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Is there a layer missing? The joke seems to revolve around a shadow which isn't there
I don't think so. The joke is that you're supposed to put your arms up in the air to appear bigger when you run into bears, so bear-cop is suddenly intimidated when the perp does it.
That's also what a lot of animals do in general. Including bears.
Honestly I can't tell if these are real animals, furries or an AI image 🤔
It’s AI, but red pandas absolutely do that.
Definitely not AI lol
Current gen image generators are still horrible at creating accurate fur and even more horrible at interactions between hair and a complicated medium such as snow. Considering the complete lack of recent progress in AI image generation it will probably not be possible to generate images like this for a long while.
tineye gives this article from 2016 as the oldest still active match https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431573/Hands-Red-panda-appears-surrender-putting-paws-air-snowy-standoff-Canadian-zoo.html
Thanks for correcting me. I was suspicious about it, so I consulted wasitai, and it returned it being ai generated.
Probably better to check tineye then sort by oldest than wasitai
wasitai.com returns true if you upload the image, and false if you provide the link to that exact same image 🤣
Oh yeah. I didn't even spot that the cop was a bear
Usually they're pigs