• bmpvy@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      12 hours ago

      thank u for calling it out - I’ve been a) too tired to notice or b) too old for this shit and a believer-at-first-sight 😭

      • ViceroTempus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 hours ago

        While this image might be AI modified the original image of the cat is not. I remember this picture from a long time ago before AI image generation.

        • redjard@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Can you try to find that original? I am struggling with it.
          Or do you remember anything about it? How similar was it?

          In searching it I found a lot of downscales at poor enough quality it’s no longer apparent to me to be AI.

          I even found a video, which I’m pretty sure is generated too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNvqyYlfk4A
          Note the weird way the “breathing” shifts around the cats body. And the shadow of a phone that appears in the reflection of light to the right at the end, which makes no sense with the direction of light based on that reflection and the cats shadow.

          Edit: I found one from June 26 on Instagram, which is higher res and slopped with a different AI (Google’s).

          different, higher res slop

          • ViceroTempus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            So it would be around 10 years old… I think. In fact I’m almost sure this cat ended up in memes. But I admit my memory is fuzzy, and its always possible that I just saw a similar image from the time, or my brain did what brains do and condensed the information into a false memory.

            But yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that cat image before, but I can’t be 100% these days unfortunately.

            • redjard@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              It may be. These ai slopperies usually copy something preexisting.
              Unfortunately then Im not sure how to dig it out, without some tagline the meme was under, a name, or something close enough visually to find it.
              This must have come out different enough to not be reverse searchable to the original it rips off.

              If you have any title or tagline you remember seeing with the image, that’d help. If it also was that same tetris shape, that’d already be a starting point. I found a very different tetris cat meme yesterday while hunting it the first time:

              There is also long cat, and many instances of multiple cats one box.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 hours ago

    I’m the sole downvote, and I want everyone to know it’s because of the red circle and arrow.