Since it's not shown in the article, the placeholder was the newspapers here; https://rl.bloat.cat/preview/pre/bn8bzvzd80ye1.jpeg?width=16... via https://rl.bloat.cat/r/expedition33/comments/1k6yv8a/does_th...
man, a reddit clone that reads exactly like reddit. what's the point, even?
That’s the after image, here’s the before (also from that thread):
https://rl.bloat.cat/preview/pre/k7zsc1nls7af1.jpeg?width=19...
This does make it a bit more suspicious. It seems unlikely they coincidentally used gen AI placeholders only for the one case where it’s absurdly obvious.