#hive ai detector

[shamebats]

Beware: "AI detectors" are NOT reliable

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[boobsuberalles]

I highly recommend getting the extension Hive AI Detector! You've been posting a lot of AI women lately and I'm hoping it's just due to ignorance. Otherwise, keep up the good work!

Read my pinned post. I post AI girls when I think the images are hot

[therabine]

We've got some new cover art and as someone who works in digital media and deals with AI content on daily basis this new cover for Troy Saga set off an alarm in my brain. Naturally I sank into an analyzing spiral, because that's just how my brain works.

"Looks like an AI art with repaints on top" I thought to myself, but to be sure I've checked it with different AI recognizing software (remember kids, if you use AI to generate your art, other AI can reverse engineer the process and identify it!). But so can a human eye most of the time. Pay attention to the combination of these identificators:

- weird blur

- different lines of horizon in one image

- bonkers anatomy/construction errors

- high contrast

- a lot of nonsense happening in the background

The results of AI checkup on the new Troy cover art were mixed

"Okay, let's check out the original Troy Saga cover, I like this one"

Yep, it has no out of place blur, the wooden horse's anatomy doesn't weird me out, the backgrounds look nice, deliberately painted with attention and care, I can make sense of the individual strokes. Good to know that my eyes are still good for something.

"Just to be sure, let's check out the Cyclop's Saga"

Okay, now it's proper weird. Maybe the Hive is off caliber? Wait five minutes, let me make a quick AI Thunder Saga cover art.

Nope, still works. What about other covers?

Fascinating! To be honest Circe Saga cover art doesn't look like Ai to me (all three animals are drawn with nice proportions and the lion is probably drawn with the help of Symmetry tool in Procreate, AI is surprisingly shitty at doing perfect symmetry).

Maybe it's the style of the artist that's confusing to the AI detector? Zwist seems to be particularly fond of whirlwind designs in all of her artwork (bad AI art often does weird stripes and whirlwinds, especially when you're trying to generate something which doesn't have a lot of references for it in the dataset that AI is trained on). Let's run Hive on her original artwork with a lot of whirlwinds and a wonky tree.

...okay. Now that is weird.

Look, I'm not saying that Zwist is a bad artist or something, using Ai isn't against the law and she clearly can paint better than I do. She is talented, go show love to her original artworks that are not Epic related. Hell, I can't even prove with 100% certainty that AI was used at all. Just because I don't like the new Troy cover art doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it too.

But the whole situation is fascinating to me. A lot of people on insta ask if the new Troy cover is AI, only to be shut down by fans who scream "no, that's just her artsyle and X confirmed that it's not AI, you are just haters".

YOU ARE NOW IN THE UPDATED PART OF THE POST

Special thanks to the people who shared the link to the new Troy Saga cover art speedpaint for erasing my doubts and providing a respectful conversation in the comments.

Watched through the speedpaint a few times, trying to figure why the end image became unsettling enough for a lot of people (myself included) to assume it's AI.

My guess is that Zwist has developed for herself an intricate decorative style, but isn't very familiar with so called 'academic' art.

Why do I think that? Well, I wanted to see how artists of the past depicted the wooden horse, and do you know what image you see when you type up 'Trojan horse' into Google? That's right, it's the giant prop from the movie Troy (2004). And you know, no shame here, using references to draw something you've never seen before is good, I'm just shocked I didn't recognize this design sooner it's very cool. What I really like about it is that it really looks like it's been made rather fast from the scraps of the broken down ships and yet it still resembles an actual horse. Look at the cute pointy ears! Look at the mouth of it! This gorgeous posture!

What's even better, it still exists somewhere in Turkey (well maybe not the actual prop, but the full size replica of it), so there's a ton of photos from different points of view. My best guess is that Zweist used this one as a reference for the new Troy Saga cover:

And here's a problem - this is a very complex structure to draw. Not only that, but Zweist also uses two light sources - moonlight from above and the light of the fire below, which means that we have two different sets of shadows emerging from these light sources.

Unlike all other covers that are very decorative in nature, this one is attempted to be very realistic, almost cinematic in its use of lighting. With all that extra complication it's easy to set yourself up for failure and get too much in the details while losing the larger shapes.

Unfortunately in her simplification of the original reference Zweist completely neglects all the intricate shapes and planes that make up the wooden horse. She forgets that wood cannot bend in circles like that, or that unpolished wood is a low-reflective surface (which means that even the lightest spot lit up by the firelight will be darker than the light on the sand/marble/metal coming from the same light source). It seems like she doesn't analyze the shape of it at all, so we lose the majestic posture and the shape of the horse head.

Just for the fun of it I used 1,5 hours of my time to photobash the reference photo into the original Zweist background. It's very rough (I literally painted everything using nothing but a standard Photoshop round brush and a computer mouse), but I think it gets my point across.

I'm too tired to redo the background and this post is already ridiculously long. But I think that it suffers from the same problems - lack of research and care. Those are just some random shapes taking up space. I get that it's supposedly a burning Troy we see around, but does it look like anything to you? I mean really? Again, it's just a shapeless mess. And all of that could be avoided with a bit of extra research and analysis. There's more to the ancient ruins that the same set of columns over and over.

So, what is can we learn from it? What is the conclusion?

Zwist is a talented young artist, but painting "realistically" isn't her strongest suit. You may like her style, or you may not, but I think there is a difference between "doing it your way" and "trying to succeed and failing". She may try to learn from this situation in two ways: 1) work around her stronger sides making the next covers with simpler designs and less intricate lighting or 2) practice the more realistic style and get better at it.

I don't know the exact reasons why the AI recognizing software flagged some of her work as AI generated. But I think that if it's not just your audience who starts to wonder if you used AI, but you somehow manage to confuse the very program that detects AI, then you've got a problem with your art.

If we want to beat AI companies in their game and stay relevant as professional artists we can no longer produce mindless art. We can no longer afford to produce sloppy work. As sad as it is, within next 10 years there is going to be a large shift in understanding and producing art as we know it. If the art we create can be easily replicated by AI or will look like it's been made with AI, then no one would bother to commission art from you. We have to adapt, to find new ways of exploring our creativity, perhaps even to create a new visual language of expressing ourselves.

