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Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?

67 points arduinomancer | 1 comments | 16 Aug 24 02:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

I’ve noticed a lot of the time you can tell an image is AI generated because it has a shiny/glossy lighting look to it.

Has anyone figured out why this is the case?

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BobbyTables2 ◴[16 Aug 24 03:27 UTC] No.41262891[source]▶
I naively assumed the “airbrushed” effect AI photos have was just a way of blending components of the training data to make it look normal — opposite the way a collage of magazine clippings would appear.
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1. abetusk ◴[16 Aug 24 04:00 UTC] No.41263052[source]▶
I wonder if this is getting close to the actual reason. That is, there's a "latent space" of composable units that, say, have blurred edges (or something) for easy combination that ends up looking like an airbrush/glossy effect.

I think this idea is quantifiable and testable. It'd be interesting to see if this, or something like it, is the actual reason.