Jerusalem and Haifa walks – zero AI intervention.
(Zero AI – 100% human created content).
Feeling of guilt can’t help me to write another post, even though I have enough photostories to post, but free time for this process is something that I missed all this period of busy days. Today I will start with the recent series photographed during two trips recent weekend and I will continue backward like in the tangled narration of the Memento movie (personally I loved it and watched it a few times).
After the long pause, I spontaneously decided that the time is now, and without any preliminary notice, I went there on a Saturday morning. “Not having plans” was my perfectly implemented plan. Quite quickly I found a free parking place (always a doubt in these big cities) very close to the New Gate of the Old City and started my causeless walk. Was extremely hot, but the air in Jerusalem is always very dry in summer – one of the positive sides of this city.
Now, following the laws of the Memento movie, I’ll tell you a story a little bit backward. Once, somewhere 3 years ago, during another day trip to Jerusalem with my friend, he said to me that he read an article in the Time Out Israel online magazine about the BEST places to eat and to visit in the Old City. Both were horrible – the hummus of the first of them was absolutely not tasty, cold, and apparently not freshly prepared. As one local explained recently – they use very bad quality tahini and don’t use olive oil for their hummus, so those who know about their tricks, just don’t eat there. The second place was one of the oldest making tahini places in Jerusalem. The tahini was great, but the price – it was almost twice the regular, but only for the people looking to sellers like tourists or not locals.
Why do I tell you this not-so-unusual story? Well, the explanation is extremely simple. And it concerns AI, or more exactly concerns the information, which these GPTchats and other bots bring to us. Today I tried the Bard – Google’s experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA. I heard about it from my son and wrongly mistook it for a search engine, but when I got the real purpose of the visited site, I decided to try the Magic of Artificial “intelligence”. I asked some questions about Haifa’s food places working on Saturdays and located in the Hadar neighborhood. Most of the answers were from other locations of the city and the image of one of the recommended places related to the Hotel room and not to restaurants. Additionally, I checked the sources of the recommendations – some of them were from the same Time Out Israel magazine, which I mentioned above. So, I literally found the way how false (read fake) information is being born with the help of AI. Tee bad recommendation in the bad sources of information.
On the next day after my Jerusalem exploration, I and my son went to explore (and to get lost) in one of the Haifa oldies neighborhoods – Hadar neighborhood. If you read carefully, today I tried to find open on Saturdays food places in this neighborhood with the help of AI. As you can see, my narrative is intricate, but finally, all roads lead to Rome, so my stories came to the logical end of the story. We decided to get “lost” on our way from the Port through Downtown to the Hadar neighborhood. These parts of the are not too big, finally, we walked around 8km. But the way is not straight and contains a lot of strange turns and long ascents and descents of stairs. And some of you know how sporadic the street explorers are moving – we tried every interesting turn. Some of them ended in a dead end, and some of them took us around.
Both series of images were photographed together with the analog frames which I will develop and bring in one of my next posts. Every image of every my post can be ordered as a high-quality different finishing and sizes prints, and ready to print and ship immediately.
Of course I’m starting with the series taken in Jerusalem.
Here is what I found interesting for my camera eye in Haifa on the next day.
Glad to hear that you had very good photo journey with your son. The images are all fascinating. . Piano? on outside? OMG speakers !
Just like a documentary movie. By the way Victor I was bit concerned about you that I have not seen any new :):) Great job!
Thank you Naomi. Yes standing in the street piano and i remember when it was working, but now the keys are completely destroyed by barbarians. These speakers i found in some local flea market gallery-restaurant. This audio wall is looking amazing for me..I hope to post some new series very soon. I’m almost not active on FB and IG. I don’t see much interest in posting there often.
Don’t ever trust AI for good places to eat! Great photos, as usual 🙂
Hehe exactly. The food must have been tasted by humans and the taste should be passed by word of mouth 😉
A great and interesting series of photographs. I do love how black and white makes them feel. The graffiti girl on the gate reminds me of Steve Curry’s Afghan Girl. Nice to see your work again.
Thank you for the kind words. Yes its a kinda street art portrait of the Afghan Girl and occasionally when i photographed that i met the Author of this “Street work – he is a seller in the close to this place t-shirts store. We spoke a little bit about how drastically changed this street and the whole Hadar neighborhood.
Nice to meet people through photography!
Indeed nice. i made a lot of connections through it. Now i regret that I didn’t ask for a portrait of him. Sure will do this during my next visit there.
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