In the end of a day human art always beats AI art. You know why? Because AI is not really Artificial Intelligence. It's just a very complex algorithm that is good at recognizing patterns. That's all it is. It doesn't have a conscience, it has no context for the human experience, it cannot think, and most importantly - it cannot invent.

So I want to end this post on the hopeful note - the art will survive. The artists will survive. And if we can learn anything from this situation is that kindness and open dialog is the vest way to deal with confusion. Once again I want to thank everyone who was kind enough to comment on and engage with this post. It grew out of love for something that is deep and personal to me (Epic) to a larger discussion of the changes in the world of visual art (something I love and care for even more). Hope this update spawns more nuanced and respectful discussion on the topic!

[canmom]

the people behind Glaze and Nightshade have a new paper on how well you can 'tell by the pixels' whether something is AI-gen or not. it's a pretty interesting paper, but for a very brief tl;dr, here's their ranking of AI-detecting AIs and survey groups:

Hive > Optic > Expert Artist > Professional Artist > Illuminarty > Non-Artist

(here the 'expert artists' are a set of 13 artists who specifically know a lot about gen-AI and know what to look for)

the human artists notably have a higher false-positive rate (i.e. misidentifying human artists as AI), in part due to mistaking human mistakes for AI jank. but they notice different things than the AI detectors, so the papers' recommendation is that if you want to be really sure, put it through Hive but also ask a human artist. which is a lot of work to go to!

to put numbers to that, for an untrained human, you'd generally be about 60% accurate at spotting AI, with 40% false-negative and false-positive rates. experience in art can boost that to 75%, being an 'expert' over 80%. 'Hive' kind of crushes us puny humans at this task, with a 98% accuracy rate, no false positives, and only 3% false negatives.

ironically, applying Glaze can screw up the AI detectors - primarily by causing a lot of false negatives (AI images passing undetected) but also sometimes making human artworks look AI. it doesn't seem to confuse humans as much tho.

they also look at some edge cases. if you use AI to upscale your original human artwork it probably won't confuse the detectors too much; painting over an AI image will also tend to still be detected as AI.

I don't have any big picture conclusions to make from this, but it's interesting to put numbers to it.

[lionews]

Hive AI detector says both fullbody artworks are likely 99% ai generated lol

the dog bust 33%, the male 6%

but honestly all that shit is probably ai crap

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[autisticsupervillain]

FTF: Boss Battle

The show where we put a team of characters up against one much stronger or haxier character.

This Week's Fighters....

Gordon Freeman vs The RED Team!

Conditions:

RED Team restricted to stock. Gordon has Full Arsenal.

Scenario:

G-Man wants Gordon to steal some Australium from The Administrator. RED Team tries to stop him.

BOSS: Gordon Freeman

Many shooter heroes have gone up against impossible odds. Conquered incomprehensible threats from beyond the stars and bested physical gods. And yet, the greatest of all these heroes isn't an uber space marine or a super masculine macho man. No, Gordon Freeman is simply an ordinary scientist with a crowbar.

Gordon Freeman was once a diligent theoretical physicist working at the top secret lab known as Black Mesa. However, one of Gordon's experiments accidentally punched a hole into another universe, causing an alien invasion. Gordon is forced to fight for his life and fend off the invaders, making him the savior off Earth. Unfortunately, this puts him on the G-Man's radar, forcing him to serve the mysterious being and his employers for the rest of his days... until Half-Life 3 comes out... assuming it will.

Luckily, G-Man mostly seems to want Gordon to kick alien ass and Freeman's got plenty of tools for the job. For starters, he never goes into battle with his trusty HEV suit. The Hazardous EnVironment Suit comes with a whole bunch of nifty features, boosting his otherwise normal human stats to superhuman levels. With it, he's durable enough to tank military air strikes with 134 megajoules of force behind them and survive hits from lasers that do this to solid steel walls.

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Moreover, most of Gordon's stronger weapons can kill Alien Grunts, who are strong enough to completely obliterate steel gates. By using Gordon as a measuring stick to estimate the size and thickness of the wall, it can be determined that it would over half a ton of tnt to generate this kind of explosion, roughly 0.723 tons of tnt to be precise.

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The suit also has a built in radiation detector and an ai voice that informs him of any grievous injuries. Upon sustaining an injury, he's pumped full of painkillers potent enough to let him shrug off bullet wounds. Similarly, the suit's antitoxins are strong enough to reverse the effects of headcrab poison, which leaves him on the brink of death with just a touch, in seconds. Hell, he can even tank hits from antimatter weapons, endure extreme heat and cold, endure dangerous acids, and shrug off high voltage electricity. Even morso, the suit can be upgraded, allowing him to leap several Kilometers when using the long jump module.

He also carries a large array of guns. While Gordon has the typical shotgun, AK, and RPG ensemble you would expect from a shooter protagonist, he also has some unique guns. He carries two crossbows, one shoots tranquilizer darts while the other shoots bars of molten metal. He carries the Gluon Gun, which shoots unstable Gluon particles so powerful that they make people explode, the Tau canon, which shoots Tau particles, or molecular particles that make up matter on the Quantum Level, and the hive hand, which shoots alien bugs at people like a wasp machine gun. His Pulse Rifle shoots energy projectiles and, when charged up, shoots a ball of antimatter that bounces around everywhere and erases everyone it touches on contact. His most iconic gun, however, is the gravity gun, which manipulates gravity to allow him to throw anyone and anything that gets in his grasp around like a ragdoll, even erasing people with its antimatter energy should he grab them with it thanks to a handy upgrade the Combine gave it. And that's not even the only gun in Gordon's arsenal that can flat delete you, as the Gluon Gun can destabilize the Gluon Particles of its target and rip them apart on the subatomic level.

With these powerful weapons, Gordon has fought off impossible odds with ease. He stopped an alien invasion within the span of a week at most and turned the tide of a hopelessly one sided war against a galactic empire in the span of two days. He curb stomped his way through the US Military, is fast enough to react to and dodge rockets, and has even impressed the reality warping G-Man with his remarkable abilities.

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Having said that, he has a few weaknesses. For one thing, his suit's durability relies on its battery, so he'll frequently have to recharge it if he gets hit too often. He also doesn't wear a helmet, which leaves his squishy human head exposed for his superhuman enemies to crush.

