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- erg0s4m 4y agoWe are all blade runners now
- deepsun 4y agoWho owns a copyright to these images? Can I just use them on my website?
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- mistaPockets 4y agohttps://labs.openai.com/policies/content-policy https://labs.openai.com/policies/content-policy https://unsplash.com/license https://unsplash.com/license
- LegitShady 4y agoI don't think its legally established if these images can be copyrighted or not.
- sdflhasjd 4y ago27/30 I struggled with some of the stylised paintings, but it's clear that DALL-E cannot do detail.
- shannifin 4y agoMalformed anatomy is still a pretty good artifact of AI. Problem is some human artists aren't that great either, so easy to confuse with AI.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s usually that the AI messes up easy stuff while perfecting hard stuff. A human might struggle to draw a hand, but they don’t massively smudge and distort what should be straight lines. I saw dall e spit out basket balls where the black lines look like spaghetti.
- amelius 4y agoCherry-picked images, I guess.
- andybak 4y agoHave you tried Dall-E 2? I've used a bunch of (less capable) systems and I don't think the cherry picking is that significant. There's always a few duds and some definite limits (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKp6tBFStnsvrot5t/what-dall-e-2-can-and-cannot-do https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKp6tBFStnsvrot5t/what-dall-... ) but on the whole most of the output is very good - the images on this website aren't particularly taxing for it and I don't think cherry picking would be needed to replicate this level of quality.
- amelius 4y agoMy comment was not about cherry-picking for quality. It's about cherry-picking for not being able to tell the difference with human output.
- andybak 4y agoI still largely stand by my point. But there are definitely subjects that Dall-E is worse at and would give the game away. I guess it depends what you mean by cherry-picking - it's certainly not the case that most Dall-E output would be easy to spot - more that it has some specific failure cases.
- amelius 4y agoThere was a post a few days/weeks ago on HN showing Dall-E and human images, and it was quite obvious which was which. I think the current post really gives the wrong impression.
- andybak 4y ago> There was a post a few days/weeks ago on HN showing Dall-E and human images, and it was quite obvious which was which. Maybe it was cherry picked?
- jphoward 4y agoIs it me or is this very depressing and scary? I always assumed the creative industries would be relatively resistant to automation, with more algorithmic jobs more easily replaceable. But with this you never need to buy stock pictures ever again, right? I saw several stock-picture-esque images of indistinguishable quality, and yet with incredible specificity to the user-supplied description.
- Gigachad 4y agoI thought this way originally but I have realised these tools are being used right now to massively amplify the creative output of individuals. AI text to voice tech is being used for a lot of hilarious content right now. I saw an image upscailer ai used in a 1 week project to rebuild a ps2 game to make it look modern. There is a long runway of human guided ai generation. Imagine if a single human was able to produce an entire animated TV show and all it took was good story telling skills without requiring 100 animators.
- elephanlemon 4y agoThis is the right way to think about this IMO. Wouldn’t it be amazing if tools like this massively increased the scope of what is possible for a single artist? Something I think about a lot is video game creation - what if AI tools let you quickly create 3D objects and a world without a big, dedicated team of artists? (Check this out by Nvidia! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8I7V6blqM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8I7V6blqM)
- lelandfe 4y agoHumorously, the narration on that video also sounds like an AI. The rising inflection on nearly every clause almost sounds like they’re recording every sentence separately
- antiterra 4y agoIt’s similar to how photography grants anyone the technical ability to render a photo-realistic image, but the majority of photos we see are easily discarded from memory. It did put painters out of the portrait business, but also freed them from a realist ideal.
- russianGuy83829 4y agoclick multiple times on mobile, get free points until the tickmark loads in
- gandutraveler 4y agoWe're the AI generated images from scratch or they are edits to some human image ?
- Gigachad 4y agoFrom the videos I have seen of it in use, there is no way the prompts had existing material. One prompt was “painting of a goat in the style of the Mona Lisa taking photos with an iPad”. And it spat out 10 images which showed exactly that.
- andybak 4y agoThe only human input is the text prompt.
