The image header appears to be an AI-generated and certainly doesn't look like Ellison, despite the image's name.
It doesn't bode well for the rest of the article.
It doesn't bode well for the rest of the article.
That's the classic AI photo issue where "man looking at the moon" is a man looking at the camera with the moon behind him.
Filename: ..._simple_compose_01kdcxamjmekery2m9tay43szn.png
- "simple_compose" + LSB common (e.g ideogram) output
Resolution: 1536x1024
- Exact native output of GPT-image-1, Gemini/Imagen, Flux models
PNG encoder fingerprint: 0x78 0xDA | single IDAT | 94.7% Average filter
- Matches PIL/Pillow with optimize=True
Steganographic watermark:
- LSB entropy: 3.0/3.0 (maximum)
- Bits 0-3 of RGB channels filled with encrypted payload
- ~1.77 MB of pseudorandom data embedded