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It used to be easy by comparing reflection on eyes - one was completely different than the other. Or teeth line. I can see they've improved it a lot. I can't tell the difference now.


Just about all of these images have a characteristic "swirl" somewhere. Weird ears and eartings, impossible hair textures, confused "hats" and nightmarish hands/other faces in the image are also clear tells, but that little swirl is usually there even in otherwise "perfect" images.

I wonder what causes it.


It's hard to learn high frequency gradients. It's easy to learn a single edge, but not a large pile of overlapping gradients like the ends of hair.

I don't know why it's so common to have an arbitrary nonsense "sticker" on a face though, I wonder if it's because input photos were trunacted at edges and the learner tried to model the edge as a facial feature instead of pruning it's knowledge to a safe interior of the photo.


The Matrix of course!




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