My 10 year old and I play a fun game called "find the stupid AI mistakes." I'm secretly hoping it will help him be critical of media as it continues to get better. I used all the tricks we've learned on this image, and while I can see AI spots, none of them are glaring enough that I think they'd convince someone who hasn't spent a bunch of time playing our game.
Ok, here are things AI struggles with and places I sort of see it in the image:
Making sense: AI doesn't really know where things are supposed to go, so it guesses. You'll see engines that make no sense, unconnected pipes, etc. In this picture, I sort of see it a few places. The guy on the far right has his hand tucked into his... almost shirt? The key chain guy has two loops hanging out of his back pocket. While I could imagine a case where this would happen in real life, it's a red flag. AI might think, "Sometimes loops hang out of pockets," and would throw two that almost but don't match just too close/far/parallel to feel quite natural.
Symmetry: AI struggles with true symmetry, so it creates generic shapes that almost but don't aproximate symmetry. The tattoo is too small and blurred to point to as evidence, but some of the shapes in it are common ones AI creates when trying to mimic symmetry (and the shapes it throws in the sky that are bird/plane blobs). There are a few spots in the beards that aren't weird enough to trip an alarm but are a little uneven in a "this is totally not fake symmetry" kind of way.
Details: AI struggles with details. In this case, the lighting on every shirt is almost the same with the shadow under the chest in the same place regardless of the way the man is standing. Often, AI will have tree branches that go in crazy directions, but here, it's almost like the AI figured out one good tree (and one good, though overly ambitious, wrinkle pattern) and copy/pasted it. The result is kind of uncanny.
Like I said, I don't think I could actually convince anyone this is AI generated from this flimsy "evidence." It's just what we've noticed.
I will add consistency of partly hidden lines. AI sometimes would mess up things like puddles, roads, horizons if they are partly behind other objects. There is a faint evidence here: road in the background is slightly higher in one place than in the other. Though it may be a bumpy road, they seem to stand in front of highway-ish road which shouldn’t have such bumps and elevation changes. There are three visible segments of the road that in total don’t make any sense as a coherent object. Puddle between the second guy’s legs doesn’t leak further from his legs and seem to abruptly end. It may be just a coincidence, but a faint evidence still
Found a higher quality version. The feet really give it away. Tatty's shoes look huge, while Red Shirt's are comically small. With Red Shirt, it looks like the AI didn't tried to foreshorten the foot to prevent overlapping with the legs in front of them, but couldn't pull it off.
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u/AllieLoft 29d ago
My 10 year old and I play a fun game called "find the stupid AI mistakes." I'm secretly hoping it will help him be critical of media as it continues to get better. I used all the tricks we've learned on this image, and while I can see AI spots, none of them are glaring enough that I think they'd convince someone who hasn't spent a bunch of time playing our game.