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often it’s the smoothness of the image that sets off my initial alarms, a distinct lack of minor textures you’d expect from real things.

sometimes the texture doesn’t match what it was supposed to represent, and often things look oddly soft and rubbery. the light doesn’t bounce off it quite right and it feels over-rendered.

i’ve seen weird random blurring on many AI works as well

The longer you look, the more you realize that it’s lopsided in several places, positions and distances of objects make no sense.

A closer inspection usually makes you notice the smudged details, which i think is what truly gives it away - AI mimics real patterns, but doesn’t always nail them.

More complex small objects get smudged and blended together, and complex patterns look more like an oil spill rather than anything designed with clear vision and intent.

If there are any letters, they never look real or readable

I’ve seen people AI generate “"historical”“ objects and paintings and post them with a fake caption, claiming that they are real

Be wary, because we live in a very uncertain age when it comes to information. Learn to spot AI-generated images, reverse image search and fact-check when something seems off.

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***THE BUILD GOES LIVE DECEMBER 6TH***

Here's the bullet points you need to know about Clip Studio Paint joining deviantArt as today's 'villain for no good reason' de jour.

They are adding Stable Diffusion as a function of the program.

It is using the same stolen dataset we're all very familiar with.

This, in lieu of the millions of other features artists have actually been asking for.

This should be enough to make anyone angry. Really. The SD dataset is still a tirefire of stolen material. Nothing has changed that, and Celsys has made no steps to create their own AI database. Which is ironic, because they could've managed to bring in a lot of good will by seeking volunteers and buying up stock, but they did not.

As with dA, this is a case of 'do the thing, then apologize later, and hope people just kind of go along with it.'

What the new changes do not currently do:

Celsys is allegedly not scraping content from their users.

Celsys is allegedly not going to scrape content from their users without the users' express permission.

Celsys has not explained how they aim to do this, or what formal steps users must take to opt in or out.

I personally don't trust that it will stay like this. So:

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