Ster-Kinekor denies that photos of its new cinema at top South African mall are fake

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Ster-Kinekor denies that photos of its new cinema at top South African mall are fake

Some of the photos of Ster-Kinekor's new Tyger Valley Mall cinema had metadata that contained what appeared to prompts for a large language model.

 

[Lawnchairman]

 

[whatwhat]

Ster Kinekak.

 

[Alexander the Straight]

the photographer now has a tear in his Ai

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Caught out nicely.... scaly mofos....

 

[Goosfrabba]

If anything this is the one I would have guessed was AI.

 

[biena]

opens officially to moviegoers on Friday, 9 October 2026

There should be some photos taken by suckers patrons somewhere out there?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

There should be some photos taken by suckers patrons somewhere out there?

would have thought they send a Journo,
but then I forgot MYBB has no journos only AI that reacts when somebody farts in the middle east.

 

[Smiggles]

Looks fake to me. There are not people talking loudly on their phones and eating popcorn like Jesus is coming back.

 

[SkillBeatsAll]

Both images were generated or edited by Google's models. They both carry a SynthID watermark - something it can only carry if its been through an LLM.

SynthID is a technology developed by Google DeepMind that adds imperceptible digital watermarks to AI-generated content. These watermarks are embedded directly into the content and can be detected later to help identify whether content was created by an AI model. SynthID works across multiple modalities including images, audio, and video, providing a scalable approach to content provenance and authenticity verification.

SynthID Detector

Identify SynthID watermarks in AI generated media

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@mylesillidge

 

[dualmeister]

If anything this is the one I would have guessed was AI.

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Ster-Kinekor invited us to come and watch The Little Mermaid at their awesome Kids cinema at V & A Waterfront yesterday, and it did not…

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[SkillBeatsAll]

Both images were generated or edited by Google's models. They both carry a SynthID watermark - something it can only carry if its been through an LLM.

SynthID Detector

Identify SynthID watermarks in AI generated media

synthid.com

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@mylesillidge

SynthID is different from "AI detection platforms" in the sense that it does not give an accuracy score or something like that - it is either a 0 or 1 for if there is a watermark, or no watermark. If there is, then it is guaranteed to have passed through an LLM. While it is easy to remove the watermark, it hasn't been done in this case.

The images probably were taken on site, and then definitely passed to Gemini to edit and make them look better.

 

[WollieVerstege]

Calling Tyger Valley a "top South African Mall" should have been the first hint.

 

[dualmeister]

Calling Tyger Valley a "top South African Mall" should have been the first hint.

 

[ShaunSA]

Cinema? Are we back in the 80's?

 

[Smiggles]

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He loves to pay for parking lol

 

[FiestaST]

 

[LazyLion]

Slim vang sy baas....

 

[The_MAC]

How to bump an article without bumping an article..

 

[Lupus]

Looks fake to me. There are not people talking loudly on their phones and eating popcorn like Jesus is coming back.

This shows you've not been to a cinema in about 12 years... People talking on phones? Please people don't even have active ringtones anymore.