How to identify ai crochet and tell if a photo is real or fake. Follow me on IG: @crochet.with.illjay illjay.com/blo... #crochet #ai #aicrochet #howto #aiart
Human "instinct". Not that I believe humans have true instincts, but there are some things so deep in our subconscious, so much part of the deepest base of our understanding of the world, or things where our brain reacts before we are consciously aware of it, that it is as close as we get to instinct. I think the Uncanny Valley is part of that, and AI images can ping that part of our minds.
I often notice that AI amigurumi 1) looks like its made of play-doh and 2) has stitches doing things that are just outright impossible for stitches to do.
Very often AI amigurumi also have "real eyes" instead of beads or stiches which makes no sense in crochet I have also seen AI amigurumi with actual hair, so weird
something i noticed as well specifically on amigurumi is that it gets rather confused with keychains. they often don’t make sense, are floating, weirdly distorted etc
This! The one with the person in the orange shirt standing next to the giant “crocheted” lion is a great example: the lighting on the lion vs person seems to come from a different source without casting accurate shadows and the colors are much more vibrant and saturated than the scene around it, making it look like it doesn’t belong in that photo (because it doesn’t).
Also, if it looks like an end result that couldn't be achieved with crochet, it isn't crochet. I see so many of those extremely large 'art pieces' and people commenting 'wow, how is this even possible?!'. It isn't. It's fake.
And the huge stuff always just looks like a scaled up picture of something smaller like I hate to break it to you but stitches look different if you scale them up no matter how you do it
Im an advanced beginner at crochet and my daughter's boyfriend was showing me pics of "crocheted" patterns. I said, "do you SEE how many flaws or stitches are in those patterns?" He said, "no". My answer was EXACTLY my point. Even the most professional and beautiful pieces of work no matter what they are will have a flaw or two if scrutinized closly enough. Why? Because real art in any form that is made by hand and not a machine, looks genuine and is from hours of love. You cant make love. You FEEL it.
i found a WHOLE instagram account of someone making ai crochet pictures and saying like "don't steal my designs 🥰" WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR DESIGNS YOU JUST TYPED WORDS INTO A GENERATOR AND IT STOLE PHOTOS OF PEOPLE'S ACTUAL WORK AND DESIGNS TO MAKE FAKE ONES HELLO?? also every time anyone said things like "wow this is beautiful! you're so talented! how long did this take??" the account owner just thanked them and didn't say anything about how it's ai 😭 the worst part as that if you scrolled down far enough there were posts of real crochet projects and patterns that they had made before they started posting ai so they know the time and work that goes into crocheting and still disregard it :(
Many pages and accounts don't actually make anything, they steal images from designers and crafters and post those for engagement. AI pictures just get them more engagement, so they stop stealing directly, and start stealing indirectly.
It's possible they either gave up, or those real designs were ripped from someone else. Let's hope it's the former and not the latter in that case. Edit: Typo
i saw a lot of ai accounts like that. u know, they don’t even have to say it. the “designs” are so fucking ugly i wouldn’t bother stealing them anyways. 💀
@@MsMaryPatricia Sadly if you ask AI to generate anything, it just takes bits & pieces of text from pre existing sources. So either it'll rip of entire pattern someone wrote or 'create' total nonsense. It's impossible for it to look at a picture and go 'ah yes this is how it was created' because to it there's no difference between a paint blob and a picture of something. Both are just different coloured pixels, they just happen to have different names... As another person said, doing it yourself or commissioning a pattern designer to come up with something realistic that fits the general idea is the only way to go
I've actually been seeing the giant animals around. Blew my mind that the size was so big, the stuffing able to physically support everything (which looks heavy) and NO gapping in any of the stitches. Glad to know my confusion was justified.
If you wanted to do one, you would need some kind of armature inside for support. If I wanted to make one real I would be using an armature, some stuffing but not that much, fabric matching the yarn or one shade darker, and then yarn as a non-structural layer. Anywhere there was a problem with gaping you could either tack it all in place or fill in extra stitches. It would be a huge project, though, like prime time commercial level budget.
It IS totally possible with enough time and money and craft skill. I wanted to believe these are real, and there are some people doing it out there lets find and support them!
My mom sent me a photo of a giant “crocheted” elephant, which I googled and ended up finding out was AI-generated. Zooming in on details (especially if there’s a person in the image or overlapping parts) helps a lot, even though it’s kind of sad to have to investigate everything I see like I’m practicing for CIA: Crochet.
i hadn't realize this was such a big problem until i had to search for a specific pattern on here. i had to scroll a lot and the amount of suggested/ad videos with ai pictures in them were maddening. just a lot of ridiculous stuff, i've also seen a lot of amigurumi ai and pages selling "patterns" of impossible designs (read: scamming people). i can tell instantly that a picture is fake but a lof of people don't, so thanks for making this video!!
I love this! So tired of my friends sending AI stuff like "can you make this?" No because it's not real. Additionally this applies to just about ANYTHING that you think may be AI generated.
The general rule of thumb to detect ai is that everything just... melds together. Due to the way generative AI works, it does not exactly know what part of the image is a hand and which is a dress or hair, which means that often it will just... blend them together. If someone's fringe suddenly becomes the wrinkles on their forehead or if someone's fingers turn into lace, it's likely ai-generated!
It’s not just the images but the sob story behind it. This is my husband or my son and he has just made this first project he gets bullied for his craft please like and share 🤮🤢🙄 it makes me so made and there will be 9,000 people that like and shared it 🙄😲 it’s so frustrating!
They also make no sense. A first project never looks good. I frogged my first ever scarf because it was hideously deformed and completely remade it. Also if anyone ever made something that looked as awesome as what the AI art is presenting, the last thing anyone would do is bully them for it.
That's what's referred to as 'like/share farming' Especially with things like facebook posts. People will put up sob stories and sad pictures and implore people to like/share to help. Then eventually when whatever threshold is reached they will edit the post and change the image and story to something else, either for themselves, or because they sold that past to someone else to fake that their thing/idea is popular.
😂I was searching for cute purses on Pinterest and I noticed none of them were real. Beautiful, but impossible. One was a big white moth with the wings as the purse surrounded in leaves. The clasp was the moth’s head.
I have seen somebody make a frog purse with the clasp being the frog's mouth. It was made from embroidered fabric or felt, though, not crocheted. It would probably be doable to create a moth purse, but it will not look the same as on the picture.
A "big white moth purse,..." is doable, but/and it sounds very detailed (perhaps making use of a variety of fibers -- silk, fringed yarn, chenille(!)😊,...). If not "made by" a professional designer (think: *CREWS OF crocheters working round-the-clock for a fashion designer), graduating students of fashion institutes have final projects that are also incredible in detail/workmanship! In both cases, I don't know that a pattern would EXIST! More likely, there may be sketches, inc. insets/magnification of what (stitch) is suggested to attain 'the look'. 🙄In any case, are RUclips travelers probably looking to take-on such a project? [If so, I would suggest appliqueing parts of formals, wedding dresses, misc. fabrics + trims to a base purse or assembling sections that you have crocheted in various stitches, to make it a "crocheted purse". Either way, you can say you did it! It IS possible, and your project would be unique (...🤭and you will learn a very practical reason "why" these PATTERNS don't exist!🤯). Try it! Good luck☺.
