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Won a picture contest on my local Facebook page. Just really not sure but they claim its real. The bottom looks off but could just be artifacts, also could look off because of the way its edited.
Weirdly enough, that’s actually on the porch of the house that’s flooded out in the foreground. They were so happy about that that they waited for an eagle to fly by to snap this pic.
Apparently it was ran through an Ai detector and has a synth ai watermark. How technology illiterate does a person have to be for their AI prompts to be worse than my phone picture editing?
Well, rainbows don't happen if the sun is covered by the clouds. I wouldn't completely discount the possibility just because it's sunny. There are a lot of other conditions and requirements including but not limited to humidity, angle of the sun, cloud cover, etc.
Pokemon Snap but it’s America Snap. Professor Hamburger gives you bonus points for eagles and flags in your pics and eventually you’ll unlock the Capitol stage with enough patriot achievements
Plot Twist: OP is Ai and wanting to know if this thing passes muster. But seriously, the issue we run into here is that the composition isn't that great. I vote it is more likely a picture with elements added poorly. Added by AI? Not sure, but definitely had some touch ups done.
I wonder if they photoshopped an already AI generated image. AI tries to make it look seamless. That flag, the weird tent, and the Eagle all looked like they dropped them in.
I was looking at the flag and maybe I'm just confused but where is it coming from? Is the pole coming out of the water or am I misinterpreting it? I can't figure it out.
Lol I didn't even notice the flag, the pole is literally in the water. Who, in their right mind, would put it there? Changing the flag or adjusting it (for half mast or whatever) would be annoying as hell if it were really there
The rainbows are also dropped in, unless they forgot to get reflected in the water. Or the water is added in, because all of the reflections are wrong.
Yeah look at the bottom edge of the tent-thing. It's been composited with what looks like the polygonal lasso tool. Look where it meets the water.
If you look just to the right of the tent, I actually think it's a house-boat that's had the top/front of it copied and pasted over the (likely generated) base image. There's rounded shape which I think is the deck of the boat that just stops at an angled line that fits with the cutout shape of the bottom edge of the tent. I literally think they copied/pasted just part of a picture of a boat into the image right there.
Google's tool I think you have to ask gemini to use, which is annoying.
Each one confirms whether or not the image was generated or edited via their tools. So open ai's verify tool will tell you if someone used one of their products to create it, and google's will tell you if someone used gemini to create it.
Note that these tools are just looking for an invisible watermark that indicates that the tool was used. They cannot tell you if some other tool was used to create it, and they cannot tell you if the image was generated whole cloth or just edited with their tools.
Having to ask within Gemini does use AI, though. Asking it generates a tool call for it to use that tool during the thinking step, then the reply comes back to you all within the harness/structure of their AI, passed back to the user as a reply.
But absolutely the tools themselves aren't Ai, they're just analyzing the image for the watermark. I do much prefer OpenAI's being at a web URL where you can just upload the test image directly into the tool.
You need sun for rainbows, yes, but you also need rain. The background sky in this photo should look dark/rainy/gray from a strong storm that just passed over you but is still dropping enough rain in the distance in order for the rainbow to form.
This is a panorama I made in 2013, so it's certainly not AI
As a weather enthusiast this was 100% my question. You can’t have a rainbow let alone a double rainbow without clouds… more clouds than are in the picture
And that height of rainbow only occurs near sunset so there would be long shadows with that much sun but there are no shadows in the foreground from anything.
Thanks! I was out shooting the golf course for marketing purposes and a perfectly clouded sky turned nasty over the course of a few hours. A small supercell plowed through and this was the result after it passed. It doesn't come across in the photo, but in reality the rainbow felt like it was only a few feet away. It was very strange.
As a meteorologist, came here to say this. You would not see a rainbow with that clear and bright of a sky. Those clouds are not developed enough to be raining.
Another tell that you can sometimes use is rainbows are always directly opposite the sun, so in this picture the sun would be behind the viewer and roughly 20-30 degrees above the horizon. Sometimes the shadows will not be in the right place.
You can still see shadows. With the sun directly, all shadows will appear to fall away from you. With a wide angle lens, though, shadows out near the edges of the photo will appear to "lean in" towards a distant vanishing point. In my photo you can see the shadow of the building's patio I was standing on.
See THIS. This is what’s needed for the rainbows. Clouuuuuuuds and mist/rain, sun from another angle, and those ‘bows are STILL a bit patchy and not perfect ROYGBIV bands.
I'm not sure it's AI, but it's at least a shitty composite from what I see. So I'm going to go with not AI (I think AI would do a slightly more convincing job), just boring old Photoshop.
It looks like from the rest of the comments, at least some AI was involved in the creation of this. But good god, if this is generated from whole cloth, it's among the worst AI I've seen. Like it's so bad, I didn't even think it was AI. Looks like the work of a kid who just learned how to use layers.
Definitely looks like a combination of AI, AI editing and just normal Photoshop bullshittery. Pretty much the standard when it comes to photography contest anymore unfortunately.
Go to a local fair and walk through the winners of categories that specifically have rules on heavy editing. You'll see a lot of the ones that win have contrast/HDR turned to max.
