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A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI (qz.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI::Look at the fingers. You always have to look at the fingers

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[–] BeardedBlaze 179 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Am I the only one that's seeing this pic for the first time?

[–] Waldowal 82 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same. Not sure why it would go viral.

[–] TrickDacy 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly my thought. Looks pretty boring and not something I would consider sharing even if it was a single button push.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, and 5 years ago, this would have at least been a somewhat interesting slice-of-life picture. Now it's just bullshit. This could just as well be Mozart smoking a fat one at a McCleopatra's in feudal China. It would be just as a meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It didn’t go viral. The article said it went viral to make a viral.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I hope so. My question is, why is this pic allegedly going viral?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MacD’s trying out stable diffusion for their new ad campaign

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

MacD’s

I think you mean ModL's.

[–] tourist 11 points 9 months ago

I spend an embarrassingly stupid amount of time on the internet.

Every time I see an article describing something as "viral", it's almost always the first time I'm hearing about it. (Also, coincidentally often the last time)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It was posted in some community on Lemmy. I saw it in my feed but don't remember where.

[–] scorpious 5 points 9 months ago

“Viral” is completely meaningless now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I saw it before the news...but not sure how much viral it went.