Despite that though, Gordon Freeman is universally beloved as the savior of mankind and is dreaded even by godlike, reality warping aliens. That says a lot about a man who used to just be a pimply scientist. The right man in the wrong place can achieve just about anything.

Team: RED Team

It began in 1850. Wealthy English industrialist Zepheniah Mann, owner of Mann Co, was convinced by his greedy, idiotic sons to purchase land in the US to expand the company. Zepheniah agreed, only to discover that the lands he purchased were useless dust bowls and lifeless gravel pits. Not only that, but he'd contracted many horrific diseases during his trip to the states that quickly ate up his health. Dying bitter at his incompetent sons, Zepheniah would write his last will on his rotting skin, splitting the worthless lands between Redmond and Blutarch to ensure that they would fight over it for the rest of their lives.

Desperate to get the other's half of the fortune, the Brothers Mann would turn their halves of the company into Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU) respectively, using them as fronts to wage eternal war on each other. In their pointless bid to get this worthless land full of fuck all to themselves, the brothers would hire nine of the greatest mercenaries in the world to fight for them. The exact same mercenaries. For both of them. Don't think about it.

They would cycle through numerous teams over the years, until the 1960s where we'd meet the most iconic ensemble of the RED Team. The Team that would come to be known as Team Fortress!

The Scout is fast talking brawler from Boston he thinks he's hot shit and thinks he's God's gift to women. Because he is. Canonically. God told him so. He's easily the fastest person on his team, more than quick enough to outrun trains and flat out dodge rockets. And while he's certainly not book smart by any definition, he's a good enough scrapper to kill a Heavy in one on one melee combat. If he can't bust you up with his bat, then the wide spread of his shotgun would likely shred you to pieces, while his pistol finishes you off. He's swift enough to somehow double jump, durable enough to drink radioactive soda, and strong enough to blow you out of the park with his taunt kill. Hell, he's durable enough to survive three of Soldier's rockets blowing up in his face simultaneously, despite being heavily injured, tanking a combined energy equivalent to 0.007 tons of TNT!

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The Soldier, otherwise known as Jane Doe, is batshit crazy patriotism personified. He wanted so badly to fight in World War 2 that he went on a one man crusade against Germany for years before learning that the war ended in 1949. He's mad enough to wrestle bears while covered in honey and crazy enough to try to fly by shooting rockets directly at his feet. Which makes it sll the more absurd when it actually works. A madman with a rocket launcher is one thing, give him pseudo flight and you've invited death himself onto the battlefield, raining rockets down from the skies and bludgeoning your teeth out with a shovel when he lands. Or blow you both up with the grenades on his chest. Or just shoot you with a shotgun. Whatever works.

The Pyro is a mysterious pyromaniac of indefinitive origin, indeterminate gender, and very definite lack of sanity, viewing all the chaos and death he brings through the fantastical lens of Pyroland. In reality though, she's burning down everything in sight with reckless abandon, either with their flamethrower or with their bare hands. Ryu would be filling a lawsuit if he wasn't currently ashes. And lest you think that's all the Pyro has, many a foolish Soldier has forgotten about the power of airblast and paid dearly for it. With a burst of compressed air from her flamethrower, Pyro can juggle enemies in the air and send projectiles and rockets back at the enemy.

Tavish Finnegan DeGroot, aka The Demoman is one of best and most dangerous Demomen to ever roam the Earth. If he weren't, he wouldn't be able to discuss it with you, now would he? Despite his constant drunkeness and lack of depth perception, the Demoman can easily blow the enemy to pieces with both the careful placement of clever sticky bomb traps or the ruthless spamming of bouncing explosive pipes. He can even take a note from the book of his dear friend Soldier and blast himself into the air with his bombs.

The Heavy Weapons Guy is easy to mistake for a lumbering brute, but beneath the muscle and thick Russian accent is a brutal and intelligent mercenary. Mikhail is a gulag survivor who works to provide for his family and possesses a degree in Russian literature. With enough beef to out muscle the rest of his team and a massive minigun loving naned Sasha, the Heavy rarely needs to think too hard to mow down everything in sight. And if he does, he knows exactly how to best rip a man in half or blow the head off with a shotgun.

Deil Conagher aka The Engineer is a humble Texas gadgeteer with eleven PHDs. While his trusty shotgun gives him an option in a fight, Engie is much better off building supports for his team, such as massive minigun sentries with built in rocket launchers to protect the base, ammunition and health dispensers to restock his team, and teleporters to keep his team on the frontlines and tele-frag any poor sap who stands on the other end of it.

What Mr. Ludwig lacks in his regards for the Hippocratic Oath, the Medic makes up for in his mad scientific expertise. Don't let his lost medical license fool you, the Medic is a veritable genius. His most iconic invention, the Medigun, can heal the brutalized bodies of teammates, put people's bodies back together, and can, when fully charged, render whoever he's healing temporarily invincible. He was once able to resurrect the dead by just... putting their blood back inside them and even managed to steal his teammates souls and surgically attach them to himself in order to scam Satan himself. His bonesaw can hack to pieces and his syringe gun gives him a method of self defense from afar.

Nick Mundy is a rugged, relaxed outdoorsman from the outback with a tense relationship with his parents and also the greatest marksman on Earth. While his machete and SMG give him options for dealing with close quarters combatants, the Sniper is most at home sitting back and blowing the heads off whoever he's been paid to kill this week. He's a professional. Nothing personal.

The Spy is the mysterious master of disguise of the team, with a penchant for acquainting his knives to the spines of his unsuspecting foes. His watch allows him to turn invisible for a limited time to best ambush his foes, while his disguise kit allows him to impersonate anyone on Earth, from your teammates to even famous celebrities.

Despite the team's frequent zany antics and at times debatable intelligence, they are the greatest mercenaries on Earth for a reason. Together, they've beaten everything from killer bread monsters to evil wizards and even a robot army. They are, for better or for worse, the greatest team of gunmen on the planet. Often, for far worse.

Throwdown Theme:

Throwdown Breakdown:

So... Gordon doesn't wear a helmet. If knly the RED Team could take advantage of that somehow. Like say they had a, I dunno... Sniper of some description. Don't know anyone like that, guess Gordon stomps.

But in all seriousness, it's a question of if the RED Team can keep Gordon distracted for long enough for Mundy to get his shot. And, in short, no. Not at all. Naturally, Gordon is much stronger. Much. Much Stronger.

