Organizing wont help. It wont change. The same “System” that allowed them to get to where they are, is the system allowing you to live. People need jobs, money, purpose, things to sustain themselves. Nobody will fight for the “greater good” or follow any principles, should their own “world” be threatened. They’d rather look down and do as they’re told, due to their own responsibilities or addictions. The system allows this and few “chosen ones” exploit it. They create jobs, make money, make system depend on them, becoming “untouchable”. Should they vanish, they will just be replaced. Should their company suffer, the system will bail it out, so it doesn’t collapse and people don’t go crazy. There’s too many fucking people for any system to be created in a “fair way”, for it to have equity for everybody, purpose for everybody and meaningful life for everybody. Don’t ever expect it to change, unless something catastrophic happens. We, as a species, don’t fucking learn and when we try to change it, the system is already “too big to fail”. Focus on something else, dont bitch about the reality as it is or youll go insane. Just keep in mind that things in this reality oscillate, “evil” will consume itself, and times change between good and bad. Given the fact that we have had it too good for a while (from historical point of view) its only statistically logical that the bad times are ahead.
This is AI generated (source). I spent a while looking at the image trying to find the usual tells. It’s kinda scary how hard it’s getting to tell AI generated images apart from real ones. I’m sure with a powerful enough model, enough iterations, and the right prompt, it’s almost impossible to tell in some cases.
What really throws me are their poses. They’re all in poses that you typically see them in from public sources. Elon smoking a cigar was probably part of the prompt, unless I’m unaware of something. Tim Apple even doing the classic stage pose.
It was actually Elon and the cigar that tipped me off. Can you imagine him possibly looking so natural and “cool” and masculine? He would be holding it so weird that everyone in the circle would be staring at him and he would be doing this really weird laugh while his shoulders turned into cursed parallelogram of flesh and too much bone.
Also, if it were real I would expect to see Peter Thiel’s face pressed against the glass of the Cybertruck, looking out with bug eyes as he smears oil all over the window.
You’re right, here’s a picture of him actually Smoking
100%. He’s way fatter, older, and awkward than that.
Yep. Also half those dudes wouldn’t willfully chat with Musk like this. They can’t stand him either.
We so desperately want to believe in shadowy cabals of genius villains pulling all the strings.
One of the harder pills to swallow in the world is that there isn’t anyone “on top.” Nobody is in charge.
Sure there are people with great power and influence, but even the mightiest among them are just people tripping over themselves, having social anxiety, making poorly calculated moves that conflict with others also trying to act like super villains, and basically everyone, everywhere are just people having the same exact human problems and nobody wants to share power with others or be told they’re wrong.
The idea of the Shadow Cabal feels thrilling because it also suggests the opposite is possible, that elite groups of heroes can lead us to a better world and we just have to survive or topple the bad guys.
These ideas are all products of the human need to weave narratives and find our place in complex systems. It’s why conspiracy theories are so addicting to some people.
I can imagine him blowing smoke on everybody else cuz he’s raging dickwad.
That’s what caught my attention too. They poses look like they were taken from keynotes. Especially, Tim Apple’s pose.
Cyber dumpster not rusty and on fire is a dead giveaway
To me the tell was that I couldn’t see why the most powerful men in the world would just be all standing in a parking lot with no body guards around.
If they really wanted to meet they’d be in a dinner party or some shit.Without the usual artifacts, there’s still plenty to go on.
The scene just doesn’t make sense. They are standing around in a circle parking garage next to a cyber truck. They wouldn’t meet up there if they were meeting. Further, think about the camera situation. Looks like someone on a ladder or a drone took a picture from above. That’s a weird amount of effort for a pretty stupid shot.
But yeah, if the person has a better sense of plausible scenes, then it’s much harder to know if it’s an AI image or not. On video we mostly have duration to go by, since LLM vid generation can’t hold it together too long (other weirdness happens too of course, but broadly speaking we just can’t trust pictures or very short videos).
Could be shot from one of those enormous heightened trucks.
And it might also not be a meeting, they could just have ran into each other in the parking lot while going to a meeting.
All pretty viable if you ask me. So not really obvious proof that it was AI.
Are there really no artifacts anywhere?
So, sure, in this group of only billionaires someone climbed onto the roof of a pickup truck to take a picture, that would be realistic? Trying to picture this scenario and it seems even more awkward than a drone shot.
And again, 7 of the most famous billionaires manage to casually run into each other in a parking lot with no one else around… Well except the guy climbing onto the roof of a pickup truck to take a picture…
There may or may not be artifacts, I’m not really interested enough to scrutinize, but I’m thinking a lack of artifacts won’t be a good gauge when someone can Photoshop out the rest of the way and/or models get better.
Let’s not teach these hack AI “artists” how to better fool people.
Two things i noticed is Jeff’s right ear/hand amalgamation and the feet look funny to the right of sam altman (easier to notice without the meme text). The side blinker on the white car looks a little too embedded in the wheel well but I’m not familiar enough with luxury cars to say for sure if its odd.
It still takes a lot of examination to start thinking its AI where previously 7 fingers would be a dead give away.
Zuck’s face is also completely fucked. He looks like an alien in real life already, but here it looks like his eyes and mouth have been paved over by a layer of skin.
Apparently that’s how blinkers actually look on Porsches these days. It’s even a bit shitty in the OP image compared to reality.
