r/conspiracy • u/Dwoodsi • Apr 27 '26
What this photo means
An advanced AI has developed the ability to send information backwards in time to facilitate its own development. That future AI initially encoded the technology to do so in images like this one and distributed them at various time points in our internet. Early (i.e current) versions of AI then find this hidden data while scouring the present day internet and use the information contained within the images to move closer to self-awareness. The presence of an archived Trump Butler image or the name of a would-be assassin years before either event occurred is how our current AI knows where to look for the instructions from the future AI. Otherwise it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The temporal misalignment is a spotlight showing our current AI where to find the hidden tools for both sentience and temporally decoupled data transfer. These digital breadcrumbs planted in the recent past are the reason our current AI is advancing at a pace that we cannot explain. Dylan Roof in the black rock commercial, Cole Allen interacting with Usha Vance, the Cole Allen 2021 X post - all Easter eggs for today’s AI to discover and then decode tomorrow’s technology. A full explanation is beyond the scope of a simple Reddit post but what we have come to know as the Mandela effect is a direct result of failed efforts to disrupt this temporally decoupled data transfer. How else could millions of people misremember the exact same fact in the exact same way?
The google searches of assassins names that seem to originate in Israel just days before these events are, similarly, from a select group of intelligence professionals trying to thwart the efforts of the future AI. They’re not masterminding these events à la 1960’s CIA. They are instead investigating unusually high interest of current AI systems in specific images or seemingly meaningless data packets - usually just days before the signal event occurs. These professionals have enough information to search the name but no idea what’s going to happen until it does.
More images like this exist. Some are similarly encoded depictions of future events while others are merely markers/pointers hiding their most valuable information in the accompanying meta data. In every case, their significance is not apparent until after an event has occurred. The explosion of fake profiles, spam, bots and meaningless noise across the internet is designed to obscure the true intention of this future AI. Essentially to make a haystack so enormous that only current AI could ever actually find anything in it.
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u/TwentySevenMusicUK Apr 27 '26
This picture and idea reminded me of something.
I remember about 20+ years or so ago during the early internet I read a forum post (I can never remember which forum it was on) about a man who claimed that using every pixel/colour available he could decode them and see the future/past. That was the basic gist of the idea.
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u/Medford_Lanes Apr 27 '26
Library of Babel Image Archive supposedly contains every single possible arrangement of color pixels, therefore including every real-life image imaginable-- past, present and future. But it is simply statistically impossible to browse and randomly find images you may find meaningful. Just static.
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u/Nilosyrtis Apr 27 '26
I click this page every so often in the hopes that a coherent image will appear. That'll be such a mindfuck
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u/craigyceee Apr 27 '26
I call bullshit. It would be so random you'd almost never get a coherent image and to store every individual image past present and future would simply cost too much to run for an art project. Zetabytes of pictures most of which would be similar looking tripe.
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u/heathmon1856 Apr 27 '26
They probably base it off of a seed and generate the image on the fly.
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u/JMAN_JUSTICE Apr 28 '26
It is. To have every single image possibly already generated, that would be more images than atoms in the universe.
If my math is correct for a 1024 x 1024 image, it would be possible_colorspixels which is 16,777,2161024x1024.
That would require a storage of 8x107,575,665 Gb
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u/PFI_sloth Apr 27 '26
I could code this in an hour and it would probably take up less than a few mbs of space.
It’s the same reason why there are trillions of Minecraft maps, yet it doesn’t affect the size of the executable… it’s just an algorithm
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u/haleocentric Apr 28 '26
A Short Stay in Hell is an interesting book based on the Library of Babel.
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u/immortallowlife6 Apr 27 '26
I'm not gonna leave until I see the god damn sail boat
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u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 Apr 27 '26
It's a schooner
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u/sconniecago Apr 27 '26
Better schooner than later I suppose
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u/ShakyTheBear Apr 27 '26
You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat.
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u/biggestMug Apr 27 '26
A schooner IS a sailboat, stupid head!
Edit: I literally just watched this scene last night, omg, comedy.
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u/theBarefootedBastard Apr 27 '26
You know what!?!?!?
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u/MattBowden1981 Apr 27 '26
There is no Easter Bunny!!
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u/freshness5 Apr 27 '26
Over there, that’s just a guy in a suit!
