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From the moment I watched Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse I´ve been dying to make a SpiderPunk badass fanart that make him justice and just I found some time before I start working on my next comic-book issue to try some of those twisted multi-verse colors and FX.
https://www.tumblr.com/bigmammallama5/732632789726478336?source=share do you have any tips on how to detect ai and deepfakes?
Good question and I'm gonna be honest, it's not always easy and it will only get harder and harder. I'm just an artist who has spent their personal time to dive into this topic and study images. I'm still learning and there is a lot I don't know. But let me show what I know. This will be long, but I will make a summary at the end! So far, even with ai having become better and better there are still almost always some things wrong with an image, and they all have a very specific look to them. So let me try to show you some and point out some of them.
As we all know, a biggest struggle ai had were hands. And even though here and there we still see messed up hands, I say "had", because the hands is actual a good example on how ai is improving and will only get better. Still, looking at pictures that show more hands is always worth it, because somewhere in the back there will be most likely at least one messed up hand.
Another issue a lot of ai still has is hair though!
It's very obvious still in many ai "drawings" and in those otherwise well rendered portraits. Hair starts to blend with the ears a lot, or with the clothes.
There is also often this very odd look between something too sharp and way too blurry
There is often a very specific texture to the hair. I actually do not know the artistic or specific name for it. I can only describe it as this weird sharp feeling that makes it look oddly pixely, and then you have areas where it's very blurry. And the kind of loops and almost flame like looking hair we see in the last pic out of the three here is also something very common with ai.
As an artist I know we make mistakes too! The way I draw hair is flawed too! But it's not only that it's flawed here, but it's following always the same pattern and falls into the same issues over and over again, no matter who is "creating" the image. Those flame like loops are a common one, next to the odd blends and weird sharp and blurry textures.
But ai is getting better, and we not only have "art" and something that tries to be a drawing/painting, but photos too.
A lot of those "photos" have a very specific texture and look to them! Again, it's not always the mistakes, but the very specific optic too. A lot of the images are oddly smooth, too rendered, with always blurry backgrounds. And when you look closer at the background you will see the mistakes! The crowd behind Jesus is a hot mess once you look closer. Bob Marley's hair has the same issue than I described before. Lincoln is surrounded by people with messed up hands and don't even get me started on the faces behind Caesar.
So a lot of ai images look alright on a first and quick glance, but as more time you spend with them, as more mistakes you will notice. The wehre is Waldo of ai horror.
And those "photos" shared here are still very obvious. Not just the mistakes and messed up details but the very specific aesthetic too.
Those images get better and better and as less details you have, as less mistakes you have!
With photos like this it becomes harder and harder. There are not many details and no hands. Not many mistakes can be made. Also the very obvious plastic looking smoothness isn't so much here anymore. It kinda still is...but differently. And always the blurry background!! Sometimes the hair is still a giveaway. Collars and clothe straps are also often still a giveaway upon close look. As is jewelry. Earrings will be different and necklaces often don't go all the way around, just end, or blend with the hair or clothes.
Often details on jewelry is also blurry and not shown properly. This is a trick with many details. With jewelry, batches, hair, ears, text. So it's often blurred out and not shown properly because ai doesn't know what to really show here.
It's often really just the small details and when we scroll down quickly we will miss them. Like the wedding ring on the middle finger, the pens on top of a closed pocket, the batches that are always blurry, messed up faces that blend with a blurry background.
And sometimes it's so subtle that I could only really tell that right is the ai image in comparison to the real photo on the left. The real photo shows hands clearly and even when things are blurred out it doesn't feel that it's done to hide things. The ai image on the right hides the hands. There is also a very dead look in the eyes :D
And here I could only tell because the text in the back doesn't make sense. Even blurred out we should be able to make out something here
And after seeing a lot of ai images I recognize the kind of blurred out bg in combination with a very smooth and well rendered foreground/characters.
And here the only giveaway is a closer look at the backgrounds as well
To summarize it:
Ai and fake news rely on a fast living world. We are being bombarded with tons of information and messages daily and we scroll past quickly. But the best tool, for now, in detecting ai is taking our time! Those images get better and better but so far there are still always some things off!! Especially in the background!
