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'The Lament for Icarus 2020' is one of my digital-artwork, created in 2D/3D softwares. It's my way of paying homage to the classicist artist Herbert James Draper.  we can still comprehend the deep meaning contained in Greek mythology.

https://3dmiao.artstation.com/store/art_posters/2kBJR/the-lament-for-icaru-2020

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[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not indistinguishable. Bad details, particularly in the background, always give away AI art.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Zoom into the background really far on AI art and you can dot patterning from the noise diffusion, but it's harder to spot in "photorealistic" styles; it's very obvious when AI is trying to recreate painted or 3d art.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Alright, well I suppose that is an answer, then. I'm not sure I am convinced, but I can appreciate that you've got a solid reason.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not 100% foolproof everytime, but since the core technology generative AI uses is denoising, that leaves artifacts you can spot if you look hard enough. Think of it like the process of remembering a dream: what AI creates has the look of someone trying to remember a place from memory, so it messes up little details that it's trying to fill in, versus art made by humans, where every piece of the visual space had time, effort and thought put into crafting details. There's always an unintentionality to AI pieces that isn't present when a human is creating it.

You can really see this if you poke around Art Station and DeviantArt in the sci-fi concept art category. You'll see pieces where every bit of the giant space machine makes visual sense: no crossed perspective lines, wires that don't actually connect, people in the background have the right number of limbs and are in realistic poses.