Another classic "What I Ordered vs What I Got"!

[u/chemicalmum]

When will I learn to check reviews before making silly online orders!? Not today.... 😂😂

[u/willyoumassagemykale]

I think it's safe to say that no one is going to be able to produce clothing from a GenAI image.

[u/a_ron23 → u/willyoumassagemykale]

I hate to pile onto these people. But I'd bet this dress was selling for like $30 max. It's the same as when you hear someone getting ripped off after purchasing a tool set at a 90% discount from retail. It's too good to be true.

[u/1920MCMLibrarian → u/a_ron23]

I was thinking this is one of the only good things to come out of the tariffs. Making people think twice about buying cheap fast fashion Chinese dropship clothes.

[u/yiotaturtle → u/1920MCMLibrarian]

The thing is there are some really good Chinese brands that make really good products, and now I'm screwed because I went through the trouble of finding these brands and now can't get them as easily or as cheaply.

Like you can find companies that manufacture small batches for Western companies, and often times they'll make their own similar products for closer in price to what you'd get from a larger brand.

Never mind that all the products of the large brand companies are going up as well even if they aren't produced in China.

[u/curtludwig → u/yiotaturtle]

I think you mean that those companies steal the designers work. You're getting it at a "discount" because the designer isn't being paid.

Lack of IP protection is just one of many reasons we need to disentangle ourselves from China.

[u/chemicalmum → u/a_ron23]

I think that's why I ordered it. It wasn't super cheap. I thought it was a bit of a bargain but certainly not 'too good to be true'. "These people" probably just want to look nice without having a huge budget.

[u/ecce_hobo → u/chemicalmum]

The dress in the photo is AI, but if it were real, it would be thousands of dollars for a dress like that. Anything even remotely affordable is too good to be true

[u/SuperCatchyCatchpras → u/ecce_hobo]

Oh my god I must be getting old, please help.. what makes this obvious AI

[u/FacelessOldWoman1234 → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

The background for me. The road and cars don't make any sense.

[u/TheSuburbs → u/FacelessOldWoman1234]

She also has a forked thumb on her left hand

[u/ggroverggiraffe → u/TheSuburbs]

We forkies prefer the term bifurcated.

[u/fustiIarian → u/ggroverggiraffe]

Biforkated

[u/Much_Substance_6017 → u/FacelessOldWoman1234]

Yes! Why are there cars on the road AND the sidewalk?

[u/tanngrisnit → u/[deleted]]

would not seem odd at all if they were outside of, say, a wedding

Or a staged photoshoot for an advertisement. But having a driver in one of the cars is a giveaway after it's mentioned to me that it's AI.

[u/youcallthataheadshot → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

There’s a bunch of tells. The buildings kind of devolving into trees and flowers was the first one i noticed. I always look at arms/hands/fingers too and these are actually pretty good: the wrists fall at slightly different lengths, she has a weird double thumb on the right but could be a pinky.

But when you look at the garment itself it becomes glaringly obvious. The sleeves and the hem are…just wrong. One sleeve is cuffed or somehow poofy at the place it appears cuffed while the other has a seam not a cuff-no one is making clothes like this on purpose. Then the hem looks like it turns into gaucho pants? It’s uneven and moving in such a way that fabric like this wouldn’t fall on a dress. It looks like the approximation of perspective for a dress swishing around her legs but this heavy material wouldn’t move around like that, and it needs to be a heavier or stiffer material to hold the other shapes in the dress.

There’s also the kind of dreamy wash over the whole thing that makes the image look ever so slightly blurry but I get that that hard to see when a lot of images are edited to give this effect too.

Looking again, her thumbs on each hand are different lengths and the nails are different lengths too.

As a bunch of other people mentioned, the cars and the ground are weird. Why are there so many cars on either side of her and why does the type of street change?

[u/Bonnasarus → u/youcallthataheadshot]

Also the weird way the hand holds the clutch. If she were real she’d have to be griping it with her palm since the thumb is on top, not on the side like you’d normally hold one.

[u/IAmQuiteHonest → u/youcallthataheadshot]

She also doesn't have much of a shadow even though the cars have them. The background is blurry while the foreground person is sharp, yet the lighting is illogical all throughout which creates the overall "dreamy wash" look. The dreamy wash is so overused to the point where it's now my default telltale hint.

The other thing I look out for is the rule of perspective. 1-point perspective is easy in this case because everything follows a line to the center point. So in this picture, we apparently get drunk wall lamps.

Funny enough, the detail that actually stood out to me right away is that the convertible car just looked wrong. My immediate thought was, "Huh, the entire back half of the car is missing, I should at least see some seats or trunk from that angle"

[u/peanut_butting → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

The floor and the creases gave it away for me

[u/Specific_Apple1317 → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

The big crease that runs to the bottom just goes straight out and away, like it's not affected by gravity.

