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AI. All the monitors have the same image on them.
Not all fakery is AI. There is such a thing as a conceptual render done by engineering firms and product companies for pitches that has existed long before AI was a thing. Sometimes they take short-cuts like copy and pasting parts.
It's definitely AI, look at the eldritch monstrosity to the far right behind the woman with the black purse
No, I don't think I will
I actually think that looks like a woman with her hand up, like she's brushing her hair back or something
Still AI though
ah yeah, i kinda see it. Apparently the Chinese writing easily gives this away as AI for people who are familiar with Chinese, but still, something about else this image besides that woman's face screams AI, but I can't really place it in specifics.
The writing on the wall is either an AI hallucination or an extinct form of Chinese.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40609115
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1730715
image is doctored for sure but it seems to be a real thing
Was about to say this. The guy in the third pod is also facing the back of the second guy's TV. The text on the yellow poster and black hanging sign is garbled. The first box has some black text/graphic on it and is also garbled. The latin text in the background above first monitor has oddly shaped letters and is nonsense (DETECIT? PETEOIT?). The doorway into the first box is entirely blocked by the table and PC.
I hate how AI has turned me into an AI detective, having to deeply analyze every single image I see. Didn't ever think this would be a skill I'd have to learn or have. What strange times we exist in.
The "what's wrong with this picture" game escaped containment and now spans the entire digital world.
The hanzi don't make sense. Including on the shops in the background. I'd say the whole picture is generated.
This is the correct answer
They're all just on the exact same level of the same game.
Most AI couldn't reproduce the same image at different brightnesses with varying obstruction like this. It would be a hundred times easier to just have them look at an image that is actually on the monitor.
Not sure what you're on about here, this has been a thing AI has done for a long time now. There are hundreds of thousands of images like this:
It's obvious in the left one that the screens have a similar sort of layout but have clearly different images. The ones on the right look a lot more similar but I think you can still see differences in the shape on the left side of the screen.
And you can see the same slight differences in the original image OP posted. I specifically posted images from older AI models to show that they've been able to do this for a long time. Your point is nonsense.
The images in the OOP look like they just have different brightness to me.
Here are the bottom right of the first two screens, which are similar, but different, because AI is dogshit at making user interfaces. There are other minor differences as well, just like in the additional examples I gave. The entire point is that AI has this thing for repeating display screens throughout an image and the slight inaccuracies give it away.
But forget the screens. You are focused on one single detail and missing all the others. I've outlined many others in another comment in this thread. But just look at this one detail again:
Here you have:
None of this makes any sense because..... the image is AI.
I understand now. Thank you for patiently explaining it to me.
The writing on the wall is completely nonsensical.
It actually seems like each monitor is shooting the image a few frames apart
The fact it's the same tells me it's not AI