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!

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.

i think this looks really good mario is so buff and cool just like bakugo from my hero academia i love bakugo and mario so much

i wish mario was my father

My uncle, mom, aunt, father, brother, sister and first born baby all work at Nintendo and said this is real and will come out on February 31st on the Nintendo Switch 2 Lite Pro Max HD version.

@Dragwhite same
I love Bakugo too

The fact this obvious fake is "doing the rounds" and even got a forum post here speaks to how gullible people really are.

It even got Community Noted on X.

This should never have been more than a random social media post from a hoaxer with too much time on their hands. Why anyone is trying to give it credence is beyond me.

The thing that gives it away that it's fake to me is that they are the same locations from Odyssey. Like Nintendo can be lazy when it comes to copying the environments/locations in Mario, but they aren't that lazy and stupid to copy them from the last major installment.

@Yousef- Not even 4K? Smh my head

This was at least was good for a laugh

Kudos to Miyamoto; that's some impressive spinning considering he's not even in his grave yet.