Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to tell if an image is AI generated?
2 pointsby leandrobon2 hours ago3 comments
  • rolphan hour ago
    halos, of hue or regional variations of pixel "jagginess", reflections that dont correspond to the environment, distortions of the 2D pixel area that dont agree with underlying 3D structure.
  • Bender2 hours ago
    I don't know how reliable this is but one can upload an image to a few different AI's and ask if it was AI generated.
    • downbad_2 hours ago
      I don't see how that would work. Isn't it akin to coping an AI generated text and asking different AI models if the texts were generated by AI?

      They wouldn't be able to tell.

      But maybe images have a sort of marker. I don't know.

      • vunderbaan hour ago
        Some of them do implement a stenographic watermark, but it's a continual game of cat and mouse. It would shock me if even SOTA watermarks persisted if you ran the image through a local model's img2img with a low denoise.
      • Bender2 hours ago
        Give it a shot and see. It could be some facet of AI image generation is unique to other processes that it knows about. Try a few of them.

        Semi-related it was able to spot the fake Ghislaine [1]

        [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEA6Cwzwip8

  • downbad_2 hours ago
    I struggle to tell. And the AI image generators are only going to get better. I fear we are going to spend the next years debating if something is real or AI.

    I read an online conversation where people said that billionaires like those in the Epstein files would have loved to use the excuse that the implicating images of them were AI generated by Epstein.

    • rekabis2 hours ago
      And this is where those in power are headed: to use AI to sow misinformation and disinformation across all forms of media until people trust nothing but what other people tell them to trust. They become trivially easy to lead in whatever direction is needed.

      You can see this in how conservatism has evolved over the last two decades. The bottom-99% of all conservatives have been so badly brainwashed and gaslit that they actively vote against their own best interests, such that the oligarchs and other members of the Parasite Class benefit enormously.