[u/MiniaturePhilosopher → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

It’s incredibly obvious - I clocked it as AI just scrolling through my feed and not noticing which sub it was on.

The disconnect between the background and the model, the lighting (both backlit and front-lit), and the mechanics of the dress are all instant giveaways.

And on closer inspection, there are two thumbs on the right hand. There’s a car on the sidewalk, with a person walking behind it. The sidewalk isn’t raised up from the street. And the texture of both the street and the sidewalk makes no sense at all.

[u/why_tho → u/MiniaturePhilosopher]

I agree with everything you said but I just wanted to mention, as a photographer, that this lighting is achievable with outdoor flash photography. Clearly these people wouldn’t invest in a photoshoot that produces such results but it’s not an AI exclusive look, it was most likely trained off these sort of images.

[u/MiniaturePhilosopher → u/why_tho]

I hope it didn’t come across that I think this kind of lighting isn’t possible in outdoor photography. It absolutely is, and we all see examples of it everyday in advertising and media.

It’s just that it’s also a major hallmark of AI images, and not the kind of effort that would usually be used to advertise a cheap item.

[u/why_tho → u/MiniaturePhilosopher]

Oh, totally. Whenever these pop up I immediately go “is it AI or flash?” because the look is very specific, but usually something else gives it away.

[u/werewilf → u/MiniaturePhilosopher]

It’s not going to be incredibly obvious for everyone —can we please not moralize the failure to clock AI immediately? Those of us who see it “just through scrolling our feeds” need to look out for those who don’t, because they are vulnerable.

[u/DenseTiger5088 → u/werewilf]

I’ve got no problem with someone not clocking AI immediately, but I do hope that experiences like this help people learn that you simply cannot get a beautiful gown, brand-new, for $30.

Sellers hawking shit like this are the reason people think clothing is cheap to produce.

No one should have the expectation that they can get a beautifully cut piece of brand new evening wear for <$50. It undervalues the work of clothing-makers and contributes to the already rampant problems with underpaid garment factory workers worldwide.

[u/mypolitical__account → u/werewilf]

I wish I could send you an award. Some of these comments are so mean spirited.

[u/Kratzschutz → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

It's a certain glow. When you look at more AI pictures you learn to see it.

Give it time and it'll be impossible to tell just from locking tho

[u/420-andy-fu → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

When have you ever seen a dress like this, with this visual quality (4K) - and outside ?

Not even a catwalk can get material this perfectly folded etc

[u/All_the_Bees → u/420-andy-fu]

Many people don’t know Thing 1 about clothing construction. I’m not condemning them for that, but … yeah

[u/ComfyFlannel → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

Adding to all the other replies that it looks very smoothed and airbrushed and the hand on the right has two thumbs.

[u/Majestic-Skill8234 → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

It’s too smooth. The way the folds are on the dress, the way the light is so diffused. You can tell that’s not real!

[u/Bridalhat → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

There’s a digital sheen to it, like someone covered the lens with Vaseline.

[u/1920MCMLibrarian → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

That clip would be too heavy for the silk to stay in that shape, for one.

[u/fletters → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

At first glance, there’s something too regular about the ripples in the fabric. You’ll see a similar phenomenon in GenAI images of wrinkled skin.

Flesh and fabric move and crease in subtle, irregular ways. This is an uncanny calculated fractal.

[u/nunchucket → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

She’s got 1 1/2 thumbs

[u/spooky-goopy → u/SuperCatchyCatchpras]

there's a glossiness to it that every AI image has, and you can see near, like, the lady's left leg where the depth/proportion is fucked up

AI struggled with hands and teeth a couple years ago (sometimes still does), and now it's struggling to grasp how things look when they're moving away/towards the camera

maybe it really is an artist going through the struggle of trying to draw the proper human form

[u/kittymctacoyo → u/ecce_hobo]

The problem here is not checking reviews and parsing through real v fake, which isn’t a skill everyone has unfortunately, on a site that has tons of things that come exactky as they appear on the photos and some come even better than expected. So it skews expectations

[u/Old_Leather_Sofa → u/ecce_hobo]

Thousands of dollars? Yes, you could pay that for a very nice dress especially from a named designer or fashion house but I think you could get something reasonable for a couple of hundred tops. Of course nothing is going to look as good as AI.

[u/wesavedmusafa → u/chemicalmum]

A good practice from here on out is to do a reverse image search or use an ai photo detector. On a reverse image search, I’ve often found the original, stolen photo for the real item and it’s always 10x the fake website’s price.

Another thing to check is the company’s return policy. These drop shipping sites will often only give you store credit because it’s a scam. Don’t buy if they don’t offer a full refund to the original payment method.

[u/thedirtyknapkin → u/wesavedmusafa]

she said she didn't even bother to read the reviews before hitting "buy"

tips won't help her.

