New technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in recent months. Of the deep face born at the end of the 20th century, to applications such as midjourney, Crayon, photoleap and DALL-E2, who create hyper-realistic images that anyone can do. So how to know if an image was generated by an AI?
How would Peter Parkeror originally Franklin Roosevelt: “With great power comes great responsibility.”. For this reason, no matter how realistic the images created with artificial intelligence may seem, there are virtual tools that help detect them. In addition, there are some signs so that with the naked eye you can clarify its veracity.
AI-created images are not perfect
Although the AI-made illustrations have amazing details, they also have small errors that give them away as fake. Generally these go unnoticed, but if you are attentive it is possible to notice them.
For example, images of donald trump where he is allegedly being arrested and went viral, they are not perfect. That is, the AI focuses on the main character to make him seem as faithful as possible to the former president.
However, the other people and edges have significant flaws: the cops have hands that are out of proportion to a real body, one leg out of place, just like a shoe, a lot of hands that shouldn’t be there, and the texture being blurry. Therefore, the trick is to pay attention to the details and the proportions.
Finally, many of the images generated with AI usually place a watermark when downloading it from their website. They are usually small, but they do exist. However, there are people who remove them or use a tool without it. For example, midjourney the one in charge of making the ‘dinoprofessions’ viral.
Other details to pay attention to to detect if an image was made by an AI, whether it is a face or a landscape:
- skin texture
- number of teeth
- asymmetrical faces
- Disproportionate and odd hands and feet
- blurred backgrounds
- Oddly shaped objects in the backgrounds
- Accessories such as earrings or glasses that are missing or blend into the skin
- Texts on the image as a watermark
The tool that helps you know if an image was generated with an AI
As we mentioned, with the advancement of technology these errors could be fixed sooner or later, and in this way the images will be more and more realistic.
So, in response, new tools have emerged that detect the patterns on which the AIs are based to generate the portraits. One of them is GAN Detectordeveloped by Mayachitra Inc.
Created in 2021 GAN, it was designed with the intention of knowing if an image was created with artificial intelligence. Quickly and easily, it analyzes the illustrations and contrasts them with the database from which the AIs are fed.
However, it still does not offer precise results, but we hope that as artificial intelligence advances, so will the tools to detect them.
For now, it is important to know how to identify the small details to reach a conclusion if an image was generated by an AI or not.
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