Up to this point I've generally assumed that I could tell the difference between a real photo and an auto-generated one. Then I stumbled upon these;

https://prompthero.com/prompt/ab7e4defbcd-nano-banana-nano-banana-pro-selfie-en-primer-plano-tomado-con-telfono-mvil-yo-usa-la-cara-del-modelo-de-la-imagen-referencia-del-usuario4

https://prompthero.com/prompt/9b575cbd31c-nano-banana-nano-banana-pro-high-definition-black-and-white-portrait-of-an-attractive-mature-man-6080-years-old-minimalist-beauty-photography-with-strong-use

https://prompthero.com/prompt/b94c0f7bf49-zimage-turbo-by-stable-yogi-ultra-realistic-view-photo-of-a-korean-female-model-in-2026-seoul-korea-long-shadows-at-the-sunset-hour-she

If I hadn't found them on a site that only features auto-generated images, I don't think I would have known they're not real. This disturbs me.

Tangent: maybe the images featured in the subReddit WTFStockPhoto were early image generation experiments?

#AI #ImageGeneration