Relax. I'm allowed to state my opinion, you're allowed to disagree. If we're still not on the same wavelength, it's fine, but we don't need to make it a big thing.
I have never in my life seen people crop part of their own image out of the the post they themselves chose to post so no, Occam's razor does apply. But again, you're allowed to disagree. But wherever you got the image from, it was edited, that's a fact...
I genuinely think there's no other reason to do it. Like, if I show you a picture of my grandmother, but I cropped half of her face off, how would that not be your first comment!?
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...
For the why, I was just speculating. But for the what, it's instantly obvious to everyone. When ALCOHOL gets cropped to )L, it's abundantly clear the image has been heavily edited.
In the Control Center, making sure to nuke them from space. I know these are all statistically not aggressive, but I just can't shake the instinctive impulse to eradicate them...
Amazing work, Jill and WildCareOklahoma. Hope that Barred Owl is thriving back in the wild!