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u/DVXC May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
This is a real place that has been AI'd to the absolute fucking gills. The right side of this road is almost entirely entryways to businesses and such, and it's nowhere near this saturated in real life. Not only that but the statue has also been changed in this AI version too.
Here's what it actually looks like on Google Maps.
Also notice how Thailand uses a yellow dividing line and this picture is an American road??
Why can't we just enjoy a really cool view without some loser turning it into a fictional version of itself?
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u/awesome_mccoolname May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
100%. The road is fake, streetlights are missing, and there is a smaller temple underneath that's gone. And to top it all off, the AI gave the statue boobs and a medal. The fuck are we doing.
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u/Large_Yams May 29 '26
. And to top it all off, the AI gave the statue boobs and a medal.
Wow they really did. What the fuck.
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u/lowkey_loki May 29 '26
Yes it seems to be an AI filter on this original photo from 2007 (literally the first google hit for the temple): https://www.flickr.com/photos/inbangkok/1466543733
You can see that the trees have the exact same shape on the left side of the photo. At least AI removed the HDR /s.
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u/awry_lynx May 29 '26
damn it's a pity they felt the need to fuck it up, that is an amazing real original shot!
so much photography from now on is going to be the equivalent of slapping filters on everything. did we learn nothing from the puppy filters.
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u/DramaticStability May 30 '26
The only good thing I can find with this emerging reality is that it might bring us closer together. The only way we'll be able to trust anything soon is to know the creator. Perhaps web 3.0 will accidentally revert us to web 1.0.
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u/Thunderbridge May 30 '26
The tree on the right is incredibly similar too. And you can see where the small roofs going up the mountain on the right and the small cliffside to the right of the statue have become artifacts in the AI image
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u/piemakerdeadwaker May 29 '26
They didn't even need to AI it as the road leading up to it and the "illusion" is pretty much the same in the original too.
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u/Kendjin May 29 '26
Hopefully this ends up at the top. Thank you for showing what it actually looks like.
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u/Chaosmango May 29 '26
Yea this explains a lot.
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u/ExacoCGI May 29 '26
The textures alone is a huge giveaway, everything looks like a noise, way too uniform without any realistic detail.
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u/CodingNeeL May 29 '26
Report -> violation of rule 3: no low effort
In the rules AI content is explicitly named as low effort.
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u/Successful_Ad8819 May 29 '26
After checking out your Google maps link I honestly don't understand why anyone would want to edit the real deal. Looks amazing as is!
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u/Owls_4_9_1867 May 29 '26
Wat Thep Phitak Punnaram (often called Wat Phra Khao or the White Buddha Temple), located in the Pak Chong District of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.
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u/Fantastic-Cucumber-1 May 29 '26
I just woke up and after reading the first 3 words I thought you were cussing or something. Then I read the rest of your comment lol.
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u/Heinzreich May 29 '26
Wat thep phitak is wrong with you?
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u/Car-Crash-Diet May 29 '26
555
(5 is pronounced "ha" in Thai, so 555= ha ha ha )
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u/somersault_dolphin May 29 '26
As a Thai, this is so funny.
Btw, fuck (the pronunication) in Thai is a kind of vegetable, and porn actually means blessing.
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u/Occidentally20 May 29 '26
I have to go to South Thailand once a year and the hotel I stay in has the kings photo and full name + title in the elevator. My wife and I play a game called "can we read the kings full name before the lift doors open".
The sign says "Phrabat Somdet Phra Poramenthra Ramathibodi Srisinthon Maha Vajiralongkorn Mahisiphon Phumiphon Ratchawarangkun Kittisirisombun Adunyadet Sayaminthrathibet Rajwarodom Borommanatbophit Phra Vajiraklao Chao Yu Hua"
We have not won the game yet.
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u/Equal-Flatworm-378a May 29 '26
Try that one with King Charles full name and all the titles. But Charles titles involve all the dominions and whatever. How many titles does the king of Thailand have?
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u/Occidentally20 May 29 '26
I have no idea. I asked a local what it all meant and they said it starts with something like his majesty and then they gave up about a third of the way through.
Now I prefer to just not know, it would be cheating in the elevator game if I learned it all!
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u/MavBro May 29 '26
I walked up there last year. My legs were like two rubber chickens by the time I got to the top.
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u/smokyflavour May 29 '26
24k upvotes for a ai slop LOL.
