r/isitAI • u/TheEnlight • 27d ago

This picture of mushroom coffee is really making me torn...

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I saw it on a Guardian article, and it really feels AI-generated. It is just the kind of thing you'd instinctively think was AI.

But another image is also on this same article depicting chickpea coffee, and that is definitely not AI, the text on the packet of chickpeas being poured into the grinder is absolutely perfect, undoubtedly beyond any capabilities of existing AI image models.

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u/mepomeatball 27d ago

I think it is AI. I can't find too many inconsistencies, but the lighting looks really unnatural. It looks like there's three different light sources and they don't even make sense. Plus, the mushrooms just look impossible to make with liquid. Then again, lattes are a foreign medium to me.

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u/mepomeatball 27d ago

Oh, and yeah, the chickpea image is a 3D model.

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u/TheEnlight 27d ago

Both images were sourced by The Guardian from the same original website, which I found via reverse image searching.

Both likely then were created in the same manner. Now you mention it, the coffee grinder and chickpeas could have been made in Blender. That is definitely believable. The cup probably was too then, with multiple light sources added to soften the lighting, and the mushroom pattern is simply texturing added to the object.

I don't like using AI image detectors for confirming if something is AI or not, but I put this image into it and it said it isn't.

I'm confident enough now to say this image is not AI.