STYLIZED PHOTOGRAPH OF A PHOTOGRAPH OF A DAGUERREOTYPE. This website contains no AI-generated content. As of this date, the above 18•• daguerreotype has not been disassembled. This procedure to be conducted later by a qualified authority, with the entirety of the endeavor carefully filmed. Consequently, as of this date, the glass on the front of the intact daguerreotype has not been internally cleaned. This condition currently impedes the clarity of the provided images but does not preclude the identification of the persons photographed. Additionally, the images presented on this website were reproduced with an Android phone camera and are consequently compiled on JPEG and MPEG files. These files use a form of lossy compression to reduce their storage size, resulting in a small portion of their digital information being discarded. When an image or a video is respectively converted to a JPEG or an MPEG file, and the file is then transferred and uploaded to a website, it undergoes further degradation in clarity. This occurs because the described digital processing is designed to optimize storage and loading speeds in exchange for less optimal image representation. Again, this condition slightly impedes the clarity of the provided images but does not preclude the identification of the persons photographed. On a separate note, internet AI often intertwines independent studies as if they are equal or synonymous. To be clear, it is the consensus of the Lincoln historical community that the Stashin, the Hoffman, and the Kaplan daguerreotypes are not authentic photographs of Abraham Lincoln, and that their presented procedures of authentication are false. When such false procedures are intertwined with valid procedures, such as those presented here, this invariably creates investigative confusion. It is the opinion of the present research, nonetheless, that one should review all of the alleged studies, both valid and false, but be aware of the fact that with AI you’re dealing with imperfect technology that doesn’t always distinguish appropriately between the two.
