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Fuck ICE but this pic and specific wording sets off my gen AI Facebook bullshit detector.
Who took that photo and got away? The linked photographer doesn't exist. If they did, why did a different account post this, and knows what was said verbatim? What is the guy on the left holding?
What's written on his chest patch?
Edit: Correction - The photographer does exist. Can't find this pic on his socials (which are set to not show anything at least for the public) or his website. That thing on the left does look like a weapon (but I can't tell which), and there are no 100% clear AI tells in the picture, except it all seems a bit "off" to me, and too perfectly composed to match the very specific and cliche message text.
Fuck, this shit is getting harder and harder. If there's one thing AI is getting good at, it's lying, and manipulating social media algorithms in a way that even legit human posters are pushed to imitate its style. So stay critical even if you agree with the message, and please excuse my premature assessment.
Edit: 2: Pic is legit, sorry for the mistake!: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/?hl=en-GB
Thank you for summing up the key reason that AI bothers me, giving words to the off-putting feeling in my gut whenever I think about it.
Theft, attacking artistic integrity, energy-consumption, these are all things I've heard and seen people say against it. But the simple fact is that AI is a liar, and it's muddying the line between truth and fiction in a way that no propaganda can match. It's insidious, it's powerful, and it's everywhere. It sprung up in a time and place where reality was already under attack and poured fuel onto the fire of rampant disinformation.
worse than a liar; a liar makes you doubt everything the liar says, but generally you don't lose faith in all information as a result of one person being full of shit.
AI doesn't just lie, it lies often enough, convincingly enough, and is ubiquitous enough now that it dilutes the truth and makes everyone (like OP) question harder the validity of everything they see -- or, more easily, start believing in nothing outright.
LLMs are neat tools, if very flawed ones, but image/video genAI is a fucking Torment Nexus that should not have been made.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/?hl=en-GB
I can't confirm the exact narrative given but it does seem to be a real image of a boy being arrested.
The photo seems to be zoomed in on a smartphone camera. Looks to me like the person who took the picture stood further away and used a digital zoom. And the guy on the left is holding a weapon. The chest patch of the guy on the left is at an angle where you can't read it anyway. I don't see signs of AI, just a low quality, zoomed in smartphone picture.
Ya'll realize there are still way more regular images and videos than there are people trying to ragebait shooped ai slop right?
I swear even on reddit people claim the most inocuous shit as AI, or even worse, think good old fashioned special effects aren't real.
Captain Disillusion got out at a good time.
Thank you for your service 🫡
It's a rental vehicle, or the wife is only slightly less bigoted (or likes to appear that way.)
Lol