Hair. Often weirdly smoothed out and oddly sharp at the same time
Hair often blends with the ears or the clothes
Details are blurred out.
Jewelry doesn't match (example earrings). Details on metal often blurred out and never shown. Necklaces blend with hair or the clothes, and don't go around the neck.
Background is always blurred out.
In this blurred mess there are often hidden very messed up faces and/or hands.
A very specific smooth and yet too sharp/too rendered aesthetic combines with an always blurry bg.
Text, especialyl in the background, is not legible and doesn't make sense.
Backgrounds are often (so far) the dead giveaway. Somewhere in the back things become muddled and messed up. This shows also very well in ai decor/architecture. There will be odd lines that don't align or align too well. Curtain poles that end in the furniture, a plant that is behind a lamp suddenly having leaves in front of the lamp. As longer you look as more you will notice.
Conclusion:
Take your time with images! Sit with them! Especially when it's framed as important and political news. Is it ai and propaganda, or did it really happen? Don't fall for the quick buzz and outrage! Some things are obvious right away but with others you have to take your time. And it's time you have! If you are still unsure if a pic is real or not, do some research on top. Image reverse search. Can you find it anywhere else? Are other news outlets sharing it? Does the image/message make sense? For example there is now a deepfake of Bella Hadid voicing support for Israel. Ask yourself, does this make sense? If it feels out of line compared to previous behavior, do some research! Media literacy is not just as being able to recognize a fake or real right away, but being able to do research. To question things! Don't just take every post online for face value. Even when shared by a mutual you trust. They might have been tricked!
There are so many information online and it's great to have access to so information, but it's also difficult to wade through all of it. Media and truth are a weapon and it's being twisted and bend used to manipulate. Always has! But ai and so many people being able to post and share things, it becomes bigger and bigger and more dangerous. So don't just take everything that is handed to you and share it further no questions asked. Media literacy and being able to think for ourselves and do the research is important!! And as research becomes harder and harder, as sources are being messed up with ai and other fake news, it's even more important to sit with the images and study them. See the flaws, the mistakes. Compare it to other news and images.
This got long, and I started to ramble at the end. Sorry But I hope this helped
I wanna add to this from "art" that iv'e seen on my social media that have became very easy to spot. The more you see and pay attention the easier it is to spot AI genarated images even with no signs, so keep in mind not all pics you'll see have these easy to spot things.
Easiest thing to spot about AI "art" is the rendering style; a lot of the time it is eerily smooth, almost like a mix of 2d and 3d by how smooth it is. Also it often has a strange mix of styles. Something worth noticing is how often the characters have a strong blush across the ears and the middle of the face:
(look at the hands and hair in all of these for a good laugh)
1st style shift between the exaggerated facial features and realistic body proportions and fabric render is jarring, the more you see it the more it'll make sense.
the jeans fabric on the 2nd look is so out of place compared to the rest of it.
even with a more cartoony style 3rd still has the strange smoothness and perfect rendering. Also things that have fluid movement like the tongue sometimes gets messed up.
Fabric folds are often a mess! Either there's way too much concentrated in a small area or they straight up make zero sense:
anatomy sometimes is completely wrong when you pay attention, you won't notice the arm on 3rd pic if you scrolled by it quickly. Thing is artists stylize anatomy a lot and also make mistakes, but those mistakes make sense when you look at the painting and their artistic skill level, someone who can paint this well will notice a simple mistake like that.
Clothes forming in the shape of the muscles when they're not tight:
Sometimes the fabric is melted into other parts or has a sharp edge:
2nd pic looks painted over but still has the overly smooth face rendering I mentioned earlier, also the bottom lashes are so far from the eye lol
3rd pic gets bonus points for the arm anatomy and the earring.
small parts connecting is a dead giveaway; AI absolutely can not handle tiny pieces of jewelry or chains etc. Artists would usually simplify the shapes if they're not able to draw all the details so it's so easy to spot AI if you look at these parts:
notice how long the arm is on 2nd pic. Also the folds on the hip and the random flowing nonsense in addition to the hair blending into the face and the weirdly connecting jewelry.
same as thin lines going nowhere or blending in:
notice the geometric shapes being a mess in pic 1!
