It seems the AI model that shimmied her way into the pages of Vogue last month has referred her friends from the Uncanny Valley to J.Crew. On Tuesday morning, popular style Substack Blackbird Spyplane published an investigation into a series of nostalgic images recently posted to J.Crew’s Instagram page. The posts, which hawked a collaboration with Vans, appear normal at first glance, in line with the brand’s classic ’80s prepster imagery memorialized on well-known accounts like lostjcrew . But upon further inspection, the folks over at Blackbird identified several quirks that suggest the campaign photos are actually AI-generated.

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As evidence, the publication pointed to a rugby-polo-wearing man whose foot “be

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