Life meets art, head on ... meep-meep!

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@tetrapyloctomist @Natasha_Jay https://www.nolazine.com/post/driver-crashes-into-wall-after-mistaking-wile-e-coyote-mural-for-real-tunnel-in-mexico

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@Natasha_Jay I think this is AI, but given the refutations I can find are also AI, I give up.

[nikpm@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay Let’s at least give the driver credit for swerving to avoid the road runner

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

It is art, but not as we know it Jim!

[isol@mastodon.au]

@Natasha_Jay

There's at least one rebuttal:

https://x.com/GFCNofficial/status/2080215098157662484

[thecar@vozer.cafe]

@Natasha_Jay oof, thats gotta hurt

[isol@mastodon.au]

@Natasha_Jay

Estafeta truck livery

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@Natasha_Jay it doesn't instill confidence knowing that every time you cross the road, cycle, drive etc you are sharing the road with people who are that unaware

[mar01@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay

They are very clever and amazing to see during daylight but can confuse drivers in the dark when they are on the facing wall of, for instance, a hairpin bend and there are no streetlights illuminating that stretch of road before you reach bend.
There was one on a stretch road I used to use and they caused several accidents and had to be removed.
Amazingly realistic in some cases

[geist@troet.cafe]

@BlippyTheWonderSlug @Natasha_Jay

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Natasha_Jay

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay @cstross

That is the most apt and all encompassing metaphor for the US I have ever seen

[c_chell@equestria.social]

@isol
If this is AI generated, it's hard to tell without deeply analyze the very little artifacts.
On the tweet, the 2 noticeable I see are the right side of the wall with the "leaky looking" on the wall is not the same and the shadow on the rocks near the coyote are different. Also the truck, but not being in the country, I can't tell on first sight without digging very deeply.

But with the only one image posted on the first message, for me it's impossible to see.

@Natasha_Jay