I figured it was. Pretty convincing right down to those annoying black sneakers with white soles that tech billionaires seem to love nowadays.
Didn’t Jobs die before the cybertruck was a thing? That’s uh… a pretty big indication…
Oh wait, that’s Tim Apple…
I just searched an hour ago through lens only got three hits. Now I get eleven mostly saying it’s ai…
Enlighten me pls I’m tripping…
… But they will sure use the AI slope argument against us…
Ask yourself who took those pictures, why, and for whom. There’s no entourage behind or around any of them something that would absolutely never happen when the circle has a combined net worth of trillions of dollars.
And someone would be taking a picture of them taking a selfie? They would be standing in a circle in a parking lot while someone gets above them to take a shot from above, either on a ladder or a drone? Forget the situation, the logistics of the pictures themselves just don’t make sense either.
I thought it was just a bad Photoshop as the boundaries between them and the scenery is too sharp.
I cannot even tell apart many videos now.
It’s still funny
One well placed hand grenade
My exact thought, it would do so much good for humanity as a whole.
Only if we changed the tax laws right after. Otherwise the broken system will just create replacements
And we have more grenades. Eventually it can serve as a deterrent.
only difference with tech ceo’s is that a handful are relatively public figures. Finance CEOs have a stake in everything, mostly publicly faceless. Even the ones directly appointed around the Trump admin, non-news. The food/beverage conglomerates, mostly publicly faceless. Dupont family poisoned the world, mostly publicly faceless. Weapons exporters, mostly publicly faceless. Real estate investment trusts, mostly publicly faceless. Insurance companies and pharmaceuticals, mostly publicly faceless. Mob justice almost always fails because it’s easily swayed towards fall guys and/or it’s so minor to just be a pyrrhic victory. Expended so much effort for something that’ll wash over in short order. Next guy up
Fire in the whole!
I was thinking RPG but close enough.
Came here for this comment. Maybe a couple grenades, just to be sure.
Unreported AI slop gets downvoted.
Read the comments.
All the comments are saying it’s AI.
Someone else investigating and saying it’s AI-generated is very different from saying “here’s this fake image, AI did it.” This is all going to get much worse…
You didn’t read the comments.
Different guy here, finished reading all comments—just happened to read though.
Any thought on editing your title just to add [AI] or [Generated]?
So folks don’t scroll past and mention this image to a friend later and get “bro that wasn’t real!!” (how embarrassing ;) )
Exactly what comments are you saying they didn’t read?
TIL there’s only 3 outfits billionaires can wear in public.
they’re even wearing the same fucking shoes!!!
Isn’t this AI image?
EDIT: Yes it is; https://gizmodo.com/those-viral-photos-of-elon-and-zuck-are-ai-but-google-launched-a-new-way-to-check-for-fakes-2000691049
It’s pretty obvious, they’re all wearing their “presentation clothes”. The llm put them in those clothes because that’s what they wear in the media is has most indexed.
Not like they can wear those clothes in public then, right?
They are way too flamboyant for every day use!
/s
Really, no better argument on why it is obvious?
You made the argument for me. Under what circumstances would all of them be in a parking lot in a circle all wearing the clothes they’re most famously seen on stage in? Why aren’t any of them wearing a t shirt or have a hat or wearing red? It’s convincing because it’s exactly what you expect to see.
This is a real thing, brands jockey for top position on one of their bodies because it can influence the rest of the group and trickle down into their tech leadership. Articles have been written about it but it’s usually ugly shoes and very discreet, unlabeled sweaters that cost $5k. It’s really sad because they’re so fucking vapid, there’s not much else to do, and they don’t have a lot of real friends.
They have zero real friends, and no one loves them, save their young kids before the kids catch on. The one exception might be Warren Buffett, but that is not to imply that he is a good person.
Warren Buffett disowned his granddaughter for having the temerity to speak with on camera about the family’s excessive wealth, with one of the Johnson & Johnson heirs.
To be fair, Jensen Huang has worn that exact same thing every day for decades, heh.
Elon trying so hard to be cool.
He looks like those teenagers who smoke thinking that would make them look cool lmao what a giant loser! In a context on who’s the biggest loser he’d arrive second because he’s a loser
hahah took me a second
I read that in the insulting Frenchman’s voice from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Still waiting for that second taunt.
Ciggy dipped in ketamine
Imagine how many global problems could be solved with just one bus at this moment.
Been immediately thinking the same thing lol… If god existed and gave a modicum of fuck about us humans he would have made that fucking tesla explode twice over
If God exists he’s an asshole
Amen!
We made the billionaires and expect god to remove them for us?
I was thinking more about all the children that die every day as part of “gods plan”.
He works in mysterious ways you know
It’s amazing all our minds went right there.
All that ford pinto energy with a more explosive package and better shrapnel. Its hard to miss.
… That and its hard to not see an oversized pinewood derby car wrapped in compensation. (Its ugly as fuck)
That bus is deporting them right? Right!?
I mean, Sure, from a certain point of view.
One drone strike requested please
Absolute worst blunt rotation.
Where’s a reaper drone when you need one?
They took our RAM!!! Get them!
They were all gathered! Missed opportunity to improve the world significantly.
My buddy, this is an AI image
My comment was a joke, pal.
Perfect spot for a meteor
Where were you when we needed you, God-sent-meteor.
Just one giant piano would do it
A compact upright could get it done
