I just saw this as a portal in Ingress and like… really? This made it through?
Am I wrong to think this should have been rejected as a fake photo?
Interestingly enough, it actually exists, though private property.
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It looks fake and if it’s real. It would be SFPRP for sure.
Agreed. And already reported.
But, yeah, how was it approved? (I did it through the web form, so hopefully the nominator and reviewers will get a message about it.)
I was like… is that a LFL for Clifford the Big Red Dog ?
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Hard to say. We dont know if its falsely accepted by AI or by community. Sometimes community tend to approve anything as long its not fake. If that LFL appear in street view, its possible that enough reviewer voted yes for it to be approved. Anyway portal removal is there to correct such action.
I completely forgot about the existence of AI.
Well, it doesn’t come up on a Google Lens search. AI image generators could easily pull from search engines when creating a new image.
That doesn’t seem to be on the sturdiest of fences or whatever it’s on, which I think is why it seems fake. Usually there’s a post beneath or it’s mounted to a wall, which is what might be throwing some of us off.
The second image is from Bing Map’s Streetside, which is why it is so dark and blurry. I should have pointed that out in my OP, when explaining why it does exist.
Side note: I just don’t know what to think about the quality of Streetside imagery. Their older images were better. But even then, the quality is like GMap’s Street View from 15 years ago. I think they offload to a third-party rather than doing it in house like G. If anyone knows anyone, tell them to get their act together! But, on the other hand, they often have newer images than SV, such as in this case.