TIL my local art school banned AI portfolios after a student tried to pass off 12 Midjourney pieces as hand-drawn

Found out from a professor friend last Tuesday that the student used an AI upscaler to hide the artifacts, but forgot to remove the prompt metadata from 3 of the files, which got flagged during a routine check.

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fionam112d ago

Knew a guy back in my trucker days who got caught the same way... he was trying to pass off someone else's hand-drawn maps as his own for a land surveyor job he was angling for. Left the original filename and date stamps in the corner of every single one, didn't even bother renaming the folder he pulled them from. The hiring guy just opened the properties tab and saw it all, plain as day. People always think they're being slick with technology until they forget the little things like metadata or file names... it's the dumb stuff that trips you up every time.

tessaperry2d agoTop Commenter

Is it really that deep though? I mean yeah the guy made a boneheaded move leaving the old file info in there, but is passing off maps for a job that serious? Feels like people are acting like he tried to rob a bank or something. You're telling me nobody has ever fudged a resume or bent the truth a little to get a foot in the door? The hiring guy could've just said "hey these files are wrong" and moved on instead of making a whole production out of it. I get that lying about work is bad, but the way everyone's piling on him like he's some master criminal seems over the top.

morgan.jason2d ago

Yeah the "boneheaded move" part rings true to me, it's just a dumb mistake not some evil scheme. Feels like people forget that one dumb moment doesn't define who you are.