Denver & Salt Lake Survivor

[Pacific Limited]

Not AI by Erik C Lindgren Fine Art, on Flickr

Taken on location at East Portal

[Pacific Limited]

Behind the scenes by Erik C Lindgren Fine Art, on Flickr

[up148]

The B/W photos looks absolutely real. The big giant troll in the color photos lessens that affect.

[Pacific Limited]

Gemini from Google AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) assistant launched last week is putting me out of it! No need for models just AGI it!

Garbage from Gemini AI by Erik C Lindgren Fine Art, on Flickr

[sleepmac]

Erik, I laughed like crazy with that GG 1 photo! Reminds me of in the 70's, Mantua put out a Tyco GG 1 shell on top of 2 6-wheel trucks. Now, that was bizarre. Lo and behold, there are some on the bay right now. VBG

Dan Weinhold

[up148]

Damn, that is scary. It is amazing looking, but scary.

[E7]

I don't think we're in Pennsylvania anymore! The catenary must be back there!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Covered hopper is really carrying a huge bank of batteries,

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Covered hopper is really carrying a huge bank of batteries,

Thats hilarious! Exactly

[webenda]

The point Erik made, "This may be an original beautiful Mike Danneman shot of a UP/DRGW coal train he took in 2004 on film. Hours in a car, long hike, climb, work, effort, and any other scenario, honest hard work we all do to source our images; just to be hacked by some damn algorithm, spit out with some colorized 1950’s GG1, that a photographer was also taken advantage of as well by this stupid *** technology."

Erik, I don't think Gemini or other AI program stole Dannerman's image; it was a person, a person who intended to make a joke out of an artist's work.
Despite copyright laws, it seems that if you post a photo online, you have just given it away.

To make the problem worse, there are so many watermark removers available that Gemini gave up counting them when I asked.
One Example: https://notegpt.io/ai-watermark-remover

Did you notice the response you got on this subject? Ha, ha!

Parallel problem, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns make it easier.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Despite copyright laws, it seems that if you post a photo online, you have just given it away.

The vast majority have no knowledge or understanding of copyright.

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The vast majority have no knowledge or understanding of most things in life....especially those that are most import. Everyone aspires to be a movie star, rock star, sports figure or celebrity..............not intelligent or have common sense. The new belief seems to be "it's more important how you look than how you behave".

[webenda]

Here is the original photo by J. W. Stanfield taken with a Nikon D750 on 2025:05:21 at 18:36:56.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jwstanfie ... 0311616557
Location: "Oil empties for Wellington, UT, hustle through the curves at Thompson."
Mr. Stanfield says, "There's not too many photos of mine where I can say I got the entirety of a road train into a shot."

[webenda]

Location of the camera where the image under discussion was taken.

Copyright Google 2025
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Front ... FQAw%3D%3D
Image used under fair use as codified in Section 107 of the Copyright Act.

[webenda]

Would you believe JW Stanfield (the artist who owns the original copyrighted photo) is the one who used Gemini AI to put the GG1 in his own photo?