geoguessr pro takes REAL vs AI test

can a man with 10,000+ hours on street view tell the difference between what is real and what is ai?
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[@InfernalGarish]

This competition is unfair, we all know that rainbolt is an ai

[@manjilmanjil3003]

R AI NBOLT

[@swagjam1]

@@manjilmanjil3003is he cooking??!!!🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@valtrykearnav2080]

pin pls

[@Haha_I_Am_God3]

1.9k likes and 4 replys? -lemme change that- changed.

[@user-qs2hd3jv4d]

Rainbot

[@FaeTheMf]

7:50 “I don’t know what this pole is doing here” 8:04 “this pole makes a lot of sense” Oh ok understandable

[@harstar12345]

You must be new around here 😂

[@DkKobaADV]

The Polish are important in geoguesser. Especially our trees.

[@FaeTheMf]

@@harstar12345 yep I am 💀

[@ichosolemanuel6048]

At 7:50 he was talking about the 2nd image and at 8:04 he was talking about the 4th image. Thats why theres always a red arrow that shows what picture hes talking about

[@harstar12345]

@@FaeTheMf poles are used constantly to determine where you are. A lot of places look very, very similar so you see a certain pole you might be able to eliminate somewhere or know which country, or province you're in by that alone or with other clues

[@Ggg-lj5zz]

I found the difference in how a geoguesser player vs a "normal" person approaches this very interesting. You used mostly your game knowledge to find the right images, while I searched for misstakes in the details like wrong shadows etc.

[@Sapreme]

for me, the difficult part about looking for shadows and distortions is that its hard to tell if its due to the camera/blurring or if its an ai mistake

[@thegreendude2086]

Personally I could tell because it felt off and looking a bit longer I noticed some details thats seemed weird But crazy that this gut feeling can tell that something is off

[@n1gtwhisper158]

It was pretty obvious, stuff like the distorted piles of dirt and oddly formed tree branches gave it away for the first one​@@thegreendude2086

[@SWAT6809]

exactly my thought, last round picture 3 the shadow of the tree was way too on point to be AI, didn't need to see anything else.

[@dco1019]

yeah for example in the first quiz.. number 3 looks totally off for me.. it looks like they put together bushy greens, too clean accentuated road with too maintained side of the road for that part of the world, and the background sky pops way too much.. but for him it "made sense" somehow..

[@CarstenSvendsen]

7:40 "These leaves don't make sense" Ok bro, if you say so lol

[@chri-k]

They look like they're floating in midair

[@petrkdn8224]

AI foliage is really obvious, i looked at the trees of each round and had 100% win rate, got all of them correct, even identified the double AI round

[@chri-k]

@@petrkdn8224 I'd assume that it because foliage being correct relies on the complex 3D structure of the trees being correct, that with branches often being obscured, hidden by bloom, blending with background or getting messed up by image compression due to them being too small. And sometimes you need to get details which are not represented by anything in the image, like wind direction right That and AI does fine texture worse when it's not the focus.

[@Soliye.]

@@petrkdn8224 Yeah any sort of pattern generally throws the AI off. With trees and leaves however, you just need to ask yourself; what’s the logic being that branch and where is it coming from? It usually ends up looking like how fever dreams feel. In this case tho, I couldn’t see anything through my phone screen. Couldn’t see the details in a thumbnail resolution.

[@disguisedcat1750]

Yea I agree with previous replies. AI is terrible at leaves and other coordinated or semi coordinated structures (like candles, fires, lights and shadows) Branches out in the open wind will all lean towards the same direction under the effect of the sun and the wind. Individual leaves will always face the direction that gives them most sunlight, top leaves usually face east while bottom leaves face any opening to the sky they can find. A pile of big leafed plants is always enough to thwart any AI.

[@coniferous4637]

It’s crazy how many “felt like AI” that weren’t.

[@NotTsurugi]

That's the effect that AI images give. Once you start questioning reality, everything looks fake.

[@V_V-V_V]

Yeah whoever picked the real images did a great job at that, it's very intentional.

