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Right, and even there I think we might need to get specific about categories of images. Images that are supposed to be photo realistic are far easier to spot th

by devin 2y ago

Right, and even there I think we might need to get specific about categories of images. Images that are supposed to be photo realistic are far easier to spot than "battleship in outer space" generations. Bringing it back to the topic of stock photography: A large percentage of stock photos are of real things, people, scenery. So, when someone says I'll have a hard time spotting generated stock photos, I kinda go uhh, well, no, not generally, because stock photos are very often of people and real life scenes, the thing that is the easiest to spot as a generation.

vidarh 2y ago
Has anyone said you will have a hard time spotting them? Because I did not. I pointed out that when you say you can, it is an instance of survivor bias, and it is, whether you are good or bad at it as long as we don't have data to tell whether your assumptions were correct. We still don't know whether or not you're good or bad at picking out AI images used in actual campaigns, because we have every reason to assume at least a reasonable proportion of AI images used in actual ads will have been through an editorial process that'd rule out a lot of the easily recognized shlock, and so a test that does not use images that have been through the same selection process is meaningless. I have no doubt you can recognize some. You may well be able to recognize all of them perfectly for what I know. The point was not to argue you can't, but that your impression can't reliably tell you, because you'd be likely to think the same whether your accuracy is high or low.
tokioyoyo 2y ago
I’m not entirely sure why you’re discrediting the advancement of realism. I’m very sorry, but I have a hard to believe that when you scroll through IG and see something like this — https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hvdhie/this_girl_is_100_ai_generated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hvdhie/this_girl_... , you’ll think it’s AI instantly. Unless, again, you’re consciously examining whether every single piece of media is AI generated or not.
- devin 2y ago
  A couple of things: 1. This idea that "you can't tell if you mindlessly scroll past it" isn't a very good measurement. 2. Given IG is slowly filling up with AI slop, I actually do spend a decent amount of time going "is this AI-generated". 3. I'm not discrediting "advancement of realism" in AI at all. I'm just saying it's much, much easier to detect AI when a generation is supposed to be of something real.

by devin 2y ago

vidarh 2y ago

Has anyone said you will have a hard time spotting them? Because I did not. I pointed out that when you say you can, it is an instance of survivor bias, and it is, whether you are good or bad at it as long as we don't have data to tell whether your assumptions were correct. We still don't know whether or not you're good or bad at picking out AI images used in actual campaigns, because we have every reason to assume at least a reasonable proportion of AI images used in actual ads will have been through an editorial process that'd rule out a lot of the easily recognized shlock, and so a test that does not use images that have been through the same selection process is meaningless. I have no doubt you can recognize some. You may well be able to recognize all of them perfectly for what I know. The point was not to argue you can't, but that your impression can't reliably tell you, because you'd be likely to think the same whether your accuracy is high or low.

tokioyoyo 2y ago

I’m not entirely sure why you’re discrediting the advancement of realism. I’m very sorry, but I have a hard to believe that when you scroll through IG and see something like this — https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hvdhie/this_girl_is_100_ai_generated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1hvdhie/this_girl_... , you’ll think it’s AI instantly. Unless, again, you’re consciously examining whether every single piece of media is AI generated or not.

devin 2y ago
A couple of things: 1. This idea that "you can't tell if you mindlessly scroll past it" isn't a very good measurement. 2. Given IG is slowly filling up with AI slop, I actually do spend a decent amount of time going "is this AI-generated". 3. I'm not discrediting "advancement of realism" in AI at all. I'm just saying it's much, much easier to detect AI when a generation is supposed to be of something real.