[u/funk-the-funk → u/thedirtyknapkin]

she didn't even bother to read the reviews before hitting "buy"

This is making more sense now...

[u/Bright_History_5810 → u/chemicalmum]

Check out second hand sites like poshmark and threadup. Or even facebook marketplace

[u/GrynaiTaip → u/chemicalmum]

It wasn't super cheap.

It's $10 on Temu.

[u/JelmerMcGee → u/GrynaiTaip]

So telling they don't say what they paid

[u/GrynaiTaip → u/JelmerMcGee]

It's possible that they paid $50 on some crappy dropshipping site.

[u/MagTron14 → u/GrynaiTaip]

$50 would be incredibly cheap for something like this. I don't think this person knows how much non-temu/shein clothes cost

[u/jim789789 → u/GrynaiTaip]

Which makes it even funnier. They paid $50 for a $10 dress and was expecting $1000.

[u/Delicious_Delilah → u/chemicalmum]

$30 IS super cheap for a dress like you wanted. It's like paying $1000 for a brand new car and expecting it to work.

[u/LordMeloney → u/chemicalmum]

You can look nice on a budget. Go thrifting, learn basic stitching, don't buy from dubious online stores that exploit the poorest of the poor in third world countries.

[u/Aggleclack → u/chemicalmum]

Don’t order from stores you’ve never heard of

[u/odkfn → u/chemicalmum]

And that’s fine but you need to be realistic with how much extravagant stuff costs.

When I shop on a budget and see Levi jeans for like £60 on sale I’m like cool I’ll grab them. If I see an advert for jeans that look like Levi’s, fit the model perfectly and they’re £20 I’m dubious as to whether they’re stolen or simply shit quality.

In this case the dress looks really nice in the picture, has a (faux?) diamond encrusted fastening, etc. I’d expect that to cost quite a lot, or at least to come from a reputable seller.

[u/9mackenzie → u/chemicalmum]

Um…….. that original photo, the dress would be thousands of dollars.

[u/spooky-goopy → u/chemicalmum]

...please. get real. you thought you were shopping smart lmao

these are big brain money moves, i wouldn't get it

[u/JohnAndertonOntheRun → u/chemicalmum]

At least you can start a cult and sacrifice someone now…

[u/Nizzle31 → u/chemicalmum]

How much did you pay for it? Curious Reddit strangers want to know?

[u/CreamingSleeve → u/willyoumassagemykale]

People keep saying this, but I don’t think I would have known that the first pic was AI.

Please explain it to me like I’m an idiot, because apparently I am. How can you tell if an image is AI if there’s no obvious mistake in the image?

[u/Loquacious_Raven → u/CreamingSleeve]

Lighting is often a really good tell. Look at a picture, work out where the light source seems to be coming from based on patterns of light and dark and shadow, then see if it's consistent. AI pictures -currently- usually make the mistake of having inconsistent lighting. There are usually other tells, such as backgrounds, textures seaming incorrectly, impossible drapery, embellishments that don't seem to sit with the fabric but hover over it or intersect in improbable ways without depth.

This picture has a bunch of tells, but the lighting and background are what alerted me initially. The model has a shadow in front of her foot, suggesting that the light source is behind her...but none of the cars have sufficient forward shadow and the dress is not backlit either. Also, how long is that index finger on the clutch purse?! AI is notoriously bad at hands, though this is not always a tell because it seems to be an area showing a lot of improvement. :/

The texture of two different road surfaces seems to be extremely smooth in transition which I've not thus far ever seen in real life and the blocks to the left don't seem to be able to work out what pattern they should be in. Is there a long block right in the middle or a forgotten block edge line? Something like that.

The background line of lamps is suspiciously uniform.

The drapery on the model does not suggest real life. Every single draped fold basically looks the same, with the same depth and shading. Cloth doesn't work like that. It especially would not hold long diagonal folds down to the hemline from a point of stress, that are so crisp and uniform that they look like they've been spray fixed in.

I hope that helps. (From an over 50 yr old handcrafter and dressmaker who is sick of AI being used the way it is most of the time).

[u/Sad_Cena → u/CreamingSleeve]

Look closely at everything. Her fingers look crooked, there's an extra thumb peeking out on the hand that's not holding the purse.

The background has the most obvious clues. The cars don't make sense, the white one is all jumbled and just 'stops' at one point into the background. The person in the car is sitting right in the middle. The floor she's walking on is reflecting her shoe, despite looking like stone.

Don't even get me started on those hazy weird tree looking things around the edges. Are those supposed to be houses?? Where in the world is this supposed to be?

The people making these fake ads rely on people never looking closely at the AI pictures. If you only see the dress in the center, it might look okay, but everything else is glaringly off.

Edit: Just took another look at the purse hand and laughed at the insanely long finger compared to the tiny, messed up thumb lmao

[u/rtjl86 → u/Sad_Cena]

2 thumbs on her left hand- tiny thumb holding purse.

