• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    The way it was discovered was what interested me more. They made a really stupid mistake that should have gotten caught at some point in the process. It’s about as blatant an error as there could be for a clock background image.

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      1 year ago

      Clocks use IIII instead of IV most of the time. This is completely normal and not at all out of place

    • wjrii@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know why Gizmodo is so fixated on the IIII, which as many people have pointed out is fairly common on clocks. Twitter/X is a nightmare to navigate in a browser, but the much better article on The Verge doesn’t even mention the Roman numeral. The AI origins of the background come from a lot of other evidence.