Why does the iphone on the left just look wrong somehow?

they used an ai image instead of one of the thousands of actual product images

edit: it could be because op searched for "iphone fold" instead of "iphone duo". The "iphone fold" results are full of AI / concept images. I don't think there was a real Iphone duo in the first few results.

There is just one iphone on the picture

I assumed as much. It looks like it's bending backwards.

It's an IPhone, that's why. 🙃

It shouldn't fold in this direction, it closes the other way

folds it hamburger-style like this?

It wasn't intentional. In my defense I've stopped wondering about Apple features making sense long ago

its slop

It folds in this direction... Once.

I've had a folding phone for 3 years and I've never gotten sand in it, pocket or otherwise.

But I also don't crack my screens on my phones.

When searching for product images, this is the top result on duckduckgo with ai images disabled.
Seems disabling ai images is useless...

Edit: correction, when you search for "iphone fold", searching "iphone duo" yields correct images

Which model did you get? I wanted one for some time now, but I really feel nervous about the screen just deciding to go the way of the dodo after 2 years and leaving me with a brick.

Does pocket sand also not ruin a regular phone?

The original Pixel Fold. I didn't like the dimensions of the Samsung ones closed and I didn't really feel like importing an Oppo or something like that.

The camera died after a year and I had to get it replaced, but I had insurance, so it wasn't a big deal. The screens still work like they're new and the hinge is fine.

I have one too. I've gotten all sorts of things inside the inner screen. Once I even accidentally closed it with a key in it (basically folded it while putting it in pocket where keys are). Realized only after arriving home and pulling out my phone with key in it. Dust, manufacturing materials (I work in a factory), ectera ectera.

What has saved me all this time is simply a nillkin case that has a hinge protector (dust, falls, etc.) and creates a small gap between the screens when you close, so whatever dust gets inside is never really pressed between the screens.

I went with OnePlus Open. Samsung had weird screen ratios and pixel was just meh in comparison.

The sand is pressed harder against the screen if it's being pressed by another screen than if it's being pressed by the fabric of your pocket.

Pocket sand always wins. Over time, it grinds exceedingly fine.

What is ectera?

If you want to ensure it's victory combine it with a credit card in the same pocket for maximum destruction

Why use an AI image for the folding phone when they're are literally tens of thousands of images of foldables elsewhere?

There is honestly no real justification for creating slop images for a meme or really anything. Last I checked, stock image companies or image copyrighters don't file lawsuits against creators of memes for badly cropping a stock photo and putting text on top of it.

A misspelling of etcetera, commonly abbreviated “etc.” which is Latin (“et cetera”) for “and others.”

If you want to be a douchey nerd you can pronounce it like it would’ve been in Ancient Rome, with a “k” sound for the c. It’s fun.

I took the first image from duckduckgo where the "no AI" filter is on. All the images I post are edited in GIMP alone, by my own untalented hands.

Some weird people pronounce it as "exetera". 💀
Maybe that's another American thing?

Fair enough honestly, it's unfortunate how large of a pool of AI images aren't labelled as such, and that the only feasible way to get them labelled after the fact is [at least in the case of duckduckgo,] to gather feedback data given by people who search and know that there is the "flag AI generated image" button.

I suppose indentifying AI images is easier said than done, and requires at training and good enough pattern recognition, so it doesn't mean everyone has to become an expert at recognising them, it really means that these images are flooding everywhere and are a great reason to fervently oppose generative AI.

At this point, I'd say if you want to avoid AI images, you need to see enough of them to find what makes them look off, and with enough time it becomes second nature to discriminate images based on how real they appear.

Huh, this could be it. I searched on ecosia for iphone duo.
I compared the results from iphone fold and duo and damn, the fold search is full of ai / concept images