Feb 4 2025 - AI Generated Art

 

It is currently quite easy to recognize Artificial Intelligence use in art  Many of the pictures generated are not like real photographs, but like animation characters and scenes.  I went looking to find out the guidance on how to tell the difference between real and generated. Here are some of the obvious differences: AI-generated images usually have overly intense colours, including contrasting colours. Mistakes in representation of the objects/subjects of the image.  One image failed to have 4 legs on a chair.  Where it is an AI-generated photo of people, the hands can be misplaced, and fingers wrong.  For city scapes, buildings can be missing and background geography features are wrong.   Historical photos typically have mistakes such s illegible text, and errors on human body parts seem to be common.  Human facial expressions don't match the tone of the photo.  Technical mistakes are made, and oversimplified shapes and patterns exist. This is the article to read to become better acquainted with evaluating AI images - HERE. What was interesting for me was to check the image with "google lens" - take the image over to google search and and blue box will expand with 'drop image here'.  Real images seem to retrieve articles and websites.   I tried this with my own images on Fine Art American and the google lens took me to my website or identified the subject of the picture - type of plant, Millie is a Cavalier King Charles, and so on. When it is an AI-generated image, google lens doesn't retrieve the Fine Art America version - it goes to stock image sites and shows similar pictures.  But not exactly the same.   Here's a sample of  images that are AI generated.  There are dozens of these bird images.  In the time I've written this, there could be hundreds of them.  By tomorrow, will there be thousands?  I will be suffocated by a flock of oversaturated, cute, round birds like in that Alfred Hitchcock movie. A sense of humour is in order - so here's a joke: Artificial intelligence might kill us all - with dad jokes.

I did enjoy the google lens response on this picture - it identified the blossom as a plum blossom rather than a cherry.  I guess it is hard to tell with all that snow on the blossoms.  But don't worry this picture is from a few years ago and the snow quickly melted leaving the blossoms unscathed.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca