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After reading millions of comments from Reddit and Hacker News, a new study found a significant increase in accusations of AI use.

Here's the concerning part: many of these accusations come from perceived inauthenticity instead of actual evidence of AI use.

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Couch too soft? Worry no more! A human named Rodney Harris sculpted a brick sofa just for you.

It sits randomly at a nursery school in Bristol, UK.

Pretty hardcore if you ask me. #NotByAI

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Backrooms director Kane Parsons spoke out against AI.

While Scorsese recently said he uses AI-generated storyboards to help communicate what he sees in his head, Backrooms' Parsons believes that AI-generated content lacks the human touch and diminishes creative specificity.

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Another day at Not By AI HQ. (づ ◕‿◕ )づ

Can you guess what this beautiful language is?

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This 1940 painting by Leonora Carrington will be displayed for the first time at London’s Freud Museum.

She suffered a breakdown in Madrid during WW II but encouraged by her psychiatrist, she created 2 paintings that are so surreal and yet full of emotion. #NotByAI

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AI or no AI? If AI, how much?

Japanese director Fukada argued that AI skips the human creative process and "jumps straight to the result."

Filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and Seth Rogen all warned that AI can hollow out the creative process.

The process is the point. 💆

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Taste is having the conviction to do something the algorithm wouldn’t.

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Remember “Good Advice Cupcake” from BuzzFeed? Now Amazon and BuzzFeed are turning it into an AI-generated animation.

“This is an assault on artists everywhere,” said original creator Loryn Brantz.

BuzzFeed, however, says it owns the IP — “not Loryn, who is a former employee.”

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Oh no no no, this is not a real rug.

Hand-carved into the wooden floor by a human named Selva Aparicio, this artwork turned her memory of her mother’s old rug into permanent art. ❤️ #NotByAI

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The game's OG creator, Sakaguchi, praised it after watching it:

"What is this!?
Pretty awesome, huh"

Meanwhile, SaGa Creator Kawazu replied directly:

"No Sakaguchi, please stop after the first line."

Other viewers pointed out how elements in it were used without permission.

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Remember Paris 2024? Let's take a moment to appreciate how beautiful the poster was.

Hand-drawn by a human named Ugo Gattoni who spent nearly 2,000 hours on it. #NotByAI

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Digital forensics expert Hany Farid shared a simple trick for spotting AI: Draw lines along floor tiles, reflections, and shadows. If the lines don't meet, it's likely AI.

When even governments are using AI photos to mislead, tricks like this are especially important.

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Everyday objects ❌
Doomsday art ✅

These are artworks by a human named Bastien Cuenot. His work combines industrial and organic elements, creating strange and surreal vibes. #NotByAI

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The colorful clouds appeared in Indonesia, causing traffic jams as locals stopped to film them. One of them was sipa5402, whose video proved this was #NotByAI

They are Iridescent clouds which appears when sunlight interacts with rain in the air, according to The Weather Channel.

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You’re looking at real furniture—100% rendered.

They were created by a human, Jonas Hejduk, who playfully turned crashed, unrendered, and glitching images into real-life objects. #NotByAI

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A YouTuber, IMPERIAL, showed how their video got shamelessly copied by AI, and more importantly, the humans behind AI.

This goes beyond AI scraping the internet, it is human feeding human-made videos to AI to plagiarize and create AI slop with a "human touch".

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"Dead Internet Theory" suggests that the internet, since 2016, is 'dead' because it's mostly just bots and algorithms. Real human content is therefore drowned out.

10 years later, "Dead Internet Theory" looks less like a theory and more like reality.

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If you are old enough to remember CD cases, you will smile when you see this My Neighbor Totoro’s concept CD case by an X user, panasonynet. The DVD surface reflects the characters like a little pond.

This design delivers both form and function 💆

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Sculptor and artist Daniel Arsham told Tatler Arts that when you look at these handcrafted sculptures, you may notice that some proportions or lines might be slightly off. That little imperfection is the soulful mark, full of warmth, that only a human can leave behind. #NotByAI

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In an interview, Laufey shared that she believes we should stop teaching young artists that only the obvious and quick art is successful.

"I think all good art that stands the test of time is created through years of craft and understanding."

We couldn’t agree more! #NotByAI