The pictures were in fact first shared on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu by a self-described digital artist, who said they were made using artificial intelligence.
The post -- shared more than 1,300 times -- included pictures that appeared to show the banks of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower in Paris painted to look like a purple athletic track.
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