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Comment by khazhoux | Hacker News Reader

I'll be the one to call B.S.

E.g., here, I'm skeptical about the specular reflections, which show a blue light on the left, a yellow light on the right, and a (seemingly) physically-accurate transition down the middle. Plus the too-plausible DOF in the background.

https://www.djfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jodo-Tron-...

This image, with the patterns following the 3D contour of her head. And the glossy reflection of the lights on the tabletop. https://www.djfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jodo-Tron-...

My wager is this is possibly using some AI-generated imagery, but it is largely a human art project.

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EDIT: I'm now playing with "--v 4" parameter in Midjourney, and getting amazing results. I'll have to rescind my wager!

Yea, I could eat crow but I don't see any of the typical artifacts here, detail remains coherent all the way down. "Big if true", wouldn't it be simple for these images to be distributed with a signature by the midjourney API so that us doubters could check which version of the algorithm was used?

I get ya both. But, I frequently see plausible-ish reflections and DOF in MJ generations. Usually there is some error you have to look for. For example, 2 out of 3 windows reflected.

This image shows what I’m taking about. The vertical lines are reflected, but not the horizontal lit lines. Bonus: jumbled fingers https://www.djfood.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jodo-Tron-...

To my eye, they are clearly synthetic elements composited together in Photoshop or similar with a keen artistic, human eye. Doesn't keep it from being amazing, but there's no way these faux film stills are coming straight out of a generator.

Yes, this is bull. Midjourney is great, but not this great.

From his FB post:

"(All images created in Midjourney with zero post-imaging, except for the movie poster with typography done in photoshop)"

No way there's zero post-prod.

It's plausible that this is a fake, but consider that what you described is based on reasonably simple physics, something than AI that's capable of generating human faces could likely figure out.

What makes me believe this is actually AI generated art is the hands. They're all fucked up, in every image. I don't know why, but all image generation AIs I've seen struggle with the human hand.

Are you unfamiliar with the recent release of MidJourney v4? The results are mind-blowing. Why would an artist attribute their work to an AI?

Huh... I just played with "--v 4" and I'm getting the mind-blowing results.

You've changed my mind.

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