People really need to see this video. The examples you showed were actually quite obvious. I've seen far more sophisticated images where it can be hard to tell if it was AI generated based on the image alone. The amount of positive feedback on these crochet content farms is insane. I hope they're bots.
I feel like some of the responses on these ai posts are fake as well. If they can create fake crochet content, there is fake accounts and comments too! When the images get too good, you can still look to see who posts and if credit is given to person or pattern or not.
Thank you so much…I am so sick of it too. They think they’re posting ideas for everyone to get inspiration from but without a pattern most of them are impossible to figure out. I’ve also noticed that sometimes what are supposed to be crochet hooks are just random fancy sticks with no hooks. Sometime the models hands might be missing fingers or a purse is hanging on a shoulder with the arm underneath it instead of over it. (Hope that makes sense.)
For me, spotting AI follows a few steps, based around the concept of ‘mottling’ Mottling is when the image seems to warp and deform like melting plastic. This can be seen as fused fingers, tangled or cobwebby string/hair, or any bizarre mangling in the image. Mostly it will be small warps, changing the shape and form of small details like teeth or eyes. This is best seen when zoomed in, as AI is capable of getting most of the general beats right, but struggles in detail. There are also what I call ‘artifact bubbles’, where discoloured floaters appear in the image with the texture/look of oil (colourful sheen, etc.) 1. Blur your vision, look for anything that feels different, this is a good way to spot inconsistencies or mottling 2. If you can’t find anything wholly wrong, but can tell that something is wrong, assume it’s AI 3. Take a once over of the image, look for artifact bubbles. 4. If there are no artifact bubbles, look at hairlines, mouths, eyes, jewelry etc. These are common locations where mottling will occur. 5. Examine hair and fabric for further mottling. This is a very comprehensive method, but it’s helpful if you’re not sure.
This is why I watch videos of people making the project rather than just having a photo. My son used to tell me I was crazy because I always believed something like Sky net would happen. Maybe not sky net exactly, but ai taking over everything. Thank you for this video, it’s getting harder and harder to tell with photos now.
I started seeing it constantly because I would comment about it being ai to people, and then the algorithm would keep showing me more of it. Now I just have to block all these pages.
@@crochet.with.illjayI’ve been reporting them all as fake pages. Not sure if it’s working but if everyone does it surety FB will have to do something. The amount of AI around is INSANE 😱
my family has sent me a couple crochet ai photos as project ideas and i always feel so bad having to tell them it's fake bc they're so excited to share something about my hobby with me and i feel like i'm basically telling them they're stupid for falling for it :(
I don’t do crochet, and I don’t see myself ever learning (thought it’s. A beautiful and super impressive art form!) but I’ll take any chance to learn about whether or not something is AI. I DESPISE Ai. SO MUCH. Thank you for the info!
Im 23 and have been crocheting since i was 6, but its so obvious when shit is ai. Looks perfect with texture displayed over the top. The drape is perfect, and nothing looks ugly. Crochet is naturally ugly and thats ok, but ai removes the ugly and adds weird hyper detail thats tiny and mashed. Shit looks weird and not natural, therefore. Fake. I hate what ai crochet has done to facebook.
Is it possible for someone to figure out how to crochet something without a pattern? I actually saw an AI crochet outfit that I would love to have recreated. If Ai can be used to benefit artists, it's a net positive. I would love to find a crochet artist to create the piece.
Eye-opening! I'm one of those people (idiots) that look at the pic and think it's all real and lament my own imperfections! You taught me something that I've known all my life but wasn't equating to this...if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!! Excellent video, thanks! ❤
Another easy way to tell it's AI: it's absolutely massive. I'm talking specifically about those pictures of the grandmas standing next to a crochet tank, or a lion or an elephant or whatever. pieces that big would be SO expensive to make, not just with the yarn, but whatever stuffing they use to make something that heavy actually stand straight.
Those scissors were a work of art all by themselves - they look like a Dali painting. I'm amazed by what AI comes up with but you're right about not supporting it.
AI doesn’t actually “come up” with anything, the way people do. Some results are really cool or pretty, but only because it’s standing on the backs of all of the artists who were stolen from :(
@@irmar As a digital artist, *NO.* I put actual thought and effort and work. AI just spits out it's best approximation of something, usually using images from real artists that were stolen and used without permission. Frankly comparing the two is insulting.
@@sarahblack9333 I'm genuinely curious about this, I don't mean any hate with this question. How is AI using images and drawing to create a picture different from someone using the same images and drawings for reference?
yes!!! the big giveaway that I tell people about is the illusion of detail. it might LOOK detailed (you described it as "highly defined") but once you zoom in it's strangely dreamy and Not detailed.
Another way to distinguish more realistic ai images is to seek for “tangents” or connections between items that shouldn’t exist: hands blending into clothing, hair strand blending into the shoulder “outline”, etc. A lot of the time AI images will have two objects share an outline in a way that doesn’t happen in real life.
The thing about AI is that it always tries too hard, like the “realism” always looks exaggerated and dramatic…. because of that it ironically always fails to look realistic
Thank you! I recently have been seeing alot of photos of crocheted doll clothes and fashion items in a fb group that I recently joined. I kept thinking, wow, these are so....perfect. There were no channels or names connected to them. Now I know to zoom in and look closer.
The thread on that green dress looks like it was haphazardly thrown onto a pile and then flattened and glued or something. There are also so many ai embroidery images that don't show real embroidery, you can tell by the weird texture of the various threads, one looks like long short stitches and is crisp, and the other is an incredibly zoomed in french knot that's blurry, from two different actual embroidery pieces. The thread on the long short is regular embroidery thread but the french knot looks like it is SUPER chunky yard because of the close up. And there are weird tacked on stumpwork parts that seem glued to the hoop for some reason. The colours are also weirdly intense. In one of my embroidery groups someone posted a picture of an ai photo to show how it was fake, and then went to actually recreate the image. Her piece looks great, it's incredible, but not as vivid as the ai one, and the 3d stumpwork details are not there, because she made something that actually exists in reality. It's kind of sad.
I so appreciate you sharing this. I knit and crochet, and have friends sharing and making requests out of things they see online (AI images of projects) I hate breaking their hearts, but they need to know that not all images of crochet projects are real and shared the same ways to identify the fakes..... I too would love to see more real projects for inspiration and ideas.
I'm a digital artist, but I do crotchet in my free time, and it is always frustrating to see AI and AI Fanatics attempting to take real art and effort away from us >:[
I don't even mind that AI art exists, but it's frustrating that it overstates EVERY social media now and I don't like when AI 'artists' try to claim they are artists, and people trying to copyright and claim it as if they created the art. The only people who should be able to say they are AI artists are people who train the AI off of their OWN training data.
AI photos and videos tend to have ideal lighting, no matter the scenario. AI videos also usually have moving cameras and things going wrong, like multiplying wolf pups or a corgi with a selfie stick poking out of it.
I’m so glad you did this. I wonder how many people get taken in by these things. Makes me angry. I said something on FB and got blasted. I’ve seen patterns sold, but I know it’s totally fake. Yikes!
