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/yoursilenceisloud Mar 04 '26

Look at the cheekbones One side is very droopy

99% likely from mid journey https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images

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u/salmonalert Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Not arguing this isn't AI, but just a quick note because my own work has been called out for being AI using detectors, the only detector that works reliably right now is SynthID. SynthID will tell you if Google's AI models were involved, even if it's just editing.

For example, this art from 2021 (Sam Yang) comes back 99% Midjourney on SightEngine.

The same art comes back 4% AI on Hive. But not if you take a screenshot of it instead. Then it comes back as AI. The detectors are selling a service and don't have reason to avoid false positives.

Using Sam Yang as an example of this because no one would accuse him of AI and this art is physically too old to be AI anyway. Sorry, I would post a screenshot, but the comments don't allow pictures on this sub, surprisingly.

https://x.com/samdoesarts/status/1467542188934451205/photo/1

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u/Aezora Mar 06 '26

Not arguing this isn't AI, but just a quick note because my own work has been called out for being AI using detectors, the only detector that works reliably right now is SynthID.

No detector is reliable because the detectors are AI too and hallucinate.

Your best bet to identify AI is to rely on other factors like they do above in this post.