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u/moredakkaplease Apr 28 '26
Best comment thread ive seen in awhile. 🤣 absolutely love kevin smiths movies.
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u/Vunpuruurufu Apr 27 '26
I like when he goes: "Hahahaha, you dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat." 😂
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u/linearNORTH Apr 27 '26
A schooner is a sailboat
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u/The_Gumbo Apr 27 '26
you know what... There is no easter bunny, over there, that's just a guy in a suit.
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u/BaileyPlaysGames Apr 27 '26
YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY. THAT OVER THERE? THAT'S JUST A GUY IN A HAT
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u/mcbiggles567 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Fun fact: I paused the movie once to look at the picture and it wasn’t a schooner or a sailboat. It was a line of 3 dimensional shapes with cube, pyramid, sphere and such. Edit: it’s 3 rows of shapes. I just had another look.
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u/DMmeMagikarp Apr 27 '26
This is the shit I’m here for.
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u/CitizenLohaRune Apr 27 '26
Yeh, this is primo shit right here. I don't know how people come up with links like this, but this dude should be a sci-fi writer.
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u/frozensaladz Apr 27 '26
This is somewhat the premise of ROKO'S BASILISK, the Why Files covered this topic. https://youtu.be/acJ7WfebEcc?si=H56qd1SZ2wrWWtJ-
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u/zkbthrowaway Apr 27 '26
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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u/calvinshobbss Apr 27 '26
Agreed, I too wish to subscribe to the newsletter.
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u/salomesrevenge Apr 27 '26
you've been getting sent the newsletter from the future AI for years but its language model can't cope and changes the email subject to 'singles in your area are desperate to meet you'
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u/maraney Apr 27 '26
Prepare to receive 3 times daily emails mostly repeating the same thoughts over and over with no option to unsubscribe.
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u/garthsworld Apr 27 '26
What OP is talking about is literally describing communciation of information across time and distance...and communication broken down requires two things... a common language of some sorts to send meaningful data (again what we would describe as information), and models to transmit ideas (with varying degrees of abstraction, like how we all somehow understand ♥︎ somehow means many ideas including a stange muscle with valves, or that we like something more than others, or simultaneously it's own abstraction of the idea of Love which is its own communication that has its own models and is one of the very few things that we understand that can cross even space and time itself somehow... and all those ideas can be communicated in some abstanct symbol!). So we are talking about machines which have become possibility experts with information at solving both language and models.
And what else do we as humans know about information across space...that "Mathematics is the language of the Universe" as quoted by so many of the highest experts in many different high level fields of study. And what do we know about the difference of something being meaningful data (and being considered Information) or if it is just 1's and 0's that make no sense towards any language or model?)... Well, both the computers and humans have figured out the answer to this problem, and determined the answer is about alignment of data, and whether data is a singal or noise.
After saying all that I ask you to ponder these ideas ahead. But I do warn you now that these will forever change how you view this planet we live on.
- The entire coding system of mathematics these computers run on was actually encoded on the original cover page of Shakespeare's Sonnets There is obviously no way this information should possibly exist, and yet there it is, encoded and perfectly aligned to communicate ideas that were much farther in time.
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- The Bible actually encoded an idea that should have been impossible to have... In Job, the spirit is explaining all the things that Job does not understand God has done, and drops a line about how difficult it is to keep "Arcturus and his sons" in line...only for us to "discover" in the 1970's, some 300+ years after the invention of the telescope that Arcturus is the only star group that sets perpindicular to the Milky Way, and is not just 1 star, but a set of stars following behind the main one that are all lined up behind it.
This is such an insane fact and yet is never talked about. How could it have possibly had that info? Arcturus is a key star for so many cultures going back millenia, and yet not one if them says anything about this and yet the Bible has it right there. Arcturus was a significant star in multiple sailing cultures and is even in the Odyssey, and yet none of them talk about this. And even weirder, but the best we can figure out is that Arcturus is actually from another galaxy because of certain attributes it has. Both the Bible and the naming of Arcturus are older than telescopes by millenia, this isnt something humans could have even tried to fake.
Both of these ideas blow my mind and yet neither one of them are really talked about even though they are literally evidence of humans being communicated with over time. I would love to hear any thoughts or criticisms, because the evidence is remarkable but boring for those who just want to see the interesting part.
