It’s not supposed to be a literal receipt on receipt paper. It’s a card printed to kinda-sorta look like a receipt.
Whether this particular instance is fake or not, the general concept is very much a real thing. Depressingly so. There’s a whole cottage industry of motherfuckers selling this type of stuff to smug assholes for the purpose of leaving them lying around all over the place believing that they’re doing some kind of good in the world.
Most popular are the ones where one side is gussied up to look like a dollar bill which you’re supposed to leave in lieu of a tip or even worse instead of actually paying somebody for something, and the other side is a screed full of evangelical bullshit.
No I’m not doubting this being a thing, ive seen countless numbers of them. But lets be outraged at actual occurances, not ai bs of it. Or be outraged at the fact someone made some AI bs of this happening. If we waste energy being pissed at things that aren’t real the real shit will pass us by.
Tell me if and where you spot this “watermark” the OP left in the picture. I don’t, but note that their reddit username is thedivinegemini which probably got somebody confused.
Sorry, I don’t actually see the watermark, but now what stuck out to me was how perfectly angled the receipt is at 90° with perfect font. That’s now a dead giveaway.
The green lines are all at 90°, perfectly parallel to the edges of the frame. The card is neither held straight, nor printed straight. The bottom of it is also slightly bowed. Two of the corners are visibly dog-eared. Hell, the hand holding it even appears to have the correct complient of fingers.
Everyone here needs to give this a rest. I don’t like AI either, but these AI arguments are baseless and bordering on paranoia. These exact same cards are a real thing. All of everyone’s “tells” so far are in fact not present in the picture. OP’s photo is consistent with a smartphone picture taken in low light too close to the subject.
The only thing we cannot verify is if the OP’s story about this is true. We will never be able to conclusively prove if someone walked out on a meal using one of these, or they simply found one in their restaurant and made up a tale about it.
I can tell you from personal experience earned in my time in the food service trenches, I absolutely had people leave things like these in lieu of tips and often people would leave them lying around the restaurant (especially the tracts with one half made look like a dollar bill) but nobody ever actually tried to “pay” for a meal with one under my direct observation.
I left the reddit scroll arrows and all the captions in the upload. I would not be at all surprised if this is what triggered the “digitally edited” probabilities, in light of those two it really has been.
I’m walking away from this argument now because I’ve already expended way too much brain power on this bullshit. I thought I was a cynical bastard, but people in this thread are crazy. I have knives to write about; I can’t be having with this nonsense any further.
On reddit the op left the Gemini icon in the lower corner…
Yeah, look at the bottom of that receipt. Somethings not right.
It’s not supposed to be a literal receipt on receipt paper. It’s a card printed to kinda-sorta look like a receipt.
Whether this particular instance is fake or not, the general concept is very much a real thing. Depressingly so. There’s a whole cottage industry of motherfuckers selling this type of stuff to smug assholes for the purpose of leaving them lying around all over the place believing that they’re doing some kind of good in the world.
Most popular are the ones where one side is gussied up to look like a dollar bill which you’re supposed to leave in lieu of a tip or even worse instead of actually paying somebody for something, and the other side is a screed full of evangelical bullshit.
No I’m not doubting this being a thing, ive seen countless numbers of them. But lets be outraged at actual occurances, not ai bs of it. Or be outraged at the fact someone made some AI bs of this happening. If we waste energy being pissed at things that aren’t real the real shit will pass us by.
This card is a real product.
https://mwtb.org/products/jesus-paid-it-all?variant=44962855518491
Check that out, that’s the image they used for the Photoshop.
I get its a real product, but this isn’t a real post.
Got a link to the post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ulxn9v/in_lieu_of_payment/
Tell me if and where you spot this “watermark” the OP left in the picture. I don’t, but note that their reddit username is thedivinegemini which probably got somebody confused.
Sorry, I don’t actually see the watermark, but now what stuck out to me was how perfectly angled the receipt is at 90° with perfect font. That’s now a dead giveaway.
Except it isn’t.
The green lines are all at 90°, perfectly parallel to the edges of the frame. The card is neither held straight, nor printed straight. The bottom of it is also slightly bowed. Two of the corners are visibly dog-eared. Hell, the hand holding it even appears to have the correct complient of fingers.
Everyone here needs to give this a rest. I don’t like AI either, but these AI arguments are baseless and bordering on paranoia. These exact same cards are a real thing. All of everyone’s “tells” so far are in fact not present in the picture. OP’s photo is consistent with a smartphone picture taken in low light too close to the subject.
The only thing we cannot verify is if the OP’s story about this is true. We will never be able to conclusively prove if someone walked out on a meal using one of these, or they simply found one in their restaurant and made up a tale about it.
I can tell you from personal experience earned in my time in the food service trenches, I absolutely had people leave things like these in lieu of tips and often people would leave them lying around the restaurant (especially the tracts with one half made look like a dollar bill) but nobody ever actually tried to “pay” for a meal with one under my direct observation.
Just for good measure I dropped this as-is into the first five AI image detectors on Google.
I left the reddit scroll arrows and all the captions in the upload. I would not be at all surprised if this is what triggered the “digitally edited” probabilities, in light of those two it really has been.
I’m walking away from this argument now because I’ve already expended way too much brain power on this bullshit. I thought I was a cynical bastard, but people in this thread are crazy. I have knives to write about; I can’t be having with this nonsense any further.