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There have never been as many fake images online as there are currently. Experts warn people that "AI slop" is only going to become a bigger problem in the coming years. Yet, sources suggest that there are already more than 15 billion AI-generated images online.
It's not surprising, then, that people online are starting to doubt the authenticity of images. It can make picking your next travel destination a bit tricky. This summer, an elderly couple were scammed with an AI-generated video of the non-existent cable car ride in Malaysia, Kuak Skyride.
But some destinations may look or sound too good to be true, yet are 100% real. In one thread online, folks have been sharing the most beautiful places in their homelands that people often mistake for AI slop. When one netizen asked, "What place in your country could be mistaken for having been created by AI, even though it really exists?" locals had many answers.
From the Giant's Causeway in Ireland to the perfectly shaped city of Neuf-Brisach in France, see which places around the world might be so beautiful that some folks mistake them for a scam.
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#1
Fingal's Cave in the island of Staffa, off the Scottish coast.
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#2
Elevated lake on Faroe Islands
Trashy Panda 1 day ago
It's already leaking but you can't see it in this pic
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#3
Meteora, Greece.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
I mean I’d adore that but there’s no garden , 🤷♀️so my dogs which must come either me could run in n I could garden in , but the isolation sof it suits me just fine looks awesome don’t it
#4
Rakotzbrücke.
Day Andie 3 days ago
Good engineers are everywhere. There are ring bridges in many countries.
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Lençóis maranhenses.
#6
My parents are adamant that photos of the Giant’s Causeway are either AI or that it’s man-made.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
Giants cause way is 100% real and freaking stunning anyone as says it’s A.I , needs to give their heads a wobble amazing place totally x
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
There are similar formations in lots of places. Basalt is the most common type of rock in the Earth's crust, and when magma cools slowly enough it forms roughly hexagonal columns.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 3 days ago
OR, it's made of basalt columns that rapidly cooled when hitting the ocean, from an ancient lava flow. The rapid cooling causes the basalt to rapidly contract, forming stress fractures into hexagonal patterns, as this is the most likely manner for a viscous fluid to tesselate without forming gaps. Particularly if that fluid is contracting from the outside in.
#7
Scottish heather.
Spittnimage 3 days ago
Deep breath thru the nose everybody to get a big whiff of that lovely scent.
Sarah Bailey 3 days ago
This would be stunning to look at every day living in that fairytale of a house right there in this photo!!!
Boris Long-Johnson 3 days ago (edited)
Not the highlands - central belt, as CeeCee says it’s in the pentlands. Loganlea reservoir specifically.
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Crooked forest near Gryfino.
BeesEelsAndPups 3 days ago
Just to add, nobody is entirely sure why the trees are bent like this. The two prevailing theories is that they were molded this way on purpose by humans to make naturally occurring curved wood for use in building. Or, and I think the more likely cause, was a severe blizzard in the 1930s bent the saplings and they slowly grew out from under the piled snow.
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Newgrange. Older than the pyramids.
Cuppa tea? 2 days ago
On winter solstice during sunrise the light enters the narrow passage and lights up a small chamber at end of it. Given there is sun visible, most of the time is just cloudy morning.
#10
Petra, Jordan.
Panda Kicki 3 days ago
Hooray! For once it isnt the Treasury on the pic. Think this is the Monastery. All are just facades, but impressive ones.
Janissary35680 3 days ago
I had a chance to go there in 1968 while in Beirut before Lebanon descended into chaos and didn't take it. It's one of the few missed opportunities in my life that I truly regret.
#11
Pravčická brána (Czech Republic)
It's really beautiful there, unfortunately huge part of the national park is missing trees, since few years ago, there was a huge forest fire. (And then last year and I think this year again).
Český Ráj (czech paradise) is another beautiful place, full of sandstone formations, place worth to visit.
#12
Starfield Library in Suwon.
Detroit Citizen 3 days ago
OMG that is, idk, beautiful, awe inspiring. Tbh im not as an avid reader as i once was, but if they had more libraries like this, i know id find something interesting to read till the end of days
#13
The Tunnel of Love railway in Kleman. It looks unreal in all the greens but it’s even more magical in autumn when leaves start to turn.
#14
Ronda, Málaga.
Ace 3 days ago
There's a little restaurant perched just to the right of the bridge in the picture, which was the first place I ever ate Gazpacho. It's actually even more spectacular than it looks, with not one, but two older bridges much lower down almost underneath this one, one dating from Roman times.
#15
I really didn't believe this spot by Mont St Michel was real. But I found the spot, and the twisty river formation does exist, but it was dried out and supposedly rarely seen as above with the river beds filled in.
