One of these photos is AI generated using the Z-Image Turbo model (running on local hardware), and the other is a real photo taken in Minnesota.
I've placed the answer in the alt text.
If you'd asked me which one was the generated image, I'd have probably chosen the real one.
Maybe, MAYBE with meticulous, slow examination I could have figured it out. Or at least attributed a chance percentage of it being generated.
But man... we've really fucked ourselves, I think. This is just the state of it all TODAY. And that's just here at home on consumer hardware. And this isn't even the best, but where the hell else is there to go in terms of image fidelity for uses like this?
And it comes at the absolute worst time in US history, when video and photograph evidence is the most crucial...
