Can you tell which is real? AI-edited conference photo goes viral for its realism

threepointone · x · 2026-11-11

@keegabit shared a side-by-side from Google's Code Summit SF: one photo shows two tiny, half-height people standing in the hallway, the other shows the same three people normally — with nearly identical lighting, badges and background, making it genuinely hard to tell which shot is real.

The viral comparison is a vivid demonstration of how far current image generation/editing models have come at reproducing scene structure and person consistency convincingly.

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