AI Pictures Versus Actual Pictures

It’s gotten to the purpose the place it’s onerous to inform actual photographs (and movies) from AI-generated variations.

We just lately ran one other model of this picture of Travis Chippers leaping over Brian Schmith mendacity in a mattress on a mountain bike path in Simi Valley, California. As we talked about beforehand, Brian introduced the mattress to the situation and pretended to be the affected person, whereas a member of the MBA employees (who was dressed up as a health care provider) took care of him. MBA’s John Ker shot the photographs, and Travis accomplished the leap a number of occasions. Here’s one of many photographs:

Some readers thought that we used AI to create the above picture, however that wasn’t the case. Our staff truly shot the above picture.

However, to fulfill our curiosity, we requested ChatGPT to create an AI picture exhibiting a mountain biker on mountain bike leaping over one other mountain biker mendacity in a mattress on a path, with a health care provider standing close by. Here’s what ChatGPT created in lower than a minute:

The AI-generated picture (above) truly seems to be extra real looking in some ways than the true picture that we shot 29 years in the past.

What will this imply for professional mountain bikers sooner or later? We don’t know, however we are able to think about that some bike corporations would possibly begin utilizing AI to create photographs of their bikes in motion, and lots of people gained’t have the ability to inform the distinction.

Here are two different variations of that setup from our picture shoot in 1997:

The picture under is the one which we used within the journal.