Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey

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Previous posts: https://programming.dev/post/3974121 and https://programming.dev/post/3974080

Original survey link: https://forms.gle/7Bu3Tyi5fufmY8Vc8

Thanks for all the answers, here are the results for the survey in case you were wondering how you did!

Edit: People working in CS or a related field have a 9.59 avg score while the people that aren’t have a 9.61 avg.

People that have used AI image generators before got a 9.70 avg, while people that haven’t have a 9.39 avg score.

Edit 2: The data has slightly changed! Over 1,000 people have submitted results since posting this image, check the dataset to see live results. Be aware that many people saw the image and comments before submitting, so they've gotten spoiled on some results, which may be leading to a higher average recently: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MkuZG2MiGj-77PGkuCAM3Btb1_Lb4TFEx8tTZKiOoYI

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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/J3LvbjpHfm0Gw5r5YqMwehxWOoW3kd39FRHqbFZKKNECTH4QEAflKctJ-lOMKtaYGv15LOBaMJ3TDzKur3ZhdPuFI-eVNS-7yWzYg2QsUzyKsjzz\_XKh3jActT2Erqxyxg=w738

and

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fTZ0PRtlxfw15iUd-eQWEf0QWo3KpzO-KyVBjdfbT7dgSq-X3lzyUbnuOoFH2e3QxDdswRr1OZF-e9jHRB6DOHS4M-qLRTqwA68jU9HXo1SE4WHHuTkL6v1OR3A2TcqmiQ=w737

About 20% got those correct as human-made.

My first impression was "AI" when I saw them, but I figured an AI would have put buildings on the road in the town and the 2nd one was weird but that parts fit together well enough.

I think it's because of the shadow on the ground being impossible

I guessed it to be ai generated, because

  • the horses are very artsy, but undefined
  • the sky is easy to generate for ai
  • the landscape as well. There is simply not a lot the ai can do wrong to make a landscape clearly fake looking
  • undefined city from afar is like the one thing ai is seriously good at.

Yeah, but the bridge is correctly over the river and the buildings aren't really merged. Tough though.

The second one got me tho