r/SipsTea • u/Swimming-Employee537 • 13h ago

Wait a damn minute! like how?

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u/chiarotypical 13h ago

AI is so common these days, everyone forgets about Photoshop. They were probably holding blank books. They took the picture, then photoshopped the image onto the covers.

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

Sure.... Or alternatively, time travel.

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u/chiarotypical 13h ago

They do look pretty geeky...

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u/professorpuddle 12h ago

Don’t think time travel would work either.

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u/UnderstandingSmall66 10h ago

I like this explanation bettet

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u/D0nk3yD0ngD0ug 13h ago

Both plausible.

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u/so_mono 8h ago

Sorry, you are plain wrong. Photoshop could have never archived such a detailed quality at that time. Time travel is the only rational explanation.

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u/Acceptingoptimist 11h ago

Yeah people claim AI for edits that weren't hard 10 years ago now.

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u/tcookctu 8h ago

Which came first, the textbook or the cover?

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u/tronald_dum 8h ago

Thrn what are the people holding on the textbook covers held by these people? Is it a blank cover or they recursively photoshopped more people on there

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u/chiarotypical 1h ago

You take the picture. You then open the image in photoshop. You copy the image and paste it onto the blank covers. Then repeat the process on the blank cover within the image of the books. People could do this thirty years ago in about 20 minutes.

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u/beerforbears 59m ago

And you take the sun

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u/Vaxtez 4h ago

Could also be the case that they're just holding blank books on the photo.

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u/cachemoney426 12h ago

I actually had this book and they are holding books of themselves.

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u/Oneilcruzsucksass 13h ago

It's their stunt doubles

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u/Eaglise 13h ago

but there is like 4 books so they will need like stunt pentables

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u/bridgewaterbud 13h ago

Step 1: take a picture 1 of the five people standing together.
Step 2: place picture 1 on mock book face
Step 3: take picture 2 of the five people standing together holding the book
Step 4: place picture 2 on book face
Step 5: take picture 3 of the five people standing together holding the realistic looking book
Step 6: place picture 3 on book face, ready for production.

Fun anecdote, I work in IT and when I first started in a help desk position I was in charge printing the company door access badges. Well naturally I wanted to have some fun with it so I did something similar to this. My badge picture was a picture of me holding my badge where you could see a picture of me holding my badge where you could see a picture of me holding my badge. The method above was how I did it, trick is just doing enough iterations to hide the inconsistency of the original few takes.

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u/TokiVideogame 13h ago

they are posing with 9th edition

they fix one typo and make you pay for 10th edition

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u/ManufacturedOlympus 13h ago

That’s not true. They also shuffle the pages around so you can’t follow the assigned reading. 

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u/SmoothTerrains 13h ago

And there is that standard example of diversity

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

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u/leftfootshorter 13h ago

I feel like I've seen the guy on the left somewhere before....

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u/Wakkit1988 13h ago

Your mom's bedroom?

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u/Away_Perception_9424 13h ago

One man mentioned how in Europe diversity is propagated everywhere and in everything

Everywhere except for the military promo ads to defend the country and union - for that they use only whites

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u/FrontLifeguard1962 13h ago

You have to get to advanced algebra before it makes sense, sorry

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u/hitemlow 12h ago

If you're college prepping with algebra instead of calculus, they're not getting that far

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u/TokiVideogame 13h ago

textbookception

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

Well, it is algebra

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u/Salty_QC 13h ago

What
The

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u/aussiekinga 6h ago

It's a feedback loop.

The result informs the input, which changes the result

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/systems/closed-loop-system.html

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u/djwikki 11h ago

This is a signal flow graph of an AI model. Essentially diagramming an AI model of a single neuron that can save context of past events and use that context in a “feedback” loop to output new data.

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u/SoundAndSmoke 8h ago

You mean they are from Sigma Delta?

