#ai sludge

It is also good for spotting 100% AI-generated fakerino nonsense like this.

Let’s look at why this image is blatant AI nonsense.

There are big obvious clues, like that the image is an exact square. The focus is weird. The background figures don’t make sense and melt into weirdness. There are all kinds of errors, like how the front and the back of the plaid skirt in the middle figure do not line up. Or the abortive “toes only” shadow of the leg on the far left figure.

But it’s the fashion errors that really make it stand out as a fake image.

The women’s hair is vaguely like the styles of around 1964 (in some of them the hair seems to be mutating into hats).

But miniskirts weren’t much of a thing before 1966. And they were NEVER this short. Fingertip length was as short as they ever got.

When miniskirts were in fashion, the fashionable shoes were NOT 1980s-style super-high pointy-toed shoes. They were either low-heeled square-toed ballet flats or mild-high thick chunky heeled go go boots, things like that.

The absolute UNIFORMITY of these figures — boobs all in a row, uniformly short skirts all in a row, 1980s-style heels all in a row — is a structural clue. And close observation will reveal all the weird AI errors.

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