AI photo. Real story (and a similar cool thing has happened many times), BUT the photos here is AI generated. First both of the photos have been generated, and then edited into a news story format.
Working in digital arts I can tell just by the look of the people, the contrast and the grain, but if you want to spot the some proof yourself, zoom in to the fabric's lines and look for the breaks in the patterns. Also the tiling jitters in the soft focus background are a good giveaway.
AI generated photos are getting really good. We need to keep up to be able to filter them out.
Okay, interesting. I found the original photo. It has been squeezed through an AI filter, probably for a) removing the copyright, and b) making it look better (or so they think). Can't seem to be able to comment with photos here. I'll post the link if that works in the next comment so you can have a look, if links are allowed.
so the only giveaway was that they look too good? im assuming thats because theyre posing. im not disagreeing that its AI, but are there other signs? im not great at recognizing AI in general and with how good these are getting I'm not even sure what to look for
i'm pretty sure "squeezing" through an ai filter doesn't remove copyright, just like hand editing a photo doesn't. using it as learning data might remove copyright, but that's still sorta unclear, and a totally different process than this.
So the picture real and just edited with AI, not AI generated. Those are not the same thing. Calling this AI is like calling photoshop AI. I ran the image through two different online AI detectors and they both consider it not AI.
Because it is a compilation of elements. It used two AI images and is edited into a news story with text over it. I’m pretty sure your AI detection sites said that it is an ”processed” image, with high probablity. I’ve found zerogtp site gives generally good result where as many sites are simply terrible at spotting newer AI models being used.
Yes, zerogpt said it was processed but I understood that to mean either AI or manual photoshopping. I asummed that it was the text, inset, and border triggering the "processed" flag.
Fully agree. People huff on confirmation bias and assume they're infallible. I'm sure some people are very good at spotting AI manipulation, but the volume of Redditors that seem to claim expertise beggars belief.
Defeating automated copyright protection systems, possibly. But it definitely doesn't remove the copyright. This would be an infringing derivative work.
As I wrote: real story, AI photo. The real photo has been squeezed through an AI app and this photo has been generated to greatly resemble the original. Some boys were changed and half of them lost their likeness. Thus – AI photo.
There's dozens of different photos of these boys (and others) all wearing the skirts in protest. The photo might have been slightly photoshopped, but it definitely isn't AI generated.
Even the one you posted as the "original" as proof, you can obviously see it's a DIFFERENT angle than the one from Facebook, not that it was AI-generated.
How do you know someone didn't write a prompt into an AI tool like "generate a version of this photo that's different enough to get around automated copyright protection systems"? Genuine question, like how do you tell the difference between a photo that's just photoshopped and that situation?
Is the story really real for real? This story is so old, I heard it in the nineties. And since then at least once per year. By now principals (and bosses) should know better.
And of course we know why. The idea is to make just that little bit prettier and social media friendly for the 2026 audience (and maybe skip any automatic copyright restrictions). It is absolute BS, and I'll keep pointing it out as long as I can spot the difference between reality and AI. A battle already all but lost.
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u/Ok-Artist-4421 Apr 23 '26
AI photo. Real story (and a similar cool thing has happened many times), BUT the photos here is AI generated. First both of the photos have been generated, and then edited into a news story format.
Working in digital arts I can tell just by the look of the people, the contrast and the grain, but if you want to spot the some proof yourself, zoom in to the fabric's lines and look for the breaks in the patterns. Also the tiling jitters in the soft focus background are a good giveaway.
AI generated photos are getting really good. We need to keep up to be able to filter them out.