Can any gen-z chime in and confirm this?

Wait you can't tell?

Exactly. I mean, I’m sure I’ve seen some GenAI imagery that I didn’t notice as such but a lot of the time, it just immediately trips some subconscious uncanny valley detector

I can tell and I'm way older. If I had to guess I would say most with a science background or training involving critical thinking could tell easily, because from what I've seen the most susceptible groups judge an image with how much it aligns with their worldview and not objective reality or apparent image artifacts.

If people want to believe it is real they will, and if they don't then they will not regardless of of it is real. Gen-Z are probably just more critical of sales media from being forced to view it.

just what a bot would say

As a younger gen-x I recognize similar numbers. And the 10% I'm not sure about is usually because there's no people clearly visible in the picture. It's like if our brains were trained from birth to detect subtle signals of something being human...

I don’t spend lookin at ads and what not. I do look at isthisAi at time but that’s all. But i am curious if this is really true or just made up.

This probably makes more sense… people turning a blind eye to things they don’t like or believe in.

I've seen this "78%" figure thrown around but haven't been able to find the actual source for it. Does anyone know? As far as I can tell, it traces back to the Reddit thread, but I also know that consumer reports aren't always or even usually made easily available to the general public.

Lol… and that is why I avoid posting responses to istjisAI to avoid training the llms

This needs more layers of screenshot

Gen X here, and I probably can't tell without trying harder than I care to. Why "probably?" Because I've always despised marketing because it's all lies of heavy exaggeration, implication without actually claiming, and completely unrelated crap that somehow entices dumbasses to buy it (e.g. scantily clad models used to sell cars, tech, etc.).

I block every ad I can everywhere I might encounter them - and when I can't? The mute button works wonders. The harder they try to sell me, the more full of shit I know they are. I don't like being tracked, but that's practically an afterthought compared to the absolute disdain I have for marketing & the amount of bullshit I have to filter in order to glean the slightest bit of actually useful and believable info from an ad.

This sorry world seems to be run almost entirely on bullshit, and who can sling it most effectively. I look at the current White House resident as the culmination of all that is wrong in a world built on lies - lies made not only acceptable, but normal and expected all in the name of "marketing."

Fuck capitalism and the manipulative, greedy, power-tripping assholes that use "marketing" to steal money by convincing people their lives will be so much better with widget Y when they told us just last year that widget X would do the same.

No, I probably can't tell real from AI as easily as the younger set, but that's because I don't care to look at either one. It's all just an endless push to separate me from the pittance of funds I have left over after funneling the bulk of the few funds I've managed to acquire from one rich asshole's pocket to another - never staying in my account long enough to even earn a penny of interest.

Only if I spend time looking at it. What the post says is that it is intuitive for genz. So yeah I can’t tell intuitively… only if I spend some time analyzing it.

I'm a 26 year old gen z and feel I get it right most of the time. If I had to describe it, everything ai touches has this corporate clip-art stock photo style over it. Even when it tries to mimic a different art style or real photos, something feels soulless about it.

Something else, I used to believe that if AI images began to look good and it was used for hobbyist purposes that it might be fine. Despite this I've found that the moment I realize an image is AI I drop it in disinterest. It took AI for me to realize just how much the tiny details of art mattered; because if you look closely at an AI image all you'll see is what's statistically likely to be there unrelated to the subject matter.

Yeah. It's the old that are a problem

I probably can't but skip it anyway. Even if it's real, it's normally some cherry-picked race-bait bullshit.

Gen Y, absolutely able to tell pretty much 100% of the time. It's the lighting, sound, and depth of objects. Maybe current AI is confusing for really old people that just never used a camera or camera app on a phone, but it's super obvious what is actually filmed and what is generated to look like something that was filmed.

I propose that we call it a social media turducken when there's three different sites in one screenshot.

An interesting emergent behavior is people being wary of AI and questioning media openly is often viewed as an insult or undue criticism, as it is associated with dislike of the content itself even when that may not be the case at all.