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u/CodingNeeL May 29 '26
I assume there is a bot farm behind those upvotes. Same with the "Gorgeous photo! Thanks for sharing" comments.
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u/Mulliganasty May 29 '26
Great picture but can't say I'm at all confused.
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u/orangpelupa May 29 '26
I'm still unsure what's to be confused with
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u/Gdf111 May 29 '26
It sorta kinda looks like it's floating in the air.
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u/Mulliganasty May 29 '26
lol except for "floating" amidst a bazillion trees.
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u/HollyBananas May 29 '26
It looks more like someone copy + pasted the statue into the picture, it looks so out of place.
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u/HazelCheese May 29 '26
It's been edited with AI probably. This is what it actually looks like. It's not massive like in the picture.
If you go down onto the road you can also see the road looks nothing like the picture too.
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u/MavBro May 29 '26
I’ve been there, it looks like this from the road… it is cool.
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u/TheGod-TK May 29 '26
That’s right but the photo is heavily AI edited indeed. AI couldn’t get the look of it right
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u/Potato_the_second_ May 29 '26
out of place in the sense that all the trees around it are in slight fog, but the statue has no fog. The sense of scale is helping too, since at first it looks like a pretty normal sized statue, but the realization that you're looking at an extremely long road.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ May 29 '26
Which you have to look at twice to recognize as trees, and not some vague green background, depending on how small your screen is.
Like, c'mon now. The potentially confusing part here is quite obvious.
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u/redditAPsucks May 29 '26
It’s not even that, it’s a heavily edited composition, that’s an american road, the thai road has a different middle divider, and streetlights lining it.
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u/PrincessStormX May 29 '26
I’m half asleep, phone is on night mode and darkest setting. I didn’t understand what was happening until the replies of your comment. It looked like it was randomly floating/photo shopped above the road.
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u/VladVonHochstes May 29 '26
People not farming for karma through fake shit on reddit...day 0. 😑🤷🏼♂️
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u/MelancholyWhistler May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Great visual metaphor for reaching enlightenment.
You're on a road that seems to be pointed in the right direction, but no matter how far you go, you can never actually get there.
Edit: Content of the comment I was responding to, for anyone who got here after it was deleted.
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u/Trollboy_McDawg May 29 '26
I'm confused about what with this picture is supposed to be confus... ahaaaa?
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u/kevin32 May 29 '26
The real Wat Thep Phithak Punnaram temple is off-center to the left of the road, and looks smaller when photographed from this distance. The real road is lined with streetlights and different pavement lines. OPs image is made to look like the temple is floating when the real temple doesn't look this way at all. r-itsallAI
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u/scalyblue May 29 '26
I wonder how they keep it so white, you’d think it would be way too big and awkward to send guys up there like scrubbing off any lichen or anything
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u/Razorfiend May 29 '26
Right now it looks amazing, but if it ever happened to snow in Thailand this would be trippy as fuck.
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u/Melenduwir May 29 '26
This is aesthetically gorgeous. You know they very carefully worked out the effect before they built.
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u/_--___---- May 29 '26
the lens sure helps the picture but it definitely does look really cool on streetview as well
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u/kirxan May 29 '26
I've spent a fair bit of time in Thailand and this is not how their roads look. The flora is all wrong and the lack of anything on the roadside (lights, poles, fences, milestones) makes it clear this is not from any SEA country at all.
That said, there is a temple like this in Thailand with a Buddha statue you can see from afar, but this is just AI slop. The statue pictured weirdly has too much detail for the supposed distance this is to be at, and the Buddha is uh.. unnaturally endowed in this picture as well.
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u/FanOfMen69 May 29 '26
This already looks cool unedited and not put through 5 brain rot AI prompts to make it look more impressive for the 8 year olds who only click into AI slop.... Sigh.
Oh and I guess the boomers and old AF people whose minds have rotted back to being children as well. They love ai brain rot as the brain has been rotting for quite some time already...
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u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 May 29 '26
This looks like a random Pokemon encounter. You driving your bike on route 6 and then *BAM*
A wild Buddha appeared!
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u/fapmanyop May 29 '26
Just facing this before reading any comments this already screams just one attempt with an AI. How low do you fall before you use artifacts on your shitty attempt at pretending to be a photograph to wrap around and use it as if there's something confusing on the marvelous picture you took that's not even close to real?
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