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Jax Taylor is facing criticism after seemingly sharing an AI-generated photo on Instagram.
After posting a slideshow of his “life lately,” the 47-year-old former star of The Valley and Vanderpump Rules was called out on Reddit by several commenters, many of whom felt that the image, which was seemingly of Jax’s girlfriend, Lori Krebs, was a fake.
“Jax posted on Instagram, and maybe I’m crazy, but doesn’t this look a little AI?” a Reddit user asked of Jax’s September 24 post, which also included images of his five-year-old son Cruz, whom he shares with estranged wife Brittany Cartwright, 36.
“Probably teasing a woman to make Brittany mad, but I can’t help but notice this picture seems out of place. The quality and saturation is not consistent with anything Jax has posted and the image is just a little too perfect,” the user continued.
After the image was shared, commenters pointed out many suspicious factors, including the shape of the mug, the scale-y looking burger bun, and a gem that didn’t appear to be attached to the necklace the woman in the photo was wearing.
“The hair doesn’t look real,” one person said.
“I’ve never seen a meat skewer that looks like a spine,” another shared.
A third pointed out that the writing on the parchment paper beneath the food didn’t look right.
“Always check the writing, it’s a dead giveaway,” they wrote.
And sure enough, in a similar image shared by the restaurant in which the photo was taken, the name of the venue, “Great White,” appeared much clearer.
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Jax and Lori went public over the summer following a decade-long period in which she served as his and Brittany’s shared publicist.
As The Valley fans have surely seen, Jax and Brittany have been locked in a bitter battle for the past several weeks, with the two of them filing dueling restraining orders against each other.
After Brittany accused Jax of physically attacking her and threatening to “gut” her “like a f***en [sic] fish” in August, as she was granted a restraining order against him, Jax sought his own protection against her, claiming she called him “dirty d*ck” and cost him a role on Special Forces, where he could have made $175,000. Jax also suggested that Brittany had tried to sleep with him after becoming intoxicated during a day out with their child.
Meanwhile, in a report from TMZ in September, an audio recording from August 28, 2022, was detailed, sharing that Jax had allegedly called Brittany a “f*cking r*tard” during a fight in front of their son, who was “wailing” in the background.
“Please leave us alone,” Brittany begged.
“Nope,” Jax replied. “What are you doing? What are you gonna do? You’re not gonna do s*it.”
Jax also called Brittany a “nut” and said she was a “terrible mother.”
“Don’t you ever, ever, ever turn my child against me. Don’t you ever, Don’t you ever EVER come against me and my child,” he also declared. “Don’t you ever. You want water? I’ll bring him water. You bring my child against me, I’ll f*cken kill you!”