- gwern 4y agoDALL-E 2 does support 'inpainting' and 'uncrop' (zoom out, synthesizing edges) functionality which can be used to edit AI or human-generated images. I don't think OP used any (at least wittingly): one of the ones I looked at in OP were ones I recalled as inpainted/uncropped, those are relatively unusual compared to pure generation, and it'd be a bit unfair to include any.
- spuz 4y agoHaving already seen a few DALL-E generated images, there seemed to features I could pick up on that would allow me to identify them such as proportions, composition or unnecessary random detail. For example, in one image, there was a trail from what looked like a spaceship in the sky but the spaceship itself was obscured by a face in the foreground. It was hard to believe any human artist would choose that composition as it's quite jarring to look at.
- bjackman 4y agoI'm slightly surprised to report a 100% score. However, I think I'm actually recognising DALL-E-2's _style_, and not "this picture is CG". It feels more like I'm identifying the work of an artist I'm very familiar with, rather than identifying fundamentally different categories of creator. I think all it would take to "defeat" me here would be greater variety of high-quality image generation AIs. I expect in a few years that will be the case, unless the "style" of DALL-E-2 is something fundamental, instead of an artifact of its specific implementation.
- pvarangot 4y agoIf enough humans on the pool this webpage gets its images from start copying DALL-E-2 effectively that would also "defeat" you.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoEven now just selecting Dalle propmpts that output things that look like basic ray tracer tests will probably make it undecidable for anyone not bothering to recrating the scene and chech that it's physically coherent.
- Out_of_Characte 4y agowell, Theres still plenty telltale signs of AI handwork here. Quasi-faces on places no human would place them or would articulate a detail much better. edge coherence is also very important. Seeing smudges of paint where it doesn't belong at all, lines no human would be able to make and errors only humans make but where AI struggles with.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoMy point is that Dalle can do things like the Cornell box pretty much perfectly, so if you want to make a test where it's impossible to decide who made it you should sample those type of prompts.
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- junon 4y agoUnusable on mobile, the button behavior is all over the place
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoAre there any actual human-created images? I didn't stumble onto any. Maybe that's the point?
- vikbytes 4y agoI got 30 AI-generated images as well, also wondered if that was the whole point.
- chris_st 4y agoI found one.
- spuz 4y agoYes there are some. There were 3 in the set of 30 I was shown.
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- dan-robertson 4y agoDo you mean that all 30 were AI generated or are you trying to make some point about what it means to be human-created?
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- FartyMcFarter 4y agoI meant that the website kept telling me all the images I saw were computer-generated.
- dmd 4y agoI got 11 human-created.
- albertzeyer 4y agoYes I think it would be way better if both classes have a 50% chance.
- archon1410 4y agoI got 26/30, but only because I knew of DALL-E 2's "style", i.e. the robot ones were mostly drawings. if they gave a more "photorealistic" images, I could have been thrown off easily I think
- lelandfe 4y agoI am failing spectacularly, love it. Also - please speed up the delay switching to a new image! I bet this would feel way better if the delay was in the 0-0.5s range instead of multiple seconds. (I bet it’s some runaway JS, investigating…) Edit: `changeImage` is blocked by `await saveDB`, and the POST is 500ing. (e.g. uBlock makes that AWS request fail fast – why desktop people are less affected) Maybe use `Promise.allSettled` to make them parallel, and prepare the data being sent beforehand to avoid state race conditions :) thanks for leaving sourcemaps on!
- capableweb 4y ago> Also - please speed up the delay switching to a new image! I came here to suggest the opposite, as I didn't have time to read the full prompt which generated the image, when it was a generated picture. So I guess the conclusion is instead: allow users to click a second time on any of the buttons/picture to proceed at their own leisure, so the ones who want to read can read, and the ones who want to speed through it, can do that too.
- lelandfe 4y agoNice, that’s even better :) add some keyboard controls (maybe left for artist, right for robot?, and then either key to advance) and folks can zoom through!
- mrsuprawsm 4y agoThe first picture that I saw [1] happened to be a building I used to work in. That gave the game away a bit. [1] https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/images/130.jpeg https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/images/130.jpeg
- can16358p 4y agoNice test but it would be great if it didn't wait forever to pass to the next image after answering.
