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Just Kitten (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/aww
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Without hyperbole, this is actually the cutest kitten I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a cartoon-level of cuteness. The one in the bunch that goes to the door to put on the cute while the others sneak in through the open door to raid the kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~I doubt it's real. The foot placement is a bit implausible and what is that thing behind it? Feels AI-ish.~~

Edit: I think it's probably real after all, given the age of this reddit post and the existence of other photos that seem to be from the same shoot (Pinterest link).

Edit: Someone else found the Instagram page and the image was posted there 5 years ago.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's fake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not AI. The oldest version of this image is from May 11th 2020, and the first widespread text-to-image model DALL-E came out in January 2021. That makes this image too old to be AI-generated.

It also doesn't show any strange AI defects the early models had, in case you may think it's from a very early proprietary unreleased model or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oh, wow...I let my guard down for one second. Ugh.

Edit: I've gone back and looked at it very closely. I still don't think it's AI, on balance. This seems like a still from a video clip that has compression artifacts. My clues:

Against AI:

  • The fine details like whiskers have enough random but consistent imperfection that it doesn't match what AI normally outputs (either consistent perfection, or inconsistent imperfection - too-perfect whiskers or whiskers that blend into each other is what I'd expect from AI). There is some whisker-blending, but that seems more consistent with video compression blur than AI.
  • The couch seems to have post-compression remnants of hairs that aren't likely from AI.
  • The eyes are one area where AI is very inconsistent, but the irises (for dilated eyes) are very consistent. Though there is heterochromia, I'd expect to see some AI mess around the eyes.

For AI:

  • I agree the chew toy looks off. I don't know that that counteracts the above.
  • It could be cropped and compressed explicitly to obscure AI giveaway details.

I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect it's real.

Edit 2: As others have noted, it's real. My AI detector isn't obsolete, for a few more months/weeks/days at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It appeared on reddit 4 years ago. This probably means it's real.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/j4hf8t/cute_small_kitten/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's indeed real, this image is from 2020, AI image generators came out in 2021.