A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald’s is completely fake — and of course made by AI::Look at the fingers. You always have to look at the fingers
Am I the only one that’s seeing this pic for the first time?
Same. Not sure why it would go viral.
Exactly my thought. Looks pretty boring and not something I would consider sharing even if it was a single button push.
It didn’t go viral. The article said it went viral to make a viral.
“Viral” is completely meaningless now.
I like how the french fries got a drinking straw
mcdonalds? the sign clearly says “modlidani”
fingers? try the coca cola logo…
I guess nobody much tried to see if it was fake or not because it was mundane enough to not matter and believable enough because there was a million people like this guy smoking in McDonald’s in the 80’s. My great grandma was a chain smoker. Literally all the time. I remembe going to McDonald’s for lunch in the 80’s and sitting there eating while she chews and smokes at the same time.
So there was no reason to suspect or care about it being a real pic.
Looking at the photo knowing it is AI generated, I can definitely see all of the imperfections, however for someone who is just scrolling looking at stuff and not really paying attention, it’s easily passable. And I think that’s a huge problem, especially with Sora being a thing, you won’t be able to believe anything you see on the internet ever again.
I’d even take it further and I’d bet that there are going to be movies made in the future that will brag about how they didn’t use AI in the production. This shit is wild
It’s a nail in the coffin to know the world wide webs golden age won’t have a resurgence and that you’ll no longer be able to believe or trust anything you watch, read, or hear, pretty soon.
People lied on the internet before generative AI. Now they’ll just lie with pictures but the lying will continue
This is like that episode of Rick and Morty.
Lets see:
- Straw in the fries container
- Chest hair growing thru his shirt
- “Cocacola” text on the mug
- His hands and those hamburgers
- MODLIDANI sign on the wall
- The heck is that white hat on that dude on the background
Halloween outfit inspiration material.
Or the sign at the top.
“MODLIDANI”
Or the fact that he’s apparently cut the chest out of his t-shirt, while his vest doesn’t wrap around his torso.
Nicely done, that’s hilarious. The current state of “AI” is deeply embarrassing and massively over-hyped. Maybe a few trillion more dollars of funding will do the trick…
I like to imagine these AI image generators as a low-ranking alien intelligence officer charged with making dossiers on Earth and its lifeforms. It sees the photos and videos and writing and tries to summarize them into representative graphics, but doesn’t quite understand enough to get the details right.
Why is the white T-shirt split to show his entire front torso? The male specimens display chest hair to attract female partners, probably. Note the hair on face and head, styled not for functionality but for visual effect; these earth bipeds use very vision-based courtship rituals.
these earth bipeds use very vision-based courtship rituals.
They got one part right
I mean it’s super obviously AI generated, what with the yellow fry box with white sides, and red coke cup with gibberish on it. He has a second white cup behind his hands seemingly floating in mid-air, and his hands are together holding… nothing. There’s a sign in the background that seems to say “Modlidawi” instead of “McDonald’s”
And he’s also wearing a t shirt which apparently doesn’t have a cheat since you can see this dudes naked chest.
Lots of inconsistencies in the photo. AI doesn’t do a very good job. If you look hard enough you’ll see shit that makes zero real world sense.
Looknat them fingers! When the coca cola logo looks like a CAPTCHA test and the guy is eating food off the table
I saw those things, and yet, sadly, my brain was still trying to make sense of it all, rather than saying “yo, Bear, this image is all kinds of fucked up, probably not real”.
And I’m a cynical, suspicious bastard. We’re fucking doomed.
AI generated or not, I distinctly remember the brown glass ashtrays as McDonalds when I was growing up, so it definitely was allowed.
Most places near me still have what obviously were smoking sections.
But I can tell you in the 80s, I smoked in McDo, enjoying my Royale, with a beer :)
This is the most French comment of all time
And you know what they call a… a… a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
AI or not, this looks unnervingly accurate enough to be one of my uncles in the 80s, including the open chest denim vest sewn onto a tshirt. The 80s was wild, kids.
It’s super accurate all the way down to the C̴̛͔̫̘̳̜̗̹̮͍͉̲̟̰̐̀̅͒͘͜͠o̶͔̙͙̦͎̩͛̓̔̀͋͜ç̸̧̛̯̰̱̤͔͍͖̥͉̟͍̌̄͗̎̅͌̒̀̀͊̈́̓͘͝a̴̳͇͉͌̔̔͋̍͋̏̈́͝c̷̛͎̙̟͘o̴͕̟̳̺͈̤͓̪̟͕̣̮̳͖̦̓́͂̓͗͊̅͠l̷̝̦̟̱̭̗͇̘̳̗̫͐̑͋a̸̡̡̺̹͉̠̺̹͉̙̮̍̏̂̚͝͝
It’s interesting how it still looks kindof correct at a glance, until you look at it specifically.
