Pairents and Paitriots Worry: Photoshop Remove Tool

Late one latesome night I was in my laboratory, frankensteining a stereopair out of old photos, when I had to remove this boy from the foreground:

So I used one of those slick AI tools you see in ads these days, where you circle some figure and the computer replaces it with background. But wouldn't you know it for my sins I got a monster:

I have no idea where he came from. Not from the gents on the left; maybe from the arms I left behind. Maybe he was crouching behind him the whole time and Photoshop knew.

Yeah, that's not too terrifying.

OK it was 8:58. August is AI. “Fishing below Grange Mill at Waterford Mill, Northfield, Minnesota," Northfield History Center via Minnesota Digital Library. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Pairents and Paitriots Worry: Photoshop Remove Tool," RSS Longa, 21 August 2025, public domain via CC0 1.0.