Can a film photo be “Made with AI”? Yes, and Instagram is quite good at detecting that. Can a film photo be “Made with AI”? Yes, and Instagram is quite good at detecting that.

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  • Dmitri Jun 26, ‘24

    Can a film photo be “Made with AI”? Yes, and Instagram is quite good at detecting that.

    PetaPixel has recently shared reports of Meta adding “Made with AI” labels automatically to certain photos: petapixel.com/2024/05/28/i…

    Which made me wonder, what about film photos? I routinely clean up dust and scratches (analog.cafe/r/how-to-remov…), which may prompt the software to make up significant parts of the image below those scratches.

    So I ran a few tests, uploading a few scans I remember to be the gnarliest when it came to the clean-up. No label.

    Then, I used generative fill to create a hilarious background fill fail. As expected, this photo was labelled. instagram.com/p/C8sU7skyh2…

    Then I did the same thing using a “Content-Aware” fill. Very ugly and labelled! instagram.com/p/C8sVQwhS9L…

    What about the same Spot Healing Brush I use to remove scratches, but this time to remove a part of a lamp post and a pipe? Labelled! instagram.com/p/C8sXShmSBS…

    I’m neither a Meta fan nor am I into the AI hype. But I’m quite happy that there are finally tools out there that can detect image manipulation this well. Particularly in my tests, where clean-up passed but destructive or significantly altering changes did not.

    I’m curious how this will work for collaging (digital and analogue) and double-exposures.

    #editorial