An AI dedicated to drawing hands could help all the other AIs improve

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Weird hands have become a well-known way to identify an image generated by artificial intelligence, but that could be set to change

By Matthew Sparkes

The strange hands in this image are one of several giveaways that it was generated by Midjourney

Cameron Butler

Image-generating artificial intelligence models like DALL-E and Midjourney often have difficulty creating human hands, with many otherwise photorealistic pictures given away by hands with the wrong number of fingers or in impossible poses – so now researchers have created an AI dedicated to just drawing hands.

Most text-to-image AIs in use today are based on a technology called diffusion, which has become adept at creating photorealistic images, but they struggle to reproduce the shape …

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