I think the phone they used went ham on HDR.

Makes me think a solid misinformation strategy would be to doctor real photos to look like they’re AI generated.

It’s the almost complete lack of shadows. My guess is there was a very thin cloud cover diffusing the sunlight. You can kind of see this on the right-side officer’s hat shadow.

Lots of that lately; reminiscent of the cybertruck on fire in front of the trump tower. I absolutely assumed that was ai at first