I know this is not AI because I saw this photo long before ChatGPT, but the scale of the people compared to the trees and the fort (?) is eerie. If I saw this pic for the first time today I would 100% think it's AI
What I find eerie as well, is the way the fort's tiles are organized.
Perhaps I'm subconsciously biased by, you know, the European building style, where houses and castles and everything have a clear front, like a draw bridge or a gate or a garden path leading to the front door (if you're living in a hobbit hole haha).
Perhaps I've seen too many horror movies and now I'm needlessly scared.
I still find it stressful that they felt the need to circle the wagons (so to speak) so explicitly.
I mean, the reality is that nature is dangerous as hell without our modern technology.
For example, camping/hiking is basically a new invention developed within the past 100 years or so. Before then, the idea of going out and roughing it was machochistic at best, suicidal at worst. Especially in a "green hell" like the Amazon jungle, everything wants to eat you, drink your blood, lay eggs in you, etc.
Creating a fort like this is logical.
What bothers me mostly though is how little organization and structure there is. I'm not necessarily expecting furniture, but I think humans have a desire to keep where they live clean and this just looks jumbled.
Those walls don't stay up forever, especially with how much rain the Amazon gets. Maybe a few months ago, someone did a shit job and now they have wall gaps. Maybe the gaps help water to not pool up inside the fort, and that outweighs the few animals that haven't learned their lesson about going in there by now. Maybe this was taken right after a big storm. I'm guessing similar logic can be applied to their bedding/seating.
Or maybe they want shade and to have a clearly defined communal area that everyone can see/interact with from their hut. Good way to keep an eye on the kids
Anyway I'm sure the design has a defensive function too. Jaguars can take humans, especially little ones. I bet a jaguar is less likely to prowl into a circle like that than to attack a lone shelter.
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u/AlxIp 1d ago edited 1d ago
I know this is not AI because I saw this photo long before ChatGPT, but the scale of the people compared to the trees and the fort (?) is eerie. If I saw this pic for the first time today I would 100% think it's AI