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Is this disgusted Barbie doll AI?
(lemmy.world)
- This meme was posted here, and there was a bit of discussion as to whether or not the doll is AI-generated: https://lemmy.world/post/43933742. I don't think anyone was accusing OOP of using AI themselves to create the meme at all, but it seems like they may have inadvertently used an AI-generated element in their handcrafted meme
- The main tell for me is the weird eyes. It could be just a poorly-made doll, but it seems like AI artifacting to me
- There are also weird stray hairs
- It is obviously an entirely different doll than the common "disgusted Barbie" meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disgusted-barbie
- I found a higher quality source image: https://i.imgur.com/yHYDauj.jpeg (mirror). On one hand, the lower quality image hides some of the features that make it seem AI. On the other hand, it may be possible that this higher quality version is just what had been produced after running the lower quality version through an AI upscaler.
- Reverse image rearching this witn Tineye, the earliest match is from August 2025. Obviously, this could have been created organically at any point, but that is a suspicious date in the least.
5+ years? Are you saying that this version predates tne more popular "disgusted Barbie" meme? If you can find this in your old Facebook posts for us, that would be great.