Fact check: The fake animals going viral | DW News

So far, a thing that works for me is that AI creatures are often very anthropomorphic. They have front-facing eyes, feathers that grow like hair, and faces (or other traits, see Yoni Fish) that look very human. This is of course because they were generated to appeal to humans, and humans like to imagine nature as more anthropomorphic than than it actually is (see also every Disney movie). If you are familiar with nature as it exists, you will know that most creatures are SUPREMELY alien-looking. Their faces look a LOT less human than those of AI creatures, if they have faces at all. The AI sea slug with huge front-facing fish eyes is a great example of this. Slugs and snails don’t have vertebrate eyes in real life, but they DO have them in cartoons, to make them more appealing to humans.<br><br>The scales, feathers and fur of real creatures also follow an internal logic that AI (so far) seems oblivious to. People who aren’t familiar with animals might not notice it, but to someone who knows birds, that Umbrella Hat Bird looks about as real as Doctor Strange’s third eye. And the less said about Yoni Fish the better.