Nice find, kind of damning. That version has a totally different wall on the right side to the version posted here, it also seems to be from a slightly different angle. This screams AI manipulation – if not outright fabrication – of at least one of those images. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re both fake, but a pretty big red flag.
That comparison looks like it’s just picture of the same subject taken with two different cameras from sligthly different angle. I’m somewhat experienced in photography, picture editing and playing with GenAI and nothing immediately stands out as being fake/manipulated. Doesn’t mean it’s can’t be ofcourse. That one few comments down with blood on the ground is fake though.
It’s the wall on the right – in the wide version (from felesteen.news) it’s all the same blue colour, and a corner, whereas in the Reddit version it’s a white concrete pillar with no corner.
At the very least, someone’s done some infilling on one of them. My most charitable guess was that someone at the news site decided to “punch up” the image for an article header, but the third version and its timing make me think Occam’s razor is the way to go here.
Oh yeah, good point - I don’t know how I missed that. I was focusing on the cracks on the wall and the placement of pebbles on the ground. Yeah that’s not just overexposure from sunshine making it seem different color.
It’s odd because the trash in the corner on the left is consistent, and the blood pattern is the same, and even the cracks on the wall behind them are the same, but the pillar shifts location and color.
It seems to me like there was a reference image. Whether it’s the AI plagiarizing something it was trained on, or an actual image that was thrown through a processing pipeline with AI.
But of course, the most charitable guess is as always that it’s deliberate Mossad misinformation, because we just spent a couple hundred collective hours analyzing an image rather than burning down an embassy because they did actually murder children.
Good catch! There are multiple manipulated versions, so currently I doubt there is an original photograph. Here the version, where you can see extra blood markings on the ground:
Your version was posted within 3 minutes of this post someone linked in the comments of the Reddit version. So yeah, all credibility lost as far as I’m concerned.
What I don’t get is why, if this is some sort of coordinated campaign, you wouldn’t just generate entirely new images, rather than AI-daydream variants of the exact same one, which makes it obvious they’re manipulated.
Nice find, kind of damning. That version has a totally different wall on the right side to the version posted here, it also seems to be from a slightly different angle. This screams AI manipulation – if not outright fabrication – of at least one of those images. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re both fake, but a pretty big red flag.
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That comparison looks like it’s just picture of the same subject taken with two different cameras from sligthly different angle. I’m somewhat experienced in photography, picture editing and playing with GenAI and nothing immediately stands out as being fake/manipulated. Doesn’t mean it’s can’t be ofcourse. That one few comments down with blood on the ground is fake though.
It’s the wall on the right – in the wide version (from felesteen.news) it’s all the same blue colour, and a corner, whereas in the Reddit version it’s a white concrete pillar with no corner.
At the very least, someone’s done some infilling on one of them. My most charitable guess was that someone at the news site decided to “punch up” the image for an article header, but the third version and its timing make me think Occam’s razor is the way to go here.
Oh yeah, good point - I don’t know how I missed that. I was focusing on the cracks on the wall and the placement of pebbles on the ground. Yeah that’s not just overexposure from sunshine making it seem different color.
It’s odd because the trash in the corner on the left is consistent, and the blood pattern is the same, and even the cracks on the wall behind them are the same, but the pillar shifts location and color.
It seems to me like there was a reference image. Whether it’s the AI plagiarizing something it was trained on, or an actual image that was thrown through a processing pipeline with AI.
But of course, the most charitable guess is as always that it’s deliberate Mossad misinformation, because we just spent a couple hundred collective hours analyzing an image rather than burning down an embassy because they did actually murder children.
What are you talking about, the concrete is different between them, and the paint on the wall too.
Did someone pour more concrete between the shots and paint the vertical white line on the wall?
Good catch! There are multiple manipulated versions, so currently I doubt there is an original photograph. Here the version, where you can see extra blood markings on the ground:
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Your version was posted within 3 minutes of this post someone linked in the comments of the Reddit version. So yeah, all credibility lost as far as I’m concerned.
What I don’t get is why, if this is some sort of coordinated campaign, you wouldn’t just generate entirely new images, rather than AI-daydream variants of the exact same one, which makes it obvious they’re manipulated.