Post #4882950 · Elektrine

2026-09-19 17:48 UTC

Nobody thinks this is a real image in a Kmart. They just dispute whether the obviously fake image was photoshopped or generated by AI. The butt plug image used is AI but also from the company that sells them: https://craverise.com/products/stainless-steel-hidden-key-box-butt-plug That does not mean that putting the AI image in that context for humorous purposes was done in AI. It is also trivial to strip watermarks so checking for watermarks isn’t reliable. Not all gen AI images are even created with watermarks. It’s like checking an optional note from a parent. We should just call stuff fake if that is what matters. Whether it is gen AI or photoshop is far less important than being fake.

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@nialv7@lemmy.world 2026-09-21 05:04

photoshopped or generated by AI this is exact what i was saying. i didn’t assume anyone thought it was real, but apparently a lot of people thought it was photoshop (which requires skill, practice, time, and effort), when it was really AI (which doesn’t). the proof is the fact that the entire image has SynthID, you can block out the product image (which is also AI generated) from the photo and it still has SynthID. someone took one AI image and asked AI to edit it into a photo, it’s AI all the way down. People are fooled by a genAI image and thought it was created by a human, and when given the facts they choose to denial and continue to be confidently wrong about it. i mean i already know it’s difficult for humans to admit that they are wrong, but to see that actually play out in front of my eyes…

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