Friday Fotos: Hoboken 2225, Part 1

I decided to play around with ChatGPT's ability to create images of a futuristic world based on photographs of an existing world. So I uploaded a photograph of the North West Resilience Park in Hoboken, NJ, where I live, along with a prompt. ChatGPT replied with a query about what kind of future I had in mind. I then made some choices and proceeded with more images. 

The photograph immediately below is the first one I uploaded. The next image you see is CahtGPT's transformation of it. The rest of the images are all transforms, all of photographs taken at the same site. 

[Click on a photo to enlarge it.] 

I want you to use this photo as the basis for a science fiction image of the future. I'll be giving you several images and I want them each to be part of the same scene.

Great — so this first image, with people enjoying a splash pad surrounded by foliage and high-rise buildings, will serve as the base scene. You’ve mentioned that this and other images will be part of the same futuristic sci-fi setting. To move forward effectively, I’d like to confirm a few world-building details to guide the transformations:

1. Temporal setting: How far in the future are we? (e.g., 50 years, 200 years, post-singularity?)
2. Tone/atmosphere: Utopian, dystopian, surreal, or ambiguous? Clean or gritty?
3. Technological context: Should I introduce visible signs of advanced tech (e.g., hovercraft, AI companions, climate domes, biotech foliage)?
4. Human presence: Are humans still central? Are there hybrids, digital entities, or alien influences?

Once you confirm your vision, I’ll transform this image into a concept illustration for the sci-fi future, keeping it visually coherent with the other images you'll be sending.

Let’s make it futuristic and go for, say, 2225. Let’s make it ambiguous leaning toward utopia, surreal, mostly clean, but some grit here and there. Yes, I want to see advanced tech and humans will be central. But we may have cyborgs as well (think Ghost in the Shell).