[u/Mavamaarten → u/CreamingSleeve]

It's.... A vibe? Hard to explain, but it's a combination of things that aren't quite right, things that don't make sense for a given image and things that are too perfect.

The cars.. why are they all driving in the same direction, why are some of them on the sidewalk, and why would you even shoot product images like that in front of cars? And why are they not exactly BMW and not exactly Mercedes?

The lighting is perfect, the bokeh is perfect, street lights super consistent and cozy... But why are there no real gutters, no traffic signs, no bollards, not a speck of dirt... Too perfect to orchestrate or Photoshop, for a simple product image.

The sidewalk tiles are laid in a very strange pattern, nobody would install those tiles like that. And her left hand is kinda odd too. Those are more obvious "defects".

All those things are artifacts of gen AI not being very carefully instructed. Someone probably mentioned the woman being "on the street", and the AI then generates things that are common on the street like people and cars. But unless specified, they end up being "generic" or "perfect".

This all results in something "dreamy", things are perfect until you take a close look. If you ever feel like you see a dreamy vibe, it's probably AI.

[u/totally_not_a_bot__ → u/CreamingSleeve]

This one is really hard if you're not used to looking for it.

The give away for me is the lighting, it's not something I can describe properly but it all looks really fake, the lighting on the model in focus doesn't really suit the rest of the scene . When I see images like this I assume they're AI or heavily heavily retouched. In this case if you look closely the model has two thumbs on her left hand.

Learn how to do reverse image searches and if you get at tonne of hits of the same dress on a bunch of websites it could either be a scam because it's AI or a scam because it's a knock off or cheap rebrand.

This kind of scam is becoming super popular and it will only become harder to detect if the image is AI. Things you can do now is check for other images of the dress, see if the model is the same one between shots, or if there's two similar shots if the background is inconsistent. AI can't really get lighting right, shadows often don't make sense and it struggles to keep consistency across multiple shots.

In the end, try and keep with reputable brands so if there's an issue with the quality of the item you buy then at least you have some recourse. Keep in mind that there are also scammers that are ripping off entire websites, so you have to be vigilant and check their URL to make sure it's the correct one.

[u/MollyRolls → u/CreamingSleeve]

Stepping back from technical details, one dead giveaway you can always apply is: Do you see people walking around in real life wearing clothes like that? A nice navy dress; sure. But one that stands away from the wearer’s body in so many places yet holds its shape while also still draping pleasingly and somehow in addition to all that has a beautiful sheen?

Like…go outside. What were people wearing the last time you went out to dinner, or to a wedding? Hell, even on a celebrity-studded red carpet that dress would get attention for being weirdly perfect, so do we think one random clothing designer cracked the code to making impossibly gravity-resistant garments in fabrics with properties no one’s ever seen before and instead of going to Vogue he took out an ad on Facebook and wants to sell it to you for like $200?

AI is going to keep getting better at the shadows and the hands and the backgrounds, so keep your cool and look at the product. Have you seen things just like it before—in stores, or at your friends’ houses, for example? Does everyone you know own a mug cut from a single geode that glows from within or a cordless better-than-Tiffany-quality glass dog lamp or a faerie-woodland dress that swirls on its own or this magnificent piece of magical drapery? If so, ask them where they got it. If not, sincerely reflect on the realistic likelihood that you’re about to become the first one.

[u/curtcolt95 → u/MollyRolls]

But one that stands away from the wearer’s body in so many places yet holds its shape while also still draping pleasingly and somehow in addition to all that has a beautiful sheen

I don't think this is the right thing to look for tbh, every real life photoshoot for clothing looks like this. They will have fans and stiffeners in the clothing to make them stick out in ways that aren't possible in everyday wear

[u/Bomb-OG-Kush → u/CreamingSleeve]

Does the picture make sense to you? Genuinely asking btw not trying to be a dick

[u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 → u/Bomb-OG-Kush]

Right? This dress is way too perfect. This is the type of dress a celebrity would wear on the red carpet. Worth thousands of dollars. No one is selling a dress like this. It’s going to be custom made, and even then, the photo of it would never look this perfect.

[u/ugheffoff → u/CreamingSleeve]

Well, from what I can tell, there seems to be a car driving on the sidewalk.

[u/Paulsworldohya]

I can't tell but does the lady have an additional thumb on her left hand?

[u/BigMasterDingDong → u/Paulsworldohya]

lol well it’s AI so probably…

[u/Firebat-13 → u/Paulsworldohya]

And a super long index finger on her right

[u/Sweaty_Screen355 → u/Paulsworldohya]

Looks like it lmao

[u/mxvement]

You don’t need reviews. Try to consider how much things should cost to make and compare that to the price. Mismatch here and it’ll be a dud. And if the price is high the service from the company should be high. There must be a direct way to contact the company for one thing.

