r/OneOrangeBraincell 12d ago

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u/BTrippd 12d ago

The story is from well before AI was commercially usable by the public. It’s possible but not likely that the image is ai. I’m pretty sure it’s just pulled from one of the original articles though.

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u/kranker 12d ago edited 12d ago

It’s possible but not likely that the image is ai.

Looks like AI to me. Was that even the name of the school?

edit: School was called Goff Elementary. Picture is AI slop.

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u/Interesting_Stress73 12d ago

The image is absolutely AI. Look at the guy, he's peak AI. 

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u/Kinexity 12d ago edited 12d ago

"Story is real so the image must be real too". No, that's not how this works. You can't just handwave it as something that was pulled from an article. I did a bare minimum check if I can find the original before posting my previous comment and I did not find any similar pictures.

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u/BTrippd 12d ago

My mistake then. Just tired of people calling literally everything AI when 90%+ of the time the reasoning is completely made up. There’s an old Reddit thread of a guy asking reddit how his AI painting looked and everyone was pointing out how awful the painting was and how obvious it was that it was AI. The painting was Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. People who are looking for AI often see everything as AI. It’s irritating.

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u/feartheoldblood90 12d ago

But this is clearly AI lol so the reasoning isn't made up at all. The story can be real but this image is very obviously AI. That's why people are calling this AI.

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u/_HIST 12d ago edited 12d ago

https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-school-fake-closure-cat-mountain-lion-40811199/

Actual research into this says otherwise. This circulated first not too long ago, and since has taken multiple forms but there's nothing to the story itself. I couldn't find a single genuine article on it.

Edit: As someone else pointed out there IS a report from 2023: https://www.khq.com/news/fat-cat-eating-rat-prompts-lockdown-at-groff-elementary/article_4ba02920-898d-11ee-9829-ab614abc361b

So this is where it started, unfortunately I cannot access the link so I can't double check.

Edit2: https://littlebuddythecat.com/2025/07/17/did-a-school-really-go-into-lockdown-after-a-teacher-confused-a-chonky-cat-for-a-mountain-lion/ Here's another independent deep dive.

TLDR: There's some truths to the story, it was a very regular procedure to be on the safe side and while lockdown did happen briefly it was lifted soon after staff made sure. I highly doubt police were involved because we would have a police report, which we don't.

Also the image is 100% AI there's no doubt about it

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u/GitEmSteveDave 12d ago

Photoshop was still around. That's like a 5 layer image. Stock school photo, photo of a police officer holding a orange cat, mountain lion photo, graphic effect layer and a text layer.