Redditor suspects trypophobia may be an instinctive AI-image detector
ISBN39393242 · reddit · 2026-10-10
A Redditor with trypophobia reports that AI-generated food and dinner photos trigger the same visceral disgust as their usual triggers, with no visible pattern — as if an invisible organic texture lurks behind. They use this feeling as their first tell on r/IsThisAI and speculate trypophobia sufferers may be better at spotting AI images. Personal observation, not research.
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