The youngest picture of you is actually your oldest picture.

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sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 3y

someone in my family has that picture of me from after fishing, and I had caught a fish, and I was a small child, and they got the reaction shot after showing me the fish, and the pic shows I was horrified. Once I'm dead, I hope that pic makes it online. Possibly my youngest pic.

Tolstoshev@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Unless you’re a time traveler

rockerface@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

"Shall we compare the diaries?"

ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Ah, Jim the Fish!

UdeRecife@literature.cafe · 6 pts · 3y

True. And the way it's said/written causes a soft perplexity that feels nice.

Now you got me thinking. In my mother tongue, this is not at all perplexing. In order to find out why, I tried a more direct translation from my language to English. Here's my try:

The picture of me youngest is also my oldest picture.

d_chosen_one@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

True until AI pictures become a thing!

ech@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

An AI's approximation of someone isn't a picture of them. And even if we were to accept that incorrect idea as true, a new AI production of someone when they were younger isn't an old picture.

sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y

oddly disturbing as that prospect may be, AI can't time travel