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These are what's called stock photos. Photographers take thousands of these and sell them to companies to use in ads and other media.
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Also important to note is that these stock images or the ads themselves that use them, may add weird errors on purpose as a way to psychologically ingrain the ad into your mind because you'll remember the weird shit. I forgot what this practice is called, but it has a name.
Things like the peas being upside down in this:
Fascinating
Lmao wtf
It seems to me any place where you might expect stock photos might be AI these days, because it's trendy to use AI and may be seen as cheaper than paying for stock photos.
Yeah stock photos was the first use case I thought of a few years ago for AI.
This looks completely normal to me, nothing about this appears to be AI.
They look real to me? Pattern matches up between the two flower dresses, no extra limbs, "tiny baby" legibly written on the one outfit but small enough that I don't think that text could be generated without getting wonky. I don't see any of the telltale signs and imho doesn't even have the uncanny valley feeling to it.
Other comment says weird hand positions, but nothing looks out of the ordinary for a kid
Take the hat wearing photo. There seem to be two of those, second row second photo and fourth row third photo. She is even carrying the same yellow thing on both photos. But if you look closer, the 2nd row photo has a rainbow above the flowers, but the fourth row photo has a teddy bear kind thing instead of a rainbow. The second row photo has frills on the sleeves in the front, but the fourth row has frills on the back.
The people & rainbow are on both of them, she's just more angled to the right on the bottom one. You can still see part of the red of the rainbow between her hand, and the people on the edge of the top photo. Frills go around the whole dress but they look a bit more flattened because of the wind. Pretty confident in saying these are real photos
I just found out show like 90 Day Fiance have been playing AI music for years so nothing would surprise me
I think where the flower pattern doesn't match, one of the photos is flipped horizontally
Look at the hands.
Maybe a better question is who cares?
If I posted that to every asklemmy question I didn't care about, I'd be very busy. What is the point of posting that rather than ignoring a question you don't care about?
Personally I think there is value in people trying to discern what is and isn't AI and developing those skills.
Yeah it's actually my 10yo daughter who sent me this image and asked me if it's AI. I'm teaching her to be on the lookout for ai generated images so that she can stay vigilant and not fall for scams using ai images to create a narrative.
I believe I can have an opinion on absolutely anything, just as you can. I don't disparage or insult people, but I do share my opinion. What's the point of any of this?
Well we do all have opinions on everything, but one learns over time that many of them aren't worth sharing and contribute more to the noise than any useful signal. I'm still working on that myself BTW, and the internet is virtually designed to make us bad at that.
As long as we are respectful to each other, you can have an opinion on anything. I won't censure you, and I expect the same in return.
This is one of these cases where it's probably better to use AI. I don't even understand why people even have to be in these picture frames. "Ohhhh so that's what i could put in these things."
it’s actually my 10yo daughter who sent me this image and asked me if it’s AI. I’m teaching her to be on the lookout for ai generated images so that she can stay vigilant and not fall for scams using ai images to create a narrative.
So what's your conclusion? Is it AI or not, what criteria did you use to make that determination?
And that's how AI will win lol. So many things are seen as inconsequential. But a photographer for a stock photo company is a job to be cut due to AI. So, you probably should.
You can't legislate against progress.
Column 2, row 4. Left hand (from our perspective) has 4 fingers, right hand has 6 fingers (notice the lifted one behind the flower)
People have gone so far down the rabbit hole of trying to assert pictures are AI, theyve started false flagging normal pictures.
For the above pic, her right thumb is obviously just down... obviously holding the plant in her hand.
Her left hand is normal, thats her arm behind the flower you mis-identified as a finger.
Goddamn I need to steal this
I think the one behind the flower is the armpit. The thumb on the other hand might be holding the stem on he other side of he index finger. That said, that seems to be a weird extra strip of clothing on the hand behind the flower
You mean the other flower?
That said, that seems to be a weird extra strip of clothing on the hand behind the flower
This is the white head(?) of one of the flowers she is holding not a strip of clothing
the lifted one is not a finger but part of her upper arm. I don't think this is AI.