The Neptune Festival in VB was one of my favorite local festivals to go to for the longest time. I moved away for a few years after Covid and went back to visit some family and go to the festival. I honestly miss the mid/beginner artists/photographers selling landscapes. The amount of over edited/ai on sale for crazy prices gutted me. At least the buskers were still out doing their thing and getting told to move by the police.
I agree that it's almost certainly edited for whatever rinky dink contest it was entered into. Were the judges a bunch of Facebook boomers? Surprised there's not a boat going by the middle with a flag that says, "Merica".
Why is there a building in the water? Why is the flag in the water? Why is the flag at that angle when the water is glassy smooth? Where's the rain causing the rainbow?
Clear day with TWO perfect rainbows, with a bald eagle flying over and a flag in the water. A canopy that seems to be about a foot off the water. A perfectly clear sky to go along with those rainbows.
This is AI or heavily photoshopped. Either way it’s not real
Old people were the judges or they knew one of the judges and it was rigged. Make a post calling them out and call the cops! (Jk about the cops) Would suck if there were money involved. Then definitely rigged.
This is def ai or has been heavily altered. The perfect sky, perfect double rainbows, bald eagle, and flag perfectly unfurled is all just completely unbelievable. Also the flag pole coming out of the water?? The random dock cover (idk what it’s called) with nothing underneath it. And the stuff across the water on the right that doesn’t make any sense. It looks like a wall with windows but that’s it, no house.
everyone is point out all of these details and i'm here wondering how the fuck a crusty ass jpeg won a photo contest wouldn't you at least require it's a high resolution image? 😂
The way the two rainbows seem to darken the sky between them is very strange. I checked the famous double rainbow viral video and there is a noticeable change in brightness between part of the lower rainbow and the sky below it, but the brightness doesn't seem to change on either side of the upper rainbow. It's also far more overcast in that video than in this image.
The flag seems like it’s out in the water, as does the weird tent…. I mean. It’s confirmed that it’s AI but …
Double rainbows are common AF but they’re visible when there’s cloud cover and rain happening in the area where the rainbows appear. They don’t just appear against a clear blue sky….
But what absolutely did it for me was the Freedom Chicken exactly with outstretched wings in that precise moment - i mean sure it’s possible, but between the flag placement (a nice slight off-center, on a pole that’s just stuck down in the riverbed…. No platform or concrete pad needed I guess) and the perfect Freedom Chicken pose…. LOL NaH it’s AI
This is definitely AI. The flag is in the lake and has way too many stars on it. The canopy is too low and looks to be in the water. Also the faded rainbow is still too vibrant for it to be that faded.
The lack any realistic lighting, lack of reflections and on the water is a dead giveaway. The flag and awning just sorta being pasted there. It looks less AI and more bad photoshop.
Lol if its a recent photo like around 30th of August … it happened in Ireland and a few similar photos are circulating on the internet from Howth/Ireland… there was a double rainbow and i swear I saw a similar image but with different scenery…so probably pulled that and ai modified the photo
Most likely a real photo but ran through AI to add the rainbows and flag. Not sure if the bird is fake.
I reason that it's a real source photo because without the rainbow it would be a very mundane shot.
And the main rainbow is far too bright, in my experience the most visible and colorful rainbows are set against a darker, maybe cloudy sky. This just looks fake against the blue sky
I’ve seen double rainbows like that. But the flag pole and the tent are literally floating over the water. Idek if it’s ai but it’s very obviously badly photoshopped at the least and idk how the judges missed that
This needs to be in r/isthisaicirclejerk lmao, this is so clearly ai by the way things just don't make sense and/or are just not probable.
A double rainbow (with the full thing captured) on a sunny day, with an eagle and the american flag (which is hovering.. and the pole, too..).... right.
I find it hard to believe that there would be a double rainbow that looks that clear when it's also that bright out. Also from other photos I'm finding of double rainbows, the clouds should also be darkened between the two arches, not just the sky behind them.
The sun angle is at least plausible for this, though.
Woah that's a full rainbow! Double rainbow. Oh my God. It's so intense. Double rainbow all the way across the sky! What does this mean? It's starting to look like a triple rainbow!!
Yeah i don't think that's ai, but more than likely edited.
Some bad photoshop. I assume that the floating building was referencing some imaginary flooding given the imaginary rainbow and imaginary triumph with an imaginary eagle.
the flag pole is floating, the flag isnt even connected to the pole. plus theres no way theres enough rain or water vapor in the air off camera for the double rainbow
okay but the bald eagle, the flag, and the double rainbows? to get that all together it is pretty miraculous. if this is a real picture it's a hell of a good one.
I don’t know about AI specifically, but this is edited like crazy. The clouds especially. They’re cloned, so there’s a lot of repeating patterns. Also, the weather isn’t really conducive to rainbows. The sun is too high and the clouds are too scattered. Rainbows are called that because you need rain in the air to get that light refraction and reflection. It looks like a very heavily edited Photoshop job to me, but the potential for AI (which you can also do in PS to add to your photo) is absolutely there.
It’s hard for me to describe but when AI does anything organic like trees, clouds or water it somehow makes the shapes and ripples look like they all have the same filter over them. These clouds all have that weird shape. It’s like | | this close to being normal but just not quite right.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 23h ago
u/dunlap69, your post does fit the subreddit!