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AI Images Seem Fake. Until You Know This.
The secret isn’t finding the best image model. It’s learning what each one gets wrong and using another model to fix it.
Have you ever gone down to the comments on a social network just to figure out whether an image was AI or not? Me too. That’s why I learned to make the ones nobody questions. The secret isn’t a better model. It’s using the right one and refusing to rely on a single one. Every AI is good at one thing and bad at another, so the play is to chain them: one lays down the face, another the character, another the finish. I call this a combination of models: each model is a piece that does its part, exactly the one it’s best at. The final image is the completed puzzle.
Today I’ll show you three ideas to push hyperrealism further and why combining models works better than looking for a single perfect one. Then I’ll challenge you to spot which image is not generated by AI. For me, ever since I understood this, they stopped looking perfect, not other people’s and not my own.
1. This Person Does Not Exist + Ideogram Character
The site thispersondoesnotexist.com is known for generating hyperrealistic faces. Ideogram, for its part, lets you generate characters starting from a…
