r/HistoryPorn • u/Andrzej1963 • 1d ago

Customers and Milkman with his Cargo bicycle in front of the milk and dairy shop (zuivelwinkel) owned by P.J. Willemse at Cremerstraat 95 in Haarlem. Source: Noord-Hollands Archief. The Netherlands - Haarlem, 1948 [2048x1512]

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u/ICrushTacos 23h ago

What in the AI is this crap? Lmao, gtfo here.

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u/isecore 23h ago

Yeah, this image has been "cleaned" by AI which has made it quite surreal when you look at it full-size.

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u/Andrzej1963 22h ago

This photo WAS NOT created by AI!!! Before you voice your opinion, do some research on the subject first !!! More information about the photo: Location: Cremerstraat 95, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Year: 1948 (photographed by C. Boer, from the collection of the Noord-Hollands Archief). Subject: A young milkman with a cigarette in his mouth, surrounded by local customers and children, dispensing dairy products from milk churns (melkbussen) on a delivery cargo bike. Background: The storefront displays signs for dairy products (zuivelproducten) and Douwe Egberts coffee and tea (koffie en thee)

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u/isecore 22h ago

I didn't say it was created by AI, I said that someone has run it through a clean-up, possibly an AI-powered cleanup, and that has distorted many details in the picture.

No need to get all bent out of shape over something I didn't say.

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u/Andrzej1963 22h ago

This photo WAS NOT created by AI!!! Before you voice your opinion, do some research on the subject first !!! More information about the photo: Location: Cremerstraat 95, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Year: 1948 (photographed by C. Boer, from the collection of the Noord-Hollands Archief). Subject: A young milkman with a cigarette in his mouth, surrounded by local customers and children, dispensing dairy products from milk churns (melkbussen) on a delivery cargo bike. Background: The storefront displays signs for dairy products (zuivelproducten) and Douwe Egberts coffee and tea (koffie en thee)

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u/chawchat 18h ago

Yes but it has very obviously been ran thru some rather horrible filter that stood out like a sore eye even on the thumbnail.

Here is the original: https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/beelden/beeldbank/detail/3E5FA85F6662C998E4E9C34E77C35D39/media/9e696e8b-f5e0-367b-4bee-abf376dcaa6d?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=cremerstraat%2095&rows=1&page=1

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u/ICrushTacos 21h ago

Look at it full size? Wtf is that quality? Been through some kind of horrible touch up. 

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u/DoubleAGay 22h ago

They didn’t say it was created by AI, they said it was “cleaned,” or as I would say “upscaled” by AI. Even if it is based on a real image, AI upscaling makes images look AI-esque. It’s pretty noticeable if you zoom in on any of the faces, the spokes of the wheels, that sign behind the bespectacled man’s head, or those signs above the girl on the far right’s head.

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u/chawchat 18h ago

This is the original from the archive imagebank. It clearly has been "improved" by ai or another filter, which to me in a sub like this is quite unforgivable. https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/beelden/beeldbank/detail/3E5FA85F6662C998E4E9C34E77C35D39/media/9e696e8b-f5e0-367b-4bee-abf376dcaa6d?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=cremerstraat%2095&rows=1&page=1

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u/Lenten1 10h ago

Could have done some basic color correction instead of this bullshit

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u/StruckLuck 7h ago

It's even a quite decent quality photograph, especially considering its age. Definitely not in need of any correction whatsoever.

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u/senna2312 19h ago

why stuff historical images through AI? it makes it look like shit

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u/i_am_my_brain 1d ago

Like a true milkman, he has a lot of kids.

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u/Laymanao 1d ago

As in “Father Ted”.