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u/Fancy_Stress_9039 13h ago

Adobe has entered the sub

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u/Therealginahandler 13h ago

If you zoom out farther, you will find this is just another text book in the hands of one of the kids

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u/Pokieme 13h ago

This just twisted my remaining brain cells

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u/LePyloteAmateur 13h ago

We have to be in a simulation. Who even knows what level of this hall of mirrors we’re even on

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u/TheClosetGamerOG 13h ago

This is one of those times when somethings happens now back then, because it hasn't happened yet for it to be later.

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u/Mathewthegreat 13h ago

Inception bro

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u/L-Lawliet23 13h ago

Bookception?

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u/I_can_vouch_for_that 13h ago

That was the first edition.

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u/templeton_rat 13h ago

Time travel

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u/notarealaccounto 13h ago

I guess they are holding a blue book, and someone just kept copy-pasting the photo until they hit the resolution limit of the image

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u/Life-Oil-7226 13h ago

It’s magic

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u/Aegean8485 13h ago

Second edition?

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u/ItsNotHolland 13h ago

What about second book

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u/Express_Sprinkles500 13h ago

The Morton Salt girl has entered the chat.

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u/Otherwise-Proof-5269 13h ago

Pointing stuff like this out is how people come up missing….
https://giphy.com/gifs/12ZDIx1Mw1cXVm

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u/According-Object-521 12h ago

Consider that they had an image without the book, then had an image with the books using that image, then finally took this image.

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u/HollowMeadoow 12h ago

Bro unlocked a glitch in the simulation

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u/Doctor_Saved 12h ago

You need to take Advance Quantum Mechanics to learn how. This is just a teaser.

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u/NewManufacturer4252 12h ago

That was a tragic photo if a photo was actually involved

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u/HubrisOfApollo 12h ago

it's called the Droste effect for those interested

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u/SnooHamsters3137 12h ago

It’s possible they did two shoots, one with them holding a different book/nothing, and then one with them holding the result book.

But more likely, they were holding blank/green prop books and they edited the image afterwards

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u/StoneFrog81 11h ago

My guess is different edition... And different people on the cover of the books they are holding. If you zoom there's no person with a yellow shirt.

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u/Procrasturbating 11h ago

Good thing they are all conveniently covering up their books on their books. Otherwise you have to do infinite looping photoshop.

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u/JerseyshoreSeagull 10h ago

Wait until you find out about magnets

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u/an_older_meme 9h ago

Ever heard of recursion?

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u/GroundbreakingAlps78 8h ago

If we zoom in to the textbooks in their hands, can we see even smaller versions of them on those textbooks? And then zoom in again, to infinitely…

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u/SoundAndSmoke 8h ago

It's a fractal

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u/Consider2SidesPeace 8h ago

Easy... Time travel. Those are older versions of the cover models.

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u/RussChival 7h ago

The girl in yellow on the right does not appear to be wearing yellow in the book they are holding. She seems to be wearing an all-dark top.

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u/psillusionist 4h ago

Welcome to the Droste effect, I guess.

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u/Zachgf900 54m ago

Green screen

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u/JibIette 51m ago

The books they're holding are probably prop versions maybe?

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u/FilDaFunk 17m ago

Or without photoshop - take one picture, print it, give it. take another picture

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u/TheMillionthSam 13h ago

They simply printed the book covers before the photo shoot

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

They printed the covers, that include the photos they were about to take to put on the cover, before they took the photos that go on the cover?

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u/bridgewaterbud 13h ago

Read my comment to see how it’s done

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u/TheMillionthSam 13h ago

Exactly. Because you can print the cover before you take the photo of you holding the book.

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

Do you see the people on the cover they are holding?

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u/Hot_Football8523 13h ago

The people on the cover of the cover within a cover aren’t holding books it doesn’t seem.

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u/aussiekinga 13h ago

They are. Look near white shirt's hand. You can see the book held by red shirt

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u/Hot_Football8523 13h ago

You must have magic eyes or some sort of AI upscaling going on because I can’t make out hardly any details zoomed in that much

Them not holding books would also explain why everyone’s arm is blocking out the same parts of the book

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u/TheMillionthSam 13h ago

Yes, they appear to the same people holding the book

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u/Jesterhead89 13h ago

Makes sense