AI-generated party pics go viral, netizens spot missing body parts

Pictures generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been popping up on social media a lot. Most of them have been images created related to a concept. Some looked like paintings and others looked like cartoons. However, an artist recently shared AI-generated photographs of people attending a house party.

The people in the photo do not exist in the real world but are eerily like real people. Miles shared four such photos and wrote: "Midjourney is getting crazy powerful. None of these are real photos and none of the people in them exist." Midjourney is an AI platform.

He also shared another set of AI-generated images with only men. He said he had to be very specific in building male figures. "I had to be specific in order to get male-looking AI people-and even then, variation is a challenge. It definitely defaults to white people when you ask for people."

The images showed causal looking candid moments from a party. However, the people in the photos were missing body parties. Netizens also spotted insensible body parts and called it out.

In one of the photos, two young women were seen posing with a digital camera. The woman holding the camera had a deformed hand. In another image in which two women were seen holding a polaroid camera, more fingers were seen growing out of her hand. One woman was missing a fingertip on her thumb. Users also pointed out that people in the photos have too many teeth. Images of men also had the same problem. In a picture of a man holding a red cup, his hand was completely detached from the body.

AI art has been under criticism lately because many believe that AI software is stealing from real artists. Some claim that AI mash or stitch existing images together to create a new piece of work. This is a violation of copyrights because human-made art is being scraped from the web and remixed without even attribution. Supporters of AI art have argued that AI models only look at images created by people and learn how to do the same in a way similar to how the brain learns.

Some people have also pointed out the lack of diversity in AI-generated art and accused the models of perpetuating bias. The viral set of images is proof because none of the partygoers, male and female, were people of colour. Every image had eurocentric look people.