Lady Laura 
Art nouveau (House, Rue du Lac) Bruxelles
Andreas Schödl@cmconseils they don’t build them like this anymore. A shame.
Vogelgesang
David Mitchell 
@foyglgezang @schoedland @cmconseils
That’s what I came to say. I am very curious how an AI invention like this comes to be posted with a specific street in a specific city… how did it acquire that? who was deceitful? or was it some kind of top level ignorance? 🤷♂️
@DavidM_yeg @schoedland @cmconseils The building does exist in that street. It is assumed to have been built by Léon Delune around the turn of the century. Likely something too disturbingly real like parking cars was badly shopped out of the lower part of the photo.
@cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland
👍 But of course now I don’t know how much of the rest of the image can be trusted 😞
Erik Sandblom 🌻@foyglgezang @DavidM_yeg @schoedland @cmconseils Hi. I’m a bicycle advocate and an urbanist. Most streets in most cities would be much better with wider sidewalks, fewer cars and 30 km/h speed limits. Aesthetics would be only one of the many benefits.
@cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland
Huh… it does exist. But doesn’t look like that in my Google drive-by with 16 yr old images. The distortions in the OP still reek of AI though, perhaps someone tried to ‘improve’ on it?
GrandTheftUrkel@DavidM_yeg @cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland My guess is that there were cars parked in front, and someone used a "magic edit" tool on their phone to remove them. The rest of the image doesn't have anything wrong with it (at a glance).
effdeekaa@GrandTheftUrkel @DavidM_yeg @cmconseils @foyglgezang @schoedland I think you're right with the cars, but there's a slight difference of the flower in the right door window as welll. Might have been broken and repaired in the meantime though, but I doubt it, as it probably would have to be repaired exactly the way it was before. To me it looks over-shopped with AI-tools.
@GrandTheftUrkel @foyglgezang @effdeekaa @cmconseils @schoedland
Looking at in-door windows, they are both different… I suspect the intervening renovations may have included new glass. In the older photo, the door windows don’t match the others very well, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were already not-quite-true replacements, and that the renos included commissioning new ones based on the original design… ?
@DavidM_yeg @GrandTheftUrkel @foyglgezang @cmconseils @schoedland Yeah, I guess you're right, the replaced in-door windows seem to be legit, not AI.
@effdeekaa @DavidM_yeg @foyglgezang @cmconseils @schoedland I must say, I really resent that we can no longer simply enjoy images for what they are, thanks to AI 😔
You could've said the same about Photoshop 20 years ago, but deepfakes and generative AI are on another level of deceptive that I think the reactions we're seeing this thread are justified.
I'll also say, this is a really cool house, and I'm happy to have seen it, OP!
@effdeekaa @GrandTheftUrkel @schoedland @cmconseils @foyglgezang
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly on all counts… definitely a very cool house!