Can DU provide us with .html code with which we can indicate that an illustration we're posting is fake?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Good morning.

Recently I've seen a thread showing what is claimed to be a court artist's illustration made during yesterday's oral argument of Trump v. Barbara. The illustration depicts Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson standing at a lectern directly in front of Donald Trump, as if she were lecturing him.

The illustration was generated by well known right-wing troll Jack Posobiec. It is as phony as the day is long. It's easy to tell. Whoever Posobiec had provide the illustration for him conjured up a setting that in no way shows how the justices are positioned during oral arguments.

When the illustration shows up at Snopes and other factchecking sites, it will quickly be determined to be a fake. Snopes will make sure that the illustration bears some sort of an icon or a red slash, warning all who see it of the illustration's creator's intent to deceive.

I can see that DUers would have reason to post fake illustrations here, in a capacity to alrert fellow DUers of the fraud. In the thread I'm talking about, the OP has made sure that readers are alerted up-front that the illustration is not real. Still, the illustration is there in all its fraudulent glory.

Can we have code here that we could apply to the illustration to mark it as fraudulent? It would look something like this;

[diagonalredslash]Something or other.jpg[/diagonalredslash]

What say you?

It's overcast, so I think I'll go outside and shout at some clouds.

Thanks. See ya.

[EarlG]

1. This is something that, in theory, might not be too difficult to implement...

I'll think about it.

[justaprogressive]

2. Perhaps a robot emoji

or maybe a flashing pink dot with siren... ala red for video, blue for twitter?

[Srkdqltr]

3. Don't post fakes

[usonian]

4. There is software out there or in development that tries to detect fakes, but

It all looks pretty complex and experimental.

One, somewhere in my treasury of saved pdf articles, claims high accuracy. (text, IIRC)

And of course, DuckDuckGo offers the option in image search of "show AI" or not, and a bunch do sneak through the filter, whatever it is.

California's new AI executive order aims for a watermark on images, and more.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/california-ai-regulations-trump

https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/3.30-FINAL-Trusted-AI-Procurement-EO-N-5-26.pdf

Then, there's the community, pretty sharp. "The Wisdom of Crowds" still works here, while on the wider internet, echo chambers, bots and such have destroyed its value. There are still (mostly) real people here, THOUGH, an inadvertent post, as mentioned in the OP, can bring down jeers and derision.

I have had to trash people who are so focused on only that issue, sorry, even if I agree.

With some civility, it can be done here.

I use some AI-generated images in my mashups and memes. There just isn't the time or talent (in me) to recreate stuff from scratch. My Dad was the artist, not me. But I try to stay away from wildly obvious AI stuff as part of my "art".

This would be qute a task, community-wise, or via some automation, but with over half the internet traffic artificial in one sense or another, kind of important.

And please { you know who you are} stop bashing folks who aren't tech-savvy enough to tell.

Cheers


and by the way mahatmakanejeeves, some clouds can be wonderful to watch, shouting optional.





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[highplainsdem]

5. Your posts are good without adding AI images, though. I keep hoping DU will get more liberals from other

platforms, and I've seen how much AI-generated images and videos turn off liberals on Bluesky, Reddit and X.

Blueskyers even condemned the president of the American Federation of Teachers for posting an AI-generated video as "fun." Some of the hundreds of angry, almost disbelieving responses said she'd disqualified herself as a teachers union head by showing so little respect for the people harmed by AI, and so little concern for all the harm it does, including to education.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Here's an example.

DU gets a lot of posts noting that, by not spending so much money on bombs, other countries are able to have (fill in the blank). I can't argue with that, but often the post includes an altered illustration showing how much better life is elsewhere. Case in point:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221144196

That appears to be an N700S Shinkansen. They run on overhead wiring. Overhead wiring gets in the way, so graphics artists trying to clean up the illustration remove all the infrastructure.

The illustration is an artist's concept of what the railway would look like, once you removed a bunch of the stuff that makes it work. The illustration should should be marked to indicate that is not real. Here's the source:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122158003802975789&set=pb.61579273676681.-2207520000&type=3

Here's a real pho graph of an N700S Shinkansen, complete with the date art (the overhead wiring).



Source: https://2nd-train.net/formations/data/id/8795/

I'm not trying to pick on the OP of https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221144196, as he can hardly be expected to know about railroad infrastructure. But the artist's concept stuff ruins the argument for me.

Full disclosure: when I watch film noir on TV, I like to distinguish the 1949 Ford sedans from the 1950 Ford sedans. (1951 Fords are a snap. No one should have any problems recognizing those.) Yeah, one of those.