I think it’s AI-mangled. I found this older version over on Reddit, posted there on August 2nd.
Notice that that version looks less shopped around the systemd output, has more detail in the metal pieces and in the shadows around the cardboard, and still has an electrical outlet in the back.
AI mangled or just compressed multiple times as its been shared around? Probably a download of a compressed version a few times before ending up with this text? It looks lower resolution and cropped rather than substantially changed to me.
I don’t think it’s just normal edit-compress-cycles.
The cropping theory doesn’t align with the cardboard piece
The second flavour from the right has lost the term “Freeze” from its name somehow
The way the metal ring on the refill plug has merged with the vertical metal piece on the outlet just screams of a typical AI-not-understanding-functional-parts error to me.
I think it’s AI-mangled. I found this older version over on Reddit, posted there on August 2nd.
Notice that that version looks less shopped around the systemd output, has more detail in the metal pieces and in the shadows around the cardboard, and still has an electrical outlet in the back.
AI mangled or just compressed multiple times as its been shared around? Probably a download of a compressed version a few times before ending up with this text? It looks lower resolution and cropped rather than substantially changed to me.
I don’t think it’s just normal edit-compress-cycles.
Maybe an AI-upscaled version of a reposted low-res (and on the way to being deep-fried) jpeg?
The lines of the wall behind also look different, and there’s some edges around part of the screen in the post that aren’t there in the original.
Also, the carton behind looks to be in a slightly different place.
Also, the 7-eleven logo on the working display has disappeared.
Not just the logo, look again, I missed it too at first, an entire word is gone from the name :D
On top of that the whole dispenser part is just entirely different except shape and colour.
Wow yeah, the bolts are also round rather than hexagonal. And it has that weird AI contrast all over it.
also the mtn dew sign looks so uncanny and shiny
I’m so bewildered by this. It’s like a photographic Mandela effect.
@[email protected] where did you find this version?