Very clearly AI

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title: Igel Graffiti
  • Location (lat/lon): 51.998450,7.602735
  • City: Münster
  • Country: Germany
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  • This is like. very clearly AI. The supporting image is just a less cropped version of the main

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Can you point out what makes this AI so clearly? I am bad with this stuff.

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Yeah sure no worries. Things that immediately stuck out to me are the texture difference between the “painting” and the utility box, the uniformity of the paint drips at the bottom that aren’t consistent with actual paint. Same with the overspray on the sides, which AI commonly adds to "street art"prompts but also isn’t quite right here. The main and supporting image are just different crops of each other which is very indicative too

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Thanks…..
Like Cyndie I sometimes find these difficult. I usually go on my gut reaction of …..it doesn’t feel right ….but can find it hard to describe why.

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I put the image into Google Images and asked if it was AI… this is what I got back.

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Did google use the information in this thread as evidence that the picture was AI? :joy_cat:

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I’ve been rumbled! I fed google with all the info!

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The thing that makes me stare so hard at this one is that the black doesn’t drip at all. It looks unnatural, unrealistic. The ends of the spikes imply the black is spray paint, but it’s not behaving like spray paint.

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Thanks for trying to point out stuff. This would have made it past me as a reviewer. They even have the groove in the surfaces correctly accounted for.

(i might have rejected as temporary, but not ai)

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That’s actually wild ahahaha

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Unfortunately AI is getting better and better. I might make a PSA post with ways to spot it but I don’t want to give abusers a guide on how to improve their AI generated submissions…

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Thanks for the appeal, @wooperIooper! We have taken action on the Wayspot and the Wayfinder in accordance with our policies.

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What makes me question this image is that for such an amazing work of art, there’s no artist’s name. I don’t know street tagging culture in Germany, but here such an image would most definitely have a name attached to it for street cred.

For something that’s supposed stray paint, it has insane amount of very intricate color gradients/shading. That’s very hard to do for such a small image.

I can’t tell if it’s AI-generated, but it does feel like a digital image.

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Yes, sometimes random people will ask permission to paint a utility box and wouldn’t necessarily sign it, but something this “professional” would usually have a tag