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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Time to refer to the checklist:
[x] Hat
[ ] Cattle
You can tell he’s not in Texas because he would have a heat stroke in that leather jacket.
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.
That depends on where you are in Texas. The westernmost parts are definitely desert.
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.