6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real
An internet experiment revealed how easily people can mistake real art for AI-generated pieces. A cropped image of a genuine Monet painting was posted online, leading many to critique it as a fake. This incident highlights biases in how people perceive art based on its source, as studies show that context can significantly influence artistic judgment.
- ▪An anonymous artist posted a cropped image of a real Monet painting, claiming it was AI-generated.
- ▪Many commenters confidently criticized the painting, believing it to be a fake.
- ▪Research indicates that people often downgrade their perception of art once they learn it was created by AI.
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The internet was certain: the painting lacked “coherent composition,” the colors were an “incoherent muddle of inconsistently saturated greens.” Commenters piled on with extraordinary confidence, picking apart what they believed was an obvious AI-generated knockoff of Claude Monet. One person even wrote an over 700-word breakdown of the supposed fake’s shortcomings. There was just one problem: it was a real Monet.Recommended Video The experiment, which went viral on X last week, was set up by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pseudonym @SHL0MS.
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