Identifying A.I.

Another way to fight back against AI art being normalized and consistently monetized is to support real artists and avoid interacting with posts or companies using AI art. Sadly though, the rapid improvement of AI models has made this a lot harder than it sounds, and it will likely only get harder in the future. Although identifying these generated images might seem helpless, there are some ways to spot them if you are willing to investigate the details of the image. One detail that is more apparent than others is the anatomy of figures in the image. AI is notoriously bad at recreating and rendering more intricate parts of the human body. This is mostly seen with the positioning of hands, which AI currently has a lot of trouble with, sometimes even depicting more fingers than there should be. The other thing to look out for in art is consistency in “patterns” used in clothing or in a background, like for example leaves in a forest setting, or an intricate pattern on a figure’s clothing. In the background of these generated images sometimes shapes are created by the model that have no purpose or definition and are essentially just strokes creating a strange looking blob. These images also tend to have generic art styles when they aren’t mimicking a specific art style, which means that seeing strikingly similar images with different poses or lighting could help identify that both were created with the same prompt. AI art is also generic with its genre, and people using the models tend to input broad prompts like “fantasy”, which results in an output of images with no real substance that are easy to identify as artificially made.

 

 Model unable to replicate a normal human hand and adds an extra pencil.

 

Parts of the tree missing and floating in the air.

 

Random shapes made with strokes with no real purpose or meaning.