[@RainNMisery]

This kinda reminded me of that one game, exit 8 I believe. Where mind starts playing tricks on you and just start overthinking way too much so that even the most normal things start feeling like they dont belong there

[@JohnAndJohner]

Google Streetview does have a lot of weird distortion and such that looks AI generated because it kind of is, with the way 360 views are spliced.

[@eragon78]

At some point AI becomes realistic enough that even just slightly weird real pictures blur the line with good AI.

[@electrium3556]

I think the craziest part about them is if nobody told you that any were AI generated, aside from the obvious "3"s, is that they fool just about anyone.

[@tammato4458]

Yeah it's horrifying. Objectivity is gonna vanish

[@Eis_]

That's the issue with Deceptive Imagery: You caption it enough, just make it "look real", and people are going to believe it.

[@ABC-lm9do]

I went 5/5 but not for the reason of knowing its AI like him I just found distinctive color grading differences between real cameras and FOV it feels like art more than an actual picture its scary how accurate some were tho.

[@alansmithee419]

@@ABC-lm9do Yeah, that's another scary thing. When you have to be an expert in a relevant field to have much of a chance when you *know* something AI is present, pretty much no one will have any hope spotting these things in the wild. And it's only gonna get better, with video and eventually synced audio (by eventually I mean like 2 or 3 years tops) that to most people will appear completely seamless.

[@Heavy-TF2]

I went 5/5, I'm not a geoguessr pro, I'm not an expert in any relative field at all, AI just looks uncanny to any human being with functioning eyes(no, I wasn't just guessing)

[@Elec-citrus]

you forgot to put what other pros are choosing on the last round

[@georainbolt]

messed up the last like 20 sec on the export, sorry! 4/13 chose 4 was AI (31%) 7/13 chose 1 was AI (54%) 2/13 chose 2 was AI (15%)

[@Elec-citrus]

Thank you so much!

[@sanj_lh]

@@georainboltthe abrupt ending makes a lot more sense now

[@OfficialSaul]

@@georainboltLETS GO🐗

[@ThePharphis]

did anyone get perfect on all of them?@@georainbolt

[@kevin-pg8ys]

It would have been funny if the last slide was a trick question with 4 ai pics just to see them sweat for 20minutes for no reason

[@zeroyuki92]

Or maybe a trick question where all of them are real

[@emosch]

Recaptcha be Like:

[@isuckatmakingvideos5233]

Underrated comment

[@rogercruz1547]

Don't give google any ideas, please. It's hard the way it is already hahaha

[@bardistass]

"I'm not gonna sit here and cope" Cuts video short to sit here an cope 😂

[@5MadMovieMakers]

We're going to need experts in very specific things to help us spot AI images in the future

[@lpharmer3496]

I know nothing but I imagine you could use tools like how there is software that can be used to detect if a picture has been photoshopped

[@cameron7374]

@@lpharmer3496 At that point it just becomes an arms race so those also won't hold forever.

[@lpharmer3496]

@@cameron7374 true. Better ai image detection = better ai images until maybe an AI image can be created that is indistinguishable from a real image

[@CoalOres]

@@lpharmer3496 Thing is, the human brain has vastly more neurons than our image generating AI right now. Them having fewer neurons fundamentally limits their maximum performance even if you train them in a loop like that, i.e. they just don't have the brainpower. Normal adversarial networks like you describe are equal in network size and so they eventually are able to fool the discriminator (the other AI checking if the output is real or fake), but if the discriminator (a human in this case) is much bigger, it may not ever get higher than a certain success rate. True human/superhuman performance might be a long way off (until we can make much bigger neural networks).

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

​@@lpharmer3496Ai is often trained by using that tech, back and forth, informing itself with a pass/fail nonstop several thousand times a second.

[@da-ninja]

You can't spell RAINBOLT without AI.

