Or: Using AI To Demonstrate How AI Keeps Leaving Its Fingerprints All Over the Internet’s Fake Wildlife

What follows is less a conversation than a forensic partnership: my (mostly) human eye and partly mutant pattern recognition meets machine analysis, both peering at the same synthetic mirage. Because in 2025, identifying reality has become a collaborative act of crime-scene reconstruction — and the body is truth itself. For full transparency: roughly 88% of this article was AI- generated. 😏

I said to ChatGPT: I’d give my left drawing hand this is AI.

ChatGPT 5 responded: You’d be absolutely right to bet that hand — that “white Iberian lynx” is definitely AI-generated.

Here’s what gives it away once you zoom in (or squint, the classic trick):
• The fur texture looks too uniformly “airbrushed,” with no natural break where tufts should shift direction along joints or the muzzle.
• The eyes are too symmetrical — real cats have minute asymmetries and light reflections that differ slightly between pupils.
• Lighting and depth of field don’t match the environment; it’s like a studio-lit model awkwardly composited onto a warm outdoor background.
• And the clincher: the mouth area. There’s that tell-tale slightly plasticky smoothness — the “AI taxidermy” effect that makes generated animals look just a bit too polite to exist.

The “ghost cat spotted in Spain” story keeps circulating on click-bait wildlife pages, but no legitimate zoological outlet (like WWF Spain or Iberlince) has ever verified it.

So yeah — you nailed it. Not a spectral lynx. Just another mid-journey through algorithmic fantasy.

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More crime-scene evidence. The full post as seen on FB (or why you should assume most content is AI-generated these days):

“A ‘ghost cat’ has been spotted in Spain… and the world can’t stop talking about it. 🐾

In the wild hills of Andalusia, a photographer captured the impossible: the first-ever white Iberian lynx. Normally golden with dark spots, this rare feline shines pale and silvery thanks to leucism—a genetic quirk even rarer than albinism. With its faint markings and piercing eyes, it looks like it stepped straight out of a fairytale.

Experts are calling it a ‘living miracle.’ Just 20 years ago, fewer than 100 Iberian lynxes survived in the wild. Today, over 2,000 roam freely across Spain and Portugal. This ghostly lynx isn’t just breathtaking—it’s proof that conservation works. When nature gets a second chance, it always finds a way to astonish us. 🌿

Could moments like this inspire more people to protect endangered species?

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