Biggest give-away are shots being low resolution or low quality in contexts where it doesn’t make sense. Even the shitiest phone cameras capture a LOT of information. If you are looking at something with low res for no particular reason then the reason might be an AI hiding artifacts in the noise.
Another thing you see a lot is inconsistency throughout the frame. Zoom in and shit starts to get pretty obvious when you start looking in the corners and shit.
Another thing to look for is weird depth-of-field. Things moving in and out of focus regardless of distance from the ‘camera’. AI is smart enough to know that real cameras have depth of field, but don’t seem to understand what it actually is. So you will have a foreground subject in focus, something behind them out of focus, but then the background is somehow in focus again. I think this is actually where a lot of the “it just looks fake for some reason” appearance comes in. We know what photos look like even if we don’t fully understand why a particular photo looks weird.
This is, of course, after you have scanned for shit that doesn’t make sense, like too many fingers weird random background stuff and physics breaking things.
Biggest give-away are shots being low resolution or low quality in contexts where it doesn’t make sense. Even the shitiest phone cameras capture a LOT of information. If you are looking at something with low res for no particular reason then the reason might be an AI hiding artifacts in the noise.
Another thing you see a lot is inconsistency throughout the frame. Zoom in and shit starts to get pretty obvious when you start looking in the corners and shit.
Another thing to look for is weird depth-of-field. Things moving in and out of focus regardless of distance from the ‘camera’. AI is smart enough to know that real cameras have depth of field, but don’t seem to understand what it actually is. So you will have a foreground subject in focus, something behind them out of focus, but then the background is somehow in focus again. I think this is actually where a lot of the “it just looks fake for some reason” appearance comes in. We know what photos look like even if we don’t fully understand why a particular photo looks weird.
This is, of course, after you have scanned for shit that doesn’t make sense, like too many fingers weird random background stuff and physics breaking things.