What I mean is that Gordon is a wooping 103x stronger! (0.723 tons of TNT vs 0.007). Meaning it's entire possible that Gordon simply mows throw the whole team before Sniper can even get a single shot off. That is a massive problem, as even Gordon's regular guns should be strong enough to reduce the mercs to giblets with a graze with that gap.

Hell, Sentry Buster explosions completely obliterate the mercs and those themselves are much weaker than Freeman at 0.09 tons of TNT.

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Medic is a necessity for this fight to even be debatable. The Medigun's ability to pull mercs back together after they've been annihilated is safety net they desperately need. After Heavy and Pyro get shredded and put back together (they are the ones meant to be engaging head on after all), the team will likely split up to keep Freeman from decimating them all. I tragically don't see Heavy really surviving the early fight due to his low maneuverability and Medic possibly might not either. Once Gordon sees him resurrect someone, he'd likely make Medic a priority, leaving the team without their method of taking hits. Thankfully, Gordon isn't likely to wipe immediately. A bunch of people comparable to, if not superior to Gordon in speed all running in different directions means Gordon is guaranteed to miss a few of them at first.

However, this forced split up would turn the game into an intense game of cat and mouse, giving a certain stealth expert the time to shine. While any Merc could theoretically ambush Gordon and shoot him in his obviously unarmoured head if they play their cards right, Spy is in the best position to do so. Gordon has no way of seeing through invisibility and given Spy's specialty, he's liable to go invisible as soon as the fight starts. This gives him the perfect opportunity to just... shoot Gordon in the head while invisible. Problem solved.

Even is Spy does die in the early bloodbath, there are some scenarios where the team can still win this. Pyro is fast enough to airblast back some projectiles early on and kill Gordon that way, but he's unlikely to survive thr bloodbath due to a lack of mobility options. Similar to Sniper or Engineer. But, Scout, Demoman, and Soldier likely would due to their own movement options. One well placed sticky trap is that would be needed to get Freeman's head.

There's this misconception that the TF2 Mercs are all incompetent idiots who do their jobs by accident moreso than on purpose. And while some of them are fairly stupid and they're all very unhinged, it's pretty consistent that they can organize very well when the chips are down. They know how to fight. How to strategize mid-fight, and even how to plan. And against a threat as overwhelming as Freeman, that would definitely shine.

This Throwdown's Winner is...

The Red Team!

The Boss has been defeated!

[untaggedai]

This is AI.

Images are processed using Hive AI Detector

*Untagged AI does not support the Tesla Corporation.

[dominaexmachina]

Only AI-generated images will get hit. But will they, really?

Is there a way to tell AI art from human-made?

Absolutely certain and universal? No.

Probabilistic? Yes — but even that gets shakier by the day.

1. Detectors looking for “fingers” and “eyes”

Once upon a time, AI art was easy to spot thanks to wonky hands and messed-up eyes.

But modern models improved — such errors are rare now.

And post-processing exists: a single cleanup pass can fix what remains.

2. Pattern-based detectors (Neural AI detectors)

Models like AI-Or-Not, Hive AI Detector, or Illuminarty check for:

• texture repetition,

• noise patterns,

• grid artifacts,

• local symmetry.

But:

• They only give probability, not certainty;

• They often misfire on human art (especially smooth or digital work);

• And they’re easy to trick — by adding noise, strokes, irregularity, or doing a stylization pass.

💥 Research from Pangram confirms:

False negatives (AI passing as human) and false positives (human flagged as AI) happen all the time.

Reddit artists frequently report Hive AI and others flagging their hand-drawn work as AI-made.

Reviews and case studies (like from Textbroker) emphasize how unreliable these tools are.

Are there models that simulate “human jitter” and imperfection?

Absolutely. Been around for a while.

We now have:

• Post-processing models like ControlNet Scribble + noise,

• Stylization workflows (watercolor, pastel, charcoal, etc),

• Fooocus and ComfyUI plugins to mimic jittery brushstrokes,

• Local fine-tuned models trained to imitate sketchy or painterly styles.

This “AI pretending to be human” is already a standard workflow.

The takeaway?

Any automated AI detector = roulette.

There are countless examples where:

• Human work gets flagged as AI (false positive),

• AI passes as handmade (false negative).

Now imagine asking an artist to prove they made their own piece:

What will they use — screen recordings?

But what if someone can just copy it from a generation?

What if someone uses a bot to generate a video of them “drawing” it from scratch?

How will you verify anything?

What’s coming?

Lawsuits won’t be about how an image was created —

They’ll be about IP violation —

Because distinguishing AI from hand-made is quickly becoming impossible.

These so-called “detectors” are not proof.

They’re weak guesses — easily bypassed.

With growing use of ControlNet (scribble, depth, pose), IPAdapter, StyleLoRA, and plain old inpainting, AI can now imitate “hand-drawn” work — shaky lines, paper grain, messy proportions and all.

So: Detection is failing. Enforcement is pointless.

If you can’t prove something was made with AI — but it still violates IP — Companies don’t care how it was made.

But if there’s no IP violation at all?

Then AI-generated art stays.

It doesn’t go poof.

It doesn’t get vaporized by moral panic.

It just… exists.

Right next to your pastel brushstroke piece — sorry not sorry.

So if you’re dancing on what you think are the graves of AI artists — …you’re early. And you’re wrong.

Also… why are you down in the pit? 🕳️ Any theories? 😏

[abraaocostaof]

Cresce a demanda por detectores confiáveis de textos gerados por Inteligência Artificial

O Gotcha-GPT também pode ser utilizado em conjunto com outros detectores de textos gerados por IA, tais como Originality AI, Copyleaks, ZeroGPT, GPTZero, Writer AI, Hive AI, Detector Content At Scale e Giant Language Model Test Room. É importante destacar, porém, que não endossamos nenhuma das ferramentas acima, nas quais os usuários precisam testar e serem treinados para ganhar…

[dztechs]

لقد اختبرت أدوات كشف صور مُختلفة تعمل بالذكاء الاصطناعي: وإليك مدى دقتها

إذا كان التعرف على الأعمال الفنية والصور المُزيفة أمرًا مُهمًا بالنسبة لك، فإنَّ أدوات كشف الصور التي تعمل بتقنية الذكاء الاصطناعي لا تُقدر بثمن، ولكن بعضها أكثر موثوقية من غيرها. بعد اختبار أفضل الأدوات والخيارات المُتاحة اليوم، إليك كيفية أداء كل منها مع الصور البشرية وتلك المُولدة بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي. تحقق من أفضل أدوات كشف الصور التي تم إنشاؤها بالذكاء الاصطناعي.

