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Even if you like AI, this kind of post is extremely harmful. Leaf blowers are helpful for disbursing tear gas, not mace.
disbursing
Fucking autocorrect.
Autocorrect just fixed your spelling, context is all you.
No, I'm on mobile, and my phone is constantly correcting incorrectly. Lately it's been, "anyway," to, "Anyway," because I start a lot of sentences with it, so no it thinks it's supposed to be capitalized. It's learned that, "thar," is a word because I frequently fat-finger type it when I want to write, "that," so I have to periodically delete it from learned words or it will start automatically switching to, "thar," even when I type it correctly. I'm sure I wrote something that was a letter off from dispersing and it changed it to disbursing because I had a conversation with my dad about his mandatory 401k withdrawals six months ago.
1 ai slop = 1 downvote
Idk why but I feel like this is AI
It is, yesterday when this was posted, a commenter zoomed in on the leafblower text and it was clearly generated
So now we have it here at far lower quality so you can't properly tell anymore
On top of the logo, text, etcetera already pointed out, that's a paint can.
There’s a Gemini logo in the bottom corner
Nice catch. Very hard to see against the snow
Is this AI, and just making shit up? I've zoomed into the picture and I don't see any logo. Where is it?
Because it probably is. Look at where the guy is standing and pointing the blower, it's not even in line with the ICE thug spraying the pepper spray. Also why would the protestor be so nonchalantly just standing there chillin with a random gobblygook no-brand blower. That brand name isn't even English.
Not only that, but this city street allegedly in Minneapolis or Portland is 100% empty except for some random protester, a single ICE agent in full military gear, and some rando half a kilometer away.
The man holding the blower is not only nonchalant as fuck, but his facial expression looks confused like it's his first time using one.
Either:
- Some of the pepper spray would've hit the protester before he turned on the blower (or even while it was running), in which case his nonchalant demeanor is even more absurd.
- The agent saw a man pointing a leafblower at him or even saw it running and thought: "Yeah, this is a great time and position to deploy pepper spray."
- The protester is using reflex mode from The Phantom Pain and turned the blower on at the exact moment the agent started spraying.
The ICE agent is using an ungodly amount of pepper spray and is continuing to spray despite knowing he's involved in some Wile E. Coyote shit right now.
Perfect angle of the action and flawless timing while holding the camera completely steady. They're literally positioned like actors in a stage play.
I'm sorry: I can't imagine who looked at this for more than half a second and thought: "Yeah, that checks out." There's no "probably" about this without some deeply entrenched wishful thinking.
Oh, and the doorway of that red brick building on the left is casually just like four meters tall.
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Everyone is saying it is AI, and it might be, but I suspect not. A big tell for me is that the hand in the smoke seems pretty cohesive with the rest of him. I would expect some artifacting.
I do think it's edited though. Everyone seems to have forgotten that you can just modify pictures without full AI generation.
100% AI
The framing is weird, if this was actual protest why are they the only people there? The camo pattern isn't real, the his equipment doesn't make sense. Hes way too far to be using pepper spray and not even pointing it at the guy, the guy with the leaf blower is way too casual. The cloud is completely wrong, not following the stream of the leaf blower and pepper spray isn't a whispy smoke like that (specifically because they don't want it blowing around in the wind) and the text on the leaf blower doesn't look right.
Edit: also look at the brand name of the leaf blower. And there's also a Gemini logo in the bottom right lol.
It's weird that he'd carry around a leaf blower that says self defense on it, but not wear any personal protective equipment.
Also you don't see the secret police reaching for his sidearm.
He holds it weird too
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I'm a simple man; I see slop, I press the down arrow and block the poster.
shit, is it? my sensor is getting fucked up
You can see the logo in the bottom right (though to be fair it's a white watermark against snow)
Even more than that, the pic is too perfect; there are only two people, the paramilitary klan fellow is still spraying despite it being fully in his face (he'd be unable to breathe or see), the leaflbower guy is unhurried and calm, perfectly composed. And the writing on the leafblower. Context does a lot to reveal AI even as it gets better at generating backgrounds that aren't lovecraftian... prompters give themselves away with simplicity.
Holy shit that's basically invisible
Fuck ICE, but also fuck AI.
Begone slopper
Seems likely to get you shot, tbh. 2020 was a bit different.
Yeah. They're gonna say they thought you were carrying a gun and it was self defense.
Easily mistakable for a 3D printed hand canon, ming dynasty 15th century model
I hate how they hide AI behind poor quality.
Fuck AI
There was a pretty extensive study through the 1930s and 1940s on how up best handle a Nazi. They identified many useful tools... leaf blowers did not make the cut.
A word of caution. There are more than a few examples of LEA getting away with murder when they shot people who carried objects that look much less like a gun/weapon than a leaf blower. Not saying it's right. Just saying it happens.
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Someone (a HUMAN artist) should take one for the team and actually draw that AI-generated photo. Seriously!
...but just a stronger spray can?
Icy Minnesota air coming at you at a hundred mph is bad enough, and then you add teargas?
No wonder Minnesota beat Virginia and stole their flag. Y’all are brutal.
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