[@mrscrunklebot]

d”A” n”I”nja

[@haitruongminh269]

Let him cook

[@mcanix]

Image 2 at 6:24 is Cheddar Gorge, taken in the June 2023 images, at 51.284166, -2.762760

[@thegoatfather1676]

Google lens

[@Pavel-yp2je]

I actually knew this one! If you do rock climbing in UK, it's pretty easy. And something about that rock by the parking also screams UK to me idk why lol but yeah, does not look like UK to a normal person, sky too blue lmao

[@ArthurB26]

​@@Pavel-yp2je Can you confirm my theory that rock is there to stop cars from pulling out at an angle and prevent crashes with cars coming around the corner?

[@Pavel-yp2je]

@@ArthurB26 can't confirm but wouldn't be surprised if that's the case

[@AugustoValentini]

I love her! Amazing drag queen lol

[@SqurtieMan]

Hey editor, I got a pro tip: If you have information on screen like at 3:17, a good rule of thumb is to have it there long enough that you personally can read it twice. I get that it would likely mess with the pacing if you're dedicating time to it, but having it on screen for not even 2 seconds is very easy to outright miss for casual viewers like myself.

[@shmooveyea]

pause the video.

[@thegoatfather1676]

Someone teach bro how to pause a video 😭 🙏

[@TeddyLucia1006]

I doubt this was the intention of the editor, but flashes of text probably help the algorithm because viewers either need to pause or rewind to read it, which increases the watch time per click.

[@Zealko]

people who are saying pause the video are missing the point 😂

[@sleepysera]

​@@shmooveyea It was on for such a short time that I literally couldn't even pause it in time. If I have to rewind just to not miss kind of important information, it sucks :/

[@pingu-chan5918]

you might be AI

[@SJrad]

On round 1, i thought 3 would be AI because that road looks too smooth without any texture

[@crazydragy4233]

Same

[@tiffanynichol7765]

I've been wondering who gets to keep their job when AI takes over... Just him.

[@EEEEEEEE]

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

[@haruyanto8085]

For now

[@CocytusCrowley]

wait until There are AI that can detect AI photo

[@theseeker3073]

AI won’t replace you, a person who uses AI will.

[@sanj_lh]

JHK working overtime to match the AI locations and select 10 troll daily challenge locations for two videos posted on the same day damn haha

[@JHK314]

🧑‍🏭

[@marek.tomastik]

8:19 "But like actually, you have to use my... brain" you can feel the struggle not to say "use my noggin" :D

[@roronoboat]

he cut right after, so probably did say noggin and then deleted it

[@VocaChanneru]

what bothers me these days with all the AI stuff is those arrogant people who surged who keep telling how "extremely easy" it is to tell real from AI, especially in drawings like No bruh, that's not easy, it's becoming very hard for the common folks to differentiate certain stuff. And then people come with all the technical knowledge about design/art/photography and I be like bro do u know most people don't have said knowledge right lol

[@coragon42]

And it will also only become more difficult. (Saying this as an artist)

[@sirmounted8499]

it was easy not that long ago, the technology is moving faster than people can update the information in their brains about said technology

[@anikinmartinez4726]

"And then people come with all the technical knowledge about design/art/photography" so for some people it is easy?

[@slickvik4508]

@@anikinmartinez4726 even with the knowledge its not given some of the scores the pros got

[@a2rhombus2]

It's still pretty easy most of the time

[@CookieIsntAvailable]

2:54 picture 2 was super easy, just from a quick glance I could see the trees were casting a shadow on a cloudy day.

[@AlphaMateo]

Your so damn smart

[@hyatt4259]

For round 2 no roads towards the houses

[@shadowd9810]

oh yeah the shadows under the trees were suspiciously darker than they should be good eye

[@aaronjackson5972]

My favorite video you have ever done, this is just incredible

[@charlie10010]

This was an awesome video & concept. You've been dropping constant bangers lately keep it up!

[@vtcakavsmoace3410]

6:17 that's cheddar gorge, went there as a kid and remember that vantage point

[@ParilPMC]

I'll be honest I'm surprised you missed the last one; if you look at the center-right of the trees, there's clear artifacting from panoramic/stitched imaging just on the border of it. I don't think AI would have mimicked that sort of artifact.