- nonameking2026 4y agoyub, I waited 6 forevers and then came here to write this.
- bambax 4y agoYes, the site is so slow it's unusable. Maybe the result of being on the front page of HN, but still; it could all work client side.
- hk__2 4y agoIndeed; all the responses are already in the JS file: https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/static/js/main.dddea102.chunk.js https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/static/js/main.dddea102.ch...
- octocop 4y agoI got 24/30, maybe DALL-E could work as an advanced captcha?
- Loeffelmann 4y agoI wonder how hard the jump to 3d models would be. It would be great if we had an AI thatyou can just prompt to generate a high quality 3d model. I know there are already Models that can create 3d models from a collection of images from different angles so I think it could probably be possible.
- mkl95 4y ago26/30. Since 90%+ of images seem to be have been generated by a machine, a better challenge would be to pick which image was generated by a human from a gallery of images.
- pimlottc 4y agoThat’s interesting, in my batch it seemed like 90% were from humans.
- gwd 4y agoIf you knew ahead of time that it was 50/50, then you could adjust your odds as you went on; i.e., on image 28, if there had been 14 CG ones and 13 human ones, you'd know a priori it had a 2/3 chance of being human. It would be nice if they told you in more detail how the algorithm worked. How well curated are the AI and human images? It seems like selecting the absolute best AI ones and the worst human ones would make it easy to make things look better than they really are. A genuinely "fair" way to do it I think would be this: 1. Randomly collect a few thousand images from DeviantArt 2. Ask people to write a short description of each image, similar to the prompts given to DALL-E 3. Generate DALL-E images from all the prompts Randomly show a human or AI image with 50% probability. That should give you a good measure of the actual state of the art.
- input_sh 4y agoI've tried the first time, then just restarted and voted machine every time. 30/30.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoGave it partial attention while in a meeting. Failed pathetically. One less excuse for meatbag existence.
- Retr0id 4y agoOne thing I noticed is that the robot is not very good at composition. Awkward crops can be a bit of a giveaway. I suspect this could an artefact of the training process, where the images were cropped and shifted randomly (speculation). Perhaps giving the "real" art a random crop would level the playing field slightly.
- _zywo 4y ago27/30. You can tell the AI ones because they don't look like they were made with the same constraints as a human; they merge, distort, twist together lines, shapes, and colors, rather than have images split into the compartmentalized pieces that humans like to do. I find the best place to check for AI art is to look at the overlaps; this is how I figured out the kindergartener one, for example: there were no obvious "AI-like" patterns except for the one section where the drawn lady's legs intersected with the ground line, and you could see that DALL-E 2 didn't know what to do, putting one leg over the line and one underneath, which can't be done unless one leg was drawn, then the ground, then the other, which is not what a human does.
- whimsicalism 4y agoWould love to see this without cherrypicked images.
- AshleysBrain 4y agoI scored 29/30, only missing one because there were so many machine generated ones I started to just click the machine button repeatedly. Then I checked more closely and got all the rest right. The machine generated ones are usually easy to spot if you look closely, because parts of the image are just nonsense (e.g. weird patterns, things out of place, odd focus). Machine generated images clearly have no actual understanding of the real world.
- ushakov 4y agoi loved this one https://imgur.com/a/hF6R5Sx https://imgur.com/a/hF6R5Sx
- signaru 4y agoI guessed 29 out of 30 correct. Just chose machine for all. Perhaps have more human generated images, although that might be a limited set and people will just soon remember which images are human made. Impressive though.
- saharhash 4y agoAdded a few dozens of images earlier today and add more tomorrow. Let me know how it goes.
- TaupeRanger 4y agoQuite easy to tell the AI images still, especially those with eyes...the eyes are a dead giveaway on most AI images.