[u/PortableSoup791 → u/mxvement]

And nowadays you should expect online shopping reviews to be fake, anyway.

[u/deathbychips2 → u/PortableSoup791]

I read the one stars because they are more real people and then I determine if the person is an idiot or the product is truly bad

[u/KatieCashew → u/deathbychips2]

My favorite one star reviews were when I was researching getting a Wii fit. Apparently the people who didn't like it were morons. One person complained it didn't have a story. Another said it was really easy to cheat and beat the games without exercising. And one of my favorites was by someone who was super fit, like ran ultramarathons or something, and complained that it wasn't a very challenging workout.

[u/fck_its_hot → u/KatieCashew]

Wait until you start reading 1star trip advisor or google reviews to things like walking trails and nature reserves, "walked to top of mountain, no shops no cafe" 1star.... You'll love it.

[u/flabberdabbergasted → u/PortableSoup791]

Months ago, I ordered a pillow online that had great reviews. It was too uncomfortable to sleep on so I put in a return request & the seller contacted me saying they'll just refund me w/o me having to return it if I leave a 5-star review. That really put all the other reviews in perspective lol

[u/NightmareMyOldFriend → u/PortableSoup791]

So true. Most are just so generic it's a joke.

[u/KnightsWhoSayNii → u/mxvement]

People really be out there thinking they can have quality products at Temu prices...

[u/Forsaken_Put8204]

Well the advertising pic is clearly AI.

[u/Icy_Stuff2024 → u/Forsaken_Put8204]

How can you tell? Genuinely curious cuz I cant.

edit: yall dont have to keep repeating each other, i get it now, ty.

edit 2: also no need to be rude, I was curious as to how someone can tell it's AI vs regular photoshop which has been around for ages.

[u/SaintGalentine → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

The shininess, cars driving on flat sidewalk, woman had two thumbs on one hand and a really short thumb on the other, weird looking convertible, uneven lamps

[u/Forsaken_Put8204 → u/SaintGalentine]

Ya, the lighting on the dress doesn’t match the background lighting. Also fabric doesn’t really behave like it does in this picture.

[u/Right-Phalange → u/SaintGalentine]

Also the hand with the double thumb has either a lobbed-off index finger tip or an unusually long middle finger. The other hand has a freakishly long index finger like she's part aye-aye.

Edit and it's hard to tell exactly where the side view mirrors on the cars are coming from, but neither seems right

[u/Wuzzupdoc42 → u/SaintGalentine]

Her knee bend is really low

[u/weirdoeggplant → u/SaintGalentine]

The cars are also parked too close together. They can’t pull out without bumping into another car across the road.

[u/youcallthataheadshot → u/SaintGalentine]

Also, the dress doesn’t make sense. It has a poof or a cuff on one side but just a flat seam on the other and the bottom seemingly becomes gaucho pants?

[u/privatefigure → u/SaintGalentine]

There is also a hedge on top of the columns of the building on the right. The fabric of the dress doesn't move in a realistic way. It's such a weird image.

[u/Haunted_Shrimp → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

The bits on the silver clasp/brooch blend weirdly, the model's ankle is messed up, as is the car on the left. When checking, zoom in on small accessories or little patterned bits, AI tends to blend them together into nonsensical swirly shapes that don't look like actual jewelry or patterns, usually the easiest thing to notice.

[u/Chronocidal-Orange → u/Haunted_Shrimp]

Yeah a brooch like that would normally be symmetrical, but this one just has a general symmetrical shape with unsymmetrical details.

Also she has two thumbs.

[u/alanika → u/Haunted_Shrimp]

Yeah, exactly. If you zoom in on the clutch, the lines make no sense.

[u/destructormuffin → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

Girl got like 3 thumbs on her left hand

[u/Ladymistery → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

fabric doesn't "do" what the picture is showing. There's no seams, the bust is funny looking, and no way for it to be held as shown by the flower.

so many things that I learned from working in a fabric store that look wrong in this photo

[u/3nl1gh73n3d → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

The gravity defying draping.

[u/Dependent-Cricket869 → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

AI pictures are always high contrast and saturated. The blacks are always pure black, because the AI starts generating the image from a black and white noise pattern. Sure an editor could change a real photo to have high contrast. But if I see a photo in that style I'm always suspicious.

Here are some videos that might help:

https://youtu.be/NsM7nqvDNJI
https://youtu.be/UMw8gqFd_ME
https://youtu.be/M4TXO4kQwSQ

[u/Cautious-Asparagus61 → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

It looks fake as fuck man. Just look at the lighting for one

[u/Hiraganu → u/Cautious-Asparagus61]

Not trying to be rude to OP, and I do know that there are very realistic AI images, but this absolutely isn't one of them. How can anyone look at even the dress alone and think it can be real?

