{"id":23371,"date":"2024-03-11T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23371"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:01:06","slug":"kill-notice-image-of-the-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/03\/kill-notice-image-of-the-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill notice (re: image of the royal family)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some indications that an image is created by AI<\/a> showing wrong details of the human hand like 6 fingers. So far AI does not understand the semantic meaning of “hand” having only the visual demarcation of hands in images as trained by mechanical turks<\/a>. Images of hands however,\u00a0 can be misleading for the trained eye<\/a> where also good painters have difficulties.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a closer look at the images of Princess Kate and their kids <\/a>Charlotte (8, right) , Louis (5, left)\u00a0 and George, 10 (behind) by a check list that I developed earlier with another family member, the Andrew\/Maxwell\/Giuffre image<\/a> that even fooled me in the beginning.<\/p>\n

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Image source:<\/span> credible \/dpa.<\/p>\n

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Situation: <\/span>credible, should show their well being<\/p>\n

Photographer<\/span>: allegedly husband<\/p>\n

Camera<\/span>: unknown, cropped wide angle?<\/p>\n

The overall look<\/span>: A bit weird and plastic look in my eyes. Dimensions are wrong as her upper body seems too large for her legs. The right arm of Louis (and even George?) seem too long. Trying the posture of her in reality shows that it is unreal to get the embracing hands in this position.<\/p>\n

Hands<\/span>: The fingers of Charlotte’s left hand are larger than the fingers of her right hand. The index finger of Louis is missing which is difficult to reproduce in front of a mirror.<\/p>\n

Teeth<\/span>: Kate’s teeth look authentic when compared with other pictures of her, except for an unsharp band on the upper front teeth. Without having other images at hand, the teeth of the children look age-related (although Louis may be older than 5 on this picture).<\/p>\n

Pattern<\/span>: Floor looks good except left\u00a0 wall. There is a gap at the\u00a0 patten of right arm of Louis and lower left arm of Charlotte. While images of natural objects never have 100% identical patterns<\/a>, such patterns are frequent with man-made objects — and difficult for AI to reproduce.<\/p>\n

Sharpness:<\/span> Floor mosaic: gets unsharp from tile 6 onwards – which is otherwise a perfect sharp area in the rest of the image.<\/p>\n

Irregular<\/span>: Kate’s right upper shoe border looks double. Zipper misaligns.<\/p>\n

Sun\/Shadow<\/span>: sunshine on Kate’s left hand although there should be shadow under Charlotte’s arm. And well there background in the triangle under Charlotte’s arm is missing. The window mirror shows a tree that could cast more shadow on the scene.<\/p>\n

General<\/span>: Green leaves on the background trees in early March?<\/p>\n

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no clear results from splicing probability heatmap and ELA<\/p>\n

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no clear results from AI detectors, maybe it’s not de novo fabrication but merging of multiple sources<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/huggingface.co\/spaces\/umm-maybe\/AI-image-detector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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https:\/\/isitai.com\/ai-image-detector\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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March 11, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

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just 4 hours later a new message that I still do not believe to be the whole truth https:\/\/twitter.com\/KensingtonRoyal\/status\/1767135566645092616<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maybe that business should be left to professional photographers?<\/p>\n

More comments at SPON<\/a> by Matthias Kremp: Another possibility is a Google Pixel 8 that combines internally images which is however unlikely here. Kremp notices also the white paint at the step behind Louis.<\/p>\n

SZ highlights some details<\/a> that I do not understand.<\/p>\n

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March 12, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

The public interest continues ;-)\u00a0 BBC<\/a> and Youtube while the palace doesn’t show the original picture.<\/p>\n