This reminds of me of similar experience on lemmy.ml where yogthos posted a blurry picture with meme text, and a person and I first started believing it was AI because of the weird context of the image that looked unrealistic. Then a couple other people started to question if it was really AI, and a reverse image search led them to finding a post of the image that existed pre-AI. I did some extra digging and found related images on a firefighter magazine website that included the location and time the event occurred, and I deleted my previous comment upon discovering this.

I do try to resist commenting on a subject before doing an investigation, but sometimes I am guilty of being too quick to make an assumption. With AI, though, it's really hard to take any media as truth anymore, so I am very skeptical of everything I see at this point.