This is the most 90s image I have seen in a long time.
Good job clanker, another human fooled successfully. See the watermark in the bottom right.
Fuck me… I only started looking more closely after your comment and noticed that the room’s proportions are fucked up. But, at a first glance, it looks like a photo from the 90s…
They even got the shadow on the wall from the camera flash…
Edit: also, the computer instructed to make this image was probably like “Hmmm. Mental note”
March 1999, based on the wall calendar
98?
Looks more like 1958 to me, the whole thing is a blur. Doesn’t seem like a compression thing, more like AI generation.
Given that she’s holding what is the second most booty-ass rendition of what’s apparently supposed to be a Beretta Model 92 I’ve seen in my life, AI generation seems to be a fair assessment.
Edit: And the shadow on it makes no sense. Never mind the watermark in the corner.
Edit edit: And March 1998 began on a Sunday. The more you look the worse it all gets.
i love this deep dive lol
It also has the AI watermark in the bottom right corner. This one doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to pinpoint.
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I think it says 1998.
I read 1958, but it could just be blurry
I initially thought 1998, but March 1 wasn’t on Monday that year.
Fuck, this one got me. I didn’t see the watermark. Even looking closely the details don’t seem AI, the floppy disks on the table, the cup, the keyboard colouring, the phone wire. Even the numbers on the calendar seem plausible with the bad compression. I hate this doubting every picture I see on the internet
In the 90s, March did start with a Monday in '93 (ruled out due to Start button and Windows key) and '99. But it’s unlikely you’d see TV static (with a decently emulated camera shutter effect) behind an error dialog window - is it the desktop background?
The weird hair colour could just be unnatural lighting.
Most other things could be chalked up to JPEG (although the calendar numbering seems like a stretch - I have never seen jpeg make a ‘3’ look like a ‘1’ in that specific way).
What gave me the highest suspicion was the jeans. The stitched parts (mainly the zip part) doesn’t look like real stitching, but like painted plastic. So unless there is some product that is actually plastic pants, printed with a jeans texture, that’s not a real picture.And once you know it is AI, it explains the background.
Damn. Even now that I know I’m struggling to find anything that could’ve shown me. Some things are a bit wonky, like the pants, the calendar, the background. But none of it would be enough to truly convince me if I hadn’t seen the watermark. Most of it is easily waved away with the fact that the image is blurry. And details like the books, the screen, parts of the calendar and basically everything else in the image scream “real image” to me.
I know it goes against the general consensus in here, but I think the image itself is real, was likely low quality because it’s 25-30 years old, and the Gemini watermark is because someone ran it through to upscale it.
At a former job many years ago, we had an employee get super mad at his PC. He left and returned a short time later with a revolver that he unloaded on said PC. All six shots missed the critical components and it was still running despite the new cooling. Cops hauled him away whilst still frothing at the mouth about his PC.
Like Homer looking for the “Any” key.
Was that employee Elvis?
Uh-huh
Ghost in the shell? Meet 5.56x45 in the shell.
Looks a bit like Scully lol
Because it is
Not even a joke, I went to a military simulation event dressed as this woman, equipped with an airsoft m16. I shaved for the first time in 10 years, wore a wig, and a gray suit/dress that I had thrifted. I was " Barb from Accounting".
We can’t stop here, this is bat country!
Another image of add to my “Women holding guns to computers/monitor” collection.
This one’s AI though, for some reason
oh
Is uh…is that like a sex thing? Or…ya know what? I’m not sure I want answers.
Nah dw, nothing NSFW here.
It is definitely not safe for whomsoever wants to use that monitor for work.
Folder dump plz
i only have 2 images though so do you still want to see them? (now one since someone said this is AI)
I was just thinking, this is not the first image like this I’ve seen and I’d really like to know the context I’m missing.
that one image where another one is holding a rifle into a pc monitor?
That one actually has two different pics, one with her standing with the gun, the other with her pointing it at the monitor.
Oh okay
Came here to say that, maybe they were onto something…
i see the watermark but is this actually a generated image? I’m normally good at being able to tell. this image feels fine to me though? like the reflections on the light switch cover and on the picture frame feel natural. the keyboard looks correct. i guess the vents on the slightly stubbly crt are a bit wonky and the calendar can’t decide between 1998 and 1958 lol
it’s messy AF, but lines up with 98 which it kinda looks like it was trying to print. I’m actually a little scared with this one, it’s a lot less obvious that previous generations.
People mention the gun was wrong, but that’s outside my wheel house.
The monitors badge is not any name that existed back then and they gave it a trinitron tube.
The task bar button for the error window is WAY too wide.
March started on a Sunday in '98, though.
ahh crap, totally right. I was looking at it as a monday index for god knows why… it matches 99, but is def not 99 in display so the closeness is just by chance.
Must be 1948, which makes sense because that was before restarting the computer was invented, so if it crashed the only option was to put it out of its misery and get a new one. They had them in vending machines for $3.50.
Check out the noise on the computer screen which magically disappears over the dialog box. Gotta say though, lighting and everything else looks dead on, just the details.
yeah i agree that the computer screen doesn’t make sense. but like it’s not a dead giveaway imo. like if this picture was organic, maybe these people chose an image that didn’t make technical sense because it wasn’t too important for the photos composition. you know what i mean? like this is scary close to being indistinguishable from some old photograph and i hate it :p
Just the thumbnail and I wouldn’t even question it. Scary times.
it could be an error over an ATI tuner window, but they liked to show blue when there was no signal. The taskbar button for the window is really wide and that’s a sony trinitron tube with a namebadge that didn’t really exist back then
I think I see what you mean now, it was worded confusingly. That taskbar button is too wide though.
SIGKILL
92% sure thats a Beretta 92 FS, possibly the compact variant, but very good pun either way!
Maybe we can cause a causality loop if someone shops it into a Sig P226.
Def not a sig, pretty sure you’re dead on. I wasn’t even making that pun, tbh. Wish I had, it’s a good one lol
I am a nerd of many realms lol, your pun actually made me go check, ‘wait, is that a Sig?’, haha!
I wasn’t “fooled by AI” but simply gooning the Inox Beretta 92 compact.
With the jank-ass safety lever and the top grip screw in the wrong place?
Don’t worry, I have a worse one you can look at. Here you go.
run,
RUN AS A MOTHA FCKN GANGSTA.
I had that sweatshirt, desk, bookshelf, PC case, and ceiling light. I didn’t have the gun or I’d be freaking out.
Hey, the screen is not the computer!
Is this some kind of
rm -rf /hostage situation?Yeah, still in the
sudostage.And no trigger discipline at all on that sudo. That’s criminal negligence. Very Baldwin-inspired.
kill --9mm
IDE is an anagram for DIE
