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Maybe a life preserver ring won’t become out of date? 🛟

I mean, Mary was supposedly around age 14 when she gave birth to Jesus. I wouldn’t consider a 14 year old to yet be a woman.

I’m not being any more pedantic than Shakespeare’s Macduff.

I heard on the radio that bacteria is what killed the Martians

Google prioritizes Reddit results FYI

Yes, I think of them as circumstantial evidence rather than hard evidence.

That is the definition of enshittification… right? I don’t know, I can’t check

I can tell you copy and pasted part of my comment because I am possibly the biggest stickler in the world for grammatically-correct-but-still-parsable unusual singular and plural forms of nouns in my formal-ish writing, in this case “agendum”.

Detrimental

While I appreciate you calling out AI content, it is helpful to substantiate how you concluded that it is AI generated to prevent people thinking these claims are all false positives. Nothing in the image seemed uncanny to me (apart from whatever physics would be required to make the suit itself). Several different online AI image detectors all claimed this image was real. Reverse image searches led to only recent social media posts with no further details. I did find two sources (of dubious credibility) that claim it to be AI generated

Source 1: https://x.com/i/trending/1987710874111398067

Source 2: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/beer-jacket-viral-trend/

Despite the apparent lack of any AI generated image traits (as far as the detectors and me can tell), since there is apparently no further details and all of the information is new and “viral”, I would think this is AI generated. It would also make sense as an awareness marketing scheme for the beer brand on the front of the coat.

What characteristics stuck out to you?

Edit: Based on the above information and things other commenters said, I think the simplest solution is that the beer’s marketing campaign started with a real photo of a guy in a clear puffy jacket and then used AI and/or photoshop to edit the image to fill the jacket with beer and to put a logo and straw on it. I’ve seen no criticisms of anything separate from the jacket, so the environment, lighting, camera focus, and guy’s face seem canny enough to be real. I guess there are two points at hand:

1. Is it real? No.

2. Is it AI-generated specifically? Undetermined. There are loads of memes that are photoshopped which we don’t take issue with. It’s specifically the images which are deceptive about their plausibility that are the problem.

Supine

On social media like Reddit, unnecessary censorship is often used as engagement bait. As far as I am aware, comments on the Threadiverse (a broader term than just “Lemmy”) only boosts posts upward in the Active category rather than in the Hot category, so that form of engagement bait uniquely does not really work here. Additionally, bots on Reddit would repost (either from old Reddit posts or directly from the source social medium) screenshots of tweets with the username edited to a different user, sometimes even celebrities, to bypass image recognition filters.

In my mind, it’s always best to cite your source if you can. However, if you can separate the self-focused fluff (if there is any) from the actual content, that would be even better. An example of this is a screenshot of a TikTok with a paragraph of soapbox text located near the content creator’s face; we don’t need the excess focus on the clout-chasing, so cropping the image to just their paragraph (assuming it is an original quote) and citing the creator would be better in that case.

On another sidenote, unlike Reddit, you can edit your posts here to change the image in the post.

Why censor username?

Do you have links to any examples? I can’t say I’ve seen a whole lot of what you’re describing apart from a few isolated posts or comments here or there. I’d suggest checking to see if a significant portion of these posts are coming from a specific community or from a specific instance, and then adjusting your blocks to accommodate.

P.S. Since we’re on the topic, I’m not a bot; I just talk and write like this.

P.P.S. That’s not entirely true. I would have written “I’m not a bot—I just talk and write like this.” but it didn’t seem like an appropriate time to use an em dash.

Edit: after looking through OP’s profile and seeing a couple of apparently AI-generated posts, I’m starting to think that this post is also AI-generated or that OP has some weird false flag-esque agendum that they’re up to

Edit 2: the banner picture on their profile literally reads “LLM❤️”. They are a troll spam account.

puts on tinfoil hat For the entirety of his journeys, Spock uses his telepathic powers off camera to manipulate his starship captains as useful idiots that can take the fall for any error while he executes his personal agendum

puts on a second, larger tin foil hat All of the Vulcans are actually using their telepathy to puppeteer humankind to remotely fulfill their own agendum

puts on a third, even larger tinfoil hat The Talosians are actually using their telepathy to puppeteer Vulcankind into puppeteering humankind to remotely fulfill their agendum

What does a starship captain want with a meme?

I can’t do a thought police, but that is categorically what cults do. It’s not thought policing to advise people to be wary of thought policing or to promote scientific literacy and empathy.

I don’t agree with conservatives’ way of life and they shouldn’t be allowed to get married