Chat, is this real? The cats look too slay.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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They have the proper number of beans. But the light reflections/shadows look off. Old school photoshop?
Good catch on the reflection
I believe it is AI because cats are adorable, but this is too much. That's just a huntch...
I do want to take everybody's attention to the third wheel on bottom left. It feels oddly placed.
That just looks like one of the two wheels on the other half of a hardshell suitcase.
Yeah, but i feel it is oddly placed, like it should be more in the left
the eyes and ears feel wrong, but i can't place it for sure. that third wheel in the bottom left is sus, and the fur on the right side cat on it's tummy is a little too blended, as are it's back feets. i think it's probably ai, but it may just be some motion blurring on the cat, a shitty filter for the eyes, and a matching suitcase beside the pictured one for the wheel. it's a high quality ai fake if it is one.
well... looking closer before submitting and the mesh fabric, zipper, the detail on the latches on the right, the straight line of the counter and the cabinets behind all look good and real. actually i'm pretty sure this i not ai, i doubt any could get all that stuff so clean. i think it must just be a tiktok filter or the like doing some softening and blending on the eyes and some motion blur on the fur.
edit: lmao now i can't be sure either way. the cabinet/counter/wall at the back/top of the pic is confusing. is this a counter the suitcase is on? why is there another counter just a few inches behind this one? there appears to be some sort of power cable on the top right going nowhere under the edge of the back counter? i am confusion.
The thing in the top of the image is definitely weird. But honestly I think it's just a real image. Too many small details like the mesh of the suitcase that I wouldn't expect gen AI to get right. I think the third wheel on the right makes sense tbh. It's probably just a suitcase with 4 wheels that's folded open. Due to the perspective it looks a little offset but that's reasonable. I'm not a 100% sure tho, it's hard to tell sometimes these days
Google "Z-Image-Turbo", the latest local ai image gen model. It absolutely will do these little details. But I'm pretty sure this image is real regardless
They might be ragdoll type cats, named that way because they tend to flop and relax when picked up instead of trying to regain control or aceept it but hate it like other cats.
The thing that jumps out for me is the huge pupils. Cats only get that if its low light, they're targeting something, or drugs. If they were targeting something then there is a massive mismatch between their posture and body language and their pupil dilation.
On the other hand, generative AI know that humans find large pupils on animals cute and is more likely to spit out an image of a cat with dilated pupils.
My money is on AI slop 🙁
cats just do that sometimes
This is lower light than the op
those are i love you i want to bite you eyes
I have seen my cat have that big of pupils in a similar position while it wasnt dark
Catnip?
No
The cat was focusing on my hand
Cats also get huge pupils if they get excited. Which if you have the right kind of cat it can get excited by a paint chip on the door. Also those cats are in a box, which is just super exciting.
we discovered ours LOVES those long sheets of packing paper stuff gets delivered in now. she drags one around and then pounces from behind it, like it's mobile cover
Only packing the essentials I see
These two are giving me cute aggression reaction.
OMG they are sooo adorable!
"fur travel" was right there
13/10, would snuggle
Only the essentials
The thumbnail looked you were putting them in a deep fryer 😱