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We’re cooked.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems like very thinly veiled advertising for a new version of google’s ai image generation.

If AI is getting this good at imitating the things that signal a photo is real, then guys: We are cooked.

“We are cooked, fellow kids!”

The author also pretty much says “all other AI was slop before this, right guys?”

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeah, a more honest take would discuss the strengths & weakness of the model. Flux is still better at text than Nano Banana, for instance. There's no "one model to rule them all," as much as tech journalism seems to want to write like that.

[–] Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago

I mean of course it is. It got basically infinite training data

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 12 hours ago

So how long untill digital photos are inadmissble in court?

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel the bus one is actually quite easy to spot as fake. There's no one with head down looking at their phone.

[–] Sinaf@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Most of these images have really shitty resolution as well. Can't they generate higher res stuff or would inconsistencies otherwise be more obvious?

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Directly, generating higher res stuff requires way more compute. But there are plenty of AI upscalers out there, some better, some worse. These are also built into Photoshop now. The difference between an AI image that is easy to spot and hard to spot is using good models. The difference between an AI image that is hard to spot and nearly impossible to spot is another 20 min of work in post.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 17 hours ago

The phone is a lie box, return to magnetic tape

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Nano Banana Pro's built into Photoshop now, as is Flux Kontext pro.