Alt text: a YouTube thumbnail featuring a shirtless, bearded, grinning man holding a cucumber and a measuring tape. Next to him is the text “IT WORKED!”

A caption was added: “mesopotamian farmers after discovering irrigation”

  • flavia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    May actually be AI. The original video has a different face and this is the first time I’ve seen this version, looks uncanny.

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      7 months ago

      The measuring tape seems to have the correct numbers though. AI tends to have trouble with generating images with numbers or letters in them, and I think that if this was AI generated, it would have nonsense characters and numbers out of order.

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        7 months ago

        In Photoshop the AI tool allows you to generate only a specific portion of an image. The eyes appear to be the same but the mouth is different and the ruler is slightly bent. Reverse image search shows only this post

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          7 months ago

          Ok I’ll be honest. I used faceapp to give the guy a thicker beard and a smile. no particular reason, I just wanted to see if anyone would notice the difference lol

          for reference the original is this:

          alt text: same as post but the guy has a thinner beard and has an O-shaped mouth