Cool Pictures from the Mind of a Machine: AI Generated Pictures

[Broken_Erika]

Some of us are having an argument on FB about this picture:

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This is supposedly a color photo of William Shatner in the late 1950s/maybe very early, pre-Star Trek 1960s.

Some of us are convinced it's a fake (as in it's based on a real black and white photo of him, but this particular version isn't the real deal).

Others insist it's genuine. There's something about it that seems off to me. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but it's giving me vibes of some of the fake pictures of the Merlin cast on Pinterest - the ones that look too smooth and enhanced, but are based on real photos.

Can anyone offer insight into this?

The Pic must have been put through a modern picture colorizer,

 

[Birdjaguar]

Both look fake to me. "Real" photos "look" differnt.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The argument is still going on there.

 

[Birdjaguar]

A fake karst well in China.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The argument about the possibly-fake Shatner photo has died down now.

Gotta admit that all this AI stuff has sucked the fun out of Pinterest, once I realized how much of it is fake. Of course some of those images are from computer games, and I don't mind using those for story inspiration.

For some reason some posters there are obsessed with beds and stairways and ladders that go nowhere.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

This was apparently made by AI

 

[Thorgalaeg]

According to Hive detector it has been generated using a vector quantized diffusion model. Never heard of it before but sounds cool.

For further reading (not necessarily further understanding):

GitHub - microsoft/VQ-Diffusion: Official implementation of VQ-Diffusion

Official implementation of VQ-Diffusion. Contribute to microsoft/VQ-Diffusion development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

map of the Buddhist Kurdish Kingdom of Sweden

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Found on Pinterest

 

[Samson]

 

[Samson]

If that's real, I'm not sure whether to be amused or terrified.

I did not feel much need to check before posting it to this thread, on the assumption it was created by generative AI. Though I suppose if the real thing had blue screened it would still be "from the mind of a machine", though a broken mind.

 

[Gedemon]

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Generative AI is getting really good.

On Pinterest you can tell if an image is AI-generated if there are very similar images like it just below it. So if you see (to give a recent example) an image of two women in an Arabian Nights setting looking down a balcony and talking to each other, you won't think of anything suspicious, but if you scroll down and see several images with the same theme, two women in an Arabian setting looking down from a balcony, with the same artstyle, you'll know it's AI because a real artist won't produce several of very similar images.

I came upon this image at the end of this post. It never crossed my mind that it could be AI-generated. I scrolled down and saw another in the same artstyle and the same theme. I went back and checked the image again. Nothing looked off. I checked the account that posted it. Most of the account's repertoire was very obviously AI-generated. A few were too good to be believable. Anyhow I put the image in the hivemoderation AI detector, it gave back a probability of merely 19% or so. However reverse searching the image gave no results. So is it AI? It must be, but I can't bring myself to believe it

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Some of the pawns are off and parts of the cat resembles burlap. It looks like AI to me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Yes, it looks fake to me too.

 

[Gedemon]

I've started to use Flux, a new model, it's quite impressive in the way it understands prompts, it's better at hands/handling, and can generate text

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Flux is head and shoulders above others free models.

Flux = the future
SDXL = the past
SD3 = dead at birth
SD1 = the poor´s man choice
Pony =

Sadly, while Flux is pretty good at faces and limbs it is pretty bad rendering the rest of the human anatomy, not only the 'private' parts, but also ribs, belly, back...

While this problem is fixed by the community I use a workflow combining Flux as base model, plus Pony for rendering anatomy, guided by some SAM masking.

 

[Samson]

Demo of open source local real time "deep fake" software Deep-Live-Cam.

Spoiler Side by side on twitter :

https://twitter.com/x/status/1822821992791486754

 

[Samson]

It seems grok does some controversial stuff

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It seems grok does some controversial stuff

it does a lot of controversial stuff; that was its selling point; it's Musk's boast that Grok will do stuff that other 'politically correct' bots won't do