DO you think you’ve got a keen eye for spotting AI? These puzzling pooches may convince you otherwise.
The U.S. Sun has used artificial intelligence software to create stunning photorealistic snaps of dogs.
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These loveable creatures don’t actually exist – except in the virtual brain of an AI.
We’ve placed them against real photos of dogs so you can test yourself.
There are eight in total, and the nswers are at the bottom of this page.
If you don’t get all of them right, it means you’ve fallen for increasingly convincing AI photo creators.
That means you might be at risk of being tricked by fake images in the future.
It’s more important than ever to be able to spot the signs of a fraudulent image.
Photos can spread rapidly on social media, and convincing fakes are extremely easy to make – and don’t cost a penny.
We made the images using the Microsoft Bing AI.
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It offers users a free image generator tool that lets anyone create images in seconds.
We recently used it to create eerily realistic photos of pizza.
And we also turned famous cartoon characters into real people using Bing – can you tell who they are?
What are AI photos?
AI image generators create completely new images.
All you need to do is input text prompts.
The AI image models are trained on huge sets of images and captions – and learn how they’re related.
That means you can ask for a photo of a cat sitting on a giant pineapple in the street and you’ll get a pretty good result.
Microsoft’s Bing image creator uses an AI model called DALL-E.
This was created by OpenAI, and generates a set of images matching whatever prompt you write.
We asked it to create images of certain dog breeds, sometimes adding in an activity or location.
And it was able to generate shockingly persuasive renderings of dogs out of seemingly nothing.
They’re nearly flawless, although if you look closely you’ll spot some quirks.
Note strangely smoothed fur, oddities in some of the man-made objects, and any other “mistakes”.
Try Bing AI
The Bing AI image generator is totally free to use here.
There’s no waiting list, so anyone can give it try today.
You’ll get better results if you give the AI more information.
“It works best when you’re highly descriptive,” Microsoft explains.
“So, get creative and add details: adjectives, locations, even artistic styles such as ‘digital art’ and ‘photorealistic’.”
Sometimes the AI will make mistakes – an image may have flaws, or not really show what you asked for.
But they’re getting smarter all the time, so the quality of these images will only increase in the future.
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The answers…
Here are the answers for each photo pair:
- Image 1 – Right is AI
- Image 2 – Left is AI
- Image 3 – Right is AI
- Image 4 – Left is AI
- Image 5 – Right is AI
- Image 6 – Left is AI
- Image 7 – Right is AI
- Image 8 – Left is AI
How many did you get right?
