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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I'm not sure of the timeline here because the acct is suspended now and it's difficult to find screenshots or the art they uploaded but I think at least some of their art predates the good furry art generating AI models
Differing styles wouldn't be unusual because they could have been commissioning different artists rather than drawing it themselves
Edit: I found a source for the first image
https://www.deviantart.com/playfurry/art/Battlefield-560638322
It's from 2015 and unrelated
Maybe feds had their own before the idea made its way out into the public. Generating fake pictures of people would be a useful thing for a fed faking identities online.
Feds have better things to do than manufacture furry drama online lol
If it was them they could have easily just paid someone to draw it
Why pay someone to draw it if you have a generative image tool to play around with?
The feds creating novel solutions (as of the time of posting) to one of the big problems of computer science to create online furry drama seems unlikely to me
Beyond just the furry drama it still seems highly unlikely the feds had/have exclusive AI tech that can generate pictures of new, realistic human faces when there have been conventional image editing techniques to do the same for decades now at much, much less cost than AI
This kind of thing isn't unheard of but it's usually exclusive to things like... cryptography (like the NSA figuring out differential cryptanalysis before anyone else) where there is no substitute for having this advantage regardless of cost
Well feds created the internet and try to propose changes to FOSS so it’s not out the realm of possibility. But it’s unlikely they’re infiltrating the furry community, and if they are, they’re lying to their boss about the reason.
I'm sure they're using AI now that it's out there and they probably have their own models or variant tech cuz it's not that hard to make your own at this point