Asymmetry in supposedly symmetrical designs is another giveaway that you'll miss if you don't look close:
look closer at the details that look symmetrical from afar.
A lot of AI "art" has strong back/side lighting, whenever I see this style of lighting + the smooth render it's worth double checking:
sometimes the light hits where it shouldn't. Again, artists make mistakes and stylize, but you can see the reason when an artist does something "wrong" intentionally or not, but here it is confidently wrong with no rhyme or reason:
2nd is a whole package lmao, see how the space between the hair has light reflection that's nowhere else. The hair blending into the shirt, earrings are a giveaway too.
When you see tattoos or detailed animal paintings look closely at the animals and designs and see if they make sense or if they have the same style of hair mess:
Whenever you see props with characters pay close attention and see if something looks whorng!
Hair blending into the skin again.. Not only wrong words but real words in fake sentences too!
Lastly, smooth ass anime/semi realism facial features with the big eyes and blush, even when the photos are edited or painted over you can still tell!
This is a good example of a lot a things you won't notice until you take a good close look:
In summary:
smooth rendering with oddly mixed art styles.
fabric folds that make no sense.
clothes that just end in nowhere, blend into other stuff, or form to the muscles.
small parts like jewelry and mech parts connecting.
thin lines going nowhere or connecting in the wrong places.
asymmetry in symmetrical designs.
strong back and side lighting that doesn't always makes sense.
animals looking wrong and tattoos being a mess.
props and weapons are easy to spot with human characters.
hope this helps, heres this
Love a good meme, thought it was perfect for these two.
The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.
The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.
It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.
Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.
dear god please just give the pirates their quiet seaside inn and the angel and demon their little cottage in the south downs before I lose my mind completely
It’s probably worth reassuring people that, by and large, those of us who’re currently engaged in putting our characters through ever-increasing levels of TERRIBLE SHIT really are looking forward, just like you, to the time when it’s finished at last and we can just let them have those [cottages on the Downs / inns by the sea / chosen Places or Conditions of Rest and Solace / and one another] to enjoy in peace.
But the Shit has to come first, or it’s all valueless.
…So, back to it! (wanders off rubbing hands together in anticipation)
ETA just to clarify a couple of things:
(a) Re "no peace without suffering": My lived experience leaves me uncertain that this is strictly true. Otherwise there'd be a LOT more people lining up for chances to suffer.
The issue here isn't to make characters suffer to make them seem more realistic/human; or for the fun of it, or for the engagement their pain (theoretically) provokes in the readership. ...Though I have known writers who've enjoyed making their characters suffer for just that reason... and the less said about that, from my POV, the better. Cruelty is still cruelty even when inflicted on the immaterial.
The reason for putting one's characters through ever-increasing troubles and trauma is to find out what they're made of—and additionally, for the "show-don't-tell" enthusiasts, to demonstrate their mettle where it can be seen. In the act of getting them down on the page, your characters will frequently reveal to you, and thereby to your readership/viewership, levels of heroism you never previously even conceived of.
But they'll do nothing of the kind if you don't give them the chance; if you don't start dropping stumbling-blocks in their way to see if and how they stumble... or subject them to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to see how they react. Do they break, or bend, or struggle again and again to stand upright under the onslaught? The evidence of that response is what makes drama that grips. Your characters have to be tried—going back to the old meaning of the word, where it involved melting metal down in the furnace to "try" its purity and see how much dross it contained. They have to prove themselves—again in the older sense of the word, where "proof" means, not the mere dry result of testing to find something out, but the test itself.*
...And (b) for the YW and MK readerships: This is why I can under no circumstances stop putting Kit and Nita and their associates, and the Five, through the wringer. My job is to keep showing who they are, as they all grow and change, the best way: through constant proof. Neither the business of wizardly errantry, nor the processes and discoveries that the members of that unusual marriage are going through, involve safe jobs. (As the participants have been repeatedly and sometimes explicitly warned.) This being the case: I get on with doing my job—of making their lives hell—so they can do theirs: saving their worlds, so they can enjoy living in them. :)
*Probably the only place in modern English where this usage survives is in phrases involving yeast. Or pudding. ...Pity.
