Found out most 'AI art' apps are just running filters on old photos

I was messing around with a free AI art generator last weekend, trying to turn a photo of my cat into something cool. After about 30 filters and 20 minutes, I looked at the fine print on their website. Turns out the app wasn't generating anything new. It was just applying a preset filter to my original photo and calling it AI innovation. I dug deeper and found a study from Stanford that said over 60 percent of these apps do the same thing. Felt a bit dumb for not noticing sooner. Has anyone else checked what their favorite art app is actually doing under the hood?

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jesse848d ago

That whole thing is a symptom of how everything's been getting dumbed down for the last 10 years or so... people slap a fancy label on something and suddenly it's revolutionary when it's really just the same old stuff repackaged. It's like how every new smartphone camera has "AI portrait mode" but all it does is blur the background a little more aggressively than the last one. Same with microwaves that have "smart sensors" but they just use a basic timer that guesses when your food is done. So yeah, finding out your AI art app is just a filter is disappointing but honestly it fits right in with the rest of the fake innovation out there.

paige8708d ago

dude I've started just reading the "how it works" section before I download anything now, saved myself from buying three different "AI" apps that were literally just Instagram filters with a monthly fee.