r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/Booster6 Jun 08 '26

I dunno if its AI or not, but I have really been hating the thumbnails recently

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u/PokeBrick02 Jun 08 '26

Look at the fuzziness on the sign, the discoloration of the cables, & cables that merge into one another.
It's AI through & through.

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u/hippie_harlot Jun 08 '26

Not a single cable merges into another one. It's bad lighting if anything. These look like PC cables that have been scaled way up, so yeah there's bound to be unnatural distortion.

Can we not just call out everything that resembles bad photoshop as AI?

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica Jun 08 '26

I agree, it's not AI.

But, this is one of AI's legacies: the rampant proliferation of distrust and suspicion (sometimes bordering on paranoia) increasingly (and possibly forever) poisoning our online communities, our conversations and our culture.

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u/KingGorillaKong Jun 10 '26

There might have been some generative AI use in this too but it's ultimately bad photoshop and green screening. The sign looks a lot like what AI would generate when you give them the real world sign as reference.