How does anyone hate kids they are so funny I sold tickets to incredibles to this little girl and her mom and she’s like mom are we sitting next to each other and the moms like ya and the kid screamed YES so loud it broke my ears
The other day I was bringing an older gentleman up the hill in a golf cart and we drove past this huge YMCA group of kids like 100 kids and driving past the first chunk like 10 of them yelled out “let me on” in unison and then since I’m driving so slowly to be safe, halfway in some kid leaned up and said “do you play fortnite” and I told him I played a little and he just pointed and shouted “THIS GUY PLAYS FORTNITE” and then like 20 kids started talking to me all at once about fortnite
A kid asked me if I lived in the ambulance. I said yes.
The hero we deserve
When I was on register at Kohl’s a little girl came through with her grandma and she was so very excited to tell me the meaning of her name (I think it was like warrior of god) and she begged her grandma for her phone so she could google to find out what my name means too
i wear two spinner rings on one finger and one time at my last job a young girl (probably 6-8) said “your ring is very pretty” and when i showed her it was two rings she GASPED and said “does that mean you’re marrying two people?!”
I have this necklace with a mermaid on it that I wear to work a lot and I got asked by a kid if it gave me magic powers. I leaned in real close and told her in a low voice it gave me magical girl powers but it was a secret. She got this real serious look on her face and said to her mom “that lady has superpowers, don’t tell anyone or the government will take her away”.
The other day i had to give a speech at my school despite my horrific fear of public speaking and afterwards i had kid come up to me and say well done to me. It was so cute.
god I love tiny kids
there was a kid in one of our science camps and he spent the whole week in a lab coat and goggles screaming “CHEMICALS” at the top of his lungs. he wouldn’t even tell us his name for the first two days just screamed CHEMICALS instead.
I was watching these kids at church today and one of them screamed and threw a toy car into the wall and it broke and the other one looked over calmly and said “does your insurance cover that?”
I was taking the drink order for a family at work and I asked their kid what he wanted to drink and he just looked at me with a completely deadpan expression and said “vodka” and me and the parents just fucking lost it
kid I used to babysit asked why my lips were different (she was two), and when I told her that it was because I was wearing lipstick, she yelled, “MAYA, I WANT LIPITZ.”
I work in a school and every time I draw anything on the board (I am a terrible artist and usually resort to stick men), the kids will all go ‘I love your picture, that’s a great drawing Miss’. So blindly supportive.
One time my younger brother ordered a “non-alcoholic fanta” at a hotel bar and the bartender lost his shit and I was never the same man
When I was student teaching, I was taking my fourth graders back from lunch and noticed one little girl looking longingly at the playground, where the younger kids were having recess. She heaved a big sigh and said, “I used to be that free.”
oh my god little kids in the library are the BEST one time i was looking for a book and a little girl tried to help me cause we always help HER find the books she wants. sometimes when i’m helping them check out they’ll tell me about the books they’re getting. i know so much about dog man.
oh man! another hilarious thing kids in the library do! they will straight up TELL ON THEIR PARENTS!
mom: the book was like that when we checked it out
child, innocently confused: i thought (little brother) did that though?
dad: yes that’s our correct address and phone number
child, barely paying attention: we MOOOOVED!! :D
parent: we never checked that book out
child, trying to be helpful: yes we did, that’s the one we lost at grandma’s house, remember?
me, fighting laughter and trying to decide whether or not the enter the child’s testimony as official evidence or not
Day 2 of summer day camp one of the tables of 8-9 year olds was asking if I was a boy or a girl, and I was explaining to them that ‘neither’ could be an answer. And one of the girls SLAMMED her hands down on the table and leaned forward like a lawyer at a cross-examination to ask “WHAT’S YOUR LEAST FAVORITE FOOD THAT YOU’LL STILL EAT ANYWAY”
A moment burned into my brain:
A children’s theater thing in Central Park, sometime in the late 70s. A crowd of kids of ages… oh, 7 to 10 or thereabouts. A fairy-tale-ish story’s being enacted for them. A princely hero’s been given a sword to take on a journey and instructed not to put it down under any circumstances or Very Bad Things will happen.