[@colecube8251]

I can't see what ur talking about at all :(

[@sirmounted8499]

@@colecube8251top left pic on the last challenge, above where the road ends you can see the sky between the trees on the left and right side of the road there is a horizontal line

[@ParilPMC]

@@colecube8251 Look at the top-left image, dead center but on the right edge - there's like a "bone" shape in a branch. Directly to its side, there's an identical copy of that bone shape. If you look closelier, you'll notice that there's an entire smear of clone/copy of that whole area, which is pretty common in panoramic imaging when it's stitching images together. Essentially the whole right edge (like the last 30 columns or so) are just copied from directly to the left of it.

[@ParilPMC]

@@colecube8251 i.imgur.com/7Q8C0yt.png here's a little diagram of what I mean

[@ParilPMC]

@@colecube8251 i.imgur.com / 7Q8C0yt.png - here's a visual explanation of what I mean

[@Halcy_n]

Who knew rainbolt was just 2 facebook moms in a trenchcoat

[@Jellylamps]

AI imagery is definitely harder to identify when there's a lot of visual noise and few actual landmarks to compare. This test is one of the first times I've actually had to struggle to tell it apart, even got two of them wrong

[@Otter_129]

Now do it in 0.1 seconds, pixelated, black and white, and upside down 😊

[@jacksonbahm9731]

I think with a few small changes you could make this a lot harder. If you limited it to one country (Brazil) then the AI would more consistently generate realistic images. Also if you had a pro work with the person generating them to select the best images you could filter out some of the easier tells of these images.

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

The scary part will be that when someone is malicious with AI, it won't be in a challenge where you know it's present, and there won't be a reveal to show that you were right and wrong. It will all slowly seed itself unannounced into our images, art, libraries, and legal evidence.

[@lollypop00p]

The last one had some clear giveaways if you spotted them. The trees on the center-left have gaps in them, they are just floating. Also the trees on the right are super squiggly

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

No, those are not gaps. Those are leaves in front of the trunks.

[@pingogpong]

Clear giveaway on number 2 as well. The snow one. The poles don't have wires. The electric wires are hanging mid air

[@pokecat6122]

great video. would love to see a part 2

[@kopaxson5202]

ngl, you might benefit from an eye tracker. You could just show what you're looking at when you talk about stuff instead of having to explain or edit in the red arrow.

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you so much for the link through to my video Rainbolt! You are amazing. Thanks for all of your brilliant work - you're an inspiration to many! 🙌

[@flameguy3416]

This is CRAZY. And to think this is basically the bottom of the exponential development curve.

[@Speed001]

I'd guess middle. He got a dude that does ai and a geoguesser pro.

[@luka188]

@@Speed001 Now, this is the bottom. This AI stuff has barely been out for a few years. It is nowhere near to completion or to its full potential.

[@haruyanto8085]

Might not actually be the bottom

[@haruyanto8085]

​@@luka188it's full potential is based on what information we use to train it, most ai already are trained billions if not trillions of input, I doubt we can get more than that tbh, for now the big difference is how well you can train the ai and how much of its potential we can get out

[@Archimedes.5000]

@@luka188it hasn't been for "a few years", it has been literally decades of research and development at this point. It's been only "a few years" since AI image generation got commercially viable, which for many products is close to the final form (though not for AI of course), but still it definitely isn't "bottom".

[@Offbeet2886]

genuinely it feels like this could be turned into a "sequel" to geoguessr called like aiguessr or something to that effect

[@MrReese]

Time for a weekly series of this type of video, super interesting and entertaining!

[@shadowlord0162]

rAInbolt moment

[@Anas-1220]

haha

[@DriftEJ20]

Just want to say this is an awesome concept for a video, would watch more of these for sure. It's a novel idea to have you guessing something other than location. I think the viewer learns things about the thought process of a GeoGuessr that likely wouldn't come up in a normal video.

[@jasonyoungblood9359]

Great idea!! Please do another one!

[@sanj_lh]

Ooo the first one I was like #3 looks too crispy it has to be that-nope that’s just normal gen 4

[@Durngor]

Same, but I thought the road was onto of the rightside foiliage. The gap between road and plants was missing to me

[@FrostburnIsle]

"as someone with 10 thousand hours on street view" wo.

