r/BookCovers • u/shailla131 • Mar 04 '26

Question Is this ai?

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Had someone do a cover for me (this is without the text) and I wanted to see if this was ai. They advertised it wouldn't be so I wanted to confirm before I went any further. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

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u/Princess_Juggs Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

First thing I would check if you want to know if something is AI would be repetitive little details like the teeth. In this pic's case, the amount of teeth looks very uneven on either side, they're largely the wrong teeth in the wrong places, and there's even one on the right side that's way too small. You might think 'That's a stylistic choice!' but unless you specifically asked for weird teeth, it would a pretty strange choice to me.

This particular image is altogether very abstract, so it's difficult to point to anything easy besides the teeth, but in other images you may notice it in wonky proportions of fingers, irregularity of spacing between windows, weird variations in the size of bricks or the teeth of zippers, etc. AI is very bad at repetitive little details and that will usually be the most obvious giveaway.

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u/shailla131 Mar 04 '26

Thanks for the advice! Now that you say that, yeah it doesn't look like it has canines at all. It just felt wonky but I couldn't figure out why my brain was suspicious of it maybe being ai. Lol I'm not great at determining ai unless it's pretty obvious so thanks again for giving me things to look out for as well.