How to Distinguish AI-Generated Images from Authentic Photographs

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Auteurs principaux: Kamali, Negar, Nakamura, Karyn, Chatzimparmpas, Angelos, Hullman, Jessica, Groh, Matthew
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author Kamali, Negar
Nakamura, Karyn
Chatzimparmpas, Angelos
Hullman, Jessica
Groh, Matthew
author_facet Kamali, Negar
Nakamura, Karyn
Chatzimparmpas, Angelos
Hullman, Jessica
Groh, Matthew
contents The high level of photorealism in state-of-the-art diffusion models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly makes it difficult for untrained humans to distinguish between real photographs and AI-generated images. To address this problem, we designed a guide to help readers develop a more critical eye toward identifying artifacts, inconsistencies, and implausibilities that often appear in AI-generated images. The guide is organized into five categories of artifacts and implausibilities: anatomical, stylistic, functional, violations of physics, and sociocultural. For this guide, we generated 138 images with diffusion models, curated 9 images from social media, and curated 42 real photographs. These images showcase the kinds of cues that prompt suspicion towards the possibility an image is AI-generated and why it is often difficult to draw conclusions about an image's provenance without any context beyond the pixels in an image. Human-perceptible artifacts are not always present in AI-generated images, but this guide reveals artifacts and implausibilities that often emerge. By drawing attention to these kinds of artifacts and implausibilities, we aim to better equip people to distinguish AI-generated images from real photographs in the future.
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spellingShingle How to Distinguish AI-Generated Images from Authentic Photographs
Kamali, Negar
Nakamura, Karyn
Chatzimparmpas, Angelos
Hullman, Jessica
Groh, Matthew
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The high level of photorealism in state-of-the-art diffusion models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly makes it difficult for untrained humans to distinguish between real photographs and AI-generated images. To address this problem, we designed a guide to help readers develop a more critical eye toward identifying artifacts, inconsistencies, and implausibilities that often appear in AI-generated images. The guide is organized into five categories of artifacts and implausibilities: anatomical, stylistic, functional, violations of physics, and sociocultural. For this guide, we generated 138 images with diffusion models, curated 9 images from social media, and curated 42 real photographs. These images showcase the kinds of cues that prompt suspicion towards the possibility an image is AI-generated and why it is often difficult to draw conclusions about an image's provenance without any context beyond the pixels in an image. Human-perceptible artifacts are not always present in AI-generated images, but this guide reveals artifacts and implausibilities that often emerge. By drawing attention to these kinds of artifacts and implausibilities, we aim to better equip people to distinguish AI-generated images from real photographs in the future.
title How to Distinguish AI-Generated Images from Authentic Photographs
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08651