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@Felagund
I agree that repetitiveness of images is a non-trivial problem.

I think it also comes down to the kind of people in the community. The ones who are active participants of the community tend to dislike AI, and prefer not to be in such spaces. while a lot of the AI side is made up of lurkers or people who weren’t that involved in the furry community to begin with, so they just keep not commenting like they always did.

Part of it is the idea that everything is now “content” - to be consumed, and then discarded or forgotten. There are too many people who don’t bother commenting on things, because the stuff they’re looking at is all interchangeable in their mind.

And frankly, genAI is making this worse, as the individual touch is lost unless the prompter is very particular about what and how they’re prompting.

There are some people on this site whose images I can immediately recognize, because of a consistent look/feel/theme, and an awful lot of people generating and posting Trixie butts (for example) that don’t stand out in any way from dozens of Trixie butts posted before.

_{hey, that’s one of my pics. i hope i can get my tablet working again soon.}

@Scarlet Ribbon
That makes sense.

Explicit Smolder.

@Background Pony #7DE6
AI is stuck in this dichotomy where borderline superhuman at adding non-specific detail, but it’s really bad at specific detail. Look at smaller elements of images. Depending on the art style, you’ll need to look at different things, but for most traditional anime-styled images, the most glaring issues are noticeable in hands, feet, eyes, and small accessories like jewelry.

Backgrounds are also often a dead giveaway, since AI is decent at contiguous spaces, but really bad at non-contiguous spaces. Look for dramatic shifts in the background where a character disrupts it. Smarter AI users will generate a full background first before layering a character on top of it, though, cuz it minimizes these problems.

There’s a lot more to it than just these, but those are two ways even inexperienced users should be able to see. More experienced users will know different models have a bias toward certain palettes and patterns, as well, which makes them even easier to identify. Illustrious is a very popular model, for example, but the art it produces is usually identifiable immediately just because of the linework combined with the palette, even if all the other details are sharp and ‘human-like’.

Of course, these flaws are improving on more recent models, but enough experience with them still reveals flaws.

@Thoryn
Personally, I strip my metadata because my workflows use a ton of custom stuff that people won’t have, and they’re pretty much completely unreadable to anyone that doesn’t have all my customs–and only barely readable even to me.

@Draco Dei
Sorry, I can’t speak for that site, and have no idea how their advertising works. I’ve just seen them telling people who upload AI Generated images there to come here.