https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/01/nintendo-denies-using-ai-images-in-new-my-mario-marketing
It's a win for the double-jointed!
Posted by emeraldbar77
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/01/nintendo-denies-using-ai-images-in-new-my-mario-marketing
It's a win for the double-jointed!
Posted by emeraldbar77
27 Comments
I will say its interesting watching the general reaction to Nintendo maybe using AI in an ad vs confirmed desire to use genAI in Divinity by Larians CEO
The images just look like the woman is double jointed. Not that she’s Ai.
That’s quite the thumb.
People looking for AI in everything like it’s a witch hunt has become a new type of psychosis I swear 😭
Ten seconds of looking at this image has me thinking it was a photographer going “can you turn Mario a little more? A little more? A little more?” until she just had to hold her hand at an unnatural angle. Why anyone would go “AI!” is just cause you’re paranoid.
Good. Now let’s see everyone retract their incorrect statements and make the same amount of noise admitting their mistake as they did calling out somebody else’s.
As a person with fucked joints, I do feel as though I’m AI sometimes.
If people think that’s Ai, I know someone’s uncle that could probably get away with a lot.
AI witch hunt is getting so tiresome now
Honestly, I worry at this point that companies are going to look at these reactions and be like, “Well, they think it’s AI when it’s not, so why don’t we just use AI anyway?”
Yeah, I can do that with my hand, it doesn’t look like AI to me.
The pics never struck me as AI while looking at them but I can’t blame people for being paranoid in this day and age
It’s truly something else that we reached the point in our lives if we question if real life people are AI generated… I feel sorry for that lady…
I see more people screaming “AI slop!” at things that aren’t AI than I do actual AI slop lately.
I hate AI generated content but I also hate the dimwits that keep accusing of anything wierd as being AI generated. I believe that the photos are real except it just have some strange photoshop editing, combined with really confusing perspective.
Anti-AI absolutists makes it easy for companies to slide AI in there over time. Stuff like this will only hasten it.
Cue “Nintendo is lying” argument.
The fact people think it even was is funny
https://preview.redd.it/fu5gj1y94gcg1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ba1ba3c81841393872c41fd95dca3d14503291
here’s me also doing an AI hand. it looks weird for sure, but she’s just got an odd grip on it. Almost certainly just an optical illusion – look up ‘foreshortening’
That’s a double jointed person.. I can do that
I mean hey atleast they won’t actually use AI at this point… any publicity good publicity
As someone who is also double jointed in my hands, I was able to recreate this grab. I was like, holy shit that does look weird 😅
> The much-discussed ‘weird thumb’ picture was said to have a 63.84% to 82% chance that it used some form of AI generation, while the other three came in at >1%.
Technically, the ‘weird thumb picture’ also came in at over one percent.
Double-jointed actors and models about to hit the pay dirt as hiring them is not only 110% the moral and decent thing to do versus AI slop, but will instantly drum up clicks and views due to the assumed controversy.
I wish I could bet on this outcome lol.
are we going to have to do this with every little thing now?
But they should be able to use AI.
I think the people originally confused weren’t even talking about the thumb, but thought Mario’s hair was part of her hand.