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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

mentos sign is photoshopped, if someone wondered

[–] Maven@piefed.zip 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Im pretty sure both of them are tbh

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

But they couldn't even do a diet Coke sign? (since regular doesn't work nearly as well.)

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty sure both of them are LLM-generated

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago
  • LLMs, by definition, do not generate images.
  • This image predates AI.
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

These have been AI upscaled, hence the artifacts.

Are you telling me that mentos doesn't ship entire trucks or that they don't bother to put the logo in the top of the trucks that they clearly don't have?