[@4ndeol]

love this type of content

[@LLockey]

His face's so smooth he looks like he's AI generated

[@aleksandra5808]

What you said about the leaves made a lot of sense, surprised you didn't go with that one for the last choice

[@st0rysphere]

bro dont have to work for FBI, FBI needs to work for him 💀 Edit: i wake up and saw i was famous 🗿

[@arubberroomwithrats]

im gonna touch u

[@himanshucubing7541]

100 likes and no comment let me fix it

[@pidx]

@@himanshucubing7541 Corny asf

[@AdamIsaacs1]

the on/off vocal fry 😬😬😬 so hard to watch but i love the content

[@masternerd64]

I think the clouds for the last one gave it away

[@LyraHooves]

Rainbolt trying to ride a bike in autumn: “Meh, these leaves don't make sense!”

[@Mote.]

This is really fun to play along to the video ✌🏻

[@NorthzYT]

It's really impressive how accurate Rainbolt was, but like he said it's not easy. He's spending a long time analyzing each image and goes in with the knowledge that one of them is fake, the average person is not going to spend more than a minute looking at photos while scrutinizing every detail.

[@manleycreations6466]

For the first one I noticed that the clouds appeared to be covering the sky which should make the shadows overcast yet the trees at the far point in the road had hard shadows which you would not get on an overcast day.

[@confuseduck227]

bold of me to assume i would be able to point out the difference like him

[@henryfinlay]

I think one giveaway for all of them was the incorrect exposure of the sky. especially the last 2 rounds, the imposter images felt like the sky should be bright white to match the exposure of the road/foliage

[@candycastle3194]

On the 4th round #2 and #3 had ditches beside the roads which just felt weird to me.

[@efrynotavailable7021]

0:04 I literally remember my mom thinking that image on the left is real when there was a huge snow storm 😂

[@conditi0ns]

Bro on the last one on 4 look at the trees on the top left it looks so weird almost like a sheet or thin film is spread across from that tree trunk. It's like it's a solid piece of some type of film material.

[@ricepower2005]

bro is the one who makes maps from memory

[@llamaa163]

Love how ghk definitely put the 2 on round four for the round four blunder

[@ethanhermsey]

I really like this idea. Well done.

[@autumn702]

At 3:20 the thing that gave #4 away for me was the shadow of the snowbank on the right. There is a little dip in the middle of the shadow closest to the camera but there is no dip in the actual snowbank to create it.

[@macewindu9635]

No one break this guys heart....

[@kali_kali_kali_]

The fact "Ryanbrawl" claims he is a human shows how dangerous AI is

[@Mote.]

You noticing the leaves staying on the road is big brain, I didn't even think of that. You really use your noggin.

[@Nellak2011]

I don't have much geoguesser knowledge or meta and I didn't analyze it like some commenters are saying by looking for oddities, however, I just relied solely on my intuition and still got all of them right. Your subconscious is very powerful, even without training.

[@Backroads000]

Round 3 Picture 2 is Cheddar Gorge in the UK for anyone wondering. It's a lovely place but ruined by people with loud cars doing races up it

[@schenkus4530]

"Gen two snow coverage" is my new favorite quote

[@unorevers7160]

We need Rainbold to review evidence in court. This is to only way to determine the authenticity of images anymore.

[@muslimgamerrr9479]

3:00 i thouhg it was 3 so bad the road looks so shiny

[@thewoodpeckers655]

I think so far ai can imitate features in images like what you’d expect very well now, but what it has trouble with is what things may correlate, and what causes something and what might be a coincidence. Things like the road cracks and road bumps being at the same place was a big teller that it was a real image.

[@maruguitarTW]

Great content!

