elon is a lame poser

Why does it feel like an AI generated image? Am I the only one getting this vibe?

Hyper-detailed foreground with a blurry background and a subject matter that falls into the uncanny valley? Yeah, that all checks out.

E2A: Zoom in on smaller sections and it becomes more obvious. Objects that should be in the same depth of field have different levels of blur, patterns don’t follow rules, it looks like the jacket has buttons, but half of a zipper on one side? There’s a lot of little things.

You are good at pointing out what feels wrong in the image. It could be a case of very heavy editing or AI-powered filters without necessarily being completely ai generated but I still stand by my initial impression that it gives and AI vibe and you are right about why

Musk really did post this.

Whether he used an AI generator or not, it’s possible. But honestly, I could easily see him paying for a photoshoot for this since he announced moving SpaceX to Texas.

The cut off conspiracy theory image 🤣

I love the idea that not only is he all-hat-no-cattle, he also faked the hat.

Not to come off as a musk fan-boy (I am most certainly not), but that’s a damn good photograph. Absolutely a professional photoshoot with hilariously high-end wardrobe.

Dude spent a shitload of money on a photographer so he could feel like a cowboy for a few minutes.

Edit: I’m still not sure it’s actually a real photo though, it doesn’t sit right with me.

If it’s real, I’m confident he had some competent assistant hire a competent crew for that photo-op. I’m guessing a competent PR consultant suggested a good photo-op in the first place, hit the right buttons to appeal to his wannabe cool image.

If it’s fake, some competent developer created a good tool, fed with competently selected data to create a rather convincing image.

What I’m trying to say is that there most certainly were several competent people involved in the making of this picture.

Just not the subject.

I wanted to say that outfit slaps also, glad i found a homie to agree.

Somehow it makes his face even more slappable though. Mannnn can you imagine how good it would feel to hit a stinger on that gob?

Fair, I wasn’t wondering if he did or didn’t post (I guess it could have been a fake tweet too, one can never be too sure). Just pointing at the aesthetics in the image, there’s something uncanny about it

Yeah, in hindsight that’s completely fair

Because it is either an AI image or it has been processed to look like one.

You know it’s AI because the hat isn’t on backwards this time

It doesn’t need to be AI generated. He is that ugly and weird.

The scarf looks rather strange. Some partitions are square patterned while the rest follow some arbitrary dotting.

Yup, that seam/twist there on the foreground is almost a definitive giveaway

Edit: I mean I guess that especially a rich person could, for some reason, wear a weird ass scarf designed by someone who thinks in a very out-of-the-box way… but which is more likely?

I mean I guess that especially a rich person could, for some reason, wear a weird ass scarf designed by someone who thinks in a very out-of-the-box way… but which is more likely?

This is douchebag Musk we’re talking about. Either one is equally possible, lol.

It probably is why bother with the dress up when you can generate the photo after some trial an error.

That’s because it’s an ai image by the looks of it

One of the community notes on the post said it was posted the day before by another account, and an AI image detector flagged it as AI with 90% confidence.

Musk using an AI image to fantasize about being some badass cowboy is both pathetic and absolutely expected lol

If he’d gone and bought a cowboy hat in the last few weeks, they would’ve at least attempted to sell him a summer hat (straw) instead of a winter hat (felt). Not definitive but strange.

What was the Texan saying?
All hat no cattle?

It’s actually “look at that douche bag in the cowboy get up” I’m from Texas and we don’t wear the cowboy hats for the most part. They’re for tourists.

This reply reminds me of Marty Mcfly entering the saloon with the pink cowboy outfit in back to the future

Never been to Dallas?

Yeah, all the d-bags wear cowboy hats here.

Time to refer to the checklist:

[x] Hat
[ ] Cattle

[] Working class
[] Predominantly people of color 
[] Poor
[] Hardworking

Also predominatly homosexual.

He keeps his cattle at the factories.

You can tell he’s not in Texas because he would have a heat stroke in that leather jacket.

If he’d gone and bought a cowboy hat in the last few weeks, they would’ve at least attempted to sell him a summer hat (straw) instead of a winter hat (felt). Not definitive but strange.

The desert can get real cold.

Texas isn’t a desert.

Edit: Please read what I wrote before replying. Texas isn’t a desert does not mean Texas has no desert. 90±% of the state is not desert, including where the vast majority of people live.

Not Austin at least. Maybe if you go 100 miles West of there.

That depends on where you are in Texas. The westernmost parts are definitely desert.

Deaf Smith disagrees.

The picture feels AI generated

yeah I thought the same thing. there’s uncanny valley vibes; it looks more human than Elon, but not quite fully human.

It’s the leather creases on the jacket. Not even remotely natural.

I’m thinking someone went nuts with the Photoshop. It’s what Elon Musk thinks he looks like, and I don’t think AI would be able to get that look just the way Elon wants it.

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