How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter)
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- čas přidán 11. 01. 2024
- It is a very weird moment and it is really important that a lot of people have both the kinds of skills that give them good signals for when to get suspicious AND strong abilities to figure out whether things are real or not.
Both of those things, IMO, are getting harder and harder. Platforms (and creators) succeed by giving you content that you /won't/ be suspicious of, and we have more and more tools for fooling the BS detectors that people have developed, requiring new BS detector upgrades constantly!! IT'S A MESS!!!
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“If we vibe with it, we don’t scrutinize it” is the most 2024 way possible to simply explain confirmation bias.
I recently came across a social media post that said, "It's funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales: 'Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows...' ... and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind."
The saddest part is that the pattern recognition already fails. There have been many examples of regular artists being accused of AI simply because their art style has some of that "softness" that AI generated pictures often have.
Applying Step 2 to Hank's background has got me thinking he could be AI too. Shelves jutting off at odd angles. Some books are stacked horizontally. And why is there a hammer just suspended there?
Something really similar happened with a musical artist I like recently. He used some fan-submitted art for his New Year's concert merch and some people called him out and said it was AI-generated. Unfortunately, it looks like he was lied to by the person who submitted the art and he had to apologize. I did think it was an interesting topic for Hank to discuss once I heard about it. The dishonesty in both stories is the bigger issue to deal with. Paying reputable artists in either situation is the solution.
I'm a professional artist who does a lot of contract work, and I'm starting to see "experience using AI systems" popping up in job postings (especially for companies who produce things like f2p mobile games).
I, for one, would welcome an hour-long hankschannel video about why AI art should maybe pump the brakes. My degree is in ML/AI and even I kinda feel the same way Hank does. It's super cool tech: we nailed the "could". But maybe we need to give the "should" a little more consideration.
There’s also usually a weird greasy lighting/texture to the realism style of AI art
There's an issue in crochet-related Facebook groups with people posting an AI image of "crochet" and linking to their website to "get the pattern". AI doesn't know what crochet looks like, so you'll get lots of posts from people pointing out that it's an AI image. How do some of us know? Because we know what crochet looks like, and the picture doesn't have any in it. There are efforts to explain to people how they can spot the fakes, including learning how to "read" your work so you know what it looks like. But even if every crocheter does this, there's another issue: someone posted a picture of some crochet pattern books they got for Christmas - two of them were clearly AI covers, one of them misspelled "amigurumi", something someone writing a book about it wouldn't do. The problem there is that a non-crocheter was fooled. Now I'm trying to imaging explaining to the entire world what crochet actually looks like.
Digital artist here. After fourteen years I'm finally pretty happy with what I can make, but it feels bittersweet due to the recent AI advances. How can you compete with something that creates what you do, for free and instantly?
Wacom, the manufacturer of drawing tablets for artists, were also caught using AI generated art in their promotional material recently. And they also stated that they had purchased the art from a third party who had indicated that the art was not AI generated.
I have an uncomfortable feeling that at some point in the future, we're going to reach a position where no one believes a person is real unless they've actually met them in person.
there are SO many artists begging for work. when a large company uses an AI model which functions by using stolen art, they are not only eliminating potential work, they are stealing from the artists they used to employ
As a disabled stock landscape photographer who has been working for years to shore up my portfolios over at Adobe, Getty, Dreamstime and Alamy, I've watched my income stream fizzle within the last year. Mere words can't convey my grief knowing that this income that I was counting on in my Golden Years, will be virtually nonexistent thanks to AI.
This is completely unrelated, but I live in Alberta, Canada, and Hank being a Montanan makes him the only online figure I follow who both A) regular experiences the same weather systems as me, and B) puts out same-day content that sometimes mentions the weather.
Honestly, I am of the opinion that we need to do more then just scrutinize images, for the reason you mentioned(the fact it will get better), but that we in fact need to put regulations on the training process itself.
There are so many problems with generative AI software, from copyright infringement to creatives losing jobs to environmental impacts to people being paid sweatshop wages for reviewing and tagging content for the dataset.
To me, the real problem is that AI is coming to the fore right at the time in our history where lying is unfettered. And people who accept other's lies while knowing they are unrealiable, or who lie without care about their reputation are everywhere now. Especially online where they expect no repercussions. And all these images are being seen by many who don't have much of a grasp on the real world, since it's outside, where they seldom tread.
The thing that drives me up a wall is that this is killing so many working-class artists' dayjobs. The art that takes your breath away almost never pays its artists well (when they're still alive), but they're able to make it because they have a dayjob making advertisements or whatever that doesn’t completely burn them out, enabling them to build their skills over time. If we replace those dayjob artists with AI, they’ll have to go into whatever underpaid, low-skill, high-hazard environment will take them. (Source: I have several artist friends who have had to start doing this in 2023.) And the people who will be able to afford to develop their artistic skill and share the results with the rest of us will be mostly people who were born rich.
I think what troubles me most about this AI generation craze, where we’re becoming swamped by endless, mass produced machine imagery and text, is the lack of curiosity it enables. I love art and fiction because I care about the people I share a planet with.