I have yet to see an example of "Synthetic AI media" that was both realistic and not immediately recognizable as being synthetically generated.
And if you think being 99% there means we're very close to 100% just remember how long it's taken self driving cars to close the gap (we actually don't know how long since they still haven't succeeded in this).
Would you know if you had?
Man, am I a good photographer or what
I mean, probably if you're familiar enough with squirrels something gives it away, but I'm not.
https://imgur.com/mcJsg0n and https://imgur.com/41eENUO
It also took a number of much worse images to get those ones.
In case anyone is worried, it isn't remotely erotic or otherwise nsfw.
I'm not particularly familiar with squirrels and something about that "photo" looks very off. If you showed it to me in a vacuum I'd just assume someone was trying to make a highly stylized version of something they had a photo reference for, but under no circumstances would I believe that's a real photo.
Three months ago I'd probably have agreed with you. Things have changed.