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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this AI?

Lots of weird shit going on in this image.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably. Sideways parked van in a driveway that doesn't lead to a garage of a house that is multicolored.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not to mention the:

  • Double-handled pistol
  • Merged together blue bikes
  • Pink blob on wheels
  • Red and blue blob on the grass
  • Multiple green bins on the same property (one out front, one back)
  • Inconsistent top point colors and heights on the dual-color house
  • Incoherent text-blobs on nametag
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

Same property has two tan minivans, the de facto standard soccer-mom fleet vehicle.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

I'm no expert but there appears to be a charging handle on the side of the AR where the ejection port should be. The optic seems wonky too.

There's also an unattended bIack chiId in the driveway which seems really out of place given the situation.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s just a duplex. And I’d totally believe that ICE would carry two pistols because why not? That’s also just two bikes. I think it looks weird because this guy posed center frame in a way that most normal people don’t take candid photos. It carries a lot of the traits of AI slop because that’s their medium of inspiration. All of your points are certainly things that I’ve seen elsewhere, but none of them feel like gotchas. S much as it feels like an AI picture, I really don’t think it is. The fact that it’s low res obviously doesn’t help either of our cases.

If it is AI slop, I’ve officially lost.

[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Practice, this is an easy AI slop to figure out. Just keep looking. That is one holster with a two handled gun. When they get good usually it is a "this is a strange professionally shot photo that places the subject perfectly in the center of a scene they don't belong with very dramatic lighting."

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Uhhhh probably, unfortunately. I just yanked one of their dipshit propaganda pics. Should have known it was too much to expect them to be capable of getting one of their own. 🫩

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wait, that's their image?? That was supposed to make them look good??

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yerp. They're using the same Zionist propaganda bot slop for ICE that they use for IOF. I'll need to be more diligent when picking out of their images in the future.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah reusing their sloppy AI fascist propaganda against them is fair game. It only brings the point home better.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

okay that makes this fucking hilarious then

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

Agreed, that's funny as hell

[–] Darohan@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

Literally looks like the "obviously evil" propaganda movie at the start of Helldivers 2

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I can assure you, they don't look nearly as good in person as OP portrayed them

I've seen some wearing balaclavas and sloppy gear. Most are wearing whatever face cover they can find. None are as well put together as in this image

OP made ICE look as good as he could

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would you use their literal propaganda pictures?

It's a picture specifically made to make ICE look good, and you just thought it'd be a great idea to go distributing that?

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Do you, in any way, think that image actually makes ICE look good even without my infamously shitty font? 🤔 Because I see an isolated terrorist in a neighborhood.

I have used the images they've chosen before, because mockery/misuse of their own ideas irks goombas like that- Not only that, but I'm not making shit tier memes for them anyways. Bite sized chunks of information, easily digested, to at minimum get someone to go "wait, what is going on".