Only took maybe 2-3 min…not bad.
No catenary wire and track disappears.
Would be trolley wire, not catenary. And even if this were some end-of-track station, the Cyrillic lettering in the station name gives it away. (And it’s not a ‘reiway’, either.) For extra points see if you can count fingers on the passen-jares… one of them should know it’s impolite to point and the one behind appears to have lost his left hand completely – that’s not where his coat pocket would be.
Regardless of the flaws that image is so good it’s scary!
Maybe the flaws are a GOOD thing?
By the way, there’s some AI military history videos on YouTube where the flaws are so bad (i.e. uniforms, small arms, vehicles, airplanes, and so on) they’re downright painful to watch, I turn them off after about ten seconds. Compared to those this AI interurban shot’s pretty darn good!
Any of you can upload the photo to Gemini (version 3.0) and ask to make the changes and it should make the changes for you. Also, this was generated from scratch so it only had what it could find on the internet search to create the photo. If I loaded other photos of interurbans and depots prior, it would have filled in more of the gaps I would guess but I can try that later when I get more time. You should be able to specify colors, lettering style, putting the lettering on the strip above the windows, etc.
I wonder how this would work with a 3D printer. Imagine a 3D AI generated drawing of an interurban car and then printed off via 3D printer. Eventually someone will link those two technologies together…which could impact HO Scale model sales at some point in the future.
I’ve tried such a thing before. It worked abysmally.
I’m sorry to say this, but “AI” is not terribly effective at creating images. Is this a decent image? More or less. Is it acceptable? No, if you ask me.
I have had decent luck messing around with Grok, not perfect but not bad.
Still trying to come to grips with my own intelligence, let alone play around with AI
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Yeah, me too! You know, when I get the impression (More and more often!) the world’s rushing past me into a future I can’t see and ignoring me in the process I just step out of the way.
It’s been a slow adoption of AI. The media is engaged in AI hysteria I suspect based on my observation. The technology is changing faster than adoption of it. We are on version 3 of Gemini and majority of the workforce has not even used ChatGPT version 1 yet.
On the rail and transit impacts: I am curious really how much impact these large data centers are going to have with employment and shifting transit patterns (rail passenger usage / airport usage). Good test case is Monroe, LA as it is relatively isolated and is small townish. I don’t think a data center translates into a lot of permanent new jobs nor do I believe the stories that they will tax the electrical grids. I suspect instead they use the surplus power during non-peak periods. Reason I conclude that is a lot of the firms constructing new AI Data Centers are former Crypto-Mining firms and their approach was to use non-peak power vs peak power. So perhaps more coal trains to power plants as I would suspect that increases the volume of coal to keep plants running during non-peak periods. In the back of my mind I would think running a power plant closer to 100% 24 by 7 is more efficient than peaks and valleys of peak usage and non-peak usage but time will tell.
Also, I would be curious to know if one could swap out the graphics engine of some of these AI prompt programs. I see in Gemini 3.0 it tells you what the graphics engine is as it draws the picture. Curious as to why it would do that? Can it be swapped out for another?
WOW! I lived up the line from there for about thirty years. I’ve seen few pictures of the Buena Vista stop and the Nagawicka overpass washouts. And Waukesha Beach.
I suspect those pictures are in the Waukesha Freeman Collection and available to the public. Do you still live in Wisconsin?
Easy to follow the right of way to Watertown even after all these years. Though the years ago subdivision of Pabst Farms erased parts of the right of way into Oconomowoc.
Nice fake photos if one doesn’t look carefully. You think media hysteria but many think the power consumption is high leading to higher prices we all pay. Since you are in IT, perhaps not objective?
In a world where so many photos exist, I don’t know why anyone would make ai slop.
Single trolley pole on double trucked car, weird combination of clerestory and monitor roof, headlight looks like something that belongs on a Birney, condition of car way too pristine considering what age it would be based on the automobile behind it.
Like a lot of AI created images, kind of spiffy at first glance, but then seeing all of the details that aren’t quite right.
It depends on the photo. Some photos exist but do not reproduce well or are not reproduced well. Also, testing the AI itself.
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Posting fake and highly inaccurate photos should be banned on this site.
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It was disclosed as to what it was, so I don’t see the issue.
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By definition it is not a photograph. Are opinions objective or subjective?
Geez that is two academic points in one post. 
One other point. “Many people think”…I can apply that in the converse as well or I can state: “My garage mechanic told me…”. It is not really a point that proves anything, nor is it evidence.
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