A sunlit mountain ridge seen from above: real or AI?

As shared

A rocky mountain ridge with patches of snow under a bright sun and a blue sky.

Adobe Firefly Image 3, prompted by Jiří Vedral, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Source

AI-MADE

A machine made this.

How sure we areHigh

Based on 1 strong and 0 supporting piece of evidence.

What we found

This picture shows a sunlit mountain ridge seen from high above, with snow on the highest peak and the sun shining just over its edge. It was made with Adobe Firefly Image 3, an AI picture tool. Its file page on Wikimedia Commons names Jiří Vedral as the person who wrote the prompt and gives the date as 15 June 2024. The prompt asked for a "paradise looking, but believable mountain landscape from drone perspective", with the sun over the highest snowy peak. Commons files it among AI-generated landscapes. It treats the picture as public domain in the United States, because a picture made by a computer program does not have enough human authorship to be protected by copyright. With landscapes there is often no obvious flaw to find, so check where a picture first appeared, not just how it looks.

Key facts

Original source: Adobe Firefly Image 3, prompted by Jiří Vedral, via Wikimedia Commons
First published: Not recorded
Earlier appearances: Not recorded
The claim you saw: No caption recorded
Signs of AI: Yes. Shown below, but not what decided it

The evidence, strongest first

Strong Decides the answer

The maker says soWikimedia Commons file page: made with Adobe Firefly Image 3, 15 June 2024↗

Supporting Points the same way

None.

Weak Shown, not relied on

How it looksThe sun has long, neat rays like a drawn star. Pale lines run along the ridge like paths, but they lead nowhere. The snow lies in smooth stripes that look painted on. The rocks at the front are crisp, while the slopes further away turn soft and smeared.

Detector scores are often wrong, so they never decide a verdict here.

What we couldn’t establish

Exactly how it was made, and with which prompts, beyond what the sources above say. If you know more, tell us.

Bottom line

Made by AI: the maker says so.

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