I have 0 experience in crochetting, but as a fellow artist I'm really glad that people like you raise awareness and show how to spot it in their communities 💚
THANKYOUUUUU SO MUCH!! Yes I followed a crochetchannel and I felt something isnt right. Now I watched it again after seing your video. I looked closer: blurry, strangelooking stitches, too perfect women and also the perspective of things in the photos are strange. Now I will be on alert. Im a crocheter myself and I know the hard work behind a pice. I appretiate all REAL designers out on the webb.
Also, for some reason, AI can’t draw crochet hooks. I’ve tried to generate AI crocheted images just for funsies and the supposed crochet hooks look like torture devices.
Not enough training data on the model you were using, I figure. If you're really good with the stuff and are able to train your own, you can feed it images to learn from.
Thank you for distinguishing ai crochet and regular crochet. We need this for all AI content! It's important and we have a right to when something is AI or not
Post processing exists and some of us have gone to school to make lighting and other things perfect. I also don't particularly share all my patterns, especially if I'm working on it still. I also don't always put the same exact yarn I used in a project in a picture because I like setting a scene. I think a lot of these are a little silly, and the easiest way to see if it's AI is just a reverse image search, or look for the artifacts that you mentioned such as hands or objects looking wonky.
i’m an animator and digital artist, i didn’t know u guys also had to deal with these as well! i thought it mostly effected digital artists and photographers. i hate ai bro they keep stealing our work
The problem I'm having is with AI patterns. ._. People will steal pictures of a real project and then post a fake pattern that doesn't really get you what's in the picture... sometimes with serious flaws in the pattern that just do not make sense. I've been tricked twice by this, both on etsy shops that looked real and normal. SO frustrating.
I had to block an all AI fake crochet channel from my recommendations just to not see it every time I ever look at RUclips. If there's one, there's probably a bunch. 😡
I had one channel recommended in my feed who was constantly posting AI crocheted miniature houses/dollhouses. They looked too good to be true but people kept complimenting them on their work when all they did was type in a prompt on an AI image generator... It's so sad...
AI just has that odd feeling like when you're walking in a hallway at night and you know that monsters aren't real but still on your feet because you have to turn off the hallway light when you get to your bedroom and you get a gut feeling somethings gonna pop out. AI "art" just gives that uncanny feel like it's normal but you feel something is wrong with it how does AI capture that feeling? heck, AI's can't even feel feelings-what am I typing right now??
When ai learns to do hands we’re all in trouble, look at the hands on the stripey multicolour piece @1:03. Nightmare fuel! The “stitches” always look like yarn that’s been melded together when I zoom in.
@@irmar 1. People sell scam patterns for all kinds of crafts with ai images. The pattern does not exist, because the item does not exist. If you can't tell which images are ai, you can't tell which seller is a scammer, and which made a beautiful pattern that actually exists in reality. This goes for crochet, sewing, embroidery, woordworking, miniatures, etc etc. 2. Beginners think they can recreate something that is impossible, because the stitches, or materials, etc don't exist. Which means many beginners will not continue, which means that certain crafts die out, and with that an entire history and know-how disappears. 3. Knowledge about crafts is sketchy as it is, people who sell their work get so many comments about the price, and customers have very unrealistic expectations. People order a custom embroidered portrait of a pet, and the price is 200$ and then when the piece is almost finished they offer 75$ because they saw a pet portrait printing company making posters for that price. (this is an actual thing someone I know experienced) They already have extremely skewed ideas about what is possible and how much it will cost, and ai will only make that worse.
@@irmar1) it becomes difficult to form a community: how do you find people who has your same interests vs people who just share ai pictures? 2) it becomes harder to share your work. 3) it becomes harder to find actual patters 4) ai always steals from preexisting images, that means that it steals from real artists 5) there's no "magic" in the art: instead of being amazed, your first reaction on everything will be "oh, it's fake". That's not fun
Wow!! I don't even know what to say. This is infuriating!! Now I need to inspect every crochet pic that looks too good to be true. Thank you for sharing this info!! Just subbed!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VIDEO!!! It makes me damn ANGRY when I see posts of facebook with this crap!!! I've been crocheting for 60 years and KNEW it was A.I., and I had a fair few friends who have posted this rubbish on my wall. It makes me so mad!!!! You rock!!!
i'm gonna start commenting with a link to this video every time facebook shows me a suggested post with AI crochet. to me, it's always been pretty easy to tell the difference, but then i jump in the comments and see hordes of people saying shit like "so beautiful 😍" "can't believe this doesn't have 1000 likes!" "what a hard worker" etc. (older people? worse close-up vision than me? more naive than me? bots?) thank you for making such a helpful video 💚
Yes, please do! I thought it was obvious too but even reading through comments on this post it’s clear many had no idea. Always gotta read the comment section! 😉
Some other things I have noticed in AI amigurumi are: 1) Gradual color changes, where one color slowly fades into another instead of changing abruptly like it would when you switch yarn. 2) Yarn thickness appearing different in different parts of the amigurumi. Great video!
I'm not gunna lie and say I wasn't deceived by these photos, but after a while I found myself commenting things like "no way! That looks like a painting! How did they do that!? That can't be real!" And now I know. Leave my crochet alone AI! I need real patterns and I wanna see real work so I can measure my levels accordingly.
I agree with your feelings on the AI photos but I do think (when properly identified as ai) that they could lead to some cool patterns in the future when they inspire creators to try to make them real.
What really irritates me about this is that so many crafters are using this to boost their followers and their shops as if they actually have these skills. Even if they are good at what they do, it’s disingenuous. Guess algorithms are more important than honesty. Ugh…disgusting.
also stitch size consistency! Does the yarn and/or the stitches magically get bigger in some part of the item? Very few real projects call for different sized yarn or dramatic hook size change
Another sign it's AI is that there are no videos of the project. Almost all living fiber artists are featuring their work on social media in the form of video.
I’m leaving a like and comment because I’ve gotten good at spotting the more prolific ai genned stuff (illustrations and photorealism) but this is important too.
One of the main things that betrays AI Art is the background. If you’re suspicious that a picture is AI generated, _scrutinise_ the background if you can. Some examples here are at 0:57 (some of the bricks near the woman’s head appear to be melded together), 1:01 (river canal turns inward towards the woman’s figure on the right, and the big building in the back seems to be on top of what looks like a bridge structure even though there’s no sign of a bridge going across behind the woman) and 1:09 (metal pole with no purpose is randomly in the background, the perception depth between the old woman and the car is screwed, and the woman’s garage seems to go way far back than a normal garage would).
My mom got into crocheting about two years ago and now AI's coming for crocheting? Geez. I can't comprehend the stitch patterns but at least I know what I see around the house isn't fake!
I really wonder how anyone are fooled by this. My first encounter with these things and I could tell that they just can't be real. Still, I do love them in a way. It is just a fun thing to look at and they are sometimes beautiful. Also, I mostly don't really crochet with a pattern and so I often found myself trying to "reconstruct" the A.I. item, how could they be constructed in a proper way and how they would actually look like if crocheted for real. I do realize that making most of them would require a lot of time and effort. So I don't really mind most of these A.I. images. I found them fun. Still, I prefer to see the real stuff which have actual effort in them for you to admire and only look at the A.I. stuff if only I choose to (which is actually not that often). And I do have to put the line down against the people who pretend these are real stuff and trick people. Like, no! It is one thing to have fun at seeing what an A.I could come up with; deception is just evil.
