We managed to get in touch with the administrators and moderators of 'People who think AI generated photos are real' and they agreed to tell us more about their group.

"The biggest issues we deal with are people trying to go against the community guidelines and trying to post images that contain nudity and aggression towards specific individuals," the team explained to Bored Panda.

Because of this, the group is set to approve-only posting, meaning that the team manually greenlights posts that appear on its feed, preventing repetitive or irrelevant content.

"Another issue that we have is people just generally not being nice in the comments," the admins and mods added.

For the untrained eye, it may seem that AI generates realistic images that are hard to distinguish from those created by humans, closer examination often reveals subtle nuances and imperfections that allow us to differentiate them.

For instance, the admins and mods of the group said that "AI hasn't been able to master the human form properly. There are often missing or extra ears, fingers, and entire arms."

Another thing that the folks behind 'People who think AI-generated photos are real' look for when analyzing an image is written language. "AI art struggles with letters and often ends up being a jumbled mess!" they said.

"Quite often, there will also be other inconsistencies in the image, such as a child holding up a picture that turns into their t-shirt, or it will look like a cross between a photograph and a painting."

"Quite often, these AI-created images can look real at first glance," the admins and mods said. "A lot of people aren't used to critically looking at something before hitting like or sharing content."

"We're seeing this more and more in the digital age where misinformation is spread like wildfire. This group was started as a bit of light-hearted fun, but we are quickly realizing that it can be used for helping educate people on what to look for in scams using AI-generated content."

The need for critical examination, as highlighted by the admins and mods, is certainly rising.

Consider, for example, the time when researchers Yunhao Zhang and Renee Richardson Gosline studied how people perceive work created by generative AI, humans, or some combination of the two.

Two key insights emerged. First, when people had no information about the source, they preferred the results generated by AI. But when people were told the source of the content, their estimation of work in which humans were involved went up — expressing what the researchers referred to as 'human favoritism.'

"The most direct implication is that consumers really don’t mind content that’s produced by AI. They're generally OK with it," Zhang said.

"At the same time, there's great benefit in knowing that humans are involved somewhere along the line — that their fingerprint is present."

So we can say that 'People who think AI generated photos are real' emerges as a community that offers not only a fun way to pass the time but also the tools to navigate the changing digital landscape.