With each new generation of models and more advanced training phases, AI-based image creation gains quality and complexity… but those images still have certain characteristics that a trained eye recognizes immediately. The portal “Which Is AI?” turns that process into a game, hiding an artificial image among others of “human origin”. Think you can score ten points without failing…?
If anyone has doubts about the popularity of AI right now, just take a look at Google Trends:
That's right, global searches already surpass cryptocurrencies, with bankruptcies and collapses included. The rise of projects and platforms like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Midjourney has only multiplied user queries, especially regarding technical aspects like how they work (locally and online)... and recognizing images generated this way.
In fact, many services and forums have already banned the publication of “AI images”, but what about the end user? Can they recognize those images? The “Which Is AI?” project by Josh Bickett turns that question into a game: Try to detect AI-generated images and score ten points.
Detect the AI-generated image in “Which Is AI?”
The portal is based on images published through Lexica, and they are presented in groups of five or six (the real ones come from Unsplash). All you have to do is click the image you think is artificial, but there's no margin for error: If you make a mistake, your score returns to zero.
The site isn't without problems: on one hand, the images are too small, and on the other, I've noticed it doesn't always register clicks correctly. This is even more frustrating than the size of the images, because it can ruin the game completely.
So, what are we looking for? Obvious deformations, repeated patterns, continuity failures, problems in shadows and textures… when AI makes a mistake, it's impossible to ignore. Personally, I've generated more than... («dir g:\*.png /s /a….» Ah, that's why I don't have space)... 20,000 images using Stable Diffusion, and with such exposure, recognizing the output of an AI isn't complicated.
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