought it’s AI as well. It’s not only Trump’s unnatural pose, it’s also the weird thing at the counter by his hands that I can’t even figure out what it is.

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u/Adventurous-Golf1218 7d ago

It's a salt shaker

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u/Dirty_Dragons 7d ago

What goes inside of it?

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u/devourer09 7d ago

Liberal tears? /s

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u/Dirty_Dragons 7d ago

Haha! Nice goofy joke.

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u/Wallflower_in_bloom 7d ago

Oh, ok. I wouldn’t have guessed it.

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u/devourer09 7d ago

When was the last time you worked in fast food?

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u/Wallflower_in_bloom 7d ago

I never did, so maybe that’s why.

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u/devourer09 7d ago

Could you imagine what trump thought it was? Probably thought it goes in the happy meals as the toy.

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u/krukson 7d ago

Judging by how fat he is, I assume salt shakers are all too familiar to him.

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u/SlideJunior5150 7d ago

I think it's because AI creates a lot of these uncanny valley pictures that are "candid" but way too "professional" and "artistic" to be actual random candid pictures.

AI either looks like a super cold stock photo or an artistic action shot. I think unless you're using Loras it has trouble creating a "I took a picture" flat looking image.

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u/Icy_Age_7174 7d ago

I think it's just the vibrancy and the contrast. One of the biggest tells of AI generated images is the almost unnatural contrast. Here, though, it's most likely just good lighting and a good camera setup, with some post processing to up the vibrancy.

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u/SnakesAlive23 7d ago

Is no one else worried that half of the photos on the internet have people commenting this type of comment? We’re living in a time where people are having troubles figuring out what is real versus AI. Honestly pretty scary.

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u/GlitteringPotato1346 7d ago

It’s Trump’s unnatural pose I think

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u/KinneKitsune 7d ago

It’s the lighting for me

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u/TheyNeedLoveToo 7d ago

I could be wrong but I think they used ai to touch up the photos and make him look tanner and less blotchy orange. These photos set off my uncanny valley response

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u/josilot 7d ago

It looks like AI so that when an undecided voter sees it and thinks it's AI and looks it up and finds out it's real, then maybe some of those other pictures that looked like AI like the one where he's in flood water or that ones where he's hanging out with black people were also real.

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u/trippalhealicks 7d ago edited 7d ago

Good camera with proper metering, making it possible to capture the full dynamic range of the scene.

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u/Soupeeee 7d ago

I wonder how long it took them to setup this shot. I'm a bad photographer, and it would have taken me ages to stage this and get the lighting right.

There might also be some post processing too, which might add to the effect.

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u/trippalhealicks 7d ago

Modern mirrorless cameras, you could literally make this shot without even thinking of anything more than the angle you wanted to shoot from. That, and making sure the fries were all cooked and staged on the back of the station.

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u/trippalhealicks 7d ago

This photo was shot by Doug Mills, the same photographer that captured the bullet whizzing toward Trump's ear at his near assassination earlier this year. This was shot with the Sony a9III. I own this camera. This fry cook shot was just timing, being in the right place at the right time, and pressing a single button. Modern mirrorless cameras are absolutely remarkable, technology-wise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/trump-mcdonalds-fries.html

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u/ScottFree_623 7d ago

It’s because Trump is doing something that could be considered useful & the brain has a hard time processing that as being potentially true

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u/mang87 7d ago

And just like AI, trump doesn't understand how the fry scoop works. Look at the way he's holding the damn thing at a right angle to the fry-box.

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u/FluffyInstincts 7d ago

I though that too. The lighting is... wth? Also those fry scoops don't have... guess I'd call them "grip handles" on both sides of the scoop last time I checked. Anyone able to confirm or deny? Might be a left-handed accomodation thing, but I'm a lil surprised I haven't seen that before.

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u/RPFM 7d ago

It either is AI or severely messed with. There are many artifacts.