• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    AI slop? The text looks a bit wonky and the ISBN is invalid. It’s either 978-0220331132 or 978-0220331432, I can’t really tell but neither is valid. Besides, the last digit looks like it’s about to fall off.

    But still, the book’s physical condition itself looks realistic. Look at the bottom left corner or the spine for example, there are lots of tiny defects a real book would have. So the image and therefore the cover must both be real.

    Yet look at the ridges on the spine! You can’t (easily) achieve this with regular printing paper. It has to be a real paper book cover. But there’s no way anyone would AI generate the fucking ISBN bar code and sell it like this, is there? After all, I can’t see any pages either though which indicates the cover is standalone.

    I’m confused.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      Or maybe it’s a non-AI fake. Maybe made using traditional image-editing software, maybe an arts-and-crafts project.

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        That doesn’t explain the wonky looking p in the word “exploring” though.

        Also I’m fairly certain you live in Germany which means it’s 4 am when you replied. Go to sleep!

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          It’s not the P that looks wonky, it’s the fact that it says “ekploring”. It’s a very AI type of error for an angled X to be turned into a K instead

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            Yeah, everything else has an explanation, but k is nowhere near x on a keyboard and it is used correctly multiple times. The description is also generic af and doesn’t tell you anything about the book.

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            I think we’re referring to different words. Look at the text in the back (which is apparently called “blurb”) - the p is not closed and if it were closed, it would be way too “big”.

            You are right about the x having become a k on the front though, I didn’t spot that.

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      I don’t know I just found it on the internet and I didn’t overthink it so much 😭😭😭