People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

People are scrolling past perfect images to find proof a human made them

This is not a nostalgic impulse. It is a detective’s impulse. Across underground music scenes, photography communities, fan cultures, and branded content, audiences have developed an informal but increasingly reliable skill: the ability to detect when a creative object was not made by a person who was actually present in the moment it describes. And what they are doing, behaviorally, is moving away from anything that fails that test — and toward…