Why was the penguin AI-ed in?

I feel like "This could have been a photoshop" is going to be the "this could have been a meeting" for AI.

Ignore the AI tools in photoshop, every photoshop version after CS6 isn't real.

Hilarious. So what porno was this taken from? Lmao

Memevolution

Because like so much of the IT field, most go for the easier thing to do and don't have or are losing the skills to do these things themselves. A good photoshop is a rarity now, and often will get called AI slop because of it being good, so they don't.

If anything Linux is also taking the bottle, it seems like: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/10/linus-torvalds-says-ai-has-made-huge-linux-kernel-updates-the-new-normal/5285268 Completely self-inflicted, though, from what I can tell. Apparently they just enjoyed having a copyright time bomb as part of the code, or something - or I don't know why else they'd do it.

Yes, which one so I can stay away from it and not watch it.

Know your meme says it was just an insta post

At least the kernel hasn't (yet) gone full KDE.

you guys are using photoshop to make memes?

SignatureLookOfGimpSuperiority.png

or you know, 🇬🇧🇬🇧Kolour🇬🇧🇬🇧Paint

Is this AI modified?

“But it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due to review by various AI tools.”

AFAIK the "huge updates" are written by humans in response to LLM found bugs.

That penguin. I can't. 🤣🤣🤣

The KDE thing was a specific person declaring that they would hold a meeting about Gen AI in KDE, who hasn't contributed to the project in years otherwise. Nobody is going to convince everyone to compile their own vibecoded version of KDE's projects.

EDIT: See https://discuss.kde.org/t/sorry-to-bring-up-a-contentious-topic-kde-ai-llm-policy/46333/187. The developers seem to be responding in an acceptable manner, although I only looked at the start and end since it's quite a long discussion.

GIMP mentioned!

Hilarious that Linux is using an iPhone.

Photoshop is also a verb, has been for decades actually, meaning a use of photo editing software in general.

Never slop

"This could have been a gimp" sends the wrong message to most people.

Linus Torvalds confirmed LLM use for new code is fine: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ So I doubt it's just human work.

THe kernel seems to be full steam ahead slop: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/linus-torvalds-to-critics-of-ai-coding-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/ (Apart from the kernel subsystems were LLM use was banned, I think I heard something like that about something graphics related but I might be misremembering.)

If you don't believe it, check here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai Or can you see any ban on LLM code in there? Feel free to point me to it.

Also saying you GIMPed something just doesn’t feel right

KDE: It's milkin' time

Oh God quickly disperse before gimp gang pulls up

Yes, definitely.

In the original milk isn’t dripping off her chin and there’s more cleavage (though that’s cropping).

Also in the original the penguin is not recording, he’s standing with a coloured rock in his mouth.

I always do this the shittiest way possible to show how low effort the shitpost is.

Usually that’s a screenshot of a meme generator (so it doesn’t include watermark) or some poorly pasted impact text added on my phone.

Most of the people here would read it and not skip a beat.

I read through the exact message chain that article is referencing some time ago, which did not lead me to the conclusion the article would suggest. It seems that he consistently refers to AI use from the perspective of finding bugs more so than than fixing them, which he could definitely do a better job clarifying.

Not a porno just a weird (great) photoshoot

Wild if true, it’s certainly a provocative photo! Especially for milk lovers :)

Eh. The choice between Android and iPhone is a bit tough if you don't have access to GrapheneOS. You can have less freedom with Apple but good security and meh privacy, stock Android with freedom (but not soon) good security, and horrendous privacy, or another custom Android ROM that isn't GrapheneOS, which has incredible freedom, bad security, and good privacy (assuming you don't get hacked).

Thank god, I really feared having to watch it several times in a row.

Don't worry. Ask them to draw a circle so we can escape.

How do you know it was not AI-ed out of the original?

"Yeah, the iPhone has a manufacturer backdoor, but it's really secure!"

looking at recent kernel commits, that penguin is zoinked out on that milk too…

I want my girlfriend to look at me like that

There is some intensity going on in that gaze…wonder if she is a fan of copilot lol

Fuck that, I love my gimp

This would have made the photoshoot even more interesting than it probably was.

(It says green pepper in angle brackets but some clients are trying to interpret that as markup tags)

I have to use Windows at work. It's genuinely horrifying.

Every time I open Word - and I mean EVERY. TIME. - I have to dismiss a box inviting me to ask Copilot to do my work for me.

I KNOW that I could bung Debian on that PC and wring SO MUCH MORE performance out of it, but noooooo, I've got to use SlopOS, because our IT guys don't know the first damn thing about Linux.

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Same :(

I don't know why Microsoft can't understand:

Make something actually good. Give people the option to use it.

BuT It cOmEs wItH OfFiCiAl sUpPoRt pErFoRmEd bY A FrEeLaNcEr oN A FoRuM WhO CoPiEs yOuR QuEsTiOn iNtO An lLm aNd, sEcUrItY UpDaTeS Of hAlF An hOuR EvErY FiVe mInUtEs, So mUsT Be gOoD RiGhT?

• Corporate, probably

It's a built-in Gimp texture. It's like the monkey face in Blender. If you see the green pepper in an image, you know the image was made in the Gimp. It's like a cheeky signature/nod.

WSL.

Leave Windows on it, but turn it into a de facto bootloader for a functional OS. IT gets to keep their bullshit jobs; you get to use a functional OS.

I ain't updating shit until the rest of y'all test the slop getting pushed.