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Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey (i.vgy.me)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Previous posts: https://programming.dev/post/3974121 and https://programming.dev/post/3974080

Original survey link: https://forms.gle/7Bu3Tyi5fufmY8Vc8

Thanks for all the answers, here are the results for the survey in case you were wondering how you did!

Edit: People working in CS or a related field have a 9.59 avg score while the people that aren’t have a 9.61 avg.

People that have used AI image generators before got a 9.70 avg, while people that haven’t have a 9.39 avg score.

Edit 2: The data has slightly changed! Over 1,000 people have submitted results since posting this image, check the dataset to see live results. Be aware that many people saw the image and comments before submitting, so they've gotten spoiled on some results, which may be leading to a higher average recently: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MkuZG2MiGj-77PGkuCAM3Btb1_Lb4TFEx8tTZKiOoYI

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[–] 89 points 3 years ago (5 children)

In theory, yes. In practice, not necessarily.

I found that the images were not very representative of typical AI art styles I've seen in the wild. So not only would that render preexisting learned queues incorrect, it could actually turn them into obstacles to guessing correctly pushing the score down lower than random guessing (especially if the images in this test are not randomly chosen, but are instead actively chosen to dissimulate typical AI images).

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would also think it depends on what kinds of art you are familiar with. If you don’t know what normal pencil art looks like, how are ya supposed to recognize the AI version.

    As an example, when I’m browsing certain, ah, nsfw art, I can recognize the AI ones no issue.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe you didn’t recognize the AI images in the wild and assumed they were human made. It’s a survival bias; the bad AI pictures are easy to figure out, but we might be surrounded by them and would not even know.

    Same as green screens in movies. It’s so prevalent we don’t see them, but we like to complain a lot about bad green screens. Every time you see a busy street there’s a 90+ % chance it’s a green screen. People just don’t recognize those.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Isn't that called the toupee fallacy?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    It is!!

    Someone might assert that, “All toupees look fake. I've never seen a good toupee.” This is an example of neglecting the base rate because if I had seen good toupees, I wouldn't know it.

    Thanks, I love learning names for these things when they come up!

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