It’s not AI. The oldest version of this image is from May 11th 2020, and the first widespread text-to-image model DALL-E came out in January 2021. That makes this image too old to be AI-generated.
It also doesn’t show any strange AI defects the early models had, in case you may think it’s from a very early proprietary unreleased model or something.
Edit: Not AI since the og image is too old for that
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This is not the case OP, either change the title or remove the post~~
It’s not AI. The oldest version of this image is from May 11th 2020, and the first widespread text-to-image model DALL-E came out in January 2021. That makes this image too old to be AI-generated.
It also doesn’t show any strange AI defects the early models had, in case you may think it’s from a very early proprietary unreleased model or something.
Link / source ? What I can find on image reverse is all from the past month
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/j4hf8t/cute_small_kitten/
Huh ok seems I was wrong
floofloof already provided the source, but just to add: I found it using tineye.