[@jblen]

This is so crazy. Once rainbolt pointed out certain features, it made sense, but initially just trying to find things myself I would basically suspect every single image equally. You could definitely make a game where it gets 3 screenshots randomly from street view and generates one ai streetview photo, and you just have to choose which is fake until you lose. It would probably be really easy for experts as unlike in this video, there wouldn't be an ai expert to verify and refine the image, but for everyday people that sounds super cool. In fact now I wish i had the knowledge to host that as an actual site, maybe after i graduate I'll try and code it up but i wouldn't know how to host it without costing me a fortune

[@aeronthompson674]

I love every time he says "this pole makes sense, yes" and I'm sitting here like "...alright bro, if you say so"

[@todeilfungo]

In the first one you can see that there's sharp shadows while the light is diffused, that gave it up easily

[@rapideye101]

for set 4, image top-left: why are there repetitions in the lower-right area of the foliage? there are clearly some branches and leaves which are copy-pasted. are those street view image stitching artefacts?

[@joelw445]

on round 5 #4 had a missing part of one of the large evergreens trunks which gave it away

[@DrewsterRooster37]

The second one, option 4 didn't even have the wires connected to the pole

[@mitchellalexander1581]

A perfect application of your skill set for the modern era. You could make bank as a moderator

[@reneedemers8218]

In general, I would have struggled to spot these, but when you maybe the 4th image in that last round black and white, I suddenly noticed this weird tagent of shadow that seemed to "continue" the road up into the sky, which I didn't notice in color at ALL. that one where the Trees on the Right gave it away for you too - the thing I noticed there was how the upper branches all formed a line in a way that looked like a climbing vine hanging on wire but without any poles going on.

[@chir0pter]

Last round was crazy, so many red herrings for #4. I think it comes down to being on wrong side of road, but could be not looking in direction of travel? The mailbox could be key too but I don’t have the resolution.

[@JustFor-dq5wc]

This whole test is AI made.

[@dabasil]

Bruh i already lost from the first round, 3 road looks so weird

[@Welonas]

the fear of being a facebook mom is scary

[@RabbitEarsCh]

This just goes again to show, you gotta lock in!!!! On that last one you had it and it was just a matter of locking in...

[@sammythesnake6339]

The thing that sold me for 1 being real on the last round was because on the right if you look at the edge of the image at the bush you will see a duplication of the bush, which I doubt AI would replicate.

[@finningram4905]

the clouds in #4 of the last round are the giveaway

[@user-ur2gt7je5c]

And we never get to know what the other pros picked for the last one

[@pelpikx]

6:55 That is in Cheddar, I was there, and rock is used to put stuff on it while parked

[@olahammarstrom8800]

The leaves on the road looks like they are on a flat plane instead of following the subtleties of the road surface.

[@shavranotheferanox7809]

with round 2, i thought 4 whas ai because the wires do not line up with the pole at all, like the most promenent pole has no wires, and there are 2 wires that just go to nothing

[@alandoan1640]

Man the shadows really give them away

[@MrCyanGaming]

7:22 there's a face in the top right of the 3rd image

[@TemporarySolution]

There's also one in the right of the second picture

[@TrollBTD]

2:30 the road is quite narrow, and the one side falls off, which could have cars go on the grass, explaining why one side is ‘mowed’

[@Hansengineering]

Interesting. For the third set, photo 3 is VERY similar to the road that the MABDR starts on in VA. Like so similar i had to mem check and the only meaningful difference is there's no paint on the VA mountain road.

[@ThatArjun]

Bro has a personal battle with AI

[@Alice_Fumo]

My method woulda been to zoom WAY in and see which of the noise patterns are weird. I'm not sure whether this method works for all AI image generators, but for many its often quite obvious.

[@voidmare]

We need a game like this, seems insanely hard.

[@bean9786]

You almost got them all right, but if you do this again - try using the shadows more! I was able to pick a bit faster than you without much geographical info just by trying to assess if the shadows cast made any sense.

[@derfliv206]

Our last hope in the robot uprising. Who needs terminator warning dogs, well just have rainbolt, fiercely smacking his mouse behind a cctv.

[@1Lyc]

in the first one the road doing a wavy thing as it goes into the distance gave it away for me. the other roads look practical. the wavy road looks like the road to a cartoon castle on a hill