The diabolical world of convincing AI thirst traps

(vox.com)

15 points | by nabbed 16 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • miladyincontrol 11 hours ago ago

    Its a weird spectrum of AI generation and filtering from what I'm aware of. Obviously if something is fully AI generated or heavily guided using an original human as reference most would coutn it as fake.

    But does someone using heavy filtering and douyin makeup to push the filtering even stronger count as "real"? How much becomes too much, when does it become fake?

  • Havoc 15 hours ago ago

    I see these on insta fair bit. It’s wild how many comments they get from people trying to interact with them. Or maybe know they’re fake and praising their hotness anyway…not sure which it is.

    Still haven’t seen any yet that are truly indistinguishable

    The lighting is usually easiest to tell. Image gen like evenly well lit people regardless of scene being a darkish hotel room or whatever

    • hazn 14 hours ago ago

      couldn't you have seen an indistinguishable one, and by definition, wouldn't notice?

      • Havoc 3 hours ago ago

        Yeah I guess so. The ones that have come close the illusion disappears if you see the rest of the pictures.

        e.g. the lighting issue...sometimes it just happens to be right in the clock is right once every 12 hours sense

        The tech isn't really there yet where it can consistently produce images that nail it.

  • thrtythreeforty 16 hours ago ago
  • add-sub-mul-div 14 hours ago ago

    Judging from the pictures shown in the article, the uncanny valley remains undefeated. But there's people out there who are easily fooled, so I'm not surprised the fakes are effective.