That does not mean that putting the AI image in that context for humorous purposes was done in AI.
It is also trivial to strip watermarks so checking for watermarks isn’t reliable. Not all gen AI images are even created with watermarks. It’s like checking an optional note from a parent.
We should just call stuff fake if that is what matters. Whether it is gen AI or photoshop is far less important than being fake.
So, the image is fake, but the product exists. Also, Kmart does sell a few sex toys. So, the only lie here is that Kmart sells this particular sex toy, as it does not.
Many years ago, before Walgreens started selling sex toys in store, I bought a hitachi magic wand from them. (This was before their mainstream adoption as a sex toy, and they were not labeled as such on their site. They were significantly cheaper there than at places selling them as sex toys.)
But to your point - many believable lies contain plausible truths.
We are done. People who can identify an AI image are now the minority and the mass will be fooled and yet choose to be confidently wrong about it.
If you are curious, read up about ai image watermarking: https://youtu.be/kVXp6UNVPTo
https://youtu.be/9btDaOcfIMY https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/ https://openai.com/research/verify/
I just assumed it was fake.
But I don’t think this is.
https://www.thestashplug.com/
It’s a butt plug in a department store, of course it’s fake.
The first clue was Kmart honestly.
Also pretty sure it’s a non-standard logo for Kmart too.
There’s other details but that was a major one for me.
You know, on top of the idea of this somehow getting sold in a box store which is silly enough to begin with.
Actually no; that is both the correct logo for KMart in Australia AND its own internal brand Anko:
https://www.kmart.com.au/search/?searchTerm=Anko
Nobody thinks this is a real image in a Kmart. They just dispute whether the obviously fake image was photoshopped or generated by AI.
The butt plug image used is AI but also from the company that sells them: https://craverise.com/products/stainless-steel-hidden-key-box-butt-plug
That does not mean that putting the AI image in that context for humorous purposes was done in AI.
It is also trivial to strip watermarks so checking for watermarks isn’t reliable. Not all gen AI images are even created with watermarks. It’s like checking an optional note from a parent.
We should just call stuff fake if that is what matters. Whether it is gen AI or photoshop is far less important than being fake.
I’m weirdly disappointed the real product has a gem in the base.
So, the image is fake, but the product exists. Also, Kmart does sell a few sex toys. So, the only lie here is that Kmart sells this particular sex toy, as it does not.
Many years ago, before Walgreens started selling sex toys in store, I bought a hitachi magic wand from them. (This was before their mainstream adoption as a sex toy, and they were not labeled as such on their site. They were significantly cheaper there than at places selling them as sex toys.)
But to your point - many believable lies contain plausible truths.