Only here to document the fact that this is the most famous deepfake image from our current era of the AI craze. The Pope in a puffy jacket. That is all.
--Source: Sensor chips help identify deepfakes by adding cryptographic signatures to camera data, Mar 2026 https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-sensor-chips-deepfakes-adding-cryptographic.html
And now for something completely different
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| "Playmate of the Month". Playboy Magazine. November 1972, photographed by Dwight Hooker. |
Lenna (or Lena) is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing, starting in 1973. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker and cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. The scan became one of the most used images in computer history.
Use of this 512x512 scan is "overlooked" and by implication permitted by Playboy.
Alexander Sawchuk et al scanned the image and cropped it specifically for distribution for use by image compression researchers, and hold no copyright on it.
--The USC-SIPI image database, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20658476
And further follow up - Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals, Mar 2024 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/playboy-image-from-1972-gets-ban-from-ieee-computer-journals/
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Robert Tinney - Collage of classic Byte magazine covers - circa 1980s |
Post Script:
"Computing’s Norman Rockwell" - Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78, Feb 2026 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/byte-magazine-artist-robert-tinney-who-illustrated-the-birth-of-pcs-dies-at-78/
Post Post Script for Posterity Purposes:
The "Spaghetti Benchmark" in AI video traces its origins back to March 2023, when we first covered an early example of horrific AI-generated video using an open source video synthesis model called ModelScope. The spaghetti example later became well-known enough that Smith parodied it almost a year later in February 2024.
--Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy? May 2025 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/googles-will-smith-double-is-better-at-eating-ai-spaghetti-but-its-crunchy/
The Original - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/yes-virginia-there-is-ai-joy-in-seeing-fake-will-smith-ravenously-eat-spaghetti/
And the Upgrade - [sorry it was posted on the site formally known as Twitter, you get no link]
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