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• s@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Re: your edit

  Google will sometimes show results from Reddit but ultimately link to a different post. AFAIK, the content that Google says is on the page may actually be content that is either from related posts shown on the Reddit mobile site or from another post somewhere on the subreddit (or maybe just somewhere else on Reddit entirely?). The timestamp that Google gives seems to be from when the linked post was made (with some discrepancies as to when Google and Reddit decide to round up or down in terms of unit time)

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• s@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To me, a new image rather than a touch up seems more likely. It just feels like there’s too much Gandhi mixed in the original photo.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re most likely right. What an odd thing for people to do, it’s almost more effort. The OP who posted it though doesn’t seem to have any other AI things, so it’s weird.

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    • s@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fediverse OP probably nicked the image from Reddit or somewhere else, given that you saw Reddit links alongside this image in your web search

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• BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Google is alleging the first known version is 7 years old, which would predate AI - but I cannot open the link it only takes me to the community homepage.

  There were definitely AI models for restoring images 7 years ago. I remember using github.com/jantic/DeOldify (which started in 2018) about 6 years ago to colorize an old photo album, and it worked well.

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