My AI experience in visual art turns out to be a twisted road if you ask me. I decided that I would no longer accept AI generated images in the two groups that I host on Fine Art America. They are All Glorious Gardens - on the garden and flower topic, and Welcome Fine Artists - wide open with weekly features based on a theme. I find the AI-generated images to be unrealistic - here’s an example below - the purple, purple and purple garden all aglow that is both unachievable for the plants shown or is clearly a cartoon-style garden or plant as in the black-stripe iris below. It is clearly a fake, although very artful.
That’s the norm, now. But yesterday I discovered a new norm. I was moderating images and checking some to find out if they were AI-generated, I was surprised by the AI-generator detectors had different results. So I went checking with Google search for the images to see if the work is original. I tested my own images. When I checked Tidal Surge on the AI detector site, it rated it original work. When I checked it as a thumbnail image on Google AI analysis, here’s the answer:
I checked it as a larger image it indicated something else:
“The image is a piece of digital art by an artist named L.A. Johnson, titled "Heart of America". The artwork depicts a glowing orb with a swirling pattern at its center, surrounded by a textured, organic-looking background with flowing white lines. The text "america" and "eart" are visible at the bottom of the image. The title "Heart of America" and the visible text suggest a connection to the American Heart Association, a non-profit organization that funds cardiovascular medical research and educates on healthy living.”
Yesterday it said it was by someone else. And when I added Marilyn Cornwell Tidal Surge, it indicated there was no such thing. When I changed it to Marilyn Cornwell Tidal Surge Print, it acknowledged it was by me, but wouldn’t retrieve the picture. I had to type in “Show Tidal Surge Print” to get it to retrieve the image.
It is an usual picture, so maybe that was the source of this AI confusion. It is an interpretation of one of Floyd Elzinga’s metal wall art pieces. The original is below.
It turned out that each of my images checked with AI Google was identified as being by an artist other than me. Each time, the image was given a name that could not be found anywhere by the artist it claimed created it.
The conclusion is to not use Google picture identification anymore as it isn’t reliable. Who knows where this will lead or end? It certainly is a strange journey to be on.
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