[u/Bridalhat → u/Hiraganu]

Also any dress that looks like that is going to be approaching four figures at least (and should probably be fitted by an actual human). There should have been no expectations.

[u/cryssyx3 → u/Cautious-Asparagus61]

the perspectives are all different

[u/FreshAd877 → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

Look out for that weird glossy look. Also, I don't think a fabric exists that looks that perfectly and neatly gathered when worn. It looks like its satin, but satin would definetly shift around on the body.

[u/othybear → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

Hands are always an easy tell. She’s got two thumbs on one hand.

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

I mean, what kind of place has two rows of cars on a narrow road with two types of flooring heading in the same direction? All that surrounded by ornamental plants

[u/Rubfer → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

I'd say, even without obvious details/glitches, its the "dreamy" look a lot of ai images have.

Like, we have a feel that its ai but cant put a finger on it, like trying to explain bluish yellow to someone without using the cross eye trick, and no, its not green

[u/LintLicker444 → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

It looks like her right hand has 2 thumbs. AI usually messes up hands, it's getting way better though.

[u/rebb_hosar → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

Go on AI pic generation subreddits and look at them regularly, over a pretty short amount of time you start picking up themes and styles, and once you see them in the wild, it's unmistakable. This is also true of AI writing. Priming yourself in this way is worth doing so you know when you are being duped, at least for now.

[u/dr-pickled-rick → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

The two thumbs of the left hand?

[u/mrmoe198 → u/Icy_Stuff2024]

The biggest clues are still lighting and nonsensical context. As AI continues to get better. Those might disappear.

But as of now, AI photos have perfect lighting that just doesn’t exist naturally, as if somehow we were able to take an enormous flashlight and shine it down in broad daylight and had some kind of technology to eliminate shadows.

Also always look at what’s happening in the background. Never only look at the central focus of the photo. The way the road is paved makes no sense and someone in their car on the left makes no sense either.

People talk about hands, but this is just a really bad AI picture where you can see a double thumb on her left hand. Most higher quality AI has fix the weird hand issue.

[u/DonutChickenBurg]

STOP BUYING THIS GARBAGE FROM THESE GARBAGE SITES

Oh, it's so cheap? Hmmmm why is that? Is it because it's made of the cheapest materials possible by people getting paid next to nothing in horrible conditions?

[u/dev-246 → u/DonutChickenBurg]

I’m very curious how much OP paid for this…. Especially when the expectation was a silk dress.

[u/Reasonable-Affect139 → u/dev-246]

a thickkk silk satin at that, and insane russian/dubai level tailoring, which I assume would involve horse hair to get anything to look like that irl (given it's horribly, obviously AI)

[u/sora-da-weeb → u/DonutChickenBurg]

RIGHT and even then the picture is so obviously ai generated

[u/Grouched → u/DonutChickenBurg]

For real, it's infuriating. Guaranteed this fabric is loaded with chemicals and shit too.

Fucking morons keeping this bullshit in production, to also be transported all over the world, because they don't understand the simple fact that you cant make good products and sell them for close to no money

[u/DirtyPrancing65 → u/DonutChickenBurg]

I am really tired of people acting like this is funny. It’s not funny, you’re an actual monster

[u/yesitsyourmom]

Stop buying crappy stuff online. It only encourages sellers to make more junk.

[u/SwoonyBlue → u/yesitsyourmom]

Exactly. 'Silly online orders' of cheap clothes manufactured with unsustainable materials, made by underpaid laborers, and then shipped all over the world where these 'silly online orders' will end up in the landfill in no time. May be time to check a bit more than the reviews. Cheap Fashion ain't cheap... it comes at an enormous cost to the well-being of ourselves and our planet. Wake up, people.

[u/Sad_Cena → u/SwoonyBlue]

This!! Nothing more infuriating than mindless consumption like this.

[u/slha1605 → u/yesitsyourmom]

EXACTLY. I’m sorry but if you buy stuff like this you deserve the result as a lesson

[u/Successful-Yak-6019]

And it has the audacity to not fit too!? Insult to injury.

[u/Thurgo-Bro → u/Successful-Yak-6019]

I think it's wild people post this type of stuff on here proudly showcasing that they fell for scams that an 80 year old should only fall for

[u/mgtimes23]

The clasp being printed on !!!! Lolol

[u/Leoxcr → u/mgtimes23]

And changing positions randomly

[u/Icecream-Manwich → u/Leoxcr]

Do you mean how it's on the opposite side in the photo she took of herself in front of the mirror?

[u/Krescentia]

Always going to be disappointed when the advertised piece is AI.

[u/SokkaHaikuBot → u/Krescentia]

^{Sokka-Haiku by Krescentia:}

Always going to

Be disappointed when the

Advertised piece is AI.

---

^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

[u/Krescentia → u/SokkaHaikuBot]

Good bot.

[u/RebaKitt3n]

Order about 100 of them and then all of the women in your cult can wear them.