كيف اختبرت أدوات كشف الصور بالذكاء الاصطناعي

من أجل اختيار أربع من أفضل أدوات كشف الصور المدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي، قمت بإنشاء صورتين بالذكاء الاصطناعي باستخدام DALL-E 2. إحداها لقطة تُراقب فراشة. والأخرى تُحاكي لوحة لمركب شراعي محاط بالطيور. قامت كل من Illuminarty و AI or Not و Hive Moderation و SDXL Detector بمُعالجة هاتين الصورتين جنبًا إلى جنب مع صورة لتماثيل الأفيال الصغيرة التي التقطها الإنسان بالتأكيد. تعرض لقطات الشاشة أدناه النتائج الأولية. لم يؤدي تكرار العملية إلى تغيير أي نتيجة، مما يعني أنَّ أياً من هذه الأدوات لا تتعلم أثناء استخدامك لها. يعتمد تحليلها ونتائج الاحتمالية على خوارزمياتها وحدها. ستجدها مُدرجة من الأكثر إلى الأقل دقة في اكتشاف صور الذكاء الاصطناعي.

ما مدى دقة Hive Moderation؟

كانت Hive Moderation هي أداة كشف صور الذكاء الاصطناعي الأكثر فعاليَّة على الإطلاق. وحصلت صورة القطة والفراشة على نسبة 99.9%. تم تصنيف صورة المركب الشراعي أيضًا على أنه تم إنشاؤه بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي بنسبة يقين عند 98.3 بالمائة.

عند إعطاء أي صورة إلتقطها الإنسان، فإنَّ Hive Moderation لم تُعط أبدًا نتيجة إيجابية كاذبة. ويُمكنها التمييز بوضوح بين الإبداعات الحقيقية والاصطناعية.

لذا، فإنَّ Hive Moderation ليست دقيقةً فحسب، بل إنها أيضًا واثقة جدًا من قدراتها التحليلية. إنَّ مولدات صور الذكاء الاصطناعي التي تُكافح من أجل تضمين الأيدي لديها فرصة ضئيلة لخداع كاشف الذكاء الاصطناعي المُختبر. تحقق من أفضل مولدات الفن بالذكاء الاصطناعي لإنشاء لوحات فنية مُبتكرة من الصور.

ما مدى دقة SDXL Detector الخاص بـ Hugging Face؟

على الرغم من أنها ليست الأداة الأكثر جاذبية، إلا أنَّ أداء SDXL Detector الموجود على Hugging Face يُماثل أداء Hive Moderation تقريبًا، مما يجعل��ا ثاني أكثر أداة كشف صور AI دقة في هذه القائمة. فهي تُسجل الملفات التي تم تحميلها بناءً على احتمالية كونها مُولدة بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي مُقابل الإنسان. حصلت صورة القطة والفراشة على 0.844 على أنها لصورة بالذكاء الاصطناعي و0.156 مُلتقطة بواسطة الإنسان. حددت الأداة بدقة أنه تم إنشاؤها بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي ولكن مع بعض عدم اليقين.

تم التقاط اللوحة المُزيفة للمركب الشراعي بشكل صحيح بواسطة خوارزمية Hugging Face. وكانت النتيجة 0.981 على أنها لصورة بالذكاء الاصطناعي و 0.019 على أنها بواسطة الإنسان. طابقت الأداة حسابات احتمالية Hive Moderation.

وكان الأمر صحيحًا أيضًا فيما يتعلق بصورة تماثيل الأفيال الصغيرة. قامت SDXL Detector بتمييزها على أنه بواسطة الإنسان بنقطة واحدة، دون ترك أي فرصة لأن تكون مُصطنعةً.

ما مدى دقة Illuminarty؟

رصدت Illuminarty صور الذكاء الاصطناعي بشكل صحيح، لكنها اعتقدت أنَّ الصورة الحقيقية كانت مُصطنعة أيضًا. دعونا نحلل النتائج. حصلت صورة القطة والفراشة على أعلى درجة احتمالية: 89.3 بالمائة. تمت برمجة الأداة للتعرف على الصور التي تم إنشاؤها بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي من خلال عيوبها، وقد قامت بعمل جيد مع هذه الصورة. ومع ذلك، كانت أقل ثقة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالأعمال الفنية للمركب الشراعي بالذكاء الاصطناعي. تُعتبر الخطوط والأنسجة مقنعة بدرجة كافية لتعطيل قدرات الأداة مُؤقتةً ولكن لن تخدعها تمامًا. حصلت على درجة احتمالية قدرها 78.5 بالمائة.

ولكن بعد ذلك، كانت Illuminarty مُتأكدة بنسبة 77.7% من أنَّ صورة الأفيال تم إنشاؤها بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي.

يوضح هذا أنه حتى أفضل أدوات كشف الصور التي تعمل بتقنية الذكاء الاصطناعي ليست مثالية. يُمكن أن ترتكب أخطاء اعتمادًا على موضوع الصورة وخصائصها. تحقق من كيف تكشف مما إذا كان النص قد تم إنشاؤه بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي: أكثر الأدوات دقة.

ما مدى دقة AI or Not؟

تُقدم AI or Not نتائج أبسط بكثير. لا توجد نسب احتمالية، فقط احتمال أن تكون الصورة عبارة عن ذكاء اصطناعي أو إنسان. وعند اختبارها باستخدام صور الذكاء الاصطناعي، تم تصنيف القطة والفراشة بشكل صحيح على أنه قد تم إنشاؤها بواسطة  الذكاء الاصطناعي. لكن صورة المركب الشراعي خدعت الأداة ومررتها على أنها من صنع الإنسان.

