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Feb 12, 2026, 2:54 PM@Mimesatwork @gbargoud @PeachMcD step one, don't assume ill intent. Politely let people know if they are boosting AI.
Be nice though!
After that, yeah, time to hide the boosts.
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🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mimesatwork@wandering.shopFeb 12, 2026, 3:00 PM@renwillis @gbargoud @PeachMcD The problem I run into most these days though is that I can't 100% tell if something is AI if it's not the basic Computer Graphic Average From 2015 style.
There was this old painting meme going around a few days ago I just couldn't get a proper read on. I couldn't find an original and the image had certifiably been online for only few weeks.
Feb 12, 2026, 3:05 PM@Mimesatwork @renwillis @PeachMcD
If it was the hippo farting fire one, the actual artist was eventually found and posted there.
- 🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mimesatwork@wandering.shopFeb 12, 2026, 3:10 PM
@gbargoud @renwillis @PeachMcD LOL it wasn't but god you have to link me to that one I'm begging you :D
It's this one (I'm not up on my art history so I can't investigate based on that). I saved the image to try edge detect, but obviously if the quality is poor enough to start with, it's not going to be conclusive
- Feb 12, 2026, 3:20 PM
I see a "I louvre art memes" watermark on it which could be a good place to investigate.
I think it's probably legit, putting text on an existing painting is so much easier than getting an AI generation of a painting that looks good/consistent and I expect the person who made it took the lower effort route
- 🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mimesatwork@wandering.shopFeb 12, 2026, 3:31 PM
@gbargoud Yeah I tried looking for that and only came up with a FB group that's either a closed or no longer exists. And I would totally agree that just taking an actual painting would be the easiest, but the fact that I couldn't find anything online (I wanted to credit the original painting) just got my AI-senses tingling
Tbf, as time goes on, the worse my ai-sense gets
- Feb 12, 2026, 3:12 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116046831070586389
@Mimesatwork @renwillis @PeachMcD
That was a difficult one because the quality was too high to be AI art but the subject matter was truly ridiculous in the best ways
- 🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥Mimesatwork@wandering.shopFeb 12, 2026, 3:15 PM
@gbargoud @renwillis @PeachMcD That's truly amazing! Thank you! This is what the internet is really about