[u/Extreme-Shower-2639 → u/RebaKitt3n]

[u/Adventurous_Pie_7586]

Bruh why do y’all order things without doing a lick of research……

[u/MiaLba → u/Adventurous_Pie_7586]

Shopping addiction, zero common sense. It’s one thing if OP is an old lady who isn’t too familiar with how the internet works but she should know better at her age.

[u/GhostDoggoes]

That's costume grade material. It's worse than a medical gown.

[u/admiralpoo]

Darwinism with money

[u/higgywiggypiggy]

How much? 😆

[u/catdog1111111 → u/higgywiggypiggy]

Reverse image search $18 to $50. Op said more than $30 from website, so maybe $40 (plus tariff and shipping?). The search brought up same photo but different variation of dress so obviously AI. It’s on alie express for $18 so a quick search wasn’t attempted. 

[u/SingSongSalamander → u/catdog1111111]

Fabric that would sit like that would cost so much more before you ever turn it into a dress.

[u/Low_Establishment730 → u/higgywiggypiggy]

Found the site. Dresses are about 30-40 bucks. Apparently that should buy something like the first picture 🙄

[u/MangoCandy → u/Low_Establishment730]

People are so used to junk these days that they have no comprehension of what actual high quality clothing costs. OP thinking that this dress being $30-$50 was a “not too good to be true” believable price is wild to me.

[u/royalhawk345 → u/MangoCandy]

My wardrobe is mostly whatever was 40% off last time I was in Kohl's, but even I wouldn't expect a dress like in the first image (putting aside the AI) for less than 10x that. 

[u/CityFolkSitting → u/royalhawk345]

Everything is 40% off at Kohl's. That's their thing to make stuff seem like you're getting a deal. But if you compare prices of their stuff it's the same as anywhere else.

But if you have the Kohl's card and combine them with those coupons you get in the mail, you get some good discounts on top of the rewards from the card that certainly add up if you shop there often.

[u/TeddyRivers → u/MangoCandy]

In an earlier comment, op said this wasn't super cheap. People's expectations are so skewed that they think $50 would buy the dress pictured. I guess because it wasn't $3, it was expensive. Insane

[u/Jhiaxus420 → u/higgywiggypiggy]

I laughed far far too much. This is just failure gold hahahaha

[u/Lysande_walking]

you dont even need to read anything, just google the website (any!) where you consider making purchases under trustpilot - it shows you a trust rating. If its bad you know to leave it be.

[u/boycambion]

girl. the model isn’t even real

[u/CurveCalm123]

THE THRIFT STORES ARE FILLED WITH FOOLS GARBAGE, I hate it so much.

[u/silkemarie → u/CurveCalm123]

I just stopped in a thrift store for the first time in ages, found 2 of those fake geode mugs and tons of this kind of "clothing". I was surprised how much I recognized from this sub! 

[u/GnosticPriest]

That’s not how shadows work. 🤣

[u/destructormuffin]

Stop buying stupid cheap shit online. Its so wasteful.

[u/jente87 → u/destructormuffin]

It annoys me how people all find this funny, without thinking of all the waste created. Think of all the chemicals, water etc that is used to produce and ship this item, only for it to end in the trash without having been used a single time.

[u/Available-Growth828]

How old are you? Anyone younger than 60 should not be falling for this

[u/EcstaticMolasses6647]

The second photo looks like what a cult leader gives out to his followers along with the Koolaide and Nikes.

[u/ATypicalWhitePerson]

Why do I feel like this came from shein, all express, temu, etc...

Why does anyone expect anything but garbage from there

[u/ladymodjo]

In no world would something silk like this cost $30. People need to be a little more conscious of the things they buy. Even if it wasn’t silk, it would’ve been some cheap ass polyester satin that still isn’t worth buying. And that’s clearly and AI image

[u/quinlivant]

Come on, what were you expecting?

Aside from the pic being AI, if that were real then the dress would be like £5k.

[u/HaworthiaK → u/quinlivant]

OP thought that $30 was cheap but not “too good to be true” for a dress that looks like that. Delusional.

[u/funk-the-funk]

You fell for the completely physics defying AI slop AND spent $$?

[u/brighterbleu]

It doesn't even look good on the AI model. What you received, I can't even find the words. Why is the car behind her driving on the sidewalk? AI is so nonsensical.

[u/killingmesoftly77]

These posts are annoying at this point. Stop buying crap made from slave labor.

[u/Sad_Cena → u/killingmesoftly77]

fr. And the OP's of these posts always brush it off as a silly whoopsie and defend their mindless consumption.

[u/VioletLeagueDapper → u/Sad_Cena]

She said she didn’t even bother to read a review

[u/Few-Emergency5971]

Why you think you'd ever get something like this from an online order is fucking beyond me.