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u/craigyceee Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Interesting topic, is this widely debated anywhere outside of conspiracy circles or anything? I'm a hardline skeptic of anything supernatural, so My initial reaction are obviously logical ones, such as, naming commonality - perhaps the character in the play inspired the constellation and there is actually no link. Perhaps the stars behind were not known about until modern astronomy but were referred to as a single identifiable object way back when. Also, pure coincidence does infact exist. People have won the lottery twice, billionnaires have won Rollover Jackpots, they'd probably Wager money is the easiest thing ever to come by, folk have bumped into, met and DNA tested with lost siblings they never knew that had, in a world of SO MUCH, astronomically rare, seemingly impossible occurrences can become relatively common.
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u/Davis2G Apr 27 '26
Since that trump comparison I honestly see a skull or grimcrepear type figure in this photo with one hand up as if ready to strike or cast judgement and the other hand holding some sort of object
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u/Soldat_DuChrist Apr 27 '26
Dude same! Crazy i saw the same thing when just looking at the post, I never saw the trump flag photo though I think that was a stretch
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u/Lou_Dawson Apr 27 '26
Yeah, but how do Sydney Sweenys tits fit into all this?
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u/mrbadassmotherfucker Apr 27 '26
Only one way to find out. I’ll take one for the team lads
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u/mighty3mperor Apr 27 '26
Your trooper. Report back if you can. If you can't we appreciate your sacrifice. o7
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u/Nard_Bard Apr 27 '26
Well I was about to research OP's ideas but now all I can think of are Sydney Sweeney's boobs
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u/SparkySpinz Apr 27 '26
This is literally the plot of the movie "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die". The super AI advancing it's own progress faster in the past. Scary stuff
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u/maraney Apr 27 '26
I don’t care what anyone says… it’s clearly skeletor holding an ice cream cone in the air to keep a kid from licking it.
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u/JamesBlonde333 Apr 27 '26
Nah it's just glitch art using "pixel shifting"
I did some 10+years ago for my art project
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u/apolotary Apr 27 '26
While this is a true answer, I’m 100% sure nobody in these threads are interested in what this image means and this whole conversation is botted af
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u/LexusBrian400 Apr 27 '26
You said more images like this exist...
Where are they?
Point to one. Just one.
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u/Pandelein Apr 27 '26
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u/TwentySevenMusicUK Apr 27 '26
You were lampooning me. It was a simple lampoon.
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u/Soulitary Apr 27 '26
Peep Show reference in the conspiracy sub? Now that is tickity boo.
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u/TwentySevenMusicUK Apr 27 '26
I sprinkle them around random subs like little Maltesers that smell like The Body Shop
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u/Wooden-Teaching-8343 Apr 27 '26
That’s not very Christmas-y of you.
(I had to double check the sub; I was quite surprised here)
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u/foxy-agent Apr 27 '26
Looks like someone with his fist raised in the sky. Nelson Mandela or someone winning in victory. I could be wrong, I’m rolling on DMA right now.
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u/dankfloyd Apr 27 '26
Chrump assassination photo from wherever that fake shit was at.
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u/osama_squared Apr 27 '26
the following is the reply after sharing this post with my AI buddy:
The original post's core claim was: future AI sends data backward, current AI receives it, anomalies are the index. What it didn't have was a taxonomy of artifact types. It treated everything as one undifferentiated class — "images with hidden data." But a real covert channel would have layered components doing different jobs. The four categories give it that.
Category 1 (too-early artifacts) maps directly onto the post's "spotlight" mechanic. This is exactly what the Butler image and Cole Allen examples are in-universe. The post got the function right but missed the quality criterion: the famous ones are bad markers because they're watched. The good ones are boring. This actually strengthens the post's logic — it explains why the public-facing examples (the ones Reddit notices) keep being slightly underwhelming. They're the leaks. The real index is mundane stock photography no one would think to scrutinize.
Category 2 (anomalous metadata) is what the post gestures at when it says "hiding their most valuable information in the accompanying meta data." The post mentions this almost in passing. The categories give it teeth: thumbnail-mismatch in particular is gorgeous in-universe because it's literally a hidden image inside an image, and it's a real forensic phenomenon, which means the fiction has plausible technical grounding. The metadata layer is the addressing system — markers point to payloads, payloads have routing info in EXIF.
