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Posted: 24 Mar 2026

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Even better than the real thing !

Even better than the real thing !
I am learning about AI generated images

I asked Google Gemini AI to create an image

Before the Skye Bridge was built. The morning, the sun behind the camera a view at Kyle of Lochalsh from the ferry terminal with a Ferry waiting below and the Lochalsh Hotel on the right. In the distance the skyline of the Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye.

Picture in Picture is my real photo dated 1980.

It was just an exercise and as there is currently a discussion about the use of AI on Ipernity
in the Group:
www.ipernity.com/group/2835776

Annemarie, Bergfex have particularly liked this photo

7 comments - The latest ones
 Boarischa Krautmo
Boarischa Krautmo club
a bit different ;-)
4 months ago.
 Bergfex
Bergfex club
Eine andere Brennweite, aber ansonsten sehr repektabel!
4 months ago.
Colin Ashcroft club has replied to Bergfex club
Not really. It is more like a collage but I certainly like this result.
My other attempts at image creation with different subjects are abandoned as the results are of no interest.
4 months ago. Edited 4 months ago.
 Guido Werner
Guido Werner club
Now let’s use this image to discuss whether there should be a requirement to label AI-generated images. In this case it is clear from the description that the image was created by AI. But what if Colin had posted this image without the description and the title said that the image shows the ferry terminal next to the Lochalsh Hotel?

In my view such a use of AI would be misleading as this image might be very similar to the real situation at this place at a certain time in the past. However, it still does not qualify as a documentation of a real scene as there are also significant differences to the historic reality at this place.

Therefore in my view it is perfectly o.k. to post such an image on ipernity, but it should be clearly labeld as AI-generated in order to prevent the misperception that the image is a documentation of the reality.
4 months ago. Edited 4 months ago.
 Colin Ashcroft
Colin Ashcroft club
I think I agree. I don’t feel I would be able to post this without explaining it is not a real record of the scene. It says a lot about me, almost all of my photos are about something real a bird, a landscape or some kind of reportage rather than a more creative art.
I am sure others will have something to say.
4 months ago.
 Richard And Jo Demeester
Richard And Jo Demee… club
Yes, because even small changes will influence the future representation, and not just to humans.

AI created the image by scraping the internet through millions and millions of labelled real images - what is to stop AI now believing its own image is a legitimate representation of the facts, and thus in future iterations perpetuating its own inaccuracies.

This is NOT an Ipernity question - it is a general issue for AI and the future. As we fill the internet with images / music / songs / articles that are AI generated, that will influence future AI iterations, will we as humans lose control of recording what was true and real...
3 months ago. Edited 3 months ago.
Colin Ashcroft club has replied to Richard And Jo Demee… club
Yes and as has often been the case with too many internet based technologies all these AI systems launched and released without any thought of the possible, no likely illegal uses let alone just the basic confusion and mis-information they are creating. We need to protect what is real so I off to take more Landscape photos. Also looking forward to seeing the results from the 2 rolls of film I have just used but I wonder if the processing lab use AI !!!
3 months ago.

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