Yeah, zooming in is a good approach. Not just missing the stitches themselves, but also more generally - things that should be textured often aren't, and things that give the impression of thinfs like fabric patterns or textures will be haphazard at a closer look.
I’m glad we are making this aware. Wanted to also let people know there is one lady who crocheted full on grad dresses and formal wear but I think then you could see the detail on her pieces. Still rare for a big item but out there.
I have nothing against AI and I think it's quite fascinating to some degree having used it a lot myself. I think the biggest issue is people not mentioning it and taking credit for something they didn't make. Personally I know how to spot if something is AI generated but it pains me to see how many people get fooled on social media (look at the skin, fingers, limbs of animals... they often don't make sense). Thank you for informing people!
@@crochet.with.illjayYeah the only option is to ignore them. Otherwise the algorithm thinks, "Oh you interacted with these videos, you must like them, here's some more!" Doh.
Some of the AI pics are genuinely great ideas that would be with a little reality tweek really cute. I could see AI helping designers come up with new ideas.
AI is so frustrating. It's stealing data from actual artists of all types and creating stuff based on that data. It's nothing but very specialized plagiarism. There's actually people on the internet who truly believe, that because they set the parameters and made the AI make something, it is intellectually their property, and will swear that they made it and use AI as nothing but a paint brush. Recently AI creators were caught speaking about artists as nothing but source material for their AI, and not a single one of the artists had signed a contract of any kind that would suggest doing so willingly. AI is a cool concept, but there's a huge lack of protections that victimize artists, and people are far too infatuated with it to notice or care that it's happening. It's a problem.
I can now differentiate ai pictures because of its filter and perfect picture and looks a bit animated, i always commented that "it was obviously AI" but sadly most people will believe in fake images
You are absolutelly right. But this gives inspiration by it's crazy multicolorness and multidetailness. For me these are the ideas how to step over the rules, to make something insane. I never share such things, I keep them for myself to cheer my fantasy. And I can say, what stops me from trying to make a straight copy - I imagine unbelievable amount of DUST that these beauties may instantly collect while being crocheted😂😂😂
Ai crochet looks like one of those plastic tablecloths that have texture to imitate crochet or knitting
Yes! Haha good analogy.
Wanna try sewing with that now
Or plastic lace.😂
I just assume, if it looks like haute couture, but modelled by just some insta model in a forrest, it's gotta be AI
Omg yes
I just discovered that AI crochet triggers my trypopobia. Seems like my body knows it's fake before my mind does.
Omg I can relate! Sometimes even regular crochet textures get me.
Ohh thank you so much😭 Now I finally get why it feels so unsettling whenever I see a AI generated picture
Human "instinct". Not that I believe humans have true instincts, but there are some things so deep in our subconscious, so much part of the deepest base of our understanding of the world, or things where our brain reacts before we are consciously aware of it, that it is as close as we get to instinct. I think the Uncanny Valley is part of that, and AI images can ping that part of our minds.
Yes! Something about the texture makes the "yarn" look like it's alive or made of some kind of organic, fleshy material 🤢🤢
I don’t have full on trypophobia, holes just make me uncomfortable, but it’s the same for me!
Bonus tip: the creation will be big. Yarn is expensive as hell, so massive projects are super rare.
Yess! I agree yarn is very expensive. 😭😭 But i absolutely love making massive projects!
Crotchet car pffft
@@melonie_pepperscar cover not a whole car
Yeah that's like a big giveaway
The pretty pink motorcycle especially. No way am I making something huge and elaborate that's going to get super dirty within a day
I often notice that AI amigurumi 1) looks like its made of play-doh and 2) has stitches doing things that are just outright impossible for stitches to do.
Always gotta zoom on the stitch work!
Very often AI amigurumi also have "real eyes" instead of beads or stiches which makes no sense in crochet
I have also seen AI amigurumi with actual hair, so weird
@@aikya5684 my favorite is when the stitches randomly start going sideways lol
something i noticed as well specifically on amigurumi is that it gets rather confused with keychains. they often don’t make sense, are floating, weirdly distorted etc
They also have smiles that are impossible. They are just too smooth and impossible to make
The first thing I always notice is that soft glow they all seem to have
Yep! Good eye
It's because AI tends to be bad at placing a defined light source and just overexposes everything
This! The one with the person in the orange shirt standing next to the giant “crocheted” lion is a great example: the lighting on the lion vs person seems to come from a different source without casting accurate shadows and the colors are much more vibrant and saturated than the scene around it, making it look like it doesn’t belong in that photo (because it doesn’t).
Even AI images that aren’t crotchet, they all have this really soft glow that makes it look so blurry even if it’s “height defined”
For me I just think " idk it looks weird " Because in whatever style, AI will somehow look weird with no reason.
Also, if it looks like an end result that couldn't be achieved with crochet, it isn't crochet. I see so many of those extremely large 'art pieces' and people commenting 'wow, how is this even possible?!'. It isn't. It's fake.
Totally!
Exactly. Like those pictures of old women standing next to humongous “crochet” cats or cars
And the huge stuff always just looks like a scaled up picture of something smaller like I hate to break it to you but stitches look different if you scale them up no matter how you do it
Im an advanced beginner at crochet and my daughter's boyfriend was showing me pics of "crocheted" patterns. I said, "do you SEE how many flaws or stitches are in those patterns?" He said, "no". My answer was EXACTLY my point. Even the most professional and beautiful pieces of work no matter what they are will have a flaw or two if scrutinized closly enough. Why? Because real art in any form that is made by hand and not a machine, looks genuine and is from hours of love. You cant make love. You FEEL it.
Some may argue against the notion that “you cant make love” 😳😂
@@Rekeronse2543 loooool
Ohhhhh yes, I CAN!!
@@iwantmy_sk844 lol I was meaning with AI art versus crocheting. 😅
Right on!
So sick of AI coming in and taking over every art/crafting space. UGH. Thanks for this video, I'm sending it to everyone I know lol
Thank you, yes please share!
No, it will survive!
People are coming in and using AI, AI isn’t doing anything on its own ^-^
And this is just the very beginning yet, there is still much room for improvement.
yeah we all thought ai would take the broing jobs so we can be creative and free but nope they're taking the fun stuff for some reason.
Sending this in a facebook group I'm in for crochet, the sheer number of AI posts and suspicious links is driving me nuts
Sounds like the group’s not well moderated. i’d be deleting it all & banning the posters for it. AI is nothing but spam to me.
Thanks for sharing!
i found a WHOLE instagram account of someone making ai crochet pictures and saying like "don't steal my designs 🥰" WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR DESIGNS YOU JUST TYPED WORDS INTO A GENERATOR AND IT STOLE PHOTOS OF PEOPLE'S ACTUAL WORK AND DESIGNS TO MAKE FAKE ONES HELLO??
also every time anyone said things like "wow this is beautiful! you're so talented! how long did this take??" the account owner just thanked them and didn't say anything about how it's ai 😭
the worst part as that if you scrolled down far enough there were posts of real crochet projects and patterns that they had made before they started posting ai so they know the time and work that goes into crocheting and still disregard it :(
Many pages and accounts don't actually make anything, they steal images from designers and crafters and post those for engagement. AI pictures just get them more engagement, so they stop stealing directly, and start stealing indirectly.
It's possible they either gave up, or those real designs were ripped from someone else. Let's hope it's the former and not the latter in that case.
