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What your special interest might have looked like in Russia, 1886 (lemmy.world)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Tineye can place bounds on how late an image could have been created.

https://tineye.com/search/d51489e88c5e15819a915598041f51527989190f?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1

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First found on Oct 17, 2014

I suppose someone could have synthesized it using older tools -- generative AI wasn't the first way to create images, even if it's pretty potent and easy to use -- but it was online long before the sort of generative AI systems we have today existed. They weren't used to create it.