- davidbarker 4y agoI scored 27/30, with around 12 being human-created. I've been keeping a close eye on DALL-E 2, especially images posted on Twitter and Reddit[0], and the biggest sign that it's a DALL-E 2 image to me are the edges of objects not being as crisp as you'd expect in a human-created image. The composition that DALL-E 2 creates is typically fantastic, but it isn't perfect when it comes to the edges, details, and textures (fabric, for example). I still think it's incredible for inspiration — I don't think a typical artist/designer will use DALL-E 2's output as the final image, but rather as a great starting/mid point for their final image. I can see myself using DALL-E 2 to generate something akin to a wireframe that I'll then go in and add the details to manually. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/
- notahacker 4y agoBiggest signs for me were the edges you mentioned, compositions that werent technically bad but were visually uninteresting (and had minor logical flaws like missing details in a reflection), but also the subject matter is the sort of thing that could be described in a succint text prompt designed to challenge a machine (I actually guessed a couple of the prompts, and "tessellated Hello Kitty" and "Origami car" are less likely to be human art concepts than challenges for machines). I'm browsing on a phone so some of the fine detail is lost. The fact that I'm using the subject matter as much as the image itself to discern AI art is a sign of how good the tech is though. Especially since the subject matter in question is typically "stuff that would be really challenging for an AI to conceptualise" and the image itself (not necessarily the AI's only attempt of course) is a sound attempt at rendering it. I see most of the utility as the opposite: the artist still needs to come up with the original concept, the overall compositions are unlikely to be better than an artist would conceive, but even in the hands of a non-artist a bit of text can produce "good enough" images (that can be cropped or touched up to remove rough edges) instantaneously which would take a lot of time for a skilled artist to produce.
- linux2647 4y ago> are less likely to be human art concepts than challenges for machines Counter-example: there was one image I got that was a Gameboy as a concrete brick. That seems like a prompt you’d give DALL-E 2, but it was actually of human creation
- guerrilla 4y ago23/30. I thought I'd do better. Almost all of the machine-generated ones that I got make me feel like I'm crosseyed though. I wonder if other people get that. Also a lot of them make no damned sense...
- redox99 4y ago28/30 Those 2 I got wrong were heavily stylized. It's very easy to spot DALL-E artifacts, mostly geometric lines and shaped being distorted in a way that humans wouldn't draw, small details such as fingers and so on being deformed and so on. And it struggles with symmetry.
- metacritic12 4y agoTo be utterly pedantic: The image definitely does exist. I know they're trying to riff off of "this human does not exist" -- but that site works because the word "human" can mean a person in real life. I do not know of a usage of "image" to mean an artwork that must be painted by a human.
- wubbert 4y agoI got 5/7 before I stopped. I feel like this would be even easier if the images were higher resolution.
- spansoa 4y agoDALL-E is a massively underused tool. This could transform the meme creation scene a lot. Instead of using Google images or DuckDuckGo or Yandex image search we can get DALL-E to dream up images.
- leokeba 4y agoThe only human-made images I got (2 out of 30) were also the only ones that were not square. Given that most GANs only do square images, human made ones should be square also if we want this to be fair. And as some others have said, DALL-E 2 really seems to have a "style" that's quite easy to spot once you've seen a few images already, so even without the square hint I think would have gotten close to 30/30. But I would like to see the results on a better crafted dataset with "naive" people, like a kind of visual Turing test.
- bsnal 4y agoIf you spam the buttons you can get several points from one image and skip images.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoGot me my highest score of 21!
- Forge36 4y agoNot sure if it's because I'm on mobile, but the "fake" images were not easy to spot. I wonder how different platforms compare
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- lettergram 4y agoThe fact the images are curated make this assessment kinda BS. It’s way easier to identify synthetic art directly from DALLE
- dredmorbius 4y agoHuman-created images are not curated?