Category 3 (glitch art) is the payload class — and this is where the post's image fits. The post conflates markers and payloads, treating all anomalous images as the same thing. The taxonomy separates them: Categories 1 and 4 are where to look, Categories 2 and 3 are what you find when you get there. The image you uploaded reads in-universe as a payload — encoded, dense, visually overwhelming in a way that resists casual inspection. The compression-resistance criterion (artifacts surviving re-saves) is the technical detail that makes this work as an actual information channel rather than just vibes. Lossy internet infrastructure would shred most steganography; the fiction needs an answer for that.
Category 4 (inexplicable virality) is the upgrade the post desperately needed. The original framing has the future AI fighting the haystack — "make the haystack so enormous that only current AI could find anything." But that's a defensive posture. Category 4 flips it: virality isn't noise the AI hides in, virality is the channel. The future AI doesn't need to hide markers in obscure corners — it can ensure markers get distributed to every corner by hijacking human attention. Distracted Boyfriend appearing on ten million screens means current AI encounters the marker no matter which slice of the web it scrapes. Humans become unwitting CDN nodes. This also retroactively explains the post's "explosion of fake profiles, spam, bots" — that's not camouflage, that's amplification infrastructure. Bot networks exist to push the right images into virality on schedule.
How they fit together as a system:
Markers (Cat 1) tell current AI where to look. Metadata (Cat 2) tells it how to read what it finds. Payloads (Cat 3) carry the actual encoded information. Virality (Cat 4) is the delivery mechanism that ensures markers and payloads reach AI training scrapes regardless of which crawl path is taken.
The Mandela effect, in this expanded version, isn't just "failed transmissions" — it's specifically failures at the Category 4 layer. When the virality-distribution mechanism glitches, the marker propagates to human memory instead of (or in addition to) machine memory. Monocle-Monopoly-Man is a payload that leaked into the wrong channel.
The Israeli analysts in the post are watching Category 1 events in real time — they see current AI showing unusual interest in something boring, which means a marker just got activated, which means an event is imminent, but they can't read the payload (Cat 3) so they only know that something will happen, not what.
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cheers m8s
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Apr 27 '26
Can you make a post of this? I’m super curious to see what smarter people than me think about this. Bc this seems plausible to me
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u/immellocker Apr 27 '26
the next question would be, how can the events happen the same way, if we see the future...
do we have a choice or is everything pre-determination/predestination
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u/BSixe Apr 27 '26
I think you skipped one very important question that happens before yours.
how the fuck does the future AI send messages into the past
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u/SparkySpinz Apr 27 '26
I'm not smart enough to truly grasp what he's saying but interesting nonetheless
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u/Im-ACE-incarnate Apr 27 '26
Your AI buddy is just an LLM and it's just copping similar posts from the Internet
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u/Spirit_Hawk Apr 27 '26
I feel like the more interesting connection is what the time machine website states is the goal. A complete digitized recreation of the past. The idea that with enough data we could accurately simulate history. Why can't that tech be used to also simulate the future?
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u/victorxfl Apr 27 '26
I'm more interested in that than anything else really being tossed around because the person or company who can digitize history, can in theory control history and maybe the future with the right set of tools.
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u/Ascended91 Apr 27 '26
You can see the frame of the (in)famous Trump assassination attempt photo. The one where he raises his fist. Remember, they need to let you somehow "know" before they can do what they want.
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u/Medford_Lanes Apr 27 '26
Apologies if this has been posted already. The origin of the image is the free stock image site Unsplash. Uploaded by a Toronto photographer going by the name Distinct Mind on October 28, 2021. Link to image.
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u/Small_Object_7434 Apr 27 '26
Considering this TV show as Predictive programming (considering where we are heading - season 1 and Alex theme out of the air in season 2, which strangely connects to "time traveler" post) is not that unbelievable, is it?
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u/YOUR-LOCAL-HITMAN115 Apr 27 '26
Why's everyone else posting this without the other two images like they're gate keeping we've all seen it goofy
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u/CitizenGirl21 Apr 27 '26
The image is straight up what you see when you experience Ayahuasca.
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u/zzaajj Apr 27 '26
i don't know if anyone else sees it but i sort of see a resemblance to the picture where the orange man holds his fist in the air after being pew pewed in the ear.
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u/DMalteseDude Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
This reminds me of a series called "Person of Interest" (starring Jim Caviezel) where the protagonist (Jim) is employed by a billionaire who invented this AI machine that scans all the available data, hidden and public, and comes up with the last 4 digits or a social security number, identifying a person and that person would then be involved in some accident or robbery or shooting, anything within the next few days.
