How Our Images Are Made

Every image on Jason D's Vision is an original, AI-generated artistic interpretation of a real place. Not a photograph — and we label every single one as such, on the image itself and inside the file.

I. What you're looking at

Each scene is rendered from a written brief describing a real location — the viewpoint, the defining features, the light, the weather. The pixels are model-generated; the decisions about what to depict, and whether it's good enough, are human.

As required under the EU AI Act, every file carries machine-readable disclosure that it is AI-generated, and every image carries a visible label: "AI-generated artistic interpretation · Not a photograph."

II. The human hand

Before anything is published, each scene passes our five-gate review:

• Visual accuracy — recognizably the captioned place, from a plausible tourist viewpoint. Anything misidentified, mislabeled, or artifact-ridden is held or rejected.
• Technical — exact formats, legible captions, correct signature, complete metadata.
• Provenance — generation inputs documented; no undisclosed photographic sources.
• Rights — people, logos, and private property noted; nothing commercial is certified clean without review.
• Publication — only scenes clearing all five gates go live.

Scenes that fail are held publicly as candidates — you'll see them marked Awaiting QC — until they're fixed or rejected. We'd rather show the work than hide it.

III. Finishing

Published images carry a label bar beneath the artwork: the place name, the scenario (date, time, and weather at the depicted moment), the AI disclosure, and the Jason D's Vision signature. Nothing is overlaid on the artwork itself — no text over the image, no tint, no scrim.

IV. Honest weather

Scenario weather comes from a weather model (Open-Meteo), recorded fresh for each scene with its retrieval time — never copied across scenes, never presented as an on-the-ground observation. If the model says clear and 22°C, that's what the light in the image reflects. Model data, honestly labeled.

V. What we don't claim

We don't claim the rendered pixels are hand-painted, and we don't claim our weather data was collected on the pavement. Reference photographs, where used in research, remain the property of their photographers. What we do claim is the curation, the direction, the review, and the finishing — the human authorship in every image.

VI. Collection notes

Each country's gallery is a curated series: selected in catalogue order, with held and excluded scenes documented rather than quietly dropped. Per-country collection notes list what's in, what's held, and why.

VII. License

All images are free to use — no credit needed. See the license section on any gallery page for the full terms.