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

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

7 April 2023

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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