Mitch McConnellās team released yet another hospital photo, and apparently they forgot that some of us grew up doing the āWhatās Wrong With This Picture?ā puzzles in Highlights magazine.
Because I have questions. A LOT of questions.
First, why does the sign above the door appear to say Room 411 while the sign beside the exact same door says Room 412? And why are the room numbers apparently INSIDE the room?
Then thereās what appears to be a paper chart hanging from the bed. Yes, I know some hospitals still use paper for certain things, but plenty of nurses are going to look at that setup and immediately question it. Charts arenāt beside beds anymore and havenāt been in years. If a place does use paper charts, theyāre kept at the nurses station.
Now look at the IV. The bag appears full and doesnāt appear to be connected to Mitch. And what appears to be an Alaris IV pump setup looks like it has two channels but no control moduleāthe ābrainā needed to operate it.
Then I started looking around the room.
Why are there multiple hand sanitizer dispensers? Why is one positioned where it is? Why are an otoscope and ophthalmoscope mounted on the wall right beside the patient bed? Why does the angle and perspective of the bed itself look strange?
Now look at the glasses. The reflections caught my attention because what appears to be reflected in them doesnāt seem to correspond clearly with whatās around or behind the photographer. The apparent overhead lighting reflected in the glasses also doesnāt seem consistent with the way the room itself is lit.
Then thereās Mitch himself. Zoom in and parts of his faceāparticularly around his mouth and glassesālook strange to me. That could absolutely be compression from repeatedly uploading, downloading and screenshotting an image, but Iām looking at the entire picture, not one isolated pixel.
And after reportedly being hospitalized for weeks, heās standing there, dressed in jeans and that familiar red checkered shirt, looking remarkably camera-ready.
Any one of these things might have a perfectly reasonable explanation. Maybe all of them do.
But when you release a photograph specifically to reassure the public that everything is fine, and I spend the next twenty minutes playing the nurseās edition of Highlights magazine trying to figure out what the hell Iām looking at, your reassurance campaign may need a little work.
Iām not declaring the photo AI. Iām not declaring it Photoshopped. Iām pointing at the things I can see with my own two eyes and asking questions.
Because at this point, I donāt need another carefully staged photograph.
I need some answers. It's more AI slop with the same shirt on.
VIA Momma Dawn
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