I thought AI instantly but not based on any tells or cues in the image. Just the timing makes me suspicious because it seems like something with a lot of propaganda potential for galvanising the population during presumably extremely trying times to say the least.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean the room is austere but he was literally a cleric.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who puts all that shit tightly in one corner and leaves a bunch of empty carpet around it? What kind of room is this?

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

I mean it's kind of a textbook reading nook... Albeit a sparse one.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It doesn't look like AI. Three identical small tables with consistently sized parallel slats, consistently shaped and spaced carved details on the board in the couch, everything's the right scale, uncanny and awkward lighting consistent with a room like that but not consistent with professionally framed and lit pictures AI is trained on, and everything's just sort of realistically unphotogenic and just a bit off in a way AI doesn't do.

It could be edited with AI to alter the composition somehow, but I'd say most of it is an actual photo of a room.

[–] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah if this is AI it's the best I've seen yet and I'll admit we're fucked if that's where it is.

Looks like a cheap building, that's the uncanny thing about it. world leader sitting in a crummy office space

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks cheap because of the hideously dated decor but I suspect that is just what he liked.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Elderly folks are the same everywhere.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why the publicly-owned Iranian news station would post an AI photo of Khamenei.

It's possible that it is a real photo but not the last photo. I tried doing reverse image search and didn't find any results.

PressTV is a reliable source. On the wikipedia page, it lists the URL presstv.ir and then you go to that URL and it lists their twitch account in the top right corner of the webpage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Only saying that because they removed it (which they would do if it was since they're a good news source). Might have been a bad source. Could also be that they decided it wasn't appropriate? Who knows