"it showed a figure standing next to police officers who looked as though he had stepped straight out of a film noir, attired in a trench coat, a slightly tilted hat in the style of Humphrey Bogart, and what appeared to be a neatly trimmed mustache. That a figure of this kind appeared to be the detective in charge of the investigation into the crime seemed encouraging: no matter how much its historical heritage was plundered, France would never, could never stop being France."
"A gumshoe so out-of-time that his image conjured visions of pursuing Al Capone during Prohibition not traversing the streets of Paris in 2025. He cut a figure that seemed too surprising to be real, too perfect, as ventured by those who questioned whether such an individual really existed. The hypothesis that the character had been generated by AI took on such popularity that the photographer had to issue a public denial."
On October 19 thieves entered the Louvre's Apollo gallery using a movable staircase and an angle grinder, stealing nine jewels from the French crown and dropping an actual crown. A widely circulated photograph captured a man beside police in a trench coat, tilted hat, and trimmed mustache, evoking a film-noir detective and a sense of enduring French identity. Social media dubbed him "Fedora Man" and widely speculated about his origin, including claims of AI generation. The viral attention grew so intense that the image's photographer issued a public denial of AI fabrication.
Read at english.elpais.com
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