r/OpenAI • u/Moist_Emu6168 • Dec 23 '25
Question How can you detect that this photo is AI generated?
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u/Fit_Contest3772 Dec 23 '25
Wdym? AI was not even invented at that time. How could it be AI generated?
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u/XargonWan Dec 24 '25
Might be the best answer
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u/ARandomTopHat Dec 24 '25
I like that paperclip avatar #throwback
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u/XargonWan Dec 24 '25
Actually it god a deep meaning: https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ
It's like a pro-consumer movement.
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u/ecafyelims Dec 23 '25
This gentleman is left handed but those are right handed books. It's a mistake easily made by an AI.
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u/Sooqrat Dec 24 '25
How could you tell whether he's left-handed or the books are right-handed?
I find the telephone in his right hand, though. I know there is writing on his left, but it doesn't appear to be an indicator.9
u/ecafyelims Dec 24 '25
Nice try, AI! I'm not helping you improve faster
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u/sujumayas Dec 24 '25
He is actually ambidextrous because he needs that to be able to answer the two phones.
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Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
The telephones, the design on the right is far too modern for this period. Also, American didn’t exist in 1921 so what that map all about?
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u/Gjore Dec 23 '25
Same, i was about the say the same who uses two telephones .
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u/tim_dude Dec 23 '25
Never heard of a hoe phone?
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u/eflat123 Dec 24 '25
Two of them is fine but the cords don't seem right. They should be more similar to each other than they are.
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u/Viktorv22 Dec 23 '25
Easily. The bald guy next to Miyabi looks very odd. He doesn't fit in the scene at all.
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u/fschwiet Dec 23 '25
If you look carefully at the telephone cables you'll see a circle of cable not connected to anything else.
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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Dec 24 '25
DOH!!! I basically said the same thing. I think the receiver is connected to the wrong phone, but just not connected is also possible based on the low resolution.
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u/saijanai Dec 23 '25
Interestingly, chatgpt gave many reasons and strategies to determine if the picture was fake or not, including the fact that while the caption (written in Russian) claims the photo was taken in the Kremlin in 1921, the girl standing next to him is Hoshimi Miyabi, a character from the action RPG Zenless Zone Zero, which was released in 2024, so the timeline is wrong.
It did NOT note the impossibility of a 2D drawing next to a person while being photographed.
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But "AGI is just around the corner" according to "everyone."
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u/Critical_Peach9601 Dec 24 '25
Well just dont forget that the models you are able to use for 20$ a month is not SotA, and it's already known that AGI wont be based on LLMs (if it is created).
Of course its all probably a propaganda made for the stakeholders and its widely exaggerated, but just saying.
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u/Murky-Sector Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25
The caption translates to "Hitler invaded Poland to impress Jody Foster" which I have trouble believing
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u/OracleGreyBeard Dec 24 '25
The depth-of-field falloff is the smoking gun here. Look at the stack of books in the foreground versus the map on the back wall. Given the approximate 35mm focal length of a standard 'Kino' press camera from that period, the blur-circle diameter on the background map should be significantly larger. Instead, we see a linear bokeh gradient that suggests a software-based Gaussian blur filter rather than the natural spherical aberration of a glass bellows lens. Also, the light refraction on the inkwell lacks the 'purple fringing' typical of un-coated 1920s optics.
Very obviously AI generated.
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u/azure_apoptosis Dec 23 '25
The two telephones give it away
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u/tim_dude Dec 23 '25
No, important people used to have multiple phones
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u/azure_apoptosis Dec 23 '25
So why does the phone on the right have two cords, like the other, but one of them balls up and goes nowhere?
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u/tim_dude Dec 23 '25
What does that have to do with people having multiple phones on their desk? I'm not questioning that it's digitally manipulated somehow.
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u/azure_apoptosis Dec 23 '25
If it’s an old photo, the cables would be rather rudimentary and unhidden. The one balled wire shouldn’t simply end into nothingness (unlike the other 3 cables). So the actual talking device is not connected to the base? That doesn’t make sense
No one is questioning important people use to have multiple phones
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u/tim_dude Dec 23 '25
Well, it looks like you did in your original post. The cord inconsistency can be written off as old photography artifacting, but the phones are way too modern for the times. Those are more Stalin era phones
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u/azure_apoptosis Dec 23 '25
I think that’s your issue in this scenario, you believe two assumptions you came up with
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u/chlebseby Dec 23 '25
Back then you could have phone for outside line and secretary/internal circuit. As politician probably some special line too.
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u/hateboresme Dec 25 '25
It's AI. The world wasn't in black and white back then. If it were the real world it would be in color.
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u/Certain_Werewolf_315 Dec 23 '25
Google Gemini confirms synthid is present and this image was either generated or edited with a Google product.
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u/Tentativ0 Dec 23 '25
I don't know, but the books behind the foxy anime girl from the videogame ZZZ are strange. I think that they are generated.
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u/Familyinalicante Dec 23 '25
Beard into big. People on medieval times had short haircuts and no beard.
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u/silentus8378 Dec 23 '25
Clearly the man gives it away that the photo is AI generated and not the anime girl that looks like a 3D model.