لسوء الحظ، يُكافح الذكاء الاصطناعي أو لا لمعالجة الصور والأعمال الفنية الحقيقية، ولكن عندما يفعل ذلك، فإنه يُحدد بدقة أنها من صنع الإنسان. ما تُوضحه هذه التجربة هو أنَّ بعض أدوات كشف الصور التي تعمل بتقنية الذكاء الاصطناعي لا تزال قيد التحسين، في حين أن البعض الآخر موثوق به للغاية بالفعل في اكتشاف الصور المُزيفة. على الرغم من أن SDXL Detector الخاص بـ Hive Moderation و Hugging Face هي الأكثر دقة، فلا تستبعد سهولة استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي أو عدمه مع تطور برمجياته. إن أفضل طريقة لاكتشاف الصور التي يُنشئها الذكاء الاصطناعي وتجنبها، خاصة عندما تصبح أكثر واقعية، هي أن تقوم أدوات كشف متعددة بتحليلها. اختر اثنتين على الأقل تثق بهما، ولا تقع في فخ الصورة المزيفة مرة أخرى. يُمكنك الإطلاع الآن على كيفية التعرف على الموسيقى المُنتجة بواسطة الذكاء الاصطناعي: بعض الأدوات. Read the full article

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I saw this in the sidebar and my AI detector immediately started buzzing, so I tested it on Hive Moderation (click, then scroll up to do it on the site).

Like the other commenters, I don't think tumblr should feature this kind of thing. It's great that you use the side-bar to draw attention to artists! But let's focus on the thousands of underappreciated people who are creating original artworks, not people who try to basically scam others by not declaring that their work is AI and then doing "commissions" (meaning... you tell them what kind of picture you want and they copy-paste that into Midjourney..?)

Secret Book Of The Arts

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Quick question: Which villain/hero is which character? I've just started to read your AU (It's flipping amazing BTW), but sometimes I keep forgetting who is who 'cause of the secret identities and all. 😅

I’m glad you like it pal, and no problem: (real name; super power)

Tell me if I forgot anybody. Other villains and heroes will be added if they appear in the story. Sorry this is so long,

Things to note: Jack and Mark are Jackieboy Man and Silver Shepherd because it seemed weird to not make them superheroes. All the Sides used to be Thomas before he was broken apart. I want to add in Lixian, Gabe, and Mika but don’t know how to yet and I don’t want to throw them in haphazardly because they deserve better than that.

*Heroes: (aka the Coalition of Heroes which include some of the Iplier’s, most of the Septics, and half of the Sides)

-The Silver Shepherd (it’s Mark Fischbach; super strength, flight, invulnerability)

-Jackieboy Man (Seán McLoughlin; super speed, X-ray vision, keen hearing, super agility)

-Detective Abe Lauer (Detective Abe; unwillingly and occasionally displaced in time, unable to die)

-Dr. Edward Iplier and Dr. Henrik von Schneeplestein (the don’t have a secret identity; cynicism, medical knowledge)

-Marvin the Magnificent (this is his secret identity because he doesn’t go by his real name; magic, alchemist)

-Bro Average (Chase Brody, immaculate accuracy)

-J.J (Jameson Jackson; time manipulation)

-Gatling (Bob Muyskens; summons impenetrable barriers)

-The Drowned Man (Wade Barnes; hydrokinesis)

-UFO (Amy Nelson; flight)

-Blank (Ethan Nestor; aura dampening, invisibility)

-Robbie the Zombie (Robert Gravesly; zombie, super strength, undead)

-Captain Morality (Patton Sanders; emotional manipulation)

-Logic (Logan Sanders; super intelligence)

-Prince Creativity (Roman Sanders; object summoning, powers based in creativity)

-Anxiety (Virgil Sanders; fear manipulation, manifestation of fears)

-Nate (Nathan Sharp; bard, he strengths and deplores people with music, turning reality into a music video)

-Bing (doesn’t use a secret identity; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites)

-Oliver (Google Yellow; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites, humanity)

-The Host (formerly Arthur Isaacs, the Author; realty manipulation through narration)

-King of the Squirrels (Kaylor Kingston; animal telepathy)

-Explosion Boy (Eric Derekson; explosions from his fingertips)

-Yellow Tape (Randall Voorhees)

-Captain Magnum (doesn’t use a secret identify; he’s a 10ft tall pirate)

*Allies:

-Mayor Damien Mood (Dark, yes he finds their trust hilarious)

-Yancy Times (doesn’t use a secret identity, doesn’t want to be a bad guy; manipulating people when he sings)

-the Jims (RJ, CJ, all of them work for both sides; crazy hive mind)

-The DA (Y/N; is the viewer)

*Villains:

-Dark (Damien and Celine Doom, the Entity; void aura, magic, undying)

-Wilford Warfstache (William J. Barnum, other identities; manipulation of the meta, void manipulation, plot armor)

-Anti (glitch demon; dominion over electronics, void manipulation)

-Mare (music demon; sound manipulation)

-Google (doesn’t use an alias; AI unit, super intelligence, nanites)

-Deceit (Janus Sanders; illusions, magic, living lie detector)

-The Duke (Remus Sanders; object summoning, powers based in creativity)

-Orange (too lazy to use an alias; tbd when Thomas announces him)

-Ed Edgar (does not use a real alias; no known superpowers)

-Bim Trimmer (does not use alias; slight void aura, slight inhuman strength, cannibal)

-Yandere (Yan Ayano; summons weaponry from hammer space)

-Illinois Jones (does not use an alias; uncanny luck, luck and probability manipulation)

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Plagiarism Checker Tools: Top 20 Free Online Plagiarism Detector Tools in 2019

A thriving plagiarism checker tools market is shaping up. This marks a tell-tale commentary on the malaise of plagiarism eating into the kernels of the creative domain such as media, academics, content writing and publishing.

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Plagium For Researchers

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Vindicta Gets New Level and Price Drop

HTC Vive exclusive first-person virtual reality (VR) shooter Vindicta, produced by Beirut-based development studio Game Cooks has announced a significant update along with a drop in price.

Vindicta is a first-person shooter set in a huge corporate facility where a sinister robot army. The player’s task is to infiltrate the facility, destroy the evil robots and end the evil UB Industries.

With the new update, Vindicta players will have access to a new area called The Hive, which adds new puzzles to solve, fast-paced arena fights along with additional playtime to the title. The developers have also added new enemy types, such as a floating alarm detector, along with new tough enemies the flame thrower and electrified spiders.

