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The Uncanny Valley of Perfect: How to Train Your Eye to Spot AI-Generated Images
There’s a skill I didn’t expect to need when I made the move from wedding photography into beauty retouching: learning to tell the difference between a photograph and a fabrication. Back when I started, the question was whether a retouch looked natural or “plastic.” Now the question has expanded. Clients send me reference images pulled from social media, mood boards assembled from Pinterest, and inspiration packs cobbled together from who-knows-where, and at least a few of those images in every batch are AI-generated, sometimes without the client even knowing.