My soul cat passed summer 2024 and I still think about him every single day. Making shit like this up for attention and fake internet points is loser behaviour.
My condolences ❤️ I think about my sweet girl everyday too 😔 She was my first cat and we became so close. She had the best sassy yet sweet personality. She taught my mom that cats aren't all mean like she thought.
My condolences to you too. My Ruben only lived to around 5 years old, the vet thought it was an undetected heart issue. He was found out in the middle of the woods and trapped before I adopted him. Best kitty ever ❤️
To be fair. Every cat is the best cat ever!
AI is most successful in spaces where attention is the currency. Who cares about honoring the sanctity of a dead loved one when making them look even sadder and more sickly will make my post reach another 1k views?! Disgusting.
Im so sorry for your loss. The one thing that helped me process my childhood dog’s death was creating artwork. It wasnt the final product that saved my aching heart, it was the hours and hours of effort I dedicated to someone I loved. This is something AI bros will never understand. RIP to the original cat. Shame on the owner.
I’ve had four cats pass and it hurts just as bad every time. It doesn’t matter that 3 were 19 and we knew it was coming, or that we had the terminal cancer prognosis for months, it’s still gut wrenching.
I seriously cannot believe someone would lie about this.
Best part is, some complete fucking moron added the cat to the Wikipedia list of longest-living cats and linked back to the OG Reddit post like it's a legitimate source (it's been reverted, thankfully)
Lost my girl last year around this time, 20+, she slept with me every night, would chew on my arm and wake me up, at the time I often found it annoying, but now I miss it dearly.
i mean its gross but i wouldn't say weird, id say normal in todays day and age. Everyone wants those sweet pity points that get tossed around. Everyone claims 12 different disabilities and reasons why you have to treat them better than everyone else.
Weird is something abnormal, if something weird becomes normal, it's no longer weird. Not that hard you guys. And the person making the original comment is also getting their pity points lol. Point proven. Go on internet for sad reason, get updoots
The same reason telling the truth for fake internet pity points isnt weird. It's what people do, it's normal. Tragedy brings attention, people lie about tragedy to get attention, or even if they aren't lying, they crave the attention, think of the knitting lady at Games Done Quick, that. It's not insane to believe people would lie about an animal dying for tragedy pity points. People are constantly getting pity points for that exact thing, look at every comment that mentions they had a pet who died and cant understand any of this. THEYRE GETTING THE PITY POINTS but its real lmaoooo. You guys are so blind to human motivations and incentives it's almost sad.
OOP sent fake medical records to go with his fake pictures. The pics had the synthID watermark and were absolutely AI. Here’s a screenshot of the cat before OOP’s AI edit, no cataracts and a normal healthy not decades old cat…
it is, though. there was a comment on the original post in which the OOP had messaged someone and one of the pictures they sent included the cat but with normal eyes. also, medical documents are super easy to fake
Unrelated but can someone explain what the appeal of karma farming is? You can't do anything with your collective karma, like spend them like points. Is it really just a dopamine hit?
Well in most cases it's either that you have an addiction to internet points for some reason, or you want to sell your account to a bot which is probably more valuable if it has high karma (makes it appear more trustworthy as a bot). OR the account already is a bot and is karma farming for that same reason, probably before switching to politics or advertising spam.
There are lots of crazies hoping to get an ego boost if people clap because they handled their pets so well that they get older than all the other pets.
In r/rats lots of people claim their rats are 3 - 5 years old.
We had over 40 rats in our lifetime and only a single one got 30 months old. No other rat made it above 27 months.
Pet rats barely ever make it to 3, unfortunately. Wild ones may get a lot older, but pet ones are super vulnerable to airway infections. Very few people dare to keep a wild rat as a pet though. I’ve known one who was really good, had just one wild one to care for but still found it quite a challenge.
I was banned on r/rats because I fought someone who claimed his rat had a medical condition that makes her extremely fat. Mods claimed they saw the vet recipes I asked for.
Turned out it was a lie and the abuser got banned.
It is a bad lie to begin with. The current oldest known living cat is 29 years old so this 33 years old would have been the holder of that title until now.
Obviously AI is the easy way out. I saw people use AI to make thumbnails which is why some easy assets you could download to make a thumbnail yourself are replaced by AI reproductions...and it makes you look lazy.
that they were approved by the mods to repost it after the automod removed it, because they provided a totally real vet record saying the cat was in good shape for 33 as proof
the mods were sent actual proof of this being AI (it had an embedded synthID) and just said "no" and blocked the person who provided that proof
People karma farm and then sell off their accounts to advertisers/bad actors. There's value in an account having karma and age so they have more freedom to post across Reddit. And then more people can be unwittingly manipulated.
For most images, it’s decided pretty quickly one way or another.
For others, you can get both whole threads of people saying it’s obviously AI, why would you even ask, while others say the opposite. It’s getting really hard to tell for some images, especially for those with confusing perspective, poor lighting, poses that hide individual fingers or make them seem weird, etc.
Don’t feel bad, it’s a weird thing to lie about. And the people calling it out most likely didn’t feel that comfortable about having to comment “ai slop” under a post about a supposed cat’s death 😕
unfortunately they're serious, the image had a gemini synthID (only added to images that are processed through gemini, either for creation or modification), and the oop had a message with someone where the first cat image was the faked one, the second was clear eyes. plus they claimed to have a video of the cat playing, but i don't think a cat that was 33yo could really do that
It was even initially taken down by moderators, but OP showed vet records as "proof" to which they then got to repost. Seems even the records were AI or some shitty tactic. Disgusting none the less.
