r/LiveFromNewYork • • Dec 15 '25

Discussion A former writer speaks up

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u/everyonestalking Dec 15 '25

Can someone tell me what exactly stands out as AI?

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u/Timqwe Dec 15 '25
  • The weird yellow hue on top of the entire image
  • The angle of the objects, especially the lady and the oxygen tank, don't make much sense.
  • the face is just a little too smooth.
  • the icons on the slot machine are inconsistent. Especially the 7's look very different from eachother.
  • (this one is a maybe due to image quality) it looks like on of the strands of the oxygen tube disappears into the neck

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS Dec 16 '25

I don't know how to explain it, but there's also a weird shiny or painted quality to AI photos.

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u/everyonestalking Dec 15 '25
  1. As I said that's typical casino lighting.

  2. Fair, does look strange but does look like she's reaching for her tank and resting her arm on the game.

  3. Smooth in what way?

  4. Inconsistent how? These games have tons of images nowadays.

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u/Timqwe Dec 16 '25
  1. Not like this. Even casino lighting wouldn't make the lady this yellow. It's a hue you recognise when you've seen more AI images with it
  2. It's hard to put into words, but if you look at the angles, you can see it's not all that natural. For instance, yes the arm is on top of the slot machine, but she's not putting any weight on it. The bottom her her seat doesn't really make sense how it touches the floor.The oxygen tank also slightly differs from the floor.
  3. Also hard to explain, but it just lacks some imperfections a human face would have. It kind of looks like someone ran a smoothing Instagram filter over it.
  4. Zoom in on the 7's. None of them look like eachother. In one of them the top even blurs out where it starts looking like a 1.

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u/HappyNarwhal Dec 15 '25

Who's to say you're not an AI bot looking to grow stronger off of feedback?

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u/everyonestalking Dec 15 '25

Now we're in a weird circle here lmao.

But I'm serious. The hands look normal, the lighting makes sense for a casino, nothing looks blurred or out of place. I'm having a hard time placing what makes someone think this is AI.

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u/everyonestalking Dec 15 '25

What's smooth about it? There's quite a few sharp edges.

What reflection issues are there. Oxygen tanks have a very opaque brand of silver used. To where it hardly reflects.

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u/exbaddeathgod Dec 16 '25

Yellow tint. Weird curving on the slot machines. Looks like it's been through a bad HDR filter without the contrast HDR gives. Loss of detail in the background isn't consistent. The chair is between the machines and not in front of either of them. THE PISS YELLOW FILTER.

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u/machine4891 Dec 16 '25

I absolutely disagree. There is something off and it's instantly recognizable, even before you think about AI or not. It's just not real, it tries to be real but fails in the process. There once will be AI images that we literally won't be able to tell apart. Probably already exist but I couldn't tell.

But this? That's not it. Faar from it.

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u/NecroSocial Dec 16 '25

What you're seeing isn't so much an AI art style as specifically the ChatGPT art style. You can go to ChatGPT and generate a few images for free to see this in action. Unless a color hue is specifically requested it defaults to the yellow hue seen in the OP. Body proportions are ever so slightly more stout than they should be, round contours are more pronounced than normal, and there's often a very subtle darkening of the edges/outlines of things more discerning viewers tend to pick up on. Very much a ChatGPT thing, other models like Nano Banana, MidJourney or Flux can produce far more realistic images, some that are legitimately near impossible to spot as generated even to a trained eye (such as images made with old digital camera naming prefixes as the prompt that were popular for a while after the early Flux models came out).

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u/gabe840 Dec 15 '25

Whining about AI is sooo hot rn

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Dec 16 '25

Reddit already sold out everyone to train AI.

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u/Minimum-Signature-81 Dec 15 '25

Besides the general off look of it, she’s sitting between two machines, and the cut-off one she’s supposedly looking at doesn’t have the multi-colored buttons at the bottom of it.

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u/Gladwulf Dec 16 '25

The oxgen tank is connected to her ears, and the other end of the tube merges with trim on the slot machine

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u/awoods5000 Dec 16 '25

Look at the tank and the cannula. There's no regulator on the tank. She would just get blasted with 680 liters of compressed 02. That's like sucking on a leaf blower on full blast

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u/chodaranger Dec 16 '25

Is this a serious question? Are you actually unable to tell?