Devious prankster posts real Monet painting, tells people it’s AI-generated, and watches the chaos unfold
- May 17
- 1 min read
FUTURISM — A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online.
“I just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI,” read the original post, published to X-formerly-Twitter yesterday by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pseudonym “SHL0MS.”
“Please describe, in as much detail as possible,” he continued, “what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting.”
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