Edit: Typo
i saw a lot of ai accounts like that. u know, they don’t even have to say it.
the “designs” are so fucking ugly i wouldn’t bother stealing them anyways. 💀
Also, lighting. AI images all have that same nasty cold unreal lighting, always from the same angle. Makes them easy to spot.
Yep!
Or rather different lighting angles, depending on where you look at it
These are 2-D pics. You can only look at them from one angle.@@techleontius9161
A million light sources lol
Okay, this AI stuff has gone too far. But also that granny on the motor bike with pink crocheted everything is goal for my old age LOL
That’s an awesome goal and you can do it for for real and it will be so much cooler!!
Bahahaha same
@@MsMaryPatriciawell luckily it's possible to commission real designers
@@graceswan4353 and support real people in the process!! WOAHH!!! 😱😱
@@MsMaryPatricia Sadly if you ask AI to generate anything, it just takes bits & pieces of text from pre existing sources. So either it'll rip of entire pattern someone wrote or 'create' total nonsense. It's impossible for it to look at a picture and go 'ah yes this is how it was created' because to it there's no difference between a paint blob and a picture of something. Both are just different coloured pixels, they just happen to have different names... As another person said, doing it yourself or commissioning a pattern designer to come up with something realistic that fits the general idea is the only way to go
Another thing: ai loves to put random things around it or weird backgrounds. Ai is also obsessed with roses, for some reason
Did you see the picture with the baby bottle? Lol!
I've actually been seeing the giant animals around. Blew my mind that the size was so big, the stuffing able to physically support everything (which looks heavy) and NO gapping in any of the stitches.
Glad to know my confusion was justified.
If you wanted to do one, you would need some kind of armature inside for support. If I wanted to make one real I would be using an armature, some stuffing but not that much, fabric matching the yarn or one shade darker, and then yarn as a non-structural layer. Anywhere there was a problem with gaping you could either tack it all in place or fill in extra stitches. It would be a huge project, though, like prime time commercial level budget.
Right!? The life size animals almost fooled me too. If you are questioning it, thats the first clue ;-)
It IS totally possible with enough time and money and craft skill. I wanted to believe these are real, and there are some people doing it out there lets find and support them!
My mom sent me a photo of a giant “crocheted” elephant, which I googled and ended up finding out was AI-generated. Zooming in on details (especially if there’s a person in the image or overlapping parts) helps a lot, even though it’s kind of sad to have to investigate everything I see like I’m practicing for CIA: Crochet.
I'm really tempted to try making something like it as a challenge, but I can't justify the expense or the room it would take up in my apartment
1) gorgeous
2.) impossibly complex
3.) animation quality
4.) no demo or instructions
AI, wehatesit!
Yep!
i hadn't realize this was such a big problem until i had to search for a specific pattern on here. i had to scroll a lot and the amount of suggested/ad videos with ai pictures in them were maddening. just a lot of ridiculous stuff, i've also seen a lot of amigurumi ai and pages selling "patterns" of impossible designs (read: scamming people). i can tell instantly that a picture is fake but a lof of people don't, so thanks for making this video!!
Pattern scams is one I’m just finding out about through the comments! It’s moving fast and getting smarter 😬
And these people who don't are the targets.
I love this! So tired of my friends sending AI stuff like "can you make this?" No because it's not real. Additionally this applies to just about ANYTHING that you think may be AI generated.
I feel ya, people send me stuff too just now aware at all,
That AI crochet kinda reminds me of what it looks like when you zoom in on bacteria on a highly powerful microscope
Haha awesome analogy
The general rule of thumb to detect ai is that everything just... melds together. Due to the way generative AI works, it does not exactly know what part of the image is a hand and which is a dress or hair, which means that often it will just... blend them together. If someone's fringe suddenly becomes the wrinkles on their forehead or if someone's fingers turn into lace, it's likely ai-generated!
Wow, great point!
It’s not just the images but the sob story behind it. This is my husband or my son and he has just made this first project he gets bullied for his craft please like and share 🤮🤢🙄 it makes me so made and there will be 9,000 people that like and shared it 🙄😲 it’s so frustrating!
Those sob stories are the worst!
They also make no sense. A first project never looks good. I frogged my first ever scarf because it was hideously deformed and completely remade it. Also if anyone ever made something that looked as awesome as what the AI art is presenting, the last thing anyone would do is bully them for it.
That's what's referred to as 'like/share farming' Especially with things like facebook posts. People will put up sob stories and sad pictures and implore people to like/share to help. Then eventually when whatever threshold is reached they will edit the post and change the image and story to something else, either for themselves, or because they sold that past to someone else to fake that their thing/idea is popular.
Social media commonly has a lot of phoniness, doesn't it.
I've seen like AI pictures of sculptures made of trash with a little African boy standing by them. That was so god damn disgusting.
😂I was searching for cute purses on Pinterest and I noticed none of them were real. Beautiful, but impossible. One was a big white moth with the wings as the purse surrounded in leaves. The clasp was the moth’s head.
That sounds insanely detailed. Maybe a real version could be coool though?
I have seen somebody make a frog purse with the clasp being the frog's mouth. It was made from embroidered fabric or felt, though, not crocheted.
It would probably be doable to create a moth purse, but it will not look the same as on the picture.
A "big white moth purse,..." is doable, but/and it sounds very detailed (perhaps making use of a variety of fibers -- silk, fringed yarn, chenille(!)😊,...). If not "made by" a professional designer (think: *CREWS OF crocheters working round-the-clock for a fashion designer), graduating students of fashion institutes have final projects that are also incredible in detail/workmanship! In both cases, I don't know that a pattern would EXIST! More likely, there may be sketches, inc. insets/magnification of what (stitch) is suggested to attain 'the look'. 🙄In any case, are RUclips travelers probably looking to take-on such a project? [If so, I would suggest appliqueing parts of formals, wedding dresses, misc. fabrics + trims to a base purse or assembling sections that you have crocheted in various stitches, to make it a "crocheted purse". Either way, you can say you did it! It IS possible, and your project would be unique (...🤭and you will learn a very practical reason "why" these PATTERNS don't exist!🤯). Try it! Good luck☺.
People really need to see this video. The examples you showed were actually quite obvious. I've seen far more sophisticated images where it can be hard to tell if it was AI generated based on the image alone. The amount of positive feedback on these crochet content farms is insane. I hope they're bots.
I feel like some of the responses on these ai posts are fake as well. If they can create fake crochet content, there is fake accounts and comments too! When the images get too good, you can still look to see who posts and if credit is given to person or pattern or not.
Its said that 50% to 60% of all social media posts, traffic and accounts are AI or bots.
Thats kind of scary when you think about it.
Thank you so much…I am so sick of it too. They think they’re posting ideas for everyone to get inspiration from but without a pattern most of them are impossible to figure out. I’ve also noticed that sometimes what are supposed to be crochet hooks are just random fancy sticks with no hooks. Sometime the models hands might be missing fingers or a purse is hanging on a shoulder with the arm underneath it instead of over it. (Hope that makes sense.)
Great observations. Some weird objects the ai makes haha it will get smarter but we get better at seeing it too.
The stitches aren't even crochet stitches!!!!!!!
I've noticed that!
