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by jtbayly 3 days ago
I don’t get it. It sounds like you are claiming the article image is not AI slop, but rather an old print. But then you link to something that isn’t even remotely like the article image.
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helsinkiandrew 3 days ago
It was common for paintings/etchings to be made based on existing paintings in the 19th century - I'm guessing the painting link I gave was probably close to an original or source.

There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s

https://www.alamy.com/an-old-engraving-showing-the-british-f...

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thunfischbrot 3 days ago
It looks like AI generated based on https://nmb.bm/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_011054-1536x10... for what it’s worth. Would have preferred to see the original though.

/e: this is likely not the illustration you were referring to I realize now.

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Luc 3 days ago
Yup, this is so much better!
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