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Cheesemacher t1_j6lwuza wrote

Reply to comment by NoRodent in PsBattle: This dog sleeping by Dannywise

> The odd piece of blanket serves the purpose of hiding the dog's hind legs. Much easier than trying to match the surrounding background.

You really think it's easier to find a weird blanket from another picture and match the lighting and everything?

AI tools do have inpainting functionality where you erase a part of a picture and then describe what you want the AI to generate in the empty spot.

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NoRodent t1_j6m26gg wrote

>You really think it's easier to find a weird blanket from another picture and match the lighting and everything?

Absolutely. Look at the area you'd have to erase and perfectly match. Three different surfaces. Clone stamping would be a pain and content-aware "AI" tools are a hit or miss and almost surely would fail here. The lighting is neutral so if the other image was similar, no matching had to be done, just some drop shadow. The only odd thing may be that they didn't reuse the blanket from the original image. But maybe the pillow was part of the cat picture.

>AI tools do have inpainting functionality where you erase a part of a picture and then describe what you want the AI to generate in the empty spot.

I am aware, but from what I've seen, even such tools re-generate the entire image. But the tech is evolving so fast that I may be wrong. So if you can show me a particular tool that's capable of this, I'll give it to you that AI may have been involved. But I still don't see why it would have to be AI, I think you're reaching.

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Cheesemacher t1_j6m2urj wrote

>I still don't see why it would have to be AI, I think you're reaching.

I didn't make that kind of a definitive statement. I just pointed out that it looks very AI-like.

Edit: Also looking at OP's other work, this one for example is more obviously AI-generated.

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NoRodent t1_j6mbp53 wrote

Ok, at first glance I didn't see anything suspicious but looking again, that one does look weird. The hands... And more importantly, the entire cat is slightly different. So that looks like the case of what I've been talking about - the entire image was re-generated, not just the erased parts. Which is what I'm aware the current tools work like. (But again, feel free to prove me wrong). In this catdog picture, the dog head and the entire background seems completely unchanged though. So either it was not AI, or it was some combination of AI and regular photoshopping, or there's a tool out there, that can do this but the question then is why it wasn't used with the paparazzi cat picture.

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Cheesemacher t1_j6me4ag wrote

Honestly, to me it looks like the same process except with the paparazzi cat the whole background and parts of the cat were erased. The middle bits of the cat are the same in the original and the edit.

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NoRodent t1_j6nje6y wrote

I'm currently only looking at it at my phone but... yeah, I think you're actually right. In which case you're most likely right about the catdog too. That is actually impressive. And a little scary.

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