Don’t think it is AI slop. Had the same thought, but I think someone actually blew money on this. Idk man. Can we go back to photoshop being the main suspect for stuff like this? At least that took effort to make. Gonna take a phd at some point to identify reality from ai crap.
Yeah, google’s image generation tools intentionally leave a fingerprint so they can determine if an image was created by their AI tools. It’s basically the only thing I use their AI for.
If I can’t find an image that looks like it might be AI on a reverse image search before ~2020, I run it through there to check if it was Gemini-created. It’s pretty helpful if you’re borderline like this one.
Frustrating that I can’t tell. Typically if something is absurd with proper proportion, it’s AI, but in this case, it’s not even that expensive or hard to pull off. Any other telltale signs? Lighting? Inconsistent stuff?
California isn’t a single steak. Where the top third bends to the north you can see a black line of shadow where the two steaks split. Other states are constructed of multiple steaks as well. Texas looks to be three or maybe four. Louisiana has two split between north and south, New Mexico is two striploins pressed together, etc.
Don’t think it is AI slop. Had the same thought, but I think someone actually blew money on this. Idk man. Can we go back to photoshop being the main suspect for stuff like this? At least that took effort to make. Gonna take a phd at some point to identify reality from ai crap.
Unfortunately it seems to be
Did you just ask AI if something was AI?
Yeah, google’s image generation tools intentionally leave a fingerprint so they can determine if an image was created by their AI tools. It’s basically the only thing I use their AI for.
https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/ It’s pretty interesting, and I’m glad they do it. I wish it were a requirement for all AI-gen images/videos/etc.
If I can’t find an image that looks like it might be AI on a reverse image search before ~2020, I run it through there to check if it was Gemini-created. It’s pretty helpful if you’re borderline like this one.
I think google hides an additional mark in their own edits so the tool can perform an actual check in this case.
They would not detect any AI edit from other providers.
There are tools to remove these hidden “signatures” E.g. https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
I’m not commenting on the ethics.
til… we have gone too far.
ai vs ai battles
Frustrating that I can’t tell. Typically if something is absurd with proper proportion, it’s AI, but in this case, it’s not even that expensive or hard to pull off. Any other telltale signs? Lighting? Inconsistent stuff?
Has to be. There’s no way you bend a steak as cleanly as that Cali.
California isn’t a single steak. Where the top third bends to the north you can see a black line of shadow where the two steaks split. Other states are constructed of multiple steaks as well. Texas looks to be three or maybe four. Louisiana has two split between north and south, New Mexico is two striploins pressed together, etc.
This was the first clue for me too. The way the strip of fat on California bends with the border of the state looks impossible.
Unless it’s actually two pieces of meat… Now I kind of maybe see a thin line where it bends