AI-Generated Images Skepticism

Commenters suspect that images in a product demo or landing page are fake or AI-generated, citing unnatural features like perfect skin, weird ears, and lack of imperfections as evidence.

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Sample Comments

rubatuga Mar 17, 2021 View on HN

looks like the images are faked

fidla Jun 28, 2023 View on HN

It's got to be fake. Those pictures are terrible. I could do it much better job with AI

ta1243 May 29, 2023 View on HN

Unless some AI has doctored the images

zhivota Apr 3, 2024 View on HN

The pictures look oddly fake to me.

leereeves Nov 14, 2022 View on HN

Real people have imperfections. If it looks like an airbrushed photo, it was probably generated by an AI trained on airbrushed photos.

sgt Jan 19, 2026 View on HN

Is that an actual real image or is it AI?

iamtheworstdev May 16, 2019 View on HN

why do all of the photos look fake?

calmoo May 13, 2025 View on HN

Cool concept but AI slop photos are really offputting, this would steer me away from your product (as a naive first viewer).

IshKebab Apr 2, 2025 View on HN

I think they took the third photo, which is very similar but looks real, and asked an AI to touch it up in some way. Then they probably didn't look very closely at the result.

vouaobrasil Aug 24, 2024 View on HN

Seriously? Most AI-generated images look much faker than real photos. Real photos often have some flaws and some visual inconsistency about them.