• Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This looks rather AI generated if you ask me.

    Edit: It seems that it might just be a victim of compression.

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        1 day ago

        Wonky fence with unrealistic edges, smeared hand, helmet that looks messed up, the letters on the uniforms don’t match and are either a Latin/Greek mix or just misshapen, and there’s a few more bits. It took me a bit to spot all of that too.

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          1 day ago

          Interesting! I see what you’re saying about the hand looking smeared, but I think the fence looks pretty normal [edit: upon closer inspection I can see what you mean… ]and I’m not sure which helmet you’re referring to.

          I did a reverse image search and the earliest version I could find was from a Greek twitter post in 2023.

          Doesn’t mean it can’t be A.I., but A.I. wasn’t as ubiquitous nor as good in 2023 as it is now.

          My reverse search did turn up a lot of shares of this image from 2025 claiming it was during the L.A. wildfires, which is definitely false though.

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            23 hours ago

            The helmet on the left looks like one used in American football (I think? maybe it’s a different sport?) and now that I look at this image again the one second from right looks like a helmet one might wear on a bicycle or scooter.

            Edit: The image you linked to is a lot higher clearer and doesn’t look AI generated, I think it might have been a photo that was AI upscaled/processed and between then between now and the original post fell victim badly to JPEG compression.

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              17 hours ago

              I think you’re absolutely right! Bad compression and/or A.I. processing. Thanks for solving this mystery with me! I am always prepared to point out A.I. when I see it, so I was concerned that I had managed to miss this one. Cheers!