Shortly the prince runs into a witch (as one does). She wants the sword, and starts wheedling him to put it down, take a rest, it must be so heavy, etc etc. He resists for a while but finally begins to think about agreeing, about putting it down. And while this is happening, a Monster is creeping up behind him.
Shrieks of warning from the horrified audience as the Monster gets closer and closer. “No, no!” “Look out!” “It’s right behind you!” “Don’t put it down!”
And into one of those unpredictable spaces of silence that sometimes falls in live performance, a single voice speaks up. Little girl sitting not far from me, one of those absolutely angelic-faced children, maybe seven years old, like a little doll. And she says, with piercing clarity and sheer bloodthirsty relish:
“Go ahead! Put it down. Let’s see what happens.”
You haven't drawn teh 1x2 cuddlers recently. Would you mind? I just absolutely adore these two in your style <3
HELLO 3 MONTHs LATER OMG
Gundam Wing. 1x2. Hi, I still love these boys.
How many times can I attempt to use Tumblr again? Who knows.
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huge shoutout to the guy at the bar who said “i like your dress maam” and when i was like. i’m a man but thank you! he was like “oh shit i like your dress homie” i love you forever
Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner
yeah hang on
ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo
this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it
this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion
bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro
also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!
oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it
don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.
this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.
These are my two favorite comfort foods. They're very easy to make and dont take long to cook.
Garlic butter rice
Orzo mac and cheese (comes out a little bit soupy)
this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing
some of my favourite sign fails <3
maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them
starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost
At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again
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what I wore today as worn by Chang Wufei
Wow what an interesting way to say "countries with strong employee protection laws aren't at the mercy of tech billionairs in late stage capitalism" but with a real boot licker angle.
Photographed by Martin Schoeller for The New Yorker in 2002:
"I was hired by the New Yorker in 2002 to photograph Robin Williams, and after doing my research what stood out most for me was that he was a very physical comedian. I came up with this idea to photograph him swinging from a chandelier in a grand hotel room. Most publicists shoot down these kinds of wild ideas, so I didn’t tell anyone what I was up to, but rigged up a chandelier at the Waldorf Astoria hotel for him to swing from. When Robin got there and saw what was happening, he lifted up his shirt and showed me this enormous scar on his shoulder. He’d just had surgery and couldn’t so much as lift his arm. He was so disappointed! He really felt bad about not being able to do it, because he loved the idea and really wanted to help me accomplish my vision.
Unlike most Hollywood stars, he was unfazed by his success and position. He talked to everyone from stylists to the crew, to the hotel staff. We ended up asking a maid at the hotel to swing from the chandelier instead, and I asked him to just sit there and read a newspaper, which I think in the end was an even funnier, more unexpected picture.
[Follies Of God]
[ID: a photo of Robin Williams sitting in a mostly empty room reading a newspaper. He is perched on a coffee table with his legs crossed, wearing a red jacket and bright blue shoes, and is reading with an amused expression on his face. Behind him, a woman in a beige maid uniform is swinging from a chandelier and smiling. /end ID.]
In 2010 I was at a very fancy Hollywood Oscar party and I am no good at parties and had made up my mind to leave. I was introduced to a young woman whose name I hadn’t caught who, when I told her how uncomfortable I was, told me that her dad was there and she and she and he would look after me. She told me that her dad was the Sandman fan and had got her hooked, which was why she was wearing an ankh that night.
I was desperate for someone nice and headed out with her across the lawn to where her dad was holed up. I assumed he was a producer or something. As we got close and I did see him under the tent canopy I realized who her dad was. Zelda Williams and I have stayed friends. Her father did the equivalent of pulling a thorn from my foot, and I spent the evening with them enjoying the party as much as I could, because now I had friends. I remember him with such gratitude.
@neil-gaiman you're a saint
