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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I think it's AI-mangled. I found this older version over on Reddit, posted there on August 2nd.

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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.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.
[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, the carton behind looks to be in a slightly different place.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, the 7-eleven logo on the working display has disappeared.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Not just the logo, look again, I missed it too at first, an entire word is gone from the name :D

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

On top of that the whole dispenser part is just entirely different except shape and colour.

Maybe an AI-upscaled version of a reposted low-res (and on the way to being deep-fried) jpeg?

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

I'm so bewildered by this. It's like a photographic Mandela effect.

@memesmadetorunonlinux@techhub.social where did you find this version?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow yeah, the bolts are also round rather than hexagonal. And it has that weird AI contrast all over it.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

also the mtn dew sign looks so uncanny and shiny

[–] NochMehrG@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was wondering.. Each „screen“ a system?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

That's what I thought at first, then, that one is probably accidentally mapped to console rather than the flavour display.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doubtful, someone definitely Gimped it though

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

😄 Sure, I meant shopped as in a verb meaning digitally altered.