Before you decide to ragepost in the comments about how terrible either of these guys are, please take a moment and look at how happy they are. Wouldn't this be a nice outcome for a change?
I really doubt this is AI, the faces maybe, but everything else screams photoshop job on real images.
I play around with AI every day, and there is no way such detailed scenes have zero fucked up cooking tools. It’s jpg as fuck, but I cannot find one AI artefact anywhere in any of those images.
No artifacts? What are you talking about? All of those scenes are utter nonsense. Upper left, nothing to note, it's super generic. But the upper right is a fall themed picnic... in the spring because of the Sakura blossoms. And nothing in the "picnic" makes any sense.
Bottom right, does that look like a believable scene to you? Cause, there's way too much fruit, not enough workspace, the pans on the wall in the back make no sense, and the pie is something out of a nightmare. And we come at last to the worst of the bunch. I call it... something to do with string. Cause what they're making is indecipherable. Voodoo dolls? Creepy, tiny yarn balls with red tubes? And the background is "vaguely Christmas", complete with ornament on a branch, connected to nothing
And yeah, I do see artifacting. It's most obvious in the kitchen scene. The "grapes" are mostly collections of blocks. Blocks that intrude into the line dividing the top from the bottom. The "box" in the picnic scene was another example.
Also, the focus is faked. Things in the foreground are more in focus than what should be nearby objects. Clear fields of view wander from focus, to out-of-focus, to back in focus.
The compression artifacts and low resolution do a good amount to hide the problems, but there's nothing believable about these images. They're clearly ai generated, with all the defects that implies.
Biggest giveaway for me is top-right. Aside from the hands being way off, what are they eating? A picnic spread of a bunch of orange fruit and maybe a couple jars of honey or something? Seems to me like an AI knowing it's supposed to put something there, but not having context for what would look natural. Just "human food."
Also, I think the fruit looks off on bottom-left (check the orange-like thing and apple-like thing in the front center that have the same shape, and the weird fruit cluster on the left), and the cookware they have the pie sitting on is definitely something I've never seen before with a purpose I can't discern. Is it supposed to be a pie stand, maybe? What the heck is it?
Bottom-right seems like an AI going "okay, I have a lot of pictures of humans doing stuff over tables, so I guess they really like that. Let's make something up," and that's how you get a picture of two men picking through random balls of yarn for some reason.
I dunno, they're extremely small nitpicks (and pretty subjective), so I could probably be off on my assessment, but it seems pretty AI-generated to me: things that seem normal when you have no reason to think they're not.
It could be both.
Plenty of AI generated images that get touched up by humans still show artifacts, because the human touching them up doesn't notice every single one.