BeesEelsAndPups 3 days ago
Supposedly built by St Aubert following a vision given to him by Archangel Michael, in the 8th Century CE. The Abbey on top was actually started in the 10th Century, but built over centuries. It was used as a fortress during the Hundred Years war, as the city was impregnable, and surrounding land floods monthly, leaving only a narrow causeway to the city. During especially high tides the city becomes an isolated island.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
Mont St Michel is on a small rocky island with ocean on one side and lots of tidal marsh on the other. I'd think that rather than being a rare sight you just need to show up at high tide and pick the right spot.
Bruce Mardle 2 days ago
My girlfriend has visited Mont St Michel. I've never been to France despite it being 70 miles away and having been taught French for 9 or 11 years!
#16
Travertens of Pamukkale. They aren’t ice and they are like this in Summer
Bi.Felicia 3 days ago
These are located in Turkey. The name Pamukkale means "cotton castle" in Turkish, referring to the striking white calcium carbonate formations.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
This is just one of many places with large and scenic travertine or tufa dams, formed by precipitate from (often thermal) water with a high concentration of dissolved minerals. Sizes can range from microscopic to huge. Examples next >
Panda Kicki 3 days ago
I have been there twice. Sadly they are getting rather muddy. I think they forbade bathing there, hope it cleared up.
Janissary35680 3 days ago
The "muddiness" is due to groundwater being insufficient to keep the travertines white. It was a serious problem in the 70s and they fixed it then but apparently the problem's returned.
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Rainbow Mountains: Mahneshan.
Bonesko 2 days ago
Thank you for naming where these are. I appreciate the time saved googling 😁
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 3 days ago (edited)
Maybe this list should also include the Rainbow forest on Maui (Hawaii, USA). picture next >
Bob Brooce 3 days ago (edited)
Way too heavy-handed with the saturation slider in photoshop, I think.
Load More Replies... Day Andie 3 days ago
Places like this as seen during the right times of day--early morning or evening generally, and under the right atmospheric conditions are amazing, but influencers and professional photographers using filters and extreme saturation make it hard for the average tourist seeing it at high noon on a summer day to really appreciate the colors. Us armchair tourists can enjoy the colors as long as it's not too overdone.
#18
Neuf-Brisach. I spent my childhood there, playing hide and seek in the fortifications.
#19
Antelope Canyon.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
The first guy that thought to toss some sand in the air to catch the light deserves an award of some kind.
#20
McDermott’s Castle in Roscommon. It's a ruined castle on a small island in the middle of a lake.
BeesEelsAndPups 3 days ago
Roscommon is a county, and also the name of the largest town in said county, in central Ireland. For those who may not be aware.
#21
The Flatirons, in Boulder, Colorado. They're the inspiration for a lot of sci-fi landscapes.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
I'd say they look pretty fucking nice in the winter, too.
Load More Replies... Coffeetime2 3 days ago
I grew up looking at them, and my brother once broke his leg climbing the 3rd one!
#22
Eilean Donan castle has a fictional vibe to it.
Norfolk and good 3 days ago (edited)
Appeared in several movies including Highlander, The World is Not Enough, Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
g90814 3 days ago (edited)
I had to laugh in Highlander, you can see a car on the road in the distance in one of the scenes! 😂
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Nazaré giant waves are absolutely colossal and you'd think most photos are AI if you don't see videos or see it yourself.
#26
Burlinskoye Salt Lake in Altai region. People make it look way too saturated like this photo, but it does exist, trains included
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 days ago (edited)
Mind boggled that someone would build (hopefully rust free) steel tracks on wood in saltwater 🤯
#27
Twr Mawr Lighthouse, Ynys Llanddwyn, Wales
Awenpotato 3 days ago (edited)
A sillafu cywir, gwych! The nearby beach and forest are really nice too
#28
Definitely looks like the AI got confused somewhere...
M M 3 days ago
I actually love it. If you think it's bad you should see train station and city hall next to it 😅
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Not many foreigners know it snows here.
#31
caño cristales.
Maik Rosoft 3 days ago
It is in COlombia with an O, Columbia is another little place
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#32
Lake Kaindy, Almaty region, Kazakhstan.
#33
pink lake.
#34
Chiremba balancing rocks.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
Shush don’t give them idiots ideas eek cos we know dam well they actually would don’t we 🤦♀️
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#35
Riisitunturi, Kuusamo.
#36
Kummakivi, literally named "Strange rock" is a huge rock balancing on top of another. It's from ice age when ice was moving a lot of rocks around.
Cannot be moved by hand even though looks like it might fall over any minute.
#37
Idk, maybe somewhere in Lofoten?
#38
Costal road in rural Ireland.
#39
Grand Canyon.
#41
The most famous example would be the Kailasa Temple, it was carved out of a single rock
#42
Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall in the Berwyn Mountains just outside of Snowdonia National Park.
#43
Tiger and Turtle Duisburg.
