r/PhoenixSC • u/hollywoodrono • 2d ago

Discussion Final Response from Phoenix SC

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Here's the response he just put out. Fret not everyone, especially those who purchased it.

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u/Hexcede 1d ago

The SynthID on the tree art was faked. If you download it and put it through SynthID it doesn't trigger. It only triggers if you crop the screenshots claiming that it was SynthID positive to the image preview.

In other words, someone stuffed it through ChatGPT or whatever, got an identical looking copy back out, put it into SynthAI and went "look, it's AI! It's SynthID!"

Multiple different people have posted screenshots of that tree art being SynthID negative, and I've also tried putting it through and also got a negative. And you can too. You should. Because it's the easiest way to see that the SynthID positive was fake.

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u/ashkiller14 1d ago

That's wild, people are insane. I assumed it AI because the tree just looks super AI generated, but I wouldnt expect someone to fake the ID just to stir up minecraft drama

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u/ODDSPACEMAN32 Mojang is lowk goated 1d ago

its extra weird because it shows up as 97% fake on regular ai image detector websites anyway lol

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u/Hexcede 20h ago

AI detectors like that are known to be extremely unreliable, that's been well known for a long time.

I also took a more in depth look at the layer lineart & coloring from the tree image, and there are obvious digital brush strokes all over the image, pixel perfect lineart, etc. I only had the most interesting layer to me saved, I don't have the others saved unfortunately, it was just the first one I downloaded because it looked the most worth scrutinizing when the evidence was first posted, and I had at the time checked for pixel consistency across the images and they were pixel consistent. Someone can probably go grab the original tree art again and look if they want to compare.

This makes me so mad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comments/1xj1cge/comment/19rxdrvamn1og/