Edit: Replaced original AI slop image with non-slop alt.
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This image looks like slop.
Proportions are all just a bit off. Plug on the power cord is a bit too big, the door seems a bit too short, the TV cart a bit too tall, etc.
Notes pinned to the bulletin board are a weird mish-mash of different colors and sizes, and none of them look like something real people would actually hang up.
Doorknobs don't quite line up with each other.
Wall texture inconsistent behind the legs of the cart.
The edge between the wall and the doorway is blurry when behind the cart.
Why would you strap the TV across the screen, so that you'd have to remove the straps every time? Put it sideways instead. Also, the front of the straps are tight, but the top of the straps above the TV look completely loose.
Cord is too neatly coiled on the bottom tray, while there are no other wires anywhere. Also, the cord appears to be two-prong, while any cart like this would use a grounded three-prong plug. Where are the TV and VCR power cords? Where's the cable connecting the VCR to the TV? No, I will not believe that all three of those wires are disconnected and neatly coiled out of sight after every use.
TV and VCR have no visible branding. There are spots on both where branding would be, but they've been kind of smudged away, leaving slight artifacts behind. Probably because the AI used has guardrails to prevent using trademarks.
Cart's wheels are pointing the opposite direction from the direction the cart is being pushed.
Reflections on the TV don't reflect the room's lights, even though the room is well-lit.
edit: I just realized, maybe I shouldn't play 'find the AI's fuck-ups' in images like this. I might just be feeding the next AI wonderful training data about how to avoid the same mistakes in the future...
100% slop. The proportions are off, they never strapped down the TV like that, the vhs player is too big, and those door knobs wouldn't have been (assuming this is supposed to be an American classroom) ADA compliant, its why all the doors moved to those hooked handle knobs so that someone without a hand or ability to grip a regular door knob could open the door
I also don't think TVs like that had detachable power cables?
Also, the wheels on the cart don't make sense with the direction of motion. Or any direction of motion
She seems to be leaning forward as if to push, but the wheels are closest to a pulling motion
It's definitely slop, but tbf my school did strap them down like that for storage because it's much more secure that way. CRTs are very front heavy so puting the straps sideways would mean it might slip out and fall. It's easy enough to unstrap them, I mean that's what straps are meant for. That being said the straps themselves look fucking weird. They're not even touching the top of the tv. >.>
Also I'll add the door jamb just stops before the top of the door, so the top hinge is just, there.
*Now I remember my science teacher complaining how she had to take the straps off every time we watched a movie lol.
Not just a little bit off. The VCR and TV are completely different scales. The VCR is massive relative to the TV. Look at the size of the cassette slot compared to the person's head. The VHS cassette would be comically large. The TV is too low. None of these carts were ever that low. The right side of the VCR cassette slot has artifacts.
The biggest tell is the overall texture and resolution. It looks like a digital picture. A photograph from this era would be film camera. It wouldn't have the digital grain effect. The colors wouldn't this vibrant.
The next biggest tell is the texture of teacher's clothing. AI slop is good at generating textiles that look high res from a the corner of your eye. When you try to focus on details, you can't. There's are a few large flower-like shapes on the dress. Trying focusing on the the smaller details. You can't. AI is very good at making uncanny textures like this. Looks right but isn't but you can't quite put your finger on why.
Not to mention context: this "photo" looks like it's supposed to represent a 90's (or possibly 00's ) classroom. In the 90's and early 00's most people(especially students) didn't have cameras on them at all times to take a photo like this, and when camera phones did become ubiquitous in the mid 2000s, they were potato quality. Even if it were a special occasion, like a yearbook photo or something, this just isn't the kind of photo someone would take! Especially with a film camera.
People today forget it used to be that every photo you took cost money.
Verified
What are you using for this?
Not that I'd really trust AI-powered tools to detect AI correctly, but it looks like something you're running in-browser?
SynthId is basically an AI fingerprint that some AI companies chose to implement to make identifying whether an image is generated by AI easier.
Unlike previous methods that looks for clues whether something is AI generated or not SynthID has a much lower false positive rate. If synthID is detected it is basically guaranteed that the image is AI generated AFAIK.
Note that just because an image is AI generated does not necessarily mean the underlying image is fake. An image that was upscaled or enhanced with AI will still have SynthID fingerprints.
Also note that even if an image is generated with a SynthID fingerprint, if the image is then modified enough, it could degrade or remove the fingerprint.
There are three main issues with SynthID. (1) Each LLM company implements their own SynthID fingerprint. Many of them can only identify their own fingerprint. As an example, this website by open ai can only identify images generated by chatgpt. That being said, a more recent tool by google seems to be able to detect synthid from several different LLMs.
(2) SynthID is relatively new. Only OpenAI has a public api for detecting synth ID. The google one is still private. The tool I am using uses OpenAI's API meaning it can only identify images generated by ChatGPT.
(3) SynthID is something that is added by the LLM on purpose. Not all LLMs mark images they generate with SynthID. Older AI generated images and images generated by certain models will not have SynthID fingerprints.
The whiteboard talks about solving equations but the movie is Disney Alladin
Oh shit.
I'm tired, boss...
Excellent observations. The slop is very much uncanny at this point. The only thing I noticed was the fake looking depth of field effect on the foreground students' hair
As someone who saw a little kid have a CRT fall on them when the trolley tipped, I think the straps are a very good idea.
Definitely improving on the capacity to fool people, whatever value that holds to people not making money off of scamming
I’m not sure if I can replace the image or not as it would no longer be the original post and wouldn’t fit microblog memes
Just mention that it’s AI in the body, per comm rules and you’re good.
Done
The caster wheels are facing the wrong direction.