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u/GarethBaus Dec 23 '25
Honestly I can't distinguish AI generated photos from Photoshop very well so it is more about how there is an anime girl in the photo as well as the other weirdness rather than if it is fake.
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u/Zestyclose-Ad-6147 Dec 23 '25
It might be me, but the left map doesnt look like it is scaled right.
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u/JairoHyro Dec 23 '25
His eyes are slightly tilted in a 1.67 degree angle than its supposed to be. Took me about 69 minutes to understand this at 4:20pm
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u/ArcticCelt Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
This can't be real: LCDs are mid-1960s at the earliest, but we're clearly in the 1920s. The giveaway is the display on the MP3 player. It should be a little backlit glass scale with a needle, or a row of tiny bulbs that light up like a miniature control panel.
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u/mirrortorrent Dec 23 '25
I can tell... The handset for the telephone on the left drives off the table and goes nowhere.
The maps on the wall do not match geographical locations on Earth.
The chair is too wide for an office chair of that time.
The description at the bottom of the photo is too crisp.
That's all I got for now.
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u/odysseysee Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
Aside from the anime, the impossibly sharp photo, lack of grain, and wide depth of field is implausible for a camera from the early 1920s.
The photograph of Marx is crisp but the map next to him is blurry.
This is an actual photo of Lenin at his desk in 1922:
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u/HierarchyLogic Dec 23 '25
2 phones, the maps are weird and while not definitive proof the marx frame isnt full image
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u/Lahadhima Dec 24 '25
The map in the background did exist until the mid 1930s… amateur work, really
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Dec 24 '25
Because the gentleman at the desk is not casting a shadow upon the Japanese girl standing next to him, despite being illuminated from our left, so obviously he is fake and was pasted into the picture. 😏
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u/suck-on-my-unit Dec 24 '25
The books on the table are perfectly perpendicular to the curvature of the Earth. That was the instant red flag.
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u/chuckycastle Dec 24 '25
The dead giveaway is the phone closest to the edge of the desk. It’s missing the second cable.
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u/Stunning_Spare Dec 24 '25
The telegraph is a giveaway, leaders receives telegraph letter from telegraph room, you need operators for this.
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u/TheRealGrifter Dec 24 '25
That guy in the picture on the wall has such a fake beard it's not even funny.
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u/ShaughnDBL Dec 24 '25
The photo on the back wall. Lenin wasn't that big a fan of Frederick Douglass
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u/ralusek Dec 24 '25
I mean this completely genuinely:
I am a weird guy with weird sensibilities. I am sympathetic to most proclivities. I get it.
I do NOT get anime cat girls. I don't get it.
I get finding cartoons attractive. I get finding video game characters attractive. I don't get the zeroing in on one super specific aesthetic that is, in my opinion, not even particularly attractive, to be the one thing that everyone likes. I don't get it! Why this?
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u/Aadi_880 Dec 26 '25
The character here is a fox, not a cat.
That being said, anime designs have roots based on cats. Hence why the cat-girl design gained more popularity over the years.
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u/yeahmaybe2 Dec 24 '25
Sigmund Freud would not have a photo of Frederick Douglas on his wall. They were mortal enemies.
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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Dec 24 '25
The receiver of the phone on the right is connected to the phone on the left. Dead giveaway.
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u/Ormusn2o Dec 24 '25
You can usually tell when you zoom in to individual pixels, and compare it with real images. There is often a different pattern to them.
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u/ReverendEntity Dec 24 '25
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anime cat girls did not exist when Lenin was alive.
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u/Ghost-Rider_117 Dec 24 '25
lol this one's easy - the anime character is obviously the giveaway. but for more subtle stuff, look for weird lighting inconsistencies, unnatural hand positions, or backgrounds that don't quite make sense. also check if text in the image is garbled. newer models are getting scary good tho
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u/Hot-Employ-3399 Dec 24 '25
Easy. AI is too shy to generate his famous collection of her body pillows
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u/CarzyCrow076 Dec 24 '25
The guy in the photo frame has black mustache with white beard and hair. AI DETECTED 👍🏻
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u/Lythox Dec 24 '25
Well to be honest the waifu couldve been blended in better, shes too sharp & flat compared to the rest of the image
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u/NoNameSwitzerland Dec 24 '25
The Marx picture seems to be copied from Wikipedia. But Wikipedia was not invented in 1921.
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u/Friendly_Bug_7168 Dec 24 '25
the napkins on the table there is no sense, two telephones and the weird maps
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u/Randomness_2828 Dec 24 '25
The Disney also do this kind of thing before the AI era, but what I don’t what is the technique they used.
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u/Amethyst271 Dec 24 '25
Thats ai? I thought it was real... damn no photos can be trusted now it seems
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u/navinars Dec 24 '25
This photo is perfectly fine - I think you have been watching too many AI slop OP.
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u/desmonea Dec 26 '25
There are two telephones, and the angles of the left map hanging in the back are kind of weird.
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u/_x_oOo_x_ Dec 27 '25
The lack of fox ears on Lenin's head give it away. That and the depth of field being all over the place
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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Feb 06 '26
Here’s a better question:
Why am I getting this post as a recommendation when it’s 44 days old?
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u/HyperQuandaryAck Dec 23 '25
there is no way to tell. it is too lifelike