More than a year later The mainstream success of DALL-E 2, the propagation of AI-generated images is a reality and no longer a hypothesis. Despite the existential boom that their advent has given rise to, these models are still in their infancy and, as such, remain plagued by visual misfires and inaccuracies.
It is then time, perhaps, to learn to distinguish the images generated by algorithms from those created by man.
A released game by Google on May 3 helps humans hone this skill. an odd presents players with four images, one of which was generated by Google AI. Players start with four lives and the game gets faster and faster as it progresses. Categories include cats, cars, candles, and countless others.
While an odd confirms the alarming rate at which AI image generators have advanced – and many AI images are appearing indistinguishable from the paintings, photographs, and antiques sourced from the Google Arts and Culture collection, the AI has a few free twitches.
Photo: Screenshot of an odd.
Start at the bottom. Those that look too smooth and perfect (pure black or white) or are framed tend to be AI generated. Sometimes the AI images have blemishes or noticeable lighting, but it’s usually their banality within the group that sets them apart. Finally, Google AI seems to have a strong taste for images that look like quilts or old prints.
an odd was created by Caroline Buttet and Emmanuel Durgoni, two artists in residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab. The pair also posted three other experiments: XYZ toya word guessing game; Paste !, a monument guessing game; And imagined haikuwhich visualizes poems with AI-generated fonts, videos and music.
Photo: Screenshot of an odd.
“Our artist residency program has been running since 2014 and supports artists and creative coders who are experimenting with emerging technologies to solve a cultural challenge,” Google Arts & Culture said in a statement. statement. “The starting point for these new experiences was Google AI Image Generation Research applications to inspire cultural discovery and learning through play.
Google has released a series of AI-related products in recent months, albeit more cautiously than its tech rivals. This includes several text-generating functions from its AI Test Kitchen app and Bard, an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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