Other features added to the title include a melee weapon that can be drawn as a last resort when ammo runs out, and a new collectable in the form of a shield that could prove useful in difficult situations. The tutorial has also been tweaked and general polishing to models and textures has been done throughout.

As well as general bug fixes and optimisation, the enemy AI has been revamped so it will now follow players around in order to provide a tougher challenge. New checkpoints have been added along with new objectives for each levels.

The title is still in Early Access, and after extensive feedback and conversations with the community, the developers have decided to lower the price to $14.99 (USD)/£10.99 (GBP). The price is set to remain until the title is ready for a full release.

Further information and updates are available on the Steam page.

VRFocus will continue to provide updates on Vindicta and other VR titles.

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[autisticsupervillain]

It's Fictional Throwdown Friday!

This Week's Fighters...

Gordon Freeman vs Isaac Clarke!

Conditions:

No restrictions. Both combatants have absolutely everything.

Scenario:

The G-Man dispatches Gordon to obtain one of the Markers, seeking to weaponize the Necromorphs for his employers. Isaac comes across Gordon as he loads the Marker into a transport vehicle, assumes he's a Unitologist trying to protect the Marker, and opens fire.

Analysis: Gordon

Many shooter heroes have gone up against impossible odds. Conquered incomprehensible threats from beyond the stars and bested physical gods. And yet, the greatest of all these heroes isn't an uber space marine or a super masculine macho man. No, Gordon Freeman is simply an ordinary scientist with a crowbar.

Gordon Freeman was once a diligent theoretical physicist working at the top secret lab known as Black Mesa. However, one of Gordon's experiments accidentally punched a hole into another universe, causing an alien invasion. Gordon is forced to fight for his life and fend off the invaders, making him the savior off Earth. Unfortunately, this puts him on the G-Man's radar, forcing him to serve the mysterious being and his employers for the rest of his days... until Half-Life 3 comes out... assuming it will.

Luckily, G-Man mostly seems to want Gordon to kick alien ass and Freeman's got plenty of tools for the job. For starters, he never goes into battle with his trusty HEV suit. The Hazardous EnVironment Suit comes with a whole bunch of nifty features, boosting his otherwise normal human stats to superhuman levels. With it, he's durable enough to tank military air strikes with 134 megajoules of force behind them and survive hits from lasers that do this to solid steel walls.

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Moreover, most of Gordon's stronger weapons can kill Alien Grunts, who are strong enough to completely obliterate steel gates. By using Gordon as a measuring stick to estimate the size and thickness of the wall, it can be determined that it would over half a ton of tnt to generate this kind of explosion, roughly 0.723 tons of tnt to be precise.

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The suit also has a built in radiation detector and an ai voice that informs him of any grievous injuries. Upon sustaining an injury, he's pumped full of painkillers potent enough to let him shrug off bullet wounds. Similarly, the suit's antitoxins are strong enough to reverse the effects of headcrab poison, which leaves him on the brink of death with just a touch, in seconds. Hell, he can even tank hits from antimatter weapons, endure extreme heat and cold, endure dangerous acids, and shrug off high voltage electricity. Even morso, the suit can be upgraded, allowing him to leap several Kilometers when using the long jump module.

He also carries a large array of guns. While Gordon has the typical shotgun, AK, and RPG ensemble you would expect from a shooter protagonist, he also has some unique guns. He carries two crossbows, one shoots tranquilizer darts while the other shoots bars of molten metal. He carries the Gluon Gun, which shoots unstable Gluon particles so powerful that they make people explode, the Tau canon, which shoots Tau particles, or molecular particles that make up matter on the Quantum Level, and the hive hand, which shoots alien bugs at people like a wasp machine gun. His Pulse Rifle shoots energy projectiles and, when charged up, shoots a ball of antimatter that bounces around everywhere and erases everyone it touches on contact. His most iconic gun, however, is the gravity gun, which manipulates gravity to allow him to throw anyone and anything that gets in his grasp around like a ragdoll, even erasing people with its antimatter energy should he grab them with it thanks to a handy upgrade the Combine gave it. And that's not even the only gun in Gordon's arsenal that can flat delete you, as the Gluon Gun can destabilize the Gluon Particles of its target and rip them apart on the subatomic level.

With these powerful weapons, Gordon has fought off impossible odds with ease. He stopped an alien invasion within the span of a week at most and turned the tide of a hopelessly one sided war against a galactic empire in the span of two days. He curb stomped his way through the US Military, is fast enough to react to and dodge rockets, and has even impressed the reality warping G-Man with his remarkable abilities.

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Having said that, he has a few weaknesses. For one thing, his suit's durability relies on its battery, so he'll frequently have to recharge it if he gets hit too often. He also doesn't wear a helmet, which leaves his squishy human head exposed for his superhuman enemies to crush.

Despite that though, Gordon Freeman is universally beloved as the savior of mankind and is dreaded even by godlike, reality warping aliens. That says a lot about a man who used to just be a pimply scientist. The right man in the wrong place can achieve just about anything.

Analysis: Isaac Clarke

I feel like every job becomes a lot cooler when you do them in Space. Tax Accountant... IN SPACE! Retail Worker... IN SPACE! Maintenance Engineer... IN SPACE! Sure, there's an increased chance that you might get devoured by a bloodthirsty hive mind that's hellbent on devouring all life in the galaxy, but for some unlucky space engineers, that's just an occupational hazard.

Meet Isaac Clarke, a lowly systems engineer employeed by the Concordance Extraction Corporation who gets called in to repair the "planet cracker" USG Ishimura when they send out a distress signal. Rather than, say, a broken antenna or an overloaded reactor core, the Ishimura has come down with a rather more unusual case of man eating space monsters.

Meet the Necromorphs, undead hive mind abominations intent on devouring, assimilating, or just out right killing all life that isn't them. They're none too picky with how they kill you and none too picky with what you do to them. They just don't die no matter what you do to them. Blow their heads off, cut them in half, pump them full of lead, it doesn’t matter. They will rush you down with zero hesitation regardless. And what's worse that they can get humans to do their job for them, using their "Markers" to not only organize the Necromorphs like one organize, but also corrupt the minds of humans into forming an cult around the Necromorphs, serving the Marker's whims.

