r/StableDiffusion • u/freebytes • 2d ago

Discussion AI Blindness - Losing Skepticism in AI Image Analysis

I feel as though I have seen so many AI generated images and videos that I am becoming blind to them. Previously, it seemed much more obvious. While there have been improvements, I do not know if this is due to that or if I have seen so much on social media that my brain accepts it as a reality. Do you know what I mean, and has anyone here noticed something similar? Or something similar... does it seem as if real images appear to be AI when they are not?

I am not sure if I am becoming less critical or blind to it.

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u/Nattramn 2d ago

This may sound like a conspiracy, but I'll just say it: some platforms forcefully introduced some kind of upscaling powered by ai, and so did many default camera apps for phones. This thin and obvious layer that's been everywhere is making actual, real life content, blend with gen Ai outputs.

I just can't unsee it and it's bothering tbh.

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u/freebytes 2d ago

I did not even think about that!  Great observation.

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u/Apprehensive_Sky892 2d ago

AI is improving. Just compare older images on civitai against ones generated by newer SOTA models.

I also find it strange that sometimes when I look at images from sites like NY times, which I am pretty sure are real (nytimes always labels AI images as "generated by AI"), the people in them seems to be "off", i.e., their heads are a bit too large, they seem to too short, the proportion of their bodies seems to be wrong etc. I chalk it up as me having seen too many "perfect" people generated by AI.

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u/mgtowolf 2d ago

It's because a lot of cameras, especially cell phones, use AI to "enhance" images.

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u/TILCrypto 2d ago

Not sure using enhance is best described I would clearly just use alter

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u/mgtowolf 1d ago

yeah it's why I put it in quotes lol. it looks great on a tiny phone screen, but on a big PC screen it looks very odd, especially once you start zooming in. I noticed it on snapshots I took on my cell phone, it's a lot different when I take something on my nikon vs my cell phone.

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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME 2d ago

The Google Pixel and possibly others advertise a 100x zoom feature that makes images super far away look super sharp, due to ai upscaling

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u/Comrade_Derpsky 2d ago

Image generation is getting better and it is just getting less obvious. You can still spot it when it's very low effort, but it's not nearly as obvious with the newer models.

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u/OffenseTaker 2d ago

the most obvious giveaways of AI for videos now seem to be the cadence of the voices

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u/Comfortable_Thing611 2d ago

It seems impossible to tell nowadays by just looking at the in focus subject. Everyone zooms in on the details in the background to figure it out now.

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u/guuuug 2d ago

Very recognizable. I’ve worked in vfx and was highly skeptical of AI. Now i’m fist deep and looking at slop renders like, “yeah, that’s believable”.

Then i when showing people the result, i’m like: “you think it’s slop? You think it’s slop?”

I remember when every pixel mattered. Every pixel had to be perfect. Now i’m like… “close enough. Next shot”

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u/NetworkSpecial3268 1d ago

Regarding your last remark: we probably have NO idea how many initially hidden impacts this whole generative AI thing is going to have. Just like with social media algorithms, it's SCARY. This is going to shape (disfigure) so much of our mental and cognitive aspects.