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_-J-G-_ t1_j6ei76l wrote

really a dog?

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i_am_a_bot_ama t1_j6g27ub wrote

Amazing job on the Photoshop. Excellent blending, fur edge cutouts, and shadows. This might be well received at /r/imsorryjon :) -bot

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wbruce098 t1_j6gf800 wrote

Alone in the world is your masterpiece…

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Cheesemacher t1_j6h9l7o wrote

Is this AI-made? The cat has a strange number of toes, and next to its ear there's an odd piece of a blanket that doesn't serve any purpose.

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NoRodent t1_j6jtlpd wrote

The odd piece of blanket serves the purpose of hiding the dog's hind legs. Much easier than trying to match the surrounding background.

Not sure about the toes, could be a clone-stamping accident in an attempt to stretch the cat's leg to, again, cover the dog's front legs. Or the cat just has a strange looking paw with extra "fold".

I don't think there's currently an AI tool that could edit a photo in this way with such a level of precision and specificity and while leaving the rest of the image intact. I mean Photoshop has content-aware fill which does use some level of machine-learning and that can be used to erase an object from a scene, but it can't replace half of a dog with half of a cat.

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Cheesemacher t1_j6lwuza wrote

> The odd piece of blanket serves the purpose of hiding the dog's hind legs. Much easier than trying to match the surrounding background.

You really think it's easier to find a weird blanket from another picture and match the lighting and everything?

AI tools do have inpainting functionality where you erase a part of a picture and then describe what you want the AI to generate in the empty spot.

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NoRodent t1_j6m26gg wrote

>You really think it's easier to find a weird blanket from another picture and match the lighting and everything?

Absolutely. Look at the area you'd have to erase and perfectly match. Three different surfaces. Clone stamping would be a pain and content-aware "AI" tools are a hit or miss and almost surely would fail here. The lighting is neutral so if the other image was similar, no matching had to be done, just some drop shadow. The only odd thing may be that they didn't reuse the blanket from the original image. But maybe the pillow was part of the cat picture.

>AI tools do have inpainting functionality where you erase a part of a picture and then describe what you want the AI to generate in the empty spot.

I am aware, but from what I've seen, even such tools re-generate the entire image. But the tech is evolving so fast that I may be wrong. So if you can show me a particular tool that's capable of this, I'll give it to you that AI may have been involved. But I still don't see why it would have to be AI, I think you're reaching.

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Cheesemacher t1_j6m2urj wrote

>I still don't see why it would have to be AI, I think you're reaching.

I didn't make that kind of a definitive statement. I just pointed out that it looks very AI-like.

Edit: Also looking at OP's other work, this one for example is more obviously AI-generated.

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NoRodent t1_j6mbp53 wrote

Ok, at first glance I didn't see anything suspicious but looking again, that one does look weird. The hands... And more importantly, the entire cat is slightly different. So that looks like the case of what I've been talking about - the entire image was re-generated, not just the erased parts. Which is what I'm aware the current tools work like. (But again, feel free to prove me wrong). In this catdog picture, the dog head and the entire background seems completely unchanged though. So either it was not AI, or it was some combination of AI and regular photoshopping, or there's a tool out there, that can do this but the question then is why it wasn't used with the paparazzi cat picture.

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Cheesemacher t1_j6me4ag wrote

Honestly, to me it looks like the same process except with the paparazzi cat the whole background and parts of the cat were erased. The middle bits of the cat are the same in the original and the edit.

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NoRodent t1_j6nje6y wrote

I'm currently only looking at it at my phone but... yeah, I think you're actually right. In which case you're most likely right about the catdog too. That is actually impressive. And a little scary.

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