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I agree with your point in general - there's no use in being skeptical if you call stuff fake at the first sign. Innocent until proven guilty or whatever.
You're right that the image could be clipart, and a human could have made those typos, but there are some non-human tells in here other than that.
The P in protection is a lowercase capital, and one of the r's in irŕritation is accented. The latter could've been mistyped on a phone keyboard, but in that case it would've been autocorrected, and that still doesn't explain the P.
There's also some weird GPT-like descriptions that are thrown in for no reason. Why does the bandana being "fashionable" matter? How are arm warmers "subtle", exactly?
As another commentor pointed out, a T-shirt with a graphic is more likely to make you recognisable, so that part's just wrong. I also don't get why "tactical/military bags" should be "avoided"? Seems like the kinda misinformation AI would spout.
What I really don't get here is why someone would use AI to generate the entire thing, rather than only using it for the graphic (still morally questionable but excusable) and adding the text in manually (something you can do in MS paint).
The weird lowercase capital is pretty sus, but the writer being a non English speaker could throw things off. It'd explain the odd phrasing and disconnect they seem to have with the seriousness of the situation.
My family members in LA rn have seen ICE everywhere, from restaurants to hotels. Spreading such questionable advice in a time like this is fucked up regardless of it being AI. People are getting shipped out of their homes, many to camps, so this is not the time or place for people to be fucking around.