AI Turing Test

Fifty artworks, some AI generated and some real. Can you tell which are which? Link is here

I basically could not. I have a really strong guess about some of the images, but mostly my feeling goes like this:

–Does it look digital?

–Does it look a little odd or fake or to photorealistic/

–Does it look like the sort of thing that would be easy to elicit with a prompt?

–Anything weird about the hands?

And if it goes yes, yes, yes, yes, then I think it’s AI, and if the answers include even one no, I default to thinking it’s real. Unless there’s something weird about the hands. I only noted really odd hands in one image.

I also found myself experiencing these reactions:

–It’s too detailed to really look like a person did it.

–It’s too abstract to really seem like an AI did it.

–It looks too much like real paintings for an AI to have done it.

I suspect that all those reactions are probably wrong.

I strongly suggest you click through just to check out the artworks. My favorites include The Ancient Gate and The Giant Ship, which shows you the kinds of things I gravitate toward. I dislike most abstracts, especially jagged abstracts. I like landscapes and therefore liked the Bucolic Scene and Leafy Lane.

I thought Ice Princess was the single image most likely to be AI generated. I think String Doll was probably AI generated, but I liked it and find myself hoping that’s wrong, that a person created that one. Ditto for Celestial Display.

I liked Dragon Lady a lot and went back and forth on it and finally said Human, but without a lot of confidence.

I liked White Flag a lot and felt it should be human, that an AI shouldn’t have done that kind of shading. Ditto for Rooftops, because that watercolor look, I feel like AI wouldn’t have done that. Maybe you can tell AI to do a watercolor. But to me the style looks human! I said human on both those. I don’t have any idea whether I’m right.

The test doesn’t provide answers, but Scott Alexander does, here. I am now looking — I didn’t until I went through all the images and answered all the questions and then wrote this post. Now I am. … but I don’t want to say anything until you’ve had a chance to try this if you want to.

I will say, some of the answers surprise me.

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