For me, spotting AI follows a few steps, based around the concept of ‘mottling’
Mottling is when the image seems to warp and deform like melting plastic. This can be seen as fused fingers, tangled or cobwebby string/hair, or any bizarre mangling in the image. Mostly it will be small warps, changing the shape and form of small details like teeth or eyes. This is best seen when zoomed in, as AI is capable of getting most of the general beats right, but struggles in detail. There are also what I call ‘artifact bubbles’, where discoloured floaters appear in the image with the texture/look of oil (colourful sheen, etc.)
1. Blur your vision, look for anything that feels different, this is a good way to spot inconsistencies or mottling
2. If you can’t find anything wholly wrong, but can tell that something is wrong, assume it’s AI
3. Take a once over of the image, look for artifact bubbles.
4. If there are no artifact bubbles, look at hairlines, mouths, eyes, jewelry etc. These are common locations where mottling will occur.
5. Examine hair and fabric for further mottling.
This is a very comprehensive method, but it’s helpful if you’re not sure.
Thanks for those tips, great points!
This is why I watch videos of people making the project rather than just having a photo. My son used to tell me I was crazy because I always believed something like Sky net would happen. Maybe not sky net exactly, but ai taking over everything. Thank you for this video, it’s getting harder and harder to tell with photos now.
Thanks for the video. If I have AI in any of my feeds I usually say "not interested" so I don't have these constantly in my feeds.
I started seeing it constantly because I would comment about it being ai to people, and then the algorithm would keep showing me more of it. Now
I just have to block all these pages.
@@crochet.with.illjay Me too, I do not engage in any fashion. Instant block.
@@crochet.with.illjayI’ve been reporting them all as fake pages. Not sure if it’s working but if everyone does it surety FB will have to do something. The amount of AI around is INSANE 😱
my family has sent me a couple crochet ai photos as project ideas and i always feel so bad having to tell them it's fake bc they're so excited to share something about my hobby with me and i feel like i'm basically telling them they're stupid for falling for it :(
@@crochet.with.illjay social media moment
I don’t do crochet, and I don’t see myself ever learning (thought it’s. A beautiful and super impressive art form!) but I’ll take any chance to learn about whether or not something is AI. I DESPISE Ai. SO MUCH. Thank you for the info!
the one thing im looking out for is that they ALWAYS blur the background in such a way that makes the subject look as if it was copy-pasted on top.
Oh yeah good point!
May this video be reccomened to literally every single fiber artist, crocheter and knitter, ever...
Amen
Yes, please share! Thank youuu
Im 23 and have been crocheting since i was 6, but its so obvious when shit is ai. Looks perfect with texture displayed over the top. The drape is perfect, and nothing looks ugly.
Crochet is naturally ugly and thats ok, but ai removes the ugly and adds weird hyper detail thats tiny and mashed. Shit looks weird and not natural, therefore. Fake. I hate what ai crochet has done to facebook.
And Pinterest it seems. Anything amigurumi that has perfect everything doesn't even have single crochets, they're just bumps.
Crochet is naturally ugly? 🤣
I agree with you but, I don't agree that chrochet is ugly. I actually find crochet very beautiful art.
Is it possible for someone to figure out how to crochet something without a pattern? I actually saw an AI crochet outfit that I would love to have recreated. If Ai can be used to benefit artists, it's a net positive. I would love to find a crochet artist to create the piece.
Eye-opening! I'm one of those people (idiots) that look at the pic and think it's all real and lament my own imperfections! You taught me something that I've known all my life but wasn't equating to this...if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!! Excellent video, thanks! ❤
You’re welcome
Another easy way to tell it's AI: it's absolutely massive. I'm talking specifically about those pictures of the grandmas standing next to a crochet tank, or a lion or an elephant or whatever. pieces that big would be SO expensive to make, not just with the yarn, but whatever stuffing they use to make something that heavy actually stand straight.
Yep, I want to believe it can be done, but is anyone doing it for real??
Those scissors were a work of art all by themselves - they look like a Dali painting. I'm amazed by what AI comes up with but you're right about not supporting it.
It is visually interesting for sure, just tired of seeing this stuff go viral because people cannot tell the difference.
AI doesn’t actually “come up” with anything, the way people do. Some results are really cool or pretty, but only because it’s standing on the backs of all of the artists who were stolen from :(
Why not? Think of it as digital art.
@@irmar As a digital artist, *NO.* I put actual thought and effort and work. AI just spits out it's best approximation of something, usually using images from real artists that were stolen and used without permission. Frankly comparing the two is insulting.
@@sarahblack9333 I'm genuinely curious about this, I don't mean any hate with this question. How is AI using images and drawing to create a picture different from someone using the same images and drawings for reference?
yes!!! the big giveaway that I tell people about is the illusion of detail. it might LOOK detailed (you described it as "highly defined") but once you zoom in it's strangely dreamy and Not detailed.
Yep!
Another way to distinguish more realistic ai images is to seek for “tangents” or connections between items that shouldn’t exist: hands blending into clothing, hair strand blending into the shoulder “outline”, etc. A lot of the time AI images will have two objects share an outline in a way that doesn’t happen in real life.
The thing about AI is that it always tries too hard, like the “realism” always looks exaggerated and dramatic…. because of that it ironically always fails to look realistic
I like how you described that, on point!
One of the biggest tells I find with ai pics of all kinds is that there is no second photo of the same exact thing but from a different angle.
Very true, great observation!
general AI image generators aren't so good with different angles.
Thank you! I recently have been seeing alot of photos of crocheted doll clothes and fashion items in a fb group that I recently joined. I kept thinking, wow, these are so....perfect. There were no channels or names connected to them. Now I know to zoom in and look closer.
Yes, some Facebook groups are flooded with it. When the images get more realistic, you can still look closely at the poster, caption, comments etc.
The thread on that green dress looks like it was haphazardly thrown onto a pile and then flattened and glued or something.
There are also so many ai embroidery images that don't show real embroidery, you can tell by the weird texture of the various threads, one looks like long short stitches and is crisp, and the other is an incredibly zoomed in french knot that's blurry, from two different actual embroidery pieces. The thread on the long short is regular embroidery thread but the french knot looks like it is SUPER chunky yard because of the close up. And there are weird tacked on stumpwork parts that seem glued to the hoop for some reason. The colours are also weirdly intense.
In one of my embroidery groups someone posted a picture of an ai photo to show how it was fake, and then went to actually recreate the image. Her piece looks great, it's incredible, but not as vivid as the ai one, and the 3d stumpwork details are not there, because she made something that actually exists in reality. It's kind of sad.
I so appreciate you sharing this. I knit and crochet, and have friends sharing and making requests out of things they see online (AI images of projects) I hate breaking their hearts, but they need to know that not all images of crochet projects are real and shared the same ways to identify the fakes.....
I too would love to see more real projects for inspiration and ideas.
Same! Lots of people sending me this stuff, just completely unaware it was even a thing!
I'm a digital artist, but I do crotchet in my free time, and it is always frustrating to see AI and AI Fanatics attempting to take real art and effort away from us >:[
I don't even mind that AI art exists, but it's frustrating that it overstates EVERY social media now and I don't like when AI 'artists' try to claim they are artists, and people trying to copyright and claim it as if they created the art. The only people who should be able to say they are AI artists are people who train the AI off of their OWN training data.