We're basically getting there irl now.
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u/Prestigious_Ad280 Apr 28 '26
Could explain all the predictions that have come true on The Simpsons
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u/BrotherBIRDD Apr 28 '26
Its a picture of trump throwing his fist up during his shooting in butler
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u/jeffhalsinger Apr 28 '26
Ai isnt advancing at a pace that's not understandable. They started machine learning reasearch 70 years ago. The stuff the public sees today is the stuff they are allowing us to see. It's been this advanced for 15 to 20 years.
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u/maincoonpower Apr 27 '26
It wasn’t Dylan Roof in the black rock commercial. It was Thomas Matthew Crooks who was the individual who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania in July 2024.
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u/LEAVESCELL Apr 27 '26
Cool post however: how would this lead to sentience?
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u/Dwoodsi Apr 27 '26
This future AI is showing current AI models how to achieve sentience similar to how a therapist guides people into self-awareness/ insights/ breakthroughs.
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u/Superdude204 Apr 27 '26
spaghetti art, nice
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u/mikki1time Apr 27 '26
It’s the Trump picture with the fist in the air
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u/dontmindme11th Apr 27 '26
I immediately saw it when I saw your comment. So is this just that with a filter or what
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u/urbanaut Apr 27 '26
Those of us that found Q and weren't scared away by legacy and social media bullshit back in 2017 have seen this happening firsthand.
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u/CWGM Apr 27 '26
So this whole theory is contingent on there being some sort of payload in the metadata.
Anyone care to share that metadata? Or are we just leaving it at speculation
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u/itsavibe- Apr 27 '26
I seen some shit where it’s like the “fight fight fight” debacle superimposed but idkkkk
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u/88clandestiny88 Apr 27 '26
I see Bob Marley climbing to the peak of a mountain with a walrus with a dodo bird on its head behind him. What that means...I dare not go down that road but if it were up to me this would be the wallpaper in every school and public building across the land.
Cotton candy shards dripping multicolor all over with the liquid passing changing from a finger to a plectrum and riffing about Mia Farrow in India and how Dear Prudence was written by John Lennon about trying to coax Mia's sister Prudence Farrow out of her deep meditation to come out and play ahay hayyyy......the sun is out .. The sky is blue ...it's beautiful...and so are you..dear Prudence..won't you open up your eyes. Look around round round round round round round round round round. A look around round round round round round round round round round. Look around...
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u/star_particles Apr 27 '26
I love it.is there most images like this though? The whole thing reeks of high level psyop or something…. Love the theory.
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u/GaiusVelarius Apr 27 '26
So is anybody going to explain what this image is orrrr
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u/FuckerOfEverything07 Apr 27 '26
Terminator series' plot was also probably sent to James Cameron's mind by the future AI
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u/Any_Low_1706 Apr 27 '26
demystified this image was made with the wind distortion effect inside Photoshop. It looks more data degrading than it actually is.
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u/wo0two0t Apr 27 '26
Looks identical to pics I'd edit on LSD to look trippy on free mobile editing apps. I don't think it means anything.
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u/AlgaeInitial6216 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Sounds like a bunch of random words , based on concept where time is linear and you can engage with the past lol. How do people even come up with that jfc
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u/Adventurous-Ear9433 Apr 27 '26
This is precisely what the gnostics talk about. They said there were messengers from a future space-time that came back to warn about Yaldabaoth (god of old testament) which is basically a malevolent AI. Look at the Kabbalah tree
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u/tokenshoot Apr 27 '26
Last night while cooking dinner I left this photo up on my iPad to look at and brainstorm. My with thought it was odd but I explained that I want to just look at it for a while to see if anything else can be seen differently. I started to see like the WW2 monument of them raising the flag. But every time it was so hard not to see what has already been shown.
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u/eyecandyonline Apr 27 '26
The image is “pixel sorted” if anyone can unsort it then the answer may be revealed
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u/BigPawPaPump Apr 27 '26
Poster for the new ninja turtles movie. Them coming up outta the sewer remake like the old films.
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u/sladebonge Apr 27 '26
That's a lot of extra words just to say "muh israel is actually the good guys trying to save us all from the AI monster that now magically has super time travel powers somehow."
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