Topic: Thoughts on new 'leaked' 3D mario game?

These images have been doing the rounds on Reddit recently, with it being a supposed 'leaked' mario game. Honestly, I don't buy it. But it is a suprising well made spoof, definitely not ai. Any thoughts?

Even the people who have reported the sketchiest of leaks have made fun of just how pathetic this fake leak is. Get this Slopper mAIrio out of here!

This makes my eyes vomit

At least such "leaks" used to take a little bit of talent to knock together in Photoshop.

Nowadays, it's just a case of throwing a few random reference pictures into an AI image generator, and slop like this comes out.

I can't see the picture but is that the muscular Mario with yellow outfits?

Putting the images into four different ai detectors, the images are around 5% likely to be ai.
A helpful analysis on Reddit broke it down and concluded they were real images, clearly made by a fan, but nonetheless real.

I would argue we got more realistic fake mario leaks in the pre-AI days because some people put so much effort into the fakes that they actually looked like they could be in a human-made game.

Some of those detectors are better than others. I put a couple of the pictures in one and it said it was near-100% chance of ai.

In practice some of the images may be a combination of ai and photoshop/editing; the version of the logo (not in your post) with Japanese text seemed better done than the rest of the images. They are all certainly 100% fake regardless.