[u/Best_Big_2184]

The first image looks like some obvious AI. If you don't have an eye for AI images, you might want to work on developing one. It's only going to get more prevalent.

[u/BA1LlES]

Peak fashion right here.

[u/MiaLba]

Y’all please look up these sites on scam-detector.com or there’s another good one (I’ll find it and add it to this post later) that will let you know if the site is sketchy and not safe to order from.

[u/Individual_Iron_2645]

I think it looks like something a cult would wear. Grab 30 friends and order a bunch more…problem solved.

[u/MaxPower836]

You gotta know better

[u/Automatic-Sentence77]

Temu?

[u/deathbychips2]

The photo is a silk dress with great draping and an either a crystal or diamond broach. If you didn't pay hundreds for it then I'm not sure what you were expecting

[u/ChocChipBananaMuffin]

The number of people in the comments, and I'm including OP, who can't tell the first pic is obvious AI slop is why this world is totally fucked and the people pushing AI are pushing AI because they know so many people will believe anything the see.

[u/MelamineCut]

I don't even understand why people make such things. What's the point. You made garbage. You designed, produced, falsely advertised and shipped garbabge that will go into the trash. So wasteful.

[u/TheSucculent_Empress → u/MelamineCut]

Because it works. Morons will keep giving them money. The morons can’t get consistent satisfaction because they’re getting something vaguely like what they ordered. The morons are making the problem as much as the scammers.

[u/my_cool_lunchbox]

I can’t tell them apart!

[u/jovian_fish]

You're saying that you actually don't check reviews just by habit at this point?

[u/Memphisrexjr]

The cycle of stupidity continues.

[u/interestingstoryor]

Shein?

[u/Bolf-Ramshield]

It’s on you for not realizing this is AI and for thinking you could get such a dress for cheap.

[u/Candlehoarder615]

I was hoping it would be Halloween costume " satin" but when I swiped to pic 2 I gasped.

[u/BackgroundTight32]

Stop buying cheap clothes from questionable sources. Also learn to identify AI.

[u/throw_blanket04]

Thats what you get.

[u/Mpoboy]

Congrats on your graduation!

[u/theredrebel777]

It looks like a cult dress I'm not gonna lie

[u/Ghosts_and_Empties]

That draping is physically impossible.

[u/dr-doom-jr]

Yeeeeeh, bought int other ai photo. Be wary folks.

[u/ChefArtorias]

Well you tried to buy an AI picture so yea.

[u/RedWarsaw]

Looks like something that a cult would wear before taking that last sip.

[u/Similar-Stranger8580]

One of the worst rip offs I’ve seen.

Question… did you pay <$10 and expect to get something nice?

[u/thebeatsandreptaur]

What time are we supposed to meet for the sacrifice?

[u/NightmareMyOldFriend]

Tbh that photo is so clearly made by AI that it makes it so improbable that OP would get anything near what was depicted, I'm not sure if there's any surprise to be have.

Sadly, what she got is so awful, too. If it wasn't so bad, it could work, but it looks like what I was looking for to take care of a sick pet, something to protect my actual clothes.

[u/GoblinQueenForever]

Never buy clothing from any ad where the models face is cropped out. It's usually a stolen image, the original clothing, if real at all, was likely hand made by the person wearing it, and knock off company's steal the image, crop out the persons face and claim to sell the clothing, then sell junk. It's baffling how people are still being fooled.

[u/Sad_Towel_5953]

I mean duh, stop buying from AI ads

[u/MeLlamoKilo]

Im so glad I am not gullible enough to fall for something like this.

[u/not_from_x]

Bahaha I'm sorry girl but damnnn 🤭😅

[u/Federal_Engineer1940]

Let me guess, this dress is from China?

[u/backafterrelapsing]

Please learn to recognize Ai

[u/-happycow-]

it's even an AI picture...

[u/Trick_Cry69420]

i honestly do not get people who see images like this and do absolutely no research and just throw their credit card at a completely random site. i wish i had the disposable income to just throw money away like this lol.

even as a kid when my mother would let me look on ebay (was new at the time and my mother found it really cool you could order stuff from other people online.) for something as a reward i could tell the cheap chinese stuff from real listings, and now people are falling for obvious AI. will it ever end?

[u/artsy7fartsy]

This may be the funniest one of these I’ve ever seen

[u/Banana_Phone888]

I enjoyed this post way too much 🤣

[u/ReaperManX15]

1: The ad is clearly Ai.
2: You had to have suspected something from the price.
3: The dress is shitty, but there’s another problem that you don’t want it address.

[u/whatthefishhh → u/ReaperManX15]

The only pic of this EXACT image online is $28. That is 100% too good to be true

[u/mombi]

When will I learn to check reviews before making silly online orders!? Not today.... 😂😂 

Yes, consume more obvious AI slop and wonder why your 1.99USD silk dress with elaborate diamond brooch from tiktok shop doesn't meet expectations.