AI or not? Can you tell the difference between AI-generated images and real images? Test your skills and compare yourself to others

The resolution of the photos is shit so it hides a lot of details that give away ai.

This is a pretty shitty test.

Is this 2 tone, outline-only image AI or digital art? Is this super overexposed picture of a poorly made plastic doll real, or AI?

The most noticeable thing about AI pictures is usually the composition because it’s so generic. If you get real pictures and try to make them look like AI then it’s really hard to tell the difference.

I took the October 2024 test. After reviewing 100 images, I scored 50% both on detecting both AI and non-AI images. Essentially a coin flip. I was much worse when I just tried to quickly go on intuition versus the times I spent some time to scrutinize the image.

I have a few visual impairments and often rely on other cues to perceive my world, but I still came in thinking I’d be able to do better than a coin flip. I find it scary how good these models are getting, especially the art sketches and landscape ones.

There's something about AI images that just gives it away. A certain glossiness. Subjects are usually too perfect. I find this is even more obvious out in the wild.

I have a theory that AI images in the wild will mostly continue this trend because the people making these images like it that way. Deceiving people is not the only reason people make images.

Does AI enable deception? Sure, but so does Photoshop, and that is decades old. Arguably, Photoshop requires more effort, but it seems like AI image generators still require effort on the part of the humans, if nothing else to select images that can fool, at the cost of other desirable features in images.

I got 40/50 an the 2024 February set, and 31/50 on the 2024 October set.