IT should be easy as pie for hawk-eyed pizza fans to spot the eerie problem with these photos.
Can you work out what’s wrong with four tastebud-teasing photos of delicious pizza?
At first glance, it seems as though there’s nothing too suspicious.
The stunning detail of the crisped pepperoni is clear as day – as well as a gentle dusting of flour on the crust.
But the keen-eyed may notice that there are some very strange features on these pizzas.
Look closely at some of the toppings and you may see some very strange shapes that just don’t seem right.
That’s because all of the photos were generated by artificial intelligence.
These pizzas don’t exist, and never did.
Instead, they were created by The U.S. Sun using the Microsoft Bing AI.
The clever app features a free image generation tool that lets anyone create photorealistic photos of whatever they can dream up.
We previously turned famous cartoon characters into real people using Bing – can you tell who they are?
AI image generators create completely new images.
All you need to do is input text prompts.
The AI image models are trained on huge sets of images and captions – and learn how they’re related.
That means you can ask for a photo of a cat sitting on a giant pineapple in the street and you’ll get a pretty good result.
Microsoft’s Bing image creator uses an AI model called DALL-E.
This was created by OpenAI, and generates a set of images matching whatever prompt you write.
In this case, we simply asked Bing to create a set of photos depicting “a delicious pizza”.
It generated four shockingly realistic images in seconds.
They’re nearly flawless, although on closer inspection you’ll spot a few strange topping quirks.
There are half-formed tomatoes and improbably angular pepperoni slices.
But at a glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you were looking at a totally real photo of a pizza.
The Bing AI image generator is totally free to use here.
There’s no waiting list, so anyone can give it try today.
You’ll get better results if you give the AI more information.
“It works best when you’re highly descriptive,” Microsoft explains.
“So, get creative and add details: adjectives, locations, even artistic styles such as ‘digital art’ and ‘photorealistic’.”
Sometimes the AI will make mistakes – an image may have flaws, or not really show what you asked for.
But they’re getting smarter all the time, so the quality of these images will only increase in the future.