AI photos and videos tend to have ideal lighting, no matter the scenario. AI videos also usually have moving cameras and things going wrong, like multiplying wolf pups or a corgi with a selfie stick poking out of it.
Good point! Thanks
AI is already driving me crazier on all levels. You can rest assured, my crochet looks nothing like AI.😂
Same, it’s hurts the worst when people I know send it to me like “isn’t this so cool?!” No, it’s not.
I’m so glad you did this. I wonder how many people get taken in by these things. Makes me angry. I said something on FB and got blasted. I’ve seen patterns sold, but I know it’s totally fake. Yikes!
The pattern scam is a new one for me! Crazyyy
So tired of social media being flooded with AI, thanks for the vid
Same here, and annoyed how many people don’t realize it’s fake!
I have 0 experience in crochetting, but as a fellow artist I'm really glad that people like you raise awareness and show how to spot it in their communities 💚
Thanks for watching :)
THANKYOUUUUU SO MUCH!! Yes I followed a crochetchannel and I felt something isnt right. Now I watched it again after seing your video. I looked closer: blurry, strangelooking stitches, too perfect women and also the perspective of things in the photos are strange. Now I will be on alert. Im a crocheter myself and I know the hard work behind a pice. I appretiate all REAL designers out on the webb.
You’re welcome Helena! I’m glad you know now 😉
Also, for some reason, AI can’t draw crochet hooks. I’ve tried to generate AI crocheted images just for funsies and the supposed crochet hooks look like torture devices.
I’ve noticed that too. Bad with little details like that with hands too
Not enough training data on the model you were using, I figure. If you're really good with the stuff and are able to train your own, you can feed it images to learn from.
Thank you for distinguishing ai crochet and regular crochet. We need this for all AI content! It's important and we have a right to when something is AI or not
I totally agree, just learning now that people are being scammed from fake accounts posting fake patterns… all the more reason to know the different!
@@crochet.with.illjay thats horrible! :(
Post processing exists and some of us have gone to school to make lighting and other things perfect. I also don't particularly share all my patterns, especially if I'm working on it still. I also don't always put the same exact yarn I used in a project in a picture because I like setting a scene. I think a lot of these are a little silly, and the easiest way to see if it's AI is just a reverse image search, or look for the artifacts that you mentioned such as hands or objects looking wonky.
i’m an animator and digital artist, i didn’t know u guys also had to deal with these as well! i thought it mostly effected digital artists and photographers. i hate ai bro they keep stealing our work
It’s sadly infiltrating pattern shops and such, or being used to spread sketchy links, or sometimes just farm engagement
I think it will slowly creep into everything 😳
The problem I'm having is with AI patterns. ._. People will steal pictures of a real project and then post a fake pattern that doesn't really get you what's in the picture... sometimes with serious flaws in the pattern that just do not make sense. I've been tricked twice by this, both on etsy shops that looked real and normal. SO frustrating.
I didn’t even realize this was how far it had gone🤯 ai creating patterns now? Scamming people? Yikes!
Thank you soooo much for making this video. I am so over all the unachievable AI crochet images being circulated … makes my skin crawl
Me too, all the people unaware it’s fake is what gets me.
I had to block an all AI fake crochet channel from my recommendations just to not see it every time I ever look at RUclips. If there's one, there's probably a bunch. 😡
Yep! On Facebook and Instagram as well. I’ve been blocking them as well.
I had one channel recommended in my feed who was constantly posting AI crocheted miniature houses/dollhouses. They looked too good to be true but people kept complimenting them on their work when all they did was type in a prompt on an AI image generator... It's so sad...
Cannot crochet but I’ve heard about this from other craft sights. Thanks for your explanation. I can see it!
You’re welcome! 😉
so glad artists are speaking about AI.
AI just has that odd feeling like when you're walking in a hallway at night and you know that monsters aren't real but still on your feet because you have to turn off the hallway light when you get to your bedroom and you get a gut feeling somethings gonna pop out.
AI "art" just gives that uncanny feel
like it's normal but you feel something is wrong with it
how does AI capture that feeling?
heck, AI's can't even feel feelings-what am I typing right now??
When ai learns to do hands we’re all in trouble, look at the hands on the stripey multicolour piece @1:03. Nightmare fuel! The “stitches” always look like yarn that’s been melded together when I zoom in.
I *just* saw a video of all these supposedly crocheted blankets and was so confused as to how they were made...this explains it.
Yes, I’ve been seeing those recently too!
Its gotten even better. They make a more textured finish now. It's insane how much is on FB
It’s improving by the day, we gotta stay sharp.
@@crochet.with.illjay But why? What harm does it do to you?
@@irmar 1. People sell scam patterns for all kinds of crafts with ai images. The pattern does not exist, because the item does not exist. If you can't tell which images are ai, you can't tell which seller is a scammer, and which made a beautiful pattern that actually exists in reality. This goes for crochet, sewing, embroidery, woordworking, miniatures, etc etc. 2. Beginners think they can recreate something that is impossible, because the stitches, or materials, etc don't exist. Which means many beginners will not continue, which means that certain crafts die out, and with that an entire history and know-how disappears. 3. Knowledge about crafts is sketchy as it is, people who sell their work get so many comments about the price, and customers have very unrealistic expectations. People order a custom embroidered portrait of a pet, and the price is 200$ and then when the piece is almost finished they offer 75$ because they saw a pet portrait printing company making posters for that price. (this is an actual thing someone I know experienced) They already have extremely skewed ideas about what is possible and how much it will cost, and ai will only make that worse.
@@irmar1) it becomes difficult to form a community: how do you find people who has your same interests vs people who just share ai pictures?
2) it becomes harder to share your work.
3) it becomes harder to find actual patters
4) ai always steals from preexisting images, that means that it steals from real artists
5) there's no "magic" in the art: instead of being amazed, your first reaction on everything will be "oh, it's fake". That's not fun
Wow!! I don't even know what to say. This is infuriating!! Now I need to inspect every crochet pic that looks too good to be true. Thank you for sharing this info!! Just subbed!!
Yes, you're welcome! If it looks too good to be true, it is!
I got this video randomly in my feed i don't crochet, but i can understand how undermining these images are.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VIDEO!!! It makes me damn ANGRY when I see posts of facebook with this crap!!! I've been crocheting for 60 years and KNEW it was A.I., and I had a fair few friends who have posted this rubbish on my wall. It makes me so mad!!!! You rock!!!
You’re welcome!! Share with your friends, people gotta know
Never knew about AI crochet. I've probably seen it be assumed it was real crochet! THANKS for this video. You've opened my eyes! TFS! Austin TX USA
Woohoo! I’m glad you know now.
i'm gonna start commenting with a link to this video every time facebook shows me a suggested post with AI crochet.
to me, it's always been pretty easy to tell the difference, but then i jump in the comments and see hordes of people saying shit like "so beautiful 😍" "can't believe this doesn't have 1000 likes!" "what a hard worker" etc.
(older people? worse close-up vision than me? more naive than me? bots?)
thank you for making such a helpful video 💚
Yes, please do! I thought it was obvious too but even reading through comments on this post it’s clear many had no idea. Always gotta read the comment section! 😉
Some other things I have noticed in AI amigurumi are:
1) Gradual color changes, where one color slowly fades into another instead of changing abruptly like it would when you switch yarn.