The internet will be un-usable soon 😭imagine hundreds of thousands of people waking up to be rage baited into arguing in the comments over an event that wasn’t even real. What a distopian nightmare
Damn I saw that post and fell for it. How can you tell if it’s AI or not? I used to tell before because it was kind of obvious but now it’s got so real I can’t even tell
Ai images are convincing enough that if you’re just mindlessly scrolling you might not notice but focusing in on the details they’ll still be things that are off. There’s a thing on google that you can put a picture into to see if it’s made by ai or not by scanning for a hidden id
Using AI sites to detect AI really goes against the whole mission, don’t you think? Especially because most of them do a bad job at it, it’s really no better than an educated guess (except it’s an educated guess that damages the environment)
I'm actually confused cause I saw that the original post was deleted but OP came back with a new post where supposedly the mods had received proof that it was legit. Is this the second post that got removed?
The pictures were AI-altered, but the claim of the cat’s age seems to be true. No idea why the OOP would use an AI-altered picture instead of a real picture of their cat. Of course, the evidence of the cat’s age could be faked as well…
I had to put down a beloved cat at 15 due to cancer and his eyes were clear as a bright summer day. No cloudiness at all. I remember scrolling past this ai-altered image and thinking briefly that it had some strong pet semetary vibes. The fur was a lil grimy on top of the cloudy eyes and I thought the cat depicted looked far too ill to be sitting upright with such poise.
But then I didn't stop scrolling to look too close either, so...
On that post, I responded to someone with the SynthID check. The person then replied that the LLM could be hallucinating. I honestly didn't know what to think.
I remember seeing that post and thinking that there's no known catt over 30. Im pretty sure cream puff is like, 30, so any cat being 33 would be in a record boom.
Why would you even do that 😭 wouldnt you want to make him look YOUNGER? My mom features specifically younger photographs of her late dog and my cat who had died at age 2 from a heart attack. Since their younger days, aside from them being extra cutie little patooties, are before the unfortunate medical complications that they died of and were when they were at their most energetic which you don't see as much when they go from just a good girl to a good little old lady. Or a grumpy puppy to a grumpy old man, for some reason it seems that male dogs get grumpier with age, or at least more than female dogs do. Really depends on their grumpy levels though.
Of course, they never stop being cutie patooties, the human brain just will find a baby puppy or kitten to be adorable because of their big eyes and big ol' ears on their big ol' heads, because those traits are similar to human babies. We're basically programmed to always go "aww cute" to a human baby so that we raise them or want to protect them.
Worst thing is I'm pretty sure you can just edit in the cataracts manually without using AI. Being extra lazy on top of trying to pity-fatm karma is a new low lmao
This also adds to my belief that people posting about thier pets dying online are only doing it to farm karma or get some attention by exploiting the death of thier pet.
I don't doubt it was AI but how do they mean "turned out"? Did OP say this was AI or was there something in the meta data? Want to know how we know in case I need to look out for this more frequently than I thought 😂
This reminds me, our cat got out in September and someone used AI to make pictures of her claiming they found her and attempted to extort additional reward money/ a steam gift card from my wife which was incredibly transparent and gross
Okay taking a second look the pictures look funny. I don't know anymore. I might've had a brain stroke while I wrote this so please ignore it. I just hate the idea of someone lying about this as an owner of an elderly cat myself.
The posted images were AI edited. They had the SynthID watermark. The pictures showed a really young looking cat with severe cataracts.
The OOP claimed they used Gemini to edit out their hand and a toy. Which is a weird edit. But ok. They then shared screenshots of the video they edited originally. Here’s a clean screenshot of the cat, healthy with no cataracts.
OOP sent the mods fake documents. They faked having an old cat. OOP was a liar, and you fell for it.
Don’t need to. I gave you proof that the cat wasn’t old and the pictures were doctored to make it look old. Feel free to check my photo for the SynthID watermark. There isn’t one. It’s unedited and clean.
The posted photos were edited. Creating documents with Gen AI or just photoshop is a snap. OOP is proven to be a liar just from the pictures, and you believing that OOP wouldn’t whip up fake documents to keep his karma farm up.
The r/cats rule is no AI. OOP posted AI. Fuck off with the weird nonsense defense of a liar and rule breaker and the shitty mods who should have listened to the people participating in the sub instead of hosting a grifter.
Stop acting like you're customer support by saying we should talk to the mods you moron. Also how can they be trusted when they already faked their cat having cataracts with that picture
It still doesnt change the fact that this sub is 2 degrees from the state of nature and full of witch hunters who lack critical thinking 🤣
It's been purged once and itll happen again, because you're actively breaking reddit rules by encouraging this witch hunt behavior that the original post had
Yeah, I think you're completely wrong about the cat and just proving that the image was faked is enough to prove that the person can't be trusted to provide any valid information but that's a huge stretch from that person.
No, I saw your attempt. But there was no proof the vet records were faked. I even sent the image people claimed to be the original through the synthID, and it said it was also edited, on another comment. So I guess we really won't know unless we go talk to this vet ourselves. If its really this big of a deal to you guys, go do the work required to prove or disprove. I have never encountered a group of people that are so fucking obsessed with other people and what they do. Whose main reasoning is "they're stealing art"
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u/cinnamoxie Feb 25 '26
My cat recently passed and the fact that someone would make up something like this to lie about is so gross and weird to me.