This lovely photo came across my feed and I shared it to a FB group (Nagland, which is a jokey horse group) I got comments ‘maybe Santa will get her some reins’, and another ‘and a bridle’. Forcrissakes, it’s beautiful, I think, and thought others might also enjoy looking at it. I suspect it’s AI, am now waiting for that comment.
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Horsepeople gonna Horse.
I vote AI for the blurry background, but I confess to wondering at the halter/bridle thingy too 
Apoears to have a bit…
Sorry, if it was an actual photo, I’d smile & scroll on past.
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I never reply, just roll my eyes and move on. For some reason, those comments just bugged me.
I don’t take out a magnifying glass and review all photos. The colors are vibrant, and I just think it’s a very pretty Christmas picture (or maybe it has nothing to do with Christmas and that’s just how some people mail their letters, dress up their child and pop them on a pony and send them off to the mailbox 
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For fun with an artist’s interpretive horsemanship just look at covers to romance novels. I swear I’ve even seen saddles on backwards.
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Could be pony was on a lead and it was edited out. Probably someone standing behind the PO Box holding it and a bag of carrots. It looks like a picture that’s had a lot of work done on it. Cute though and I want the pony. Santa, you listening 
???
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I agree. It’s a lovely Christmas photo and that pony and girl as cute as a button. If you had the kid, costume, and pony on hand and good photography and photo shop skills it would be pretty easy to create that picture.
Christmas isn’t really the time to get hung up on reality. (Looking at you, flying reindeer and fat man who comes down the chimney and leaves presents.)
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I mean… it’s definitely AI so it’s just stealing from various sources with the correct “tag”. Details are unimportant to the engine 
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AI needs to research how a halter is actually made
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It did get the pony’s head, eye and expression correct, lovely.
Needs to work on the bit/halter mismatch, is a head scratcher.
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I think it’s darling and I’m not even a kid person. I am picky about accuracy in horsey pictures. I still think it’s darling. Thank you for sharing it, @swmorse.
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Not to mention the weird disappearing stirrup and bizarro girth!
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It’s adorable. The AI has messed up the left hand giving her an extra long white cuff and no red mitten. But horse and child faces are well done.
This is clearly a manufactured image, whether it’s photo plus photo shop, AI (which can then be tweaked), or hyper realist painting by someone who almost understands horse tack.
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It’s a cute picture and I enjoyed it, but then the comments made me look closer, at the girth (?), etc. I liked it better before.
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The face looks very young for those long legs. And those arms very short. Creepy. I love it.
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But do they have a handsome, half-naked man on them? 
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You guys!!!
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Almost inevitably. Sometimes two. It’s almost like gay porn.
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Very much an AI issue. We should be kind to our young computer intellects. They’re trying to work out our crazy world.
As far as the picture itself….At that age, all I wanted was a pony. Little brat already has one. That better be a very nice thank you note to Santa.
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You all are completely lacking in appreciation of Fine Art. This photo is simply at the leading edge of Art. The halter with a bit is intentional: it is a visual technique that opens the thoughtful observer’s mind to the power of reaction, when the familiar is made unfamiliar. The chubby face on the little girl, with her longish arms and slender longish (for a three-year-old) legs, is an homage to the multidimensional nature of time passing – the face is young while the body is older. It also acknowledges the impact of body-shaming and body dysmorphism in contemporary American culture — we are forced to confront our own biases and expectations for body image, and juxtapose them with the alternative offered in this photo. In th future, this photo will be known as a major cultural icon of the times.
I can’t believe I have to explain this to people…
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sounds like the explanation I got from the engineers on a failed project
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