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OK, we started you off with one that seemed relatively easy: The furniture in the computer-generated dollhouse doesn’t look like any you’d want to sit in, even if you were an inanimate doll. It’s also not entirely clear what any of those rooms are for — is one supposed to be a bedroom?

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This example demonstrates one of the big remaining challenges for AI image generators: realistic human faces. The portrait of President John F. Kennedy by the computer is better than most, but it still has some obvious flaws: a bulging cheek, cartoonish hair and eyes that don’t do justice to a politician who was famous in part for his good looks.

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Both of these plates of spaghetti look appetising enough, but the version created by the AI seems a little too perfect: The noodles are neatly organised. There’s also something about the shadows and the wooden surface that may be a tipoff for some people.

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Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings are among his most famous, and they were in the spotlight in October when climate activists in London covered one in soup. The attempt at an imitation is pretty good, but unlike van Gogh, the image generator chose to make all the blossoms look the same.

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Have you heard? AI struggles with ears. (Ba-dum ching!) But seriously folks, the machine came really close this time to creating a real boy, including facial features, but that odd-looking ear of his is a pretty big hint. Also, the hands look odder the longer you look at them.

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The girl’s clawlike hand gives this one away. The rest of the AI image may be passable — the carousel lights out of focus, the puff of cotton candy, the ponytail — but it’s rare to see a hand look like that.

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Both could be a fantasy world: The sunlight breaking through in the photograph and the fog in the AI-generated image are surreal. But a few things in the latter image give it away as fiction, including the too-perfect forest floor and the awkward posture of the dog’s legs.

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The texture of the AI-generated cubes may give them away as imposters — it’s not what we usually see in our daily lives. Notice that the edges of some of the cubes are also a little fuzzy, unlike the crisp, consistent lines of the cubes in the real photograph.

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You can say this about AI: It’s talented at depicting a certain kind of dystopia. In black and white, the Jasper image generator gives us a moody, desolate landscape that could pass for the aftermath of something horrific. Maybe it helps that we can’t see anything too up-close.

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This AI image generator seemed to have trouble with the surface of the water, depicting three waves with not much happening between them. It also had trouble with the sun: If the sun looks like that on your next beach vacation, something bad could be around the corner!