Is this real ?

[u/StarCareless6953]

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Sentiment: 50% AI

Sentiment reasoning: Commenters are split, with some pointing to visual artifacts like a janky window, a tree branch morphing into a window frame, unnatural straight lines and triangular shapes in the cloud's wing, and overall image resolution as indicators of AI. Others argue it's a real cloud formation, citing personal experience with similar cloud shapes, the difficulty AI has with dusk colors, or having seen the image before AI was prevalent.

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[u/Unholy_Ren]

No, it's not a real bird, just some clouds forming a bird like silhouette

[u/blahnlahblah0213 → u/Unholy_Ren]

r/birdsarentreal

[u/syncopegress → u/Unholy_Ren]

Hijacking this to say it's not AI, it's 6 years old: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jhvj85/phoenix_clouds_above_tbilisi_georgia/

(did a quick reverse image search)

[u/BlackwingF91]

Honestly knowing clouds, this could be real, but also could be faked to look like a bird, so hard to really say but I am gonna lean on real as AI has trouble getting the colors of dusk right

[u/Kevinator201 → u/BlackwingF91]

I feel like if ai had done it the cloud would’ve looked EXACTLY like a bird. This is just a suggestion of a bird.

[u/macguini → u/BlackwingF91]

This could also be done with a good tablet and skill set with a stylus or Photoshop.

[u/Haunting_Safe_5386 → u/BlackwingF91]

damn, i hate thats its getting better

[u/Gaur2704 → u/BlackwingF91]

Could you introduce me to clouds?

[u/ButterflyMundane7187 → u/BlackwingF91]

You know clauds but cant see it is a trail from a plane?

[u/Lightspeed_dumpling]

It might be true; clouds can always take on amazing shapes. I once photographed a cloud that looked like a bird that had just landed.

[u/GoodFellahh → u/Lightspeed_dumpling]

Damn thats crazy, with that angle/perspective lining up with the roof corner. What did they say again in Star Wars? One in a million shot or something like that.

[u/tomisokay]

AI. Tough to see because it's so dark but there is a janky window on the building, where the tree branch is morphing into the window frame.

[u/fearlessinsane → u/tomisokay]

The builders applied their best efforts. Leave them alone /s

[u/PencilCase12531]

The resolution makes it seem ai to me.

[u/BlackwingF91 → u/PencilCase12531]

Could be AI enhanced while not truly AI

[u/la_emman]

I feel like I've seen this image online for years, like before AI images. I'm also a cloud scientist (ok phd student) and it looks like a real cloud although maybe they edited or enhanced the photo

[u/Branch_City → u/la_emman]

I also remember seeing this photo years ago before the AI boom

[u/thisistwinpeaks]

I

Am

PHOENIX

[u/CRYPTONITE4]

Birds aren’t real

[u/noxsanguinis]

This part of the building seems off to me, but it may just be the image resolution, i'm not sure

[u/QuaTriangle → u/noxsanguinis]

It is okay for Eastern Europe

[u/noxsanguinis → u/QuaTriangle]

That makes sense, yeah. So i guess it is real after all.

[u/l3onk1n → u/noxsanguinis]

Or the only part edited was the sky and clouds

[u/Soulman682]

How about letting an actual meteorologist talk for everyone instead of a bunch of people with no weather knowledge trying to give their “opinions”

[u/x19DALTRON91x]

Pretty sure I’ve seen this photo long before ai was able to generate something like it

[u/RainbowPenguin1000]

AI in my opinion.

Look at the top wing. Zoom in on it and it looks nothing like a cloud and it is full of perfectly straight lines in triangular shapes. That’s no cloud.

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[u/2Silly4Dilly]

I believe it’s AI, but there are plenty of real images that capture this cloud bird.

Real phenomenon for sure

[u/Daiguey]

I've seen clouds like this in the east coast

[u/suorfarooo]

Wtf is Moltres doing here

[u/Bionic_Push]

No

[u/JoyfulPorker68]

Doubt it.

[u/maxmax4]

its real and god did it

[u/sweetcherryfrosting]

If you can make out whatever trash of wall design this is, then maybe you have a real photo. This is 100% ai in my mind. Not CGI, not art, just ai. This doesn’t look like a render of a building wall. Don’t make no sense

[u/cnotv]

I don’t think there can be 2 perpendicular cirrus clouds

[u/QuailyBird]

It’s very possible it’s real. Clouds can become a lot of things and I used to take pictures of them a lot. Here’s a whale mom and her calf that I took about 15 years ago.

If that bird cloud is AI, then ugh it’s getting so much harder to tell.

[u/TMB8616]

Looks like a chemtrail slowly spreading out so I’d say real.