AI is my guess. The foliage is off as are the people.

tj

AI

I'm so sick of all the crap AI proliferating on the internet.

I admit I like watching animal rescue or pet channels on Youtube, like The Dodo, but based on their success, a whole new class of evil AI animal video channels have been spawned on youtube where _the whole freaking video_ is AI generated. I downvote them but they keep getting pushed to me.

Similarly, I think if I start selling rare plants online in 2-3 years, which is a second career path I'm considering, I was going to do it on Etsy. I thought, 'surely Etsy is free of junk sellers found else on the internet"? Nope:

So this is what our electricity rates are skyrocketing for!

FWIW, I have now bought plants more than once on Etsy, and there are some good sellers there.

With the ever increasing price and hassle of running one's own website, I expect to see more and more smaller to mid-sized nurseries to go that route. (Etsy or the even worse Ebay) I would never be more than a micro-nursery making a pittance per year, it's not about money, it's just about my zeal to get plants out there that nobody else is producing.

Other than the no 'fray' on the bark whatsoever, and the fact the trees are appearing to be directly sitting on the surface of the ground.

I see nothing wrong more wrong with that picture than I do with the one below of my new colt running around my massive Juniperus virginiana! lol:
(removed picture because no one thought it was funny).

Definitely a fake.

Look between the two trees in the front.

AI piled some color matching material to 'fill' in the gap.

And nothing looks real surrounding the base of the right-hand tree.

Even the greenery on the surrounding trees appears suspect being too uniform.

The trouble is, the more you critique AI, the more they correct it to look more authentic.

Don't feed the beast!