There have been a couple of times I was confused by the number of JPEG artifacts and questioned about the legitimacy of a piece only to be berated for it.

I'd think AI imagery is uniquely toxic for product marketing because it reads as an admission the product is worse than the picture.

We know you'll pick the most flattering angle, and the one perfectly formed unit out of 500, with a photo of a real shirt. It's the upper bound on reality, but it's still reality. If you have to hallucinate instead, you probably can't even make that cherry-picked example look good.

absolutely!! can almost always tell or at the very least suspect when something is AI-generated and it's very offputting. makes me less likely to engage with whatever it is

how do you know it's 90% of ai images and not just 90% of the images that make you suspicious?

This is such a Gen X response and that is a compliment

You can tell when it just looks too perfect or uniform imo

Billionaire bakkake.

And the lighting is just a bit too vibrant, the colors have just a bit too much of the Lisa Frank HDR look...

Anyone else stopped considering dominos to be a food just because of how desperate their ads seem?

The problem is that as they learn how people can tell the difference, they'll improve the models.

Yeah. I mean I'm pretty sure I can't tell 100% when the subject is like, just a neutral photo of someone.

But the product people always have the worst, most garish taste in images, making it easy to tell - they don't have the bare minimum of a photographer and artist between them and the slop, so the images are a tasteless person's idea of art, all high contrast, vignettes, dramatic lighting from multiple angles like it's on a film set etc.

Really needs a source, sounds plausible but could easily be made up.

Well, as many people know, 67% of quoted statistics were made up on the spot based entirely on intuition. Unless a stat lists has a source, I assume someone made it up.

whenever I see a company using AI art for their campaigns, I automatically ignore that company

My 6 year old habitually asks me "is this AI or just Photoshop?".

Yup. This kind of feedback is super easy to scrape & condense with LLMs and feed back into training.

"The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him." -Kyle Reese

There is absolutely no way we are winning this war. It is just a matter of time, unless datacentres are blocked but even then, it will only slow it down. The pandora box of generative AI has been opened and there is no way of undoing that.

https://fake-or-real.net/

Okay, I wanted to know if I could do this and had a look if I could find a game or something like that. Turns out, yes, I could find one. And yes, I can see it. I got 19 of 20 right on medium difficulty for a start. I'll try some different combinations but it surprised me how fast I was.

I'm definitely not gen z

Edit: and the site is a wild mix of languages for me. But it'll do.

I stopped considering them a food because their pizza is nasty.

That website is vibecoded slop, it's also using AI detection to determine if things are AI or not.

Images that are clearly AI get weird explanations that have nothing to do with the image, like I got an AI image of an owl sitting in a hole in a plaster wall, and it said it was AI because the snow was too uniform? There was no snow. Absolute slop.

They can't improve the models in that way. They are non-determainistic and don't listen to instructions. They can tinker with training data but straight up forcing a model to work a certain way take all of the magic away. Without the magic, it would be worse and everything would look more uniform.

Same. I feel like I didn’t build a natural resistance to AI images because I so thoroughly cut out ad sources and rarely see them.

That link. They won't let us play it unless we accept cookies and enter our personal information.

I can confirm, my teens hate AI and are experts at spotting it. They will dissuade me from buying anything that advertises with AI.

After your description I'm not clicking the link, but it sounds like using that website is failing a bigger picture fake or real test.

yeah, real artists express their emotion, which is depression

This statment assumes human's learning capability is slower or static compared to AI.

I think there will be a point where it will be almost impossible to tell the difference, I already fell for some pictures only for the comments told me to check the face of someone in the background, it is a matter of time, until AI improves, so those details are fixed.

And I am likely blind to many cases where I fell for it and did not see the comments.

And on top of that, imagine a real picture with someone in the background is exceptionally ugly, or has some deformity, and suddenly that picture is no longer deemed real.

I am paranoid that we now live in a world where "Pics or didn't happen" is a thing of the past. States already push AI propaganda, objective reality is a thing of the past.