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OP gave some clues, though. I think the comment with “London” was meant to be a joke. But it’s true that this kind of surveillance is common in Britain, some parts of Asia and some random big cities. And OP knows how to write the time of the day properly, so they’re certainly not from the USA. 😉
Lots of photos are edited. Probably almost all more professional ones. It certainly also doesn’t help that AI enhancement is now default in newer phones.
And it’s bound to be difficult. We try to use AI to judge if an image is real. But on the other hand we train the AI image generators to generate more and more realistic images.I don’t think we can have both at the same time because they contradict each other.