Luckily for Isaac, he's a bit of a master of improvised weaponry, meaning he has all the tools he needs to clear these Markers out. Firstly, he's decked out head to toe in a fancy RIG suit. This Resource Integration Gear comes equipped with all the tools necessary to help its user survive on the job hazards, even if Space Aliens probably weren't what the makers had in mind for it. His RIG suit can vacuum seal when exposed to suboptimal breathing conditions, be that poisonous gas or the vacuum of space, forcing Isaac to rely on an internal oxygen supply. However, this supply is limited and only lasts for about a minute and a half. Furthermore, his RIG is equipped with thrusters that allow to freely fly around in zero g or low g environments like Iron Man.... IN SPACE! ...Ahem. Sorry. I'll stop.

Furthermore, his suit can come equipped with several Modules that can modify its performance and abilities. The Kinesis Module can allow him to telekinetically lift and throw heavy objects from several meters away with just the wave of his hand, while the Stasis Module temporarily slows down time for whatever object he waves his hand at, allowing him to dodge super fast projectiles, freeze enemies in place, or catch Necromorphs that are glitching through time thanks to their damages Stasis RIGs.

Furthermore, the suit gives Isaac a superhuman level of strength, speed, and durability. Not only can he stomp Necromorphs into giblets, but he's durable enough to tank powerful time bombs, which are powerful enough to blast apart giants rocks with a force roughly equivalent to 1.19 tons of TNT.

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On top of that, his Zero G thrusters are fast enough to outrun bullet trains and he can react fast enough to dodge gun fire at point blank range.

In terms of fire arms, Isaac has fire power to spare. His improvised plasma cutter, original designed to cut up large boulders, is equipped with a rotating blade, allowing for long horizontal and diagonal shots that are just perfect for cutting the limbs off Necromorphs. Even if you can't kill them, they can't chase you down without limbs.

The pulse rifle is a powerful motorized gun with a secondary fire the shoots bullets in a 360 degree radius, while the Disc Ripper shoots out a powerful romote control buzz saw that cuts through anything in its path, with a secondary fire that makes the spinning blade bounce all over the damn place. The torch flame thrower spews out fire that burns at 4000 degrees Celsius with a secondary fire that shoots a big napalm grenade, while the Cutter Line Gun is a more powerful Plasma Cutter that shoots out landmines with its secondary fire.

The contact beam is an energy jackhammer meant to blast apart rock that can create shockwaves across the ground to dispatch swarms. The Javelin Gun fires electric titanium spikes that can explode, the Seeker Rifle is a futuristic sniper rifle, and the Force Gun obliterates everything in front of it by firing pure kinetic energy. Finally, the Hand Cannon is a large foam sports hand that kills everything Isaac points at with it. Without exception.

Isaac in an experienced technological genius, capable of throwing together a good chunk of his weapons by himself on the spot. Hell, he's smart enough to build a Marker on his own... while under a Marker's mind control, granted, but still. You can't really hold that against him. As time gas gone on, Isaac has grown more and more resilient to the influence of Markers, capable of resisting their control and effects through sheer will power alone. This is impressive when you realize the Marker's mind control is collectively powerful to formulate one of the most dominant and wide spread religions in human history, with a mental influence that can span planets or even the entire solar system. Moreover, Isaac's suit is resilient against extreme temperatures, radiation, and acid and can pump him full of stimulants to keep him from being drugged unconscious.

One man, one lowly engineer has done what an entire army could not and, by himself, destroyed three Markers over the course of his life. Hell, those first two might as well have happened the exact same day from his perspective. Isaac Clarke, ladies and gentlemen. The man the dead fear.

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Throwdown Breakdown:

I'm gonna be honest, this is easily the closest matchup we've had in a long damn time.

Stat wise, Isaac should be somewhat superior in strength, while Gordon is superior in speed. (0.723 tons vs 1.19 tons). The rockets that Gordon dodges can move at a max speed of 320 m/s, while the Bullet Train that Isaac outran would be moving at least 122.936 m/s, assuming it's faster than modern bullet trains.

Gordon is far superior to Isaac in terms of mobility, as the Long Jump Module would allow him to gain distance very quickly, while Isaac's best movement options are restricted to Zero G environments. However, Isaac can still compete at long range with his sniper rifle and the stimulants would nullify the tranquilizer darts from Gordon's crossbow, negating one of his long range weapons.

Isaac has the advantage of being able to use his gun and his telekinesis at the same time, as he only needs to wave his hand to grab and toss objects and people while Gordon needs to pull out a big clunky gravity gun. However, Gordon's gravity gun can obliterate him thanks to its antimatter energy setting should he get close enough to do so.

Gordon can one-shot Isaac with the variety of guns at his disposal that either attack at a subatomic level or use antimatter to obliterate his foes, neither of which Isaac resists, but Isaac can one-shot Gordon with any gun at his disposal, as Gordon does not wear a helmet like Isaac does and Isaac's weapons are very often designed to aim at specific body parts, such as the Plasma Cutter and Remote Control buzz saws. While Gordon's suit can resist the heat of Isaac's flame thrower, his face cannot. Both characters have enough grenades and landmines for those to effectively counter out and neither of them are melee fighters, so a hand to hand fight is unlikely to ever occur.

Both characters have weapons that can one-shot the other without ammunition (gravity gun vs hand cannon) and both characters should have a similar level of intelligence overall. I'd say Gordon ahould have better experience, as he more often participates in gun fights and does so against fairly impressive foes I might add, but the wide variety of forms the Necromorphs can take does mitigate this slightly.

However, Isaac does have one solid trick that Gordon simply has no answer to: Stasis. Gordon has no way of getting out of stasis once he gets caught in it and, seeing how Isaac only need wave his hand in his direction to activate it, he has little way of anticipating or avoiding it. While Gordon can keep to a distance to mitigate this somewhat, his most long ranged items are largely countered out by Isaac, meaning he'd try to close the distance eventually without realizing the danger he'd be putting himself in. While the two are evenly matched enough that Gordon can otherwise still win this in a few scenarios, Stasis is too big an advantage in Isaac's favor for Gordon to take the majority and once he's hit by it, Isaac has all the time in the world to simply blow Freeman's head off. Seems like Gordon's win streak ends here.

Seems like G-Man is gonna need a new favorite employee... I wonder if CEC would be willing to loan out a certain engineer?

This Throwdown's Winner is....

Isaac Clarke!

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