Hank: today's tricks for spotting AI-generated images will not work within a year (2024)
prediction · status: its date passed (2025); no outcome reported · last event: predicted (2024-01-12) · owner: Hank
In January 2024 Hank said today's tricks for spotting AI-generated images would stop working within a year. In a comment the same day he softened it: the tools would be less useful, not that the difference would be impossible to tell.
About: artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-12 | first in the videos (repeated; it began earlier) | In a comment Hank softens the video: he doesn't think we'll be unable to tell the difference in a year, only that the video's tools will be less useful. | How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) creator comment |
| 2024-01-12 | predicted | First reason: the models will keep improving, so today's tricks for spotting AI images will not work even a year from now. | How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) 00:02:20 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says every Magic card since the game began has featured art by a human artist, building a strong relationship between fantasy artists and the company. — 00:00:12
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says the company behind Magic has said it will never use AI-generated images as card art. — 00:00:29
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: The Magic Twitter account posted an image of card reprints whose background looked AI-generated; when people noticed, the account doubled down that a human made it. — 00:00:33
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: The more important reason: we will never closely scrutinize each of the hundreds of images we see every day. — 00:02:30
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: We scrutinize only when a red flag goes up, e.g. it resembles earlier AI art, or distrust: Magic is now owned by Hasbro, which fans don't trust with the game. — 00:02:40
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: Often no flag goes up, as with the Puffer Pope image: up close the chain and glasses are wrong, but at a glance it is the Pope in a puffy coat, and most people move on. — 00:03:00
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says the question of the modern day is not whether we can figure something out once we scrutinize it, but when and why we choose to scrutinize. — 00:03:29
- 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: When something fits our vibe we generally don't scrutinize it, and Hank says that is not just an AI image problem but an everything problem. — 00:03:39