artifacts around details are probably just compression, but noise in areas that you'd expect to be a solid colour seems like a pretty good tell. humans start with a blank page and add detail, but diffusion models start with pure noise and remove detail, so they would leave noise in weird places
January 15, 2026 at 12:03 AM
artifacts around details are probably just compression, but noise in areas that you'd expect to be a solid colour seems like a pretty good tell. humans start with a blank page and add detail, but diffusion models start with pure noise and remove detail, so they would leave noise in weird places
beeple is a dork, but to his credit after he made that ridiculous $69 million NFT sale he had the sense to immediately turn it into real dollars and laugh all the way to the real bank
January 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
beeple is a dork, but to his credit after he made that ridiculous $69 million NFT sale he had the sense to immediately turn it into real dollars and laugh all the way to the real bank