- jcims 4y agoOnly tangentially related, I assembled a children's book made by GPT-3 and Midjourney, which is a generative art collaboration that is along the lines of DALL-E. (Edit: see JacobiX reply, looks like it robbed the concept, possibly because I didn't give it any direction.) I just prompted GPT-3 (davinci-002 engine on openai) to write a children's book and include illustration suggestions. I didn't even suggest a topic, just said 'children's book'. I fed the illustration suggestions into Midjourney with the qualifier of 'children's book illustration of ...' and pulled the first image of each (it always generates four). I then asked it for a cover page, last page and a background image for the text. I assembled the story text written by GPT-3 and images rendered by Midjourney in this google slides preso. The only real creative input i had was the font. I did iterate on the text background image prompt a couple of times to find something that would work: (Note this link works in incognito if you prefer not to have your google login associated) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT4XWNx2SdEgVJtMzvLTqINKnh-9f_zBuafesczQDE71hPQvY6H25LMIuDx3459vS7FMIiJ5Uu_x-XP/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=10000 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT4XWNx2SdEg... I've been having a lot of fun with this prompt. Part in asterisks is where you set the topic. The last 'Title of the book:' is where you submit, it really helps keeping the generative part on track. ---- Write a four page children's book with the following: Title of the book: Description of the cover page with enough detail for an illustrator to draw: Description of the background imagery used for the pages with text on them: First page text in quotes: Description of the opposite page illustration: Second page text in quotes: Description of the opposite page illustration: Third page text in quotes: Description of the third page illustration: Fourth page text in quotes: Description of the fourth page illustration: Description of the final page: The subject of the children's book is *how to prevent buffer overflows in c code*. Title of the book:
- JacobiX 4y agoIt should be noted that there is a real children's book with the same name and a very similar content: The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle. For this particular case, it seems like GPT-3 is paraphrasing the story ...
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- antiterra 4y agoI got a ‘human made’ image wrong because areas of detail became a smeary pattern. The problem was very likely caused by computer-made compression artifacts, and I wouldn’t be surprised if similar generational AI becomes part of immediate post processing of cell phone snapshots. It makes me wonder, are models being unintentionally trained to produce jpg artifacts? How much better would a generator be if it had been trained on, say, pngs?
- bogwog 4y agoI wonder if data from something like this could be used to improve the output quality of things like Dall E?
- exciteabletom 4y agoThis is awesome, but they should really crop every image to a square. All the AI generated images are square which kind of ruined it for me.
- marcodiego 4y agoHint: the robot has difficulty rendering reflections.
- TheLongLife 4y ago24/30 You can definitely recognize DALL-E's style of mashing two elements together. Most of the time it will look smudgy at the points where two images are combined. Also, if there are any eyes in the image it will mess them up in some way, almost every time. There is also some kind of artifact on DALL-E's images which makes gradient areas look very low color depth. Hardest ones to get right are low quality images and images of abstract artwork or the ones that are made in a "smudgy" style already. It is pretty good overall but I would say that it's almost impossible to fool anyone if the images were in high resolution and you could zoom them in. It's probably most effective in small images like thumbnails for example. It's kind of spooky to think how good it will be in a few years and what it will be used for.
- belter 4y agoAll of the "Does Not Exist": https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
- jstx1 4y agoDoes it ever give human-created/real images? I got 30 artificial images.
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- marcodiego 4y agoI scored 28/30. Wonder if it can influence a new type Turing test.
- starkd 4y agoNo idea what the UI expects of me. The clickable boxes have no text.
- Hamcha 4y ago25/30, with most of the errors being in the art styles. Some key things that let me to immediate spotting: - DALL-E 2 is really awful at symmetry, in art pieces it's less obvious because even humans are terrible at replicating features equally. - A lot of human images are pictures from Unsplash, so they have some pretty recognizable features, in particular framing, shallow depth of field or more commonly, very noticeable ISO noise
- dpatterbee 4y agoGot 30/30 twice in a row (second time had maybe 4 repeats from the first game). Not sure what the fuss is, only tricky one was what looked like a child's painting but the tell was the handwriting being too good and it being a strange blend of crayon and paint that I don't think a child would have much patience for. Overall most AI images are clearly identifiable by lack of fine detail in things like fingers or leaves and a telltail method of blending between colours in low detail areas.
- anon25783 4y agoWhen will we be able to write our own prompts to generate new images? Will there be some sort of API for that?
- saharhash 4y agoHi all, the author of ThisImageDoesnotExist here - thanks for all the great feedback! I've just added a few dozens of human-generated images and improved the randomization logic. Looking forward to getting further feedback.
- exciteabletom 4y agoHi, Awesome project! You might want to consider cropping all the human images to be square as well. It's a dead giveaway when all the AI images are square and the human ones have varying aspect ratios.