#45
The whole (and huge) chapel made of human bones in Sedlec near Kutná Hora, Bohemia.
The bones in the Sedlec Ossuary come largely from the 13th–15th centuries, when the local cemetery became very... popular burial ground within Central Europe because the abbot of the Sedlec monastery scattered holy soil brought from Jerusalem across the graveyard. The Black Death and later the Hussite Wars overwhelmed the site with tens of thousands of bodies.
And if you played *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2*, well… you know it’s basically all your fault.
#46
Badwater Basin, Death Valley. You have to walk out about 2 miles to see it like this.
Pro tip: Bring water. 😄.
#47
Gullholmen - swedish west coast. Looks like AI might have gone a bit crazy with the amount of houses on this tiny island right at the edge of nature.
Panda Kicki 3 days ago
The whole swedish archipelago looks unreal. More island then anywhere else in the world. Many full of tiny houses.
#48
Diamond mine in the middle of a city, why not?
#49
Dunhuang
MK-C PHD 3 days ago
My son was born in Gansu!! We traveled (for his adoption) and got to see DunHuang and MoGao Caves and MajiShan Grottos!! Spectacular.
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Amedi, a town built upon a mesa.
#51
Arches national park could be a candidate
#52
Hobbiton to me always looks like it’s AI but it’s definitely real.
Norfolk and good 3 days ago
Do people actually live there? Why is there a washing line with clothes on it? 🤔
Jp@nda 20 hours ago
I'm fairly certain this was from the movie. The only things living here now are sheep
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Mel in Georgia 3 days ago
It was so beautiful and entertaining to visit Hobbiton! Hard to believe that it was supposed to be reverted back to farmland until the landowners made a deal for the LoTR production company to make it into a tourist site.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
This is in uk lol 100% real was in grand designs, !!! So 100% real the interior is freaking amazing x
#53
Oregon has a couple contenders
Painted Hills.
#54
The Taton dunes are gigantic dunes next to the gigantic Andes mountains.
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
I take it lol you were top of class in geography x ty for this cos bar the Ireland Scottish n Welsh ones n uk I’d not have had a clue what so ever 😂
Load More Replies... Day Andie 3 days ago
Found in the Desierto de Taton of Argentina, as Lady Eowyn said, and it is a small part of the Atacama Desert, primarily located in Chile. The Atacama desert is the driest desert after the polar desert. The oldest mummified human remains have been found here, and the Atacama has the largest supply of sodium nitrate in the world. Four of the six species of camelids are found in here: guanacos, vicuñas, alpacas, and llamas.
#55
We have camels and we have snow.
Day Andie 3 days ago
Upvoted against your down vote, as Australia is probably one that most people wouldn't think of. Mongolia would probably be the first to come to mind, but places in the Sahara can get snow on occasion also. Pretty sure if you looked hard enough you could find somewhere in the US--probably Texas or Arizona, that would have a couple camels in the snow pics, also.
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I guess the tri-colored lakes of Mount Kelimutu.
#57
We have palms trees AND snow.
Norfolk and good 3 days ago (edited)
New Zealand. Apparently, those are cabbage trees, also known by their Māouri name of tī kōuka, not palm trees and they are endemic to New Zealand.
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#58
Arches.
Skara Brae 3 days ago
It's Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, USA. There is a trail that goes up to it.
Lady Eowyn 3 days ago
Probably American Southwest, not enough info to find. Lazy captions, people!
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Lady Eowyn 3 days ago
It would have been extremely helpful to tell us where these places are located!
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
They didn’t need to lmao ,we got a you for that ❤️
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OneHappyPuppy 3 days ago (edited)
Plitvice lakes are not in the list. They're amazing as well. Croatia
Cuppa tea? 2 days ago
It started interestingly, with description of place and location. And then 15 entries done it slipped into usual lazy panda - interesting rock formation. Well, no sh!t Sherlock, I can see that in picture, what I would like to know what it's called and where it is.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
I know that AI is (and should be) on peoples' minds lately, but I think that anyone who thinks any of these are actually AI hasn't had enough exposure to the winders of nature.
Lady Eowyn 3 days ago
It would have been extremely helpful to tell us where these places are located!
Crystalwitch60 3 days ago
They didn’t need to lmao ,we got a you for that ❤️
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 3 days ago (edited)
Plitvice lakes are not in the list. They're amazing as well. Croatia
Cuppa tea? 2 days ago
It started interestingly, with description of place and location. And then 15 entries done it slipped into usual lazy panda - interesting rock formation. Well, no sh!t Sherlock, I can see that in picture, what I would like to know what it's called and where it is.
Bob Brooce 3 days ago
I know that AI is (and should be) on peoples' minds lately, but I think that anyone who thinks any of these are actually AI hasn't had enough exposure to the winders of nature.
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