{"id":484750,"date":"2026-05-14T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:49:20","slug":"someone-shared-a-real-monet-painting-as-ai-and-asked-for-critiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484750\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fascinating art social experiment unfolded on social media this week after someone shared an actual Monet painting as an AI-generated artwork and asked people to explain what makes the \u201cAI image\u201d inferior to a genuine Monet piece. There was no shortage of \u201csharp-eyed\u201d critics eager to chime in.<\/p>\n

It all started after X user @SHL0MS posted the painting<\/a> and wrote: \u201cI just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI. Please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The user even marked the post with X\u2019s \u201cMade with AI\u201d label to add to the deception. <\/p>\n

In reality, the painting is one of the 250 oil paintings in the renowned French Impressionist painter Claude Monet\u2019s Water Lilies series<\/a> in which he depicted scenes from his home flower garden over the final 31 years of his life.<\/p>\n

\"ImpressionistThe painting is one of the 250 or so paintings in the famous \u201cWater Lilies\u201d series by French painter Claude Monet. <\/p>\n

Critics, however, were eager to point out all kinds of \u201cobvious\u201d details that show why the \u201cAI\u201d Monet can\u2019t hold a candle to a genuine Monet. One person even took the time to write out an 850-word breakdown<\/a> of the AI work\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m disappointed I have to even point it out,\u201d writes @egg_oni<\/a>. \u201cThere is no cohesion to the depth and color choices. The reflection of the tree bleeds into the lilypads with no regard for spatial depth or contrast. The background lilypad-algae amalgam is egregiously vague, like most AI art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe reflection in AI art is just noise splattered right,\u201d writes @jordoxx<\/a>. \u201cMonet actually understood how light behaves on water.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe choice of color in places e.g. the purple around the lily pads sticks out to me as decidedly worse than most Monet,\u201d writes @0xchiefyeti<\/a>. \u201cI get a sense that the artist failed to connect their eyes to the brush\/palette [\u2026]\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo frame, no sense of the threshold between subject and object, just colors,\u201d writes @robertjett_<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would say that the allegedly real one here is superior in the sense that it carries, and conveys more information than the artificial one,\u201d writes @artprograce<\/a>. \u201cThe dark cold reflection of the trees triggers my attention. They strike me as slightly off, too dirty, and too pronounced to be natural.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m no artist but a real Monet actually looks like a real place\u2026\u201d writes @amaldorai<\/a>. \u201cthe further back you get in this picture the less it looks like anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDepth, contrast, and cohesion are the most obvious,\u201d writes @para_dim3<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s also no clear focal point.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt feels less lively,\u201d writes @AzuriSplashes<\/a>. \u201cIt lacks the texture, the rugged edges, the folds, the crevices and creases and bevels and topology of plastic arts. The fine, calculated highlights. The AI version is granulated pixelation, and it looks that way, it lacks the mess of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fact that it looks like s**t and is s**t,\u201d writes @RDL0013 in a since-deleted reply. \u201cSlop. Doesn\u2019t look anywhere near like a Monet. Looks exactly like somebody trying to replicate style and achieving like 20% of it. Not as vibrant as Monet\u2019s typical choice of colors. Looks dull.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s no coherent composition,\u201d writes @HundtRichard<\/a>. \u201cThe eye is drawn to the 1\/3rd from bottom, 1\/3rd from left region and there\u2019s nothing really to focus on. The lilly\u2019s contrast is too low and the negative space around it too cluttered. The surface texture in the water regions are too vertical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201c[T]here is no consistency in colour choice,\u201d writes @Polymind_<\/a>. \u201cThe view looks obscured perspective wise and feels like there is too much detail in the AI version, which if I am thinking correctly comes back again to the colours being so distinct and contrasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs an amateur art enjoyer, the only criticism I can offer is that the AI generated image does not make me feel anything,\u201d writes @ThrosturTh<\/a>. \u201cIt does not conjure emotion, thought or wonder. It\u2019s just a colorful wallpaper pattern. If you look up \u2018monet painting\u2019 in Google images, you feel something.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a certain harshness, no soft blending of colors, no depth, no symbiosis of the elements,\u201d writes @JesTer396<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe AI seems to be unable to distinguish plant reflections and submerged plants, for one,\u201d writes @DavyRogue27930<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s combining tokens from the two randomly and the result is an incoherent muddle of inconsistently saturated greens.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSpatial coherence,\u201d writes @enfilmigult<\/a>. \u201cThe phony gen-AI pic isn\u2019t getting it right and the reflections look like they\u2019re growing out of the water. You look at the painting and instantly see the angle of the water surface. Also those lily pads are hideous, looks like someone drew on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause it\u2019s crap. That simple,\u201d writes @nightingale9181<\/a>. \u201cThis ain\u2019t no painting. No talent to it. AI needs to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI present you with my eye lines, thickness denotes how quickly my eye moved,\u201d writes @KEMOS4BE in a since deleted post, which included helpful illustrations. \u201cOne has a sensible, meandering composition that fits the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the post<\/a> began to go viral, many of the insightful critics began deleting their replies, but thankfully @SHL0MS and other users such as @Jediwolf<\/a> took screenshots of some of the best replies before they disappeared.<\/p>\n

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People<\/a> are pointing out<\/a> that results of this silly experiment are in line with what studies have shown about how people perceive art differently in light of how it was produced. The famous 2004 Kruger study into something called the effort heuristic<\/a> found that people liked and valued artworks more if they believe they took more time and effort to create.<\/p>\n

There is also a natural human bias against AI. A 2024 study published in Nature<\/a> found that while people generally prefer AI-generated artworks over human-made ones when they didn\u2019t know they were AI-generated, they preferred AI art less after finding out that AI was behind it.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipants were unable to consistently distinguish between human and AI-created images,\u201d write researchers Simone Grassini and Mika Koivisto in the article titled \u201cUnderstanding how personality traits, experiences, and attitudes shape negative bias toward AI-generated artworks\u201d. \u201cFurthermore, despite generally preferring the AI-generated artworks over human-made ones, the participants displayed a negative bias against AI-generated artworks when subjective perception of source attribution was considered, thus rating as less preferable the artworks perceived more as AI-generated, independently on their true source.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur findings hold potential value for comprehending the acceptability of products generated by AI technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would be interesting for someone to now conduct the same experiment with photographs, perhaps with an obscure photo by Ansel Adams, for example. Given what science is showing about negative human feelings toward AI artwork, the results would presumably be just as hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fascinating art social experiment unfolded on social media this week after someone shared an actual Monet painting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[291,165783,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,8386,9437,19,17,61535,211961],"class_list":{"0":"post-484750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-aigenerated","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-funny","18":"tag-humor","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-monet","22":"tag-socialexperiment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116574433007897476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}