2) Yarn thickness appearing different in different parts of the amigurumi.
Great video!
Great points, thank you!
I'm not gunna lie and say I wasn't deceived by these photos, but after a while I found myself commenting things like "no way! That looks like a painting! How did they do that!? That can't be real!" And now I know. Leave my crochet alone AI! I need real patterns and I wanna see real work so I can measure my levels accordingly.
If it’s seems too good to be true… it is!
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! I am new to the whole AI concept. This is great information. I appreciate this so much.
You’re welcome! 😉
I agree with your feelings on the AI photos but I do think (when properly identified as ai) that they could lead to some cool patterns in the future when they inspire creators to try to make them real.
Absolutely! I look forward to this hopefully being the next phase.
What really irritates me about this is that so many crafters are using this to boost their followers and their shops as if they actually have these skills. Even if they are good at what they do, it’s disingenuous. Guess algorithms are more important than honesty. Ugh…disgusting.
That’s why we can’t fall for it and must spread awareness!
also stitch size consistency! Does the yarn and/or the stitches magically get bigger in some part of the item? Very few real projects call for different sized yarn or dramatic hook size change
Great point!
Okay but those badass grannies with the crochet motorcycle and fancy car kind of rule, tho LMAO
As an artist, I am so damn tired of Ai clowns trying to take over the creative field. Ai's a tool, not a replacement for something.
Great video. I totally agree with not sharing those unreal crochet works.
Thanks Marie!
Another sign it's AI is that there are no videos of the project. Almost all living fiber artists are featuring their work on social media in the form of video.
Great point! Someone else mentioned different photos with angles too as the ai stuff is usually one image, one angle.
@@crochet.with.illjay Great video. I shared it on my FB like page.❤️❤️❤️🧶🐲
I’m leaving a like and comment because I’ve gotten good at spotting the more prolific ai genned stuff (illustrations and photorealism) but this is important too.
AI is teaching people how to think critically. Also thanks to your video I just spent an hour looking at Amazon for AI pics.
Is the ai teaching them? Or are people teaching people to look closer?
@@crochet.with.illjay good point.
One of the main things that betrays AI Art is the background. If you’re suspicious that a picture is AI generated, _scrutinise_ the background if you can. Some examples here are at 0:57 (some of the bricks near the woman’s head appear to be melded together), 1:01 (river canal turns inward towards the woman’s figure on the right, and the big building in the back seems to be on top of what looks like a bridge structure even though there’s no sign of a bridge going across behind the woman) and 1:09 (metal pole with no purpose is randomly in the background, the perception depth between the old woman and the car is screwed, and the woman’s garage seems to go way far back than a normal garage would).
Yep, good eye!
My mom got into crocheting about two years ago and now AI's coming for crocheting? Geez. I can't comprehend the stitch patterns but at least I know what I see around the house isn't fake!
I really wonder how anyone are fooled by this. My first encounter with these things and I could tell that they just can't be real.
Still, I do love them in a way. It is just a fun thing to look at and they are sometimes beautiful. Also, I mostly don't really crochet with a pattern and so I often found myself trying to "reconstruct" the A.I. item, how could they be constructed in a proper way and how they would actually look like if crocheted for real. I do realize that making most of them would require a lot of time and effort.
So I don't really mind most of these A.I. images. I found them fun. Still, I prefer to see the real stuff which have actual effort in them for you to admire and only look at the A.I. stuff if only I choose to (which is actually not that often).
And I do have to put the line down against the people who pretend these are real stuff and trick people. Like, no! It is one thing to have fun at seeing what an A.I could come up with; deception is just evil.
The first one shown honestly looks like string and glue art. Honestly I’m actually surprised that I’ve never come across any AI imposters
Yeah, zooming in is a good approach. Not just missing the stitches themselves, but also more generally - things that should be textured often aren't, and things that give the impression of thinfs like fabric patterns or textures will be haphazard at a closer look.
AI art is much the same way, from a tiny thumbnail maybe you can't tell but if it's blown up it's really obvious.
I’m glad we are making this aware. Wanted to also let people know there is one lady who crocheted full on grad dresses and formal wear but I think then you could see the detail on her pieces. Still rare for a big item but out there.
AI generated stuff usually makes me recoil in horror just from looking at it. Uncanny valley type stuff.
I have nothing against AI and I think it's quite fascinating to some degree having used it a lot myself. I think the biggest issue is people not mentioning it and taking credit for something they didn't make. Personally I know how to spot if something is AI generated but it pains me to see how many people get fooled on social media (look at the skin, fingers, limbs of animals... they often don't make sense). Thank you for informing people!
Exactly! Even if ai is mentioned in the caption there will still be people commenting like it’s real. I just want people to know it’s fake.
Agreed. I just look n scroll on. Sharing this with a friend because she cant tell the difference. Glad someone put this out there.
I had started commenting on the posts to call out the ai and then the algorithm flooded my feed with more, and now I have to block these pages ahah😅
@@crochet.with.illjayYeah the only option is to ignore them. Otherwise the algorithm thinks, "Oh you interacted with these videos, you must like them, here's some more!" Doh.
Another big clue is the drape of the fabric. So many AI fiber arts have really weird draping that doesn't follow the natural draping of the cloth
Sharp eye!
Sometimes AI crochet pictures also link to a "pattern"... But when you buy the actual pattern it's just AI generated mess too... So be careful!!
😱I am just hearing about this!
Some of the AI pics are genuinely great ideas that would be with a little reality tweek really cute. I could see AI helping designers come up with new ideas.
I hope that happens! Would love to see some inspired work.
I never thought there'd be an AI problem in such a niche community.
It’s going to get into everything I think 😳
this gives me the urge to actually make the things to see if it's actually possible/just because
I agree, thinking about it now as a comeback.
They've gone after CROCHET now??? Good lord. AI was fun for like a day but this is so exhausting
This just inspires me to create and photograph a huge project that people mistake for AI.
I hope you do!!
AI is so frustrating. It's stealing data from actual artists of all types and creating stuff based on that data. It's nothing but very specialized plagiarism.
There's actually people on the internet who truly believe, that because they set the parameters and made the AI make something, it is intellectually their property, and will swear that they made it and use AI as nothing but a paint brush.
Recently AI creators were caught speaking about artists as nothing but source material for their AI, and not a single one of the artists had signed a contract of any kind that would suggest doing so willingly.
AI is a cool concept, but there's a huge lack of protections that victimize artists, and people are far too infatuated with it to notice or care that it's happening.
It's a problem.
I can now differentiate ai pictures because of its filter and perfect picture and looks a bit animated, i always commented that "it was obviously AI" but sadly most people will believe in fake images
Thank you for ranting! To be honest, I didn’t even know that was a thing!
I can tell a lot of people have been unaware, felt inspired to share!
You are absolutelly right. But this gives inspiration by it's crazy multicolorness and multidetailness. For me these are the ideas how to step over the rules, to make something insane. I never share such things, I keep them for myself to cheer my fantasy. And I can say, what stops me from trying to make a straight copy - I imagine unbelievable amount of DUST that these beauties may instantly collect while being crocheted😂😂😂
I hope it does inspire more real art!
AI is the liar of reality
id like to see people make actual crochet pieces of ai, like those kids dresses, but make it better than the ai picture
I would honestly love to see it too!