If anything, that tells me a human painted those lines and gives merit to being a legit picture. Personally, I believe it's a real picture with cellphone post processing on a digital zoomed in shot. Seriously people, don't zoom... Just get closer if you can.

[–] THB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Those lines are generally painted with some sort of template, the short ends should at least line up in perspective, but some of them look like they would be parallelograms or trapezoids viewed from above rather than rectangular stripes.

Additionally, the two big white squares by his legs don't seem to make sense. Like an AI algo has seen big white shapes by legs near intersections, and added them there. But those should correspond to another crosswalk closer to camera and they are just floating there.

Then, the thin white stripe by his leg is implying a crosswalk that is lined like a pathway, i.e. two stripes in line with the sidewalk that you walk between. However the full crosswalk we see is lined like "steps" that you walk across like the Beatles album cover. In general you would expect a city to have these consistent at the same intersection.